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Review title: Ticks the boxes, but phew!!
Product review: This is a reduction of Donald Kagan's own more scholarly work on the subject for the ordinary reader. If I could have the last 3 weeks of my life back, I'd wait for the Reader's Digest version.Too much detail, a kaleidoscope of characters and locations coming and going, and no real overview. The maps are poor and the descriptions of battles are limited.To the author, who has been immersed in the subject, it may seem like a summary. To someone who picks it up for a read over Christmas, it's a 500 page list of events which take place over decades.
