James Forman has dealt with the conflicts within a conflict, war, in earlier titles (The Skies of Crete, The Shield of Achilles, Ring the Judas Bell) and this time shifts to the German Gottedammerung, 1941–1945 [in Horses of Anger]…. Even though, as could be said of his earlier books, James Forman does not quite manage to commit his readers emotionally to the story itself, and to some extent, to its participants, he has succeeded in presenting various aspects of [Adolf Hitler's] Mein Kampf with a range of ideological issues. He is an extremely good writer, although one suspects at times that he is writing beyond his audience. (pp. 278-79)