The author's cunning mind stands out through the reading of his book (mostly a whitewashing of Nazi guilt and his failed operations). The first part of the book is interesting and well written, after gaining that credibility from the reader the author spends about half of the book (some 250 pages of it) finding excuses for his failure to reach the Stalingrad pocket or refusing to accept the job in the first place, since he himself states the minimum conditions for viability were not gathered, and whitewashing the regular army (and so the forces under his command) responsibility in war crimes and crimes against Humanity.
The description of the taking of Sevastopol (one of his successful operations) is very good and useful (he didn't have to hide or distort facts to evade guilt).
There are also several gullible excerpts in the book that the author would have done better leaving out: when he purports to have been extremely brave and standing up to Hitler when he didn't agree with his orders. Unfortunately, cross examination of his statements with other testimonies does not corroborate that. As far as I can say, after having read some 80 book about the WWII, he was never one of the "rebels".
It's an understandable posture, though, since he was involved in war crimes and crimes against Humanity and so would rather try to avoid responsibility (like 95% of other Nazis) than admit anything.
There are, thus to interesting sides to the book: the guilt avoidance methods used by Nazis after the war, the excuses and posture taken up and the historical side of the war, meaning troop movement, orders, difficulties, developments (though in here, every time you enter into an area where the author will have his public image affected, you will encounter flimsy excuses and distorted descriptions of events).
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