Title: Terrible, Terrible, TERRIBLE!
Product review: Do yourself a favor - dont bother with this one. It doesn't even qualify as history as far as I am concerned. Leckie comes off as a biased (he bashes female fighter pilots), racist (he flat out calls the Chinese a "backward race" and implies it's impossible for them to have been the inventor of gunpoweder!(see 51) and vindicative (he loves to bash on the British ever chance he gets) windbag. Nevermind that the first 30 some pages of the book put you to sleep going on and on about Columbus when what you bought the book for was the French and Indian Wars. What ever happened to objectivety? I am so disgusted with this book and this author I just can't get over it. I could spend well over a thousands words illustrating just how terrible this book is, but it would be much easier to just take the high road and discuss its merits: well, dang, there are none. That was easier than I thought. So much for the high road.
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