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Title: Too many blunders about Russians
Review: This book is a gripping as other Clavell books. However, I hope his sources of information on Chinese stuff were better than on Russians. Some Russian names and factoids are downright ridiculous. For example, he clearly can't tell Kazakhs, Mongol-related people from Central Asia, from Cossacks, militaristic communities of Russian origin living in Southern Russia and Ukraine. Too bad he couldn't find a Russian person to help out, I would have enjoyed the book immensely if not for this nagging doubt whether the whole book would sound similarly ridiculous to a Chinese person.
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