Title: Turgid Prose and Poor Research
Review: As the author admits, this book started out as an essay. What he neglects to mention is that he converted it into a book, not by adding new material, but by repeating various combinations and permutations of the original material over and over again.In and off itself this would merely make the book boring. What makes it actively distasteful to me are the glaring historical inaccuracies. To name just three, he displays a minimal understanding of General Grant's tactical and strategic ability, he implies that Winston Churchill was responsible for the sinking of the Lusitania and he quotes a casualty figure of 100,000 for the bombing of Dresden. Any serious historian, or even anyone who followed the David Irving libel suit would know that the true figure was approximately 20,000.The author may well have a valid point in this book, but if so it is obscured by turgid prose and discredited by poor research.
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