Strategy, Tactical, Leadership, and Technology

Although Europe appeared to have won the conflict, the reality was that it had been severely ruined; empires had collapsed, the economies were in ruins, millions of soldiers had been killed or injured, and whole generations had been permanently affected.

Deighton presents the Battle of Britain as a system under pressure, not just a series of heroic stories.

On April 9, 1942, the battle for the Bataan Peninsula ended, not with a dramatic military move, but because the defenders were simply worn out.