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Title: Huntford lunges for the jugular
Review: Although this book was well-written and exhaustively researched, I am wondering why Roland Huntford wrote it with such hatred. He tears Scott apart, sometimes jumping to unwarranted conclusions. Even if he does think that Scott sat in his tent, staring at a companion and willing him to die, he should not put such an idea into a book as a fact. Huntford paid little or no attention to the fact that Scott did have supporters and friends such as Edward Wilson and Apsley Cherry-Garrard. He was *not* unswervingly pigheaded, panicky and stupid as the book makes him out to be. Although this book was informative and made a much-needed point, I think that Huntford would have been better off presenting facts, and turning his point away from Scott's throat.
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