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Title: Grimly dull
Review: My first regret is that I have to give this book a single star. This book has been republished several times. I first saw it in a university library as a Bicentennial reprint. It appears to have been written by a local battle enthusiast who has no talent at all for history. It is so dull that a supreme effort will be required to grind throught it. It's treatment is spotty and in large portions of the book simply confusing. I think it has been around so long because for some reason there are, unlike with Saratoga, Trenton, or Yorktown, no real battle studies of Monmouth. One of the reasons the battle is reduced to stories about Molly Pitcher or of Washington losing his control of himself with Charles Lee is the lack of such studies. This book unfortunately does nothing to fill the gap. I'd pass on this one unless you have a taste for oddities.
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