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This is a terrible book
It is not very often that I do not finish a book but this one is going to be one of the few. This sounds like an interesting book. But in reality it is so badly written, very disjointed and has no supporting documentation. I felt as if he wrote it in a hurry. I dread to think what the book on Entebbe is like as that was written in a week. I am not sure who the editor was but they should have been fired.
This subject could have been such an exciting read but it is impossible to follow the story line. The author assumes we all know & understand what he's talking about. He has no real explanations about all the different departments, other than a long boring list which makes for hard reading and by the time you start the book you have forgotten what the initials stand for.
The book portrays the English as a bunch of Hooray Henry's which I am sure there were some but not every man in the UK is a bumbling idiot. Nor were the English pro Hitler except for a select few aristocrats. It is true the English did not want to go back to war. Who would after the devastation of WWI. I have read 37% but I can go no further. I shall not read more of his books.
May 2016 · Kindle Store · verified purchase