The military part (the battles) is very good, but the rest of the plot is 4th grade (elementary school) level simplistic, basic, black&white crap... I really felt my intelligence as a reader was very strongly underestimated and offended.

August 19, 2024
August 15, 2024

Good book with some good Eastern Front combat, but the MC is too super smart, super lucky, super brave, super admired, superhero, to be 100% believable - definitely less than other ww2 German veterans memories. Also, a lot of the book in non-combat (him in Germany and Italy).

May 24, 2024

Superficial, with many blatant historical inaccuracies.

April 26, 2024
July 28, 2017
September 14, 2018

Very well documented, very detailed and thorough historical what-if scenarios.
Also very boring.

July 13, 2018
January 1, 2023

surprinzător de detaliată și documentată pt o cărticică de doar 140 pagini, dar și curajoasă în a contrazice teze istorice binecunsocute.

September 25, 2016

This collection holds 12 of PKD's 121 short stories.
To be honest, these are mostly in the “just OK” and “hadn't aged that well” area, and far from his best.
Or his second best.
Or even his third best...

April 23, 2023
February 14, 2017

sec, plictisitor, prost conceput: ignoră aspecte extrem de importante, precum gulagul sau războiul,tratează superficial personalitatea/viața sa personală și relația cu Stalin, exagerează cu tratatarea infinitelor intrigi și bizantinisme inerente multitudinii de potentați comuniști.
Nerecomandat.

April 14, 2019

not quite ”military history”, but rather a collection of historical analysis essays; some really good, some not so much (being too didactic or even accounting-like). Too dry on the whole and sometimes boring.

February 5, 2017

it feels more like a script for comics; somewhat enjoyable, but unoriginal and plain.

March 4, 2017

Oh, how badly scifi ages... (these stories are from 1970 and damn they were simplistic...)

June 5, 2020

Loved the art, very expressive and original. The story, though, is unimpressive and quite ordinary.

March 30, 2023
August 7, 2018
January 24, 2018
August 4, 2019

5 pt carte, 2 pt ediția românească de la Litera, trasă în jos de o traducere catastrofală și pe deasupra incompletă: în original sunt 2 părți, Nord și Sud, Litera a scos doar Nord, adică frontul mai puțin relevant.

November 12, 2016

Dacă vă place absurdul, v-o recomand. Este o carte memorabilă prin originalitatea ei.
Dacă nu, vă avertizez că este o lectură stranie, schrodinger-iană: mi s-a părut, constant, simultan o carte foarte bună și una foarte proastă. De aceea și nota, medie între 1 și 5.

September 20, 2017
April 30, 2017
March 17, 2018
February 4, 2018