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Full of anachronisms
Lots of jarring anachronisms and gross historical errors in the historical setting. Things such as stating that Herman Goering proved his competence by how well he managed the Wehrmacht (army) and basing the plot on something that is supposed to have happened when Rommel plundered a museum in Cairo. (In case you don't know it, Goering was chief of the Luftwaffe (air force) and Rommel never got all the way to Cairo.) If an author wants to take some liberties with historical details, that is one thing. It is quite another to simply exhibit ignorance of the true history that is being used for context. Another example is that an important incident in the story involves the use of a heavy-lift cargo helicopter in 1944 or 45, which is about like having a character take a jetliner to the west coast in 1939. Very sloppy to the extent that it made it hard to get involved in the otherwise not too poor fantasy plot.
