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Review title: What a mess!
Product review: As a history buff I was attracted to the subtitle "A Military History of the Civil War". I have read Catton, Foote, and McPherson as well as a hundred other works on various aspects of the War Between the States. I wish I could have read the first 20 pages of this work prior to purchasing. It is an unbelievably poorly written book. Others have commented on a few factual issues, but they are not my major complaint. I have never read a work so poorly written published by a major book company. This book cannot have ever been professionally edited. If so, fire that editor! The writing is confused, repetitive, and replete with solecisms. In many places it is hard to follow the author's jumbled account of events. Whatever the faults of Catton, et al., at least they are pleasurable to read. This work is a mess!
