This was 75 percent exactly the book I thought it was going to be and then 25 percent something much more affecting that I was totally unprepared for. So different than the Old Man's War books but in a way that turned out great.
Occasionally this book bogs down in just a little too much detail about an operation or patrol. But the rest of the time it's among the best writing on war and morality I've ever read.
Starts off stronger than it ends; the more abstract the empire gets, the less revelatory it is. But at least half of this book has some stunning thing on every page that we all should have learned in middle school.
A lot more scattered than most other Michael Lewis books, but it's worth reading to get a sense of just how colossally some critical functions are being fucked up by the Trump administration.
Just incredibly well-written and devastating to read. The perfect introduction to just how brutal and nakedly treasonous Reconstruction was, should be required school reading.
Information literally every American should know and absorb, but a dense read even for a short book. I'm kind of hoping someone uses this as the basis for a bigger history book.
