Book: Read a book involving a war, battle, or where characters are active military or veterans
I've never read this author before but the premise intrigued me: an engineer with no military background being put in the position of having to defend a walled city using nothing much other than his wits.
So far it's slow-moving but original. Here's an example of the kind of joke our hero makes to himself
"As a wise man once asked: 'What's the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow?' - luck doesn't work if you push it."