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Title: Good subject - Bad writing . . .
Review: I was mightily disappointed in the quality of writing of this book. Is Ambrose one of our greatest historians? Or did he even write this book himself? It reads like a Junior High report. Every time an interesting idea is mentioned, it is left dangling and subsequently ruined by a quick left turn into a semi-related factoid. The only inference one can make is that the book became an ill-conceived training exercise for the author's son Hugh (mentioned in the introduction).
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