Recommended reading

[Bob Potter]

I am currently reading this massive work and thoroughly concur with your opinion. Porch seems to have left to stone unturned. I am not, however, pleased to be reminded of my age. We are far enough away from all this that has truly become history and not mythology. When someone says, "Erwin Rommel was the wrong man for North Africa," it can make the teeth of someone who grew up with images created by Desmond Young and James Mason hurt. I just finished the chapter on El Alamein so I may wince when I get to Operation Torch. Maybe not. My opinion of Patton was shaped by my father's, who told me stories about him as an LtC in Hawaii in the 1930's. Certainly no "Roaring George" then.

My age also makes me wish that the print was larger but we won't go there just yet . . . .

Bob