Thanks for the comments and I'll try to answer the queries.

Funnily, I never looked at Normandy without covering July 20, not least because so many middle and senior ranking officers were involved to greater or lesser extents. I probably did get a bit bogged down in events in Berlin/Rastenburg with hindsight... but I wanted to tell the story without sending readers scurrying for other books on the plot. The downside is that it really does break the narrative of the Normandy battles. Sorry.

Looking back (it was written 4-5 years ago), there's a lot today I'd do differently. Too many long quotes. It needs more images (I was severely hindered by cost ) and more and better maps. One good thing was that the publishers asked for the manuscript to be chopped by about one third; that was an excellent lesson because there was a lot of material in the original version which was superfluous. I did lose the Brittany campaign though which was a bummer.

Anyway, next up is the Polish campaign which comes out next summer. It's similar in style (narrative not serious military history), but it's IMHO a much better read. I cannot, however, promise that it doesn't wander off at tangents from time to time.