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At one point, I typed up a review of Keegan's book on this site, but then erased it because it was so negative. The two best chapters, IIRC, dealt with the German assault on Crete in 1941 (in which foreknowledge of the attack was insufficient to repel it) and Lee's wily campaign in the Shenandoah Valley (in which he made superior use of his knowledge of local terrain to harass Union troops). Very little else seemed relevant to today's conflicts, and Keegan has the tendency to get wrapped around the axle when describing the minutiae of historical naval warfare, for which my appetite is limited.
BTW - Good job on the review, Themistocles. Well done.
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