Fiennes offers sound technical and experiential insight, and very good quotations from primary sources. As for his writerly quality, sometimes I found it hard to get a sense of place and of the players within it, and so lost some tension and drama in the action.

I learned from the final chapter that "debunking" in some circles essentially means cancel culture. I found Fiennes' defense of the Empire, the first World War and Churchill a bit defeating but given the source, unsurprising.