'This book takes no prisoners. Implicitly rejecting the old conservative notion that military history is about the glory of combat, it explicitly seeks to disabuse us also of the modern liberal assumption that the participants in the mass carnage of 20th-century wars were simply victims ... With remorseless energy, the evidence is amassed, drawing on the experience of British, Australian and American servicemen in the first and second world wars and Vietnam ... It will leave the reader in no doubt that war is indeed about killing'
'SUNDAY TIMES'