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Title: A maudlin ant-war editorial.
Review: Mr. O'Shea starts with a wonderful concept - to walk the line of trenches from WWI and describe their location, history and present condition. Unfortunately, the book quickly degenerates into an ever-lengthening editorial against war and history's war leaders. With the clear view of hindsight - which he spends a page justifying - the author judges the generals of 1916 by the standards and knowledge of 1996. His pontificating becomes boring.Unforgivably, he also expresses his contempt and disdain for the amateur historians who purchase his book and line his pockets. Fortunately, this is partly compensated for by the inclusion of a list of references that far better meet the needs of the reader.
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