Well-written and easy to follow, which is surprising considering that both armies were full of soldiers with names I'm unfamiliar with. The maps were pretty good. But the weirdest thing about the book was how much I wished the two nations had managed to totally destroy each other. I couldn't root for either. The Russians were supposedly the allies of the US, but their politics, their cruelty, their lies, and the basic inhumanity of the system (but not always of individuals) made them every bit as bad as the Nazis. How anyone can read about either of these left-wing ideologies and still want America to become Socialist is beyond my comprehension. The idea the the individual lives only to support the state, instead of the other way around, means, ultimately, that the individual lives to support the few elite who control the state.