Title: Disorganized facts
Product review: Peter Harclerode clearly did a tremendous amount of research on Western paramilitary operations, but the book he ended up with is practically useless as a history source. The chapters are not divided into stages of the campaign. There is no explanation of why an operation was carried out, what the strategy was, or even which side had the upper hand. Instead, it's just 590 pages of tactics organized more or less by date. Can you imagine the US Civil War being described this way? The maps don't help either; they are from a stock source and don't show half of the locations mentioned in the text. I haven't memorized the geography of Tibet, help me out! Maybe Harclerode will get a chance to make another edition that addresses these problems, so his work won't have been wasted.
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