One of my favorite authors of military genre is Stephen E. Ambrose.  I have read almost everything that he wrote on WWII.  In preparation fo a trip with my wife to Springfield, IL this summer to visit Lincoln historical sites I have started to read Halleck: Lincoln's Chief of Staff.  It is a fascinating look at one of the men who surrounded Lincoln during a dark time in our countries history.

Ambose has a way of making historical figures like Halleck real in showing his personality and errors in judgment.  It is in seeing him in light of these areas that I feel we get a glimpse of the real man.