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More politics and factions than finance. But still a good perspective.

Im reading this book as one of the summer reading challenge choices. It’s the prequel to Legends & Lattes which I read for the library’s after-hours book club.

So far so good.

US troops have finally come into their own as fighting forces.

US forces have finally stopped/repelled the Germans at Kasserine. Many lessons learned.

Patton has taken command of II Corps.

Sansom’s security guy carries a 9mm but it seems unlikely a NC rep’s guy would have NYC permits. Then he supplied a silenced MP5SD, which maybe. But he’s former SF and only 1 mag. With lead-nosed rounds. They’d more likely be mil M882 copper jacketed or civilian hollow points.

Reading this because Reacher S4 is based on it. Reacher novels are easy to read with fairly short chapters.

Couple nitpicks:
Subway cars can’t contain passengers; end doors can be opened.
Muzzle flash is gases and powder igniting, not O2
NYPD doesn’t issue remote mics

US military nepotism/cliques during interwar period & early WW2.

US forces had almost no clue what they were doing during Op Torch. Should’ve paid more attn during CGSC which missed something since this didn’t stand out to me.

Is plural of Junkers Junkerses? Not sure “a nearby grainfield was full of burning cruciforms” means Allies wiped out Axis aerial assets. P 190 doesn’t pass common sense test.

I like the movie. When I saw this listed as the library’s movie/book discussion (called Reel Talk) for September, I figured I should read the book.

Steel & coal magnates were driven to Hitler as bulwark against communist insurrections & the economic deprivations resulting from terms of Versailles Treaty. Author claims they mostly thought some of Hitler’s more radical positions, including anti-semitism, were mostly huffing & puffing to gain support. Not unlike politicians when they agreed to appoint Hitler chancellor thinking they’d be able to control him.