The best thing about Battlefront organization chart books is the capsule historical summaries, particularly as they include some fine and colorful maps (books by academic publishers are often very poor in maps, and they are very seldom in color). On the other hand, the historical summaries, while for the most part excellent, are also unsourced -- the reader has no idea where they came from and can't use them to find additional information. One additional pet peeve is that the names of towns are often spelled inconsistently or even incorrectly. In this book, the map on the back endpaper is in error; it reverses the situation on the southern portion of the Western Front, showing the border of France as the area occupied by the Allies as of Dec.1944, and vice-versa. ( )