DAILY MAIL, 'Haunting... you are plunged at the heart of the action.'; DAILY TELEGRAPH, SIMON HEFFER 'An important new book... a repository of damning facts.' ; THE TIMES, 'Reveals how mistakes and prejudice led to an avoidable tragedy.'; PROSPECT MAGAZINE General Sir Michael Rose, 'Many disturbing facts... graphically described ... excoriating book... Until now, all these facts have been concealed by a smokescreen of accusation.'; GUARDIAN, 'New... call to release all files'; SPECTATOR '[A] new light... a new trend... officers coming to question the hierarchies into which they were schooled" Professor Helen Parr; DAILY TELEGRAPH, 'a powerful case for a public inquiry.' General Thompson, Admiral Larken; PICK OF THE MONTH '... [C]ompelling reading. [A]n evocative writing style... most absorbing in the telling of the human story.' SOLDIER MAGAZINE; GUARDS MAGAZINE, 'Important and in some senses shocking... for the first time accurately in the context of the planning, execution and historiography of [the war].'; ROGER ALTON, former Editor Observer and Independent, 'Full of heroic characters, a remarkable story that has lain hidden for too long... A terrific document about war, that will be studied in staff colleges for generations to come. The top brass's passing the buck afterwards is appalling.'

DAILY MAIL, 'Haunting... you are plunged at the heart of the action.'; DAILY TELEGRAPH, SIMON HEFFER 'An important new book... a repository of damning facts.' ; THE TIMES, 'Reveals how mistakes and prejudice led to an avoidable tragedy.'; PROSPECT MAGAZINE General Sir Michael Rose, 'Many disturbing facts... graphically described ... excoriating book... Until now, all these facts have been concealed by a smokescreen of accusation.'; GUARDIAN, 'New... call to release all files'; SPECTATOR '[A] new light... a new trend... officers coming to question the hierarchies into which they were schooled" Professor Helen Parr; DAILY TELEGRAPH, 'a powerful case for a public inquiry.' General Thompson, Admiral Larken; PICK OF THE MONTH '... [C]ompelling reading. [A]n evocative writing style... most absorbing in the telling of the human story.' SOLDIER MAGAZINE; GUARDS MAGAZINE, 'Important and in some senses shocking... for the first time accurately in the context of the planning, execution and historiography of [the war].'; ROGER ALTON, former Editor Observer and Independent, 'Full of heroic characters, a remarkable story that has lain hidden for too long... A terrific document about war, that will be studied in staff colleges for generations to come. The top brass's passing the buck afterwards is appalling.'