I haven't really looked around yet since I am still going to try out the first few chapters, but I will check there if it gets to that point. For the most part I find their summaries a little too summarized so I was hoping for a little more than a typical wiki summary. For this specific book it might be enough though, I just didn't want to try to find out until I make up my mind.
Example from the previous book, Ashes of Victory, of the types of detail that are missing from a typical wikipedia article:
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After the daring attacks featured in the previous novel, the People's Republic of Haven seems to have the initiative. However, Manticore has a trump card that has the potential to end the war, in the form of devastatingly effective new technology and weapons fully integrated into a new massive heavy assault force, known as 8th fleet. The Star Kingdom's navy bides time, waiting for the opportune moment to strike.
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They talk about "new technology" but nowhere does the wikipedia article describe it, so going into War of Honor I wouldn't have any idea what it was or how it changed the tactics for the current book. These books have all built on each other with the tactics and technology in one being used and advanced upon in the next, so not knowing details like that could be fairly significant. I certainly don't think a lot of the details are necessary but ones that change the course of the war certainly are since they are sure to show up again. Maybe he will describe it again in the following book, but ???