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Plodding. Researched well enough so that there is a narrative you can easily follow, but there's a very timid approach to the historical characters. It's easy to understand how he could have produced a work of this length, since much of it is a recapitulation of the well-known facts of WW1. Maybe a fictional character or two, beyond the poor guy in the first section, should have been added to supply a little emotional heat. A couple of cautions: there are some errors in the text ... One where a 1916 date is inserted into the middle of spring 1917 events. Another one, very early, gives the wrong date for the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. I assume these were publisher errors. A stylistic sentence construction may get to you after a while, also: Subject, verb then verb then verb. It's used too much: "He had seen men arrive at the field full of confidence, had watched the confidence erode, had seen the exhaustion line their faces, had stood back silently as drinking and carousing took hold of them." ( that pathetic sentence is my own, but you'll notice the overuse of that pattern, I think. -- used maybe 2-3 times per page in many sections). There's a book entitled "Over There" by Thomas Fleming from a few years back that follows Pershing and others! Some fictional. I thought it superior to this one.

Excellent read. I always enjoy Jeff's novels and I thank him for reintroducing me to the historical fiction genre.

Tedious. Everything interesting would have filled two chapters. The rest is simply tedious.

So very compelling. A moving and very well written tribute to the troops who paid the price then and continue to so today. Captures the hidden injuries in gut wrenching fashion without the gore or the glory. I learned much of WWI that I didn't know.

Amazing work!. This was an incredible and very entertaining read. Obviously well researched, Mr. Shaara has brought figures to life that have been overlooked or brings new, fresh perspectives to others that are well known in history. The portions on the Lafayette Escadrille alone are well worth reading the book yet it offers so much more! The details of the US 2nd Marine Division makes you feel like you're right there alongside Roscoe Temple, Dan Parker and Gino Scarabelli. Wholeheartedly recommend reading this book. You won't be disappointed.

Longer than the war itself. The mechanism was the same for all Shaara books, the docudrama style so effective in previous titles, of pulling the reader into a more personal interest within the historical context. That said, this book is longer than the war itself, with dialogue often so wooden that it was a real effort to persevere. In the end the book defeated me, like the Kaiser, through attrition, and I capitulated. It is a big topic on a grand scale, but sadly for this effort, boring. By the time I was immersed in tar-like conversational flirtations between young Richthofen and his nurse, I was ready to volunteer to go over the top. Lots of buildup for what I'm sure was a crashing climax, but it was not worth waiting through that many long hours of filler to find out for sure.

Best modern war novel ever written. From the prologue, to the very last words, this is by far Shaara's best.

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