About 2/3rds of the way through Max Hastings' Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945. Brutal and depressing, and kind of long, but certainly doesn't mince any words. Hastings doesn't hold back his opinions, and seems especially rough on Winston Churchill in particular. Of course, once you strip away the oratory and leadership skills of a lot of great politicians and military leaders, you start to seem them for what they really are.
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