It advanced Australian military historiography "through the then unfashionable notion that generals were at least as important as privates in winning battles."

This part of the Second World War was poorly covered by Soviet military historiography, and what coverage exists occurred only after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, when historians gained access to relevant documents.

Italian military historiography in the last twenty years (La storiografia militare italiana negli ultimi venti anni, edited by Giorgio Rochat and Piero Del Negro, Milano, Angeli, 1985.