I was grossly disappointed in this book. World War II was a world war, not a project run by the United States. Yet, most everything here is American centric. Not a bad idea if advertised as such, but frankly the Soviets won the war, and on the western side the Canadians, British and Australians helped.
Patton was not the great strategic commander painted in the book. He was a barely controlled man who commanded - and commanded well - one of a dozen western armies. On the Soviet side army commanders were a dime a dozen, as they were on the German side.
Nothing on the Chinese part in the war except a book by a (highly competent) amateur historian (Tuchman - Stilwell and the American Experience in China).
Nothing on the Australian's administering the first land defeat on the Japs in Papua New Guinea, nothing on Bill Slim and the wonderful Fourteenth Army. In a Slim-Patton contest, Slim wins hands down, including for ability to take risks for the main chance.
Waste of money. ( )

I really liked this book. I use it to further add books to my Wishlist. Dunnigan's mini-summaries of included books are loaded with details. I have several books by Dunnigan all of which I have enjoyed reading. Some other reviewers have provided less than glowing reviews of some of his books. I try to keep things in perspective so flaws noted are not ignored. Given his background and experiences, I suspect James Dunnigan might be a very interesting author to meet in person. ( )