What an epic podcast. And rather than being a straightforward recitation of events, it cleverly focuses on everything else: politics, the brutality of combat,

What an epic podcast. And rather than being a straightforward recitation of events, it cleverly focuses on everything else: politics, the brutality of combat, personalities, why soldiers and commanders act as they do, and so on. It really drives home the feeling of the war as a slow-motion car accident, long in the making, impossible to stop, and horrific in its human impact. I’ve read a lot of military history, and this still felt so fresh, original, and dramatic.