Title: I highly recommend this book.
Product review: I thoroughly enjoyed this book and the quality of the information. It is, for the most part, well written and enjoyable. My only complaint is that the author occasionally gets away with himself, away from the subject, and dips into these "reenactment paragraphs." It reminds me of watching a program about a criminal investigation that suddenly cuts away from the facts, the interviews, and the evidence to give a reinactment. Poorly acted, mediocre, and it interrupts the flow of information to give the director a chance to vent his ego. In this book, Simon Read's strength is his creative nonfiction. He presents the information in an interesting fashion with a natural flow. Unfortunately, he undercuts himself when he veers off into pure fiction scenes in which he attempts to "reenact" events. He might be a good fiction writer otherwise, but it didn't work for this piece. That's my only complaint though. If you can skim over the fiction, this is a fantastic read.
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