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Title: God help us....
Review: I use this book as a reference from time to time and each time I open it and begin to read a paragraph, I wince in pain at the incredibly dull writing associated with this text. Not to put the blame solely on Roberts, but his work epitomizes much of what is wrong with historical texts; the really bad writing style. Before you get through one paragraph, if your forehead does not bounce off the table in front of you, then you still have to wade through the prose like a slow march across a swamp.
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