With the old breed, at Peleliu and Okinawa

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…ly forward through the history of strategy and tactics. You might like the works of John Keegan, another famous military historian who takes a general approach. He's got a History of Warfare that's like a lighter-weight version of Jones -- I might recommend starting with that, actually. His one-volume histories of WWI and WWII are probably decent. Keegan is British, so it wouldn't surprise me if his histories were heavy on the Western front. If you want the actual history of WWII you need a history that's more about the Eastern Front, which is pretty much where the war in Europe was actually decided. Unfortunately, the history on that subject lags decades behind, because the surviving Germans didn't exactly want to dwell on it and the Soviets weren't exactly forthcoming. (Many of the key Soviet figures either got disappeared by Stalin or …

Read Paul Fussell's Wartime . Or Eugene Sledge's With the Old Breed - At Peleliu and Okinawa . Then you'll know why I'm happy to study war from my armchair, despite the fact that I'll never really know what combat is like. It's also good to not know what it feels like to be high on heroin or hooked on nicotine.