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Title: The French-Indian War 1754-1760 by Daniel Marston ISBN: 1-84176-456-6 Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK) Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent overall
Comment: I found this book to provide an excellent general overview of an often overlooked period of American colonial history.
I am bemused by the earlier poster Mr. Westbrook's comments regarding the Joshua Goodenough account (which, by the way, forms a fraction of the book's content). The source for this is listed as the Massachusetts Historical Society, which cites this under the Library of Congress heading "Subject(s): United States--History--French and Indian War, 1755-1763-Personal narratives", so clearly the claim for its being fiction is not universally known. (Remington himself claims that it is a real letter.) The surname Goodenough has a well-established Anglo-Saxon history and can be found even today in both England and the US, so by itself is not really sufficient proof of an 19th (or 18th!) century literary joke.
More thoughtful commentary and less of what sounds like backbiting would be welcome in these reviews.
Rating: 1
Summary: Unreliable
Comment: This disappointing book comes from the usually reliable Osprey, but the editors and fact-checkers must have on holiday when this came through. The illustrations are muddy, and many are printed backwards! The real howler is that the author accepts at face-value the account of one of Robert Rogers' supposed Rangers, "Joshua Goodenough" (get it?), but written by artist Frederic Remington for Harper's Magazine in 1897. This is certainly NOT an "Essential History" from Osprey. Save your money for the ones that are, and there are plenty of those.
Rating: 4
Summary: Warfare in the Wilderness
Comment: I enjoyed this book with a few exceptions.The "Battle of Grant's Hill" during the Forbes Campaign to take French held Fort Duquesne was poorly researched.The book states that the British destroyed several blockhouses around the fort prior to the battle,when in reality,they only set fire to one which was eventually extinguished.There are several other errors that a little research would have corrected.Otherwise,not a bad book on the F&I War.
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Title: The American Revolution 1774-1783 by Daniel Marston ISBN: 1841763438 Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK) Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Seven Years' War (Essential Histories, No 6) by Daniel Marston ISBN: 1841761915 Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK) Pub. Date: 01 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Mexican War 1846-1848 by Douglas V. Mead ISBN: 1841764728 Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK) Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Quebec 1759: The Battle That Won Canada (Campaign) by Stuart Reid, Gerry Embleton ISBN: 1855326051 Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK) Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The War of 1812 by Carl Benn ISBN: 1841764663 Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK) Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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