Among the numerous points he noted in the second book was an analysis of the Red Army's costly offensives in the early stages of the war: There is no point in hiding that before the war we mostly learned to attack, and did not pay enough attention to such an important manoeuvre as retreat.
Među drugim temama kojima se bavio u drugom tomu, analizirao je i skupe ofenzive Crvene armije u ranom razdoblju rata: Nema smisla kriti da smo prije rata uglavnom učili napadati, a nismo obratili dovoljno pažnje tako važnim manevrima kao što je povlačenje.