This book is almost a biography of John von Neumann, almost a history of the MANIAC computer, almost the story of the beginning of the Computer Science field. All of these topics are connected but it's edited in such a way that it seems like 3 different books collided and were glued together with a lot of unnecessary detours. And that is a real shame, there is a lot of good info in here.

I can still recommend this book to other people, but I will have to warn them of these frustrations.