Friedman's books are fascinating, but not for the faint of heart. I was looking at my copy of US Battleships earlier today, and it still has a "cheat sheet" I created tucked inside listing the name, hull number, and class of every American battleship. His US Submarine Since 1945 is a lot worse in that regard. I had to read it three times, because it's so suffocatingly dense with tables, diagrams, technical details, and jittery caffeinated writing it gave me a headache when I tried to read it at my "normal rate!"
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