Finished reading: Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City by K. J. Parker 📚

This review will be short, I will just say one of the best books I’ve read in few years. I absolutely loved every page of it. I identify very strongly with the main character, which might be awkward but works this time. Story is about a sieged city in about roughly Roman time (I suppose this is a fantasy world). Distinctive feature of this book how it treats war as a logistics operation, people are incomplete and broken, narrator is unreliable, and competent planning and execution wins the day

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