Sobel's training is universally praised in retrospect, but it was all the other things that made Sobel a hated man where Shames wasn't around to witness. Shames could not resent Sobel the same way that others did who lived through his pettiness. Shames started working at the battalion level after his battlefield commission, so he would have only ever known Sobel as a logistics officer. In this same interview, Shames said that Captain Sobel "was probably one of the better officers in the entire regiment" and criticizes Ambrose for vilifying Sobel. Shames ends up having some contrary opinions on other officers as well, but at the very least those could be rationalized through his point of view: I like Winters (for obvious reasons) and have enjoyed Shames' book, so in a perfect world I would like to think that this is all a "matter of perspective" instead of Winters actually being anti-Semitic or that Shames is off his rocker. I came across this 2014 interview with Ed Shames on YouTube and at ~55:49 he straight up accuses Winters of being an anti-Semite.which is disconcerting.
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