A keypad that makes splash

The title is enticing. It is expected to discover the circumstances and reasons for the critical decisions that changed the course of history of the 2nd GM.
Disappointment, the author makes us relive certainly the context, key characters, political details but with too much duplication and repetition. To believe that he wanted to cram all her references.
The book could be halved, it would facilitate reading and would have the opportunity to include references lacks, including french documents that are virtually absent from the thesaurus. But on the part of an Anglo-Saxon one could not expect much.