You sound very much like my deceased Brother in law. I’ve got footlockers full of his collection of history of war. I’m ready to give it away.
I just moved to San Diego and have many many boxes of books. I had 53 boxes of books 3 moves ago. I haven’t counted since then.
I was looking at my copy of Weigley’s “American Way of War” a few days ago. Written before ULTRA was public, it is still of great value.
We won WWII because we were luckly. We were lucky that Germans and Japanese were arrogant and had poor signals security. We were lucky that Hitler attacked his Soviet ally (and his Polish ally, his French ally, and his Italian ally...). and his racist policies put the worlds top physicists at our disposal, or at least denied them to the Nazi war machine.