Well, I finally finished The Mammoth Book Of Eyewitness Naval Battles. It's quite poorly written, with a lot of typos and a lot of actual technical errors. The fun part is having all the eyewitness accounts collected in one place. The bad part is that there are probably so many more accounts he left out, either due to space (the book is already huge) or to bias, of which he does show quite a bit.
On the whole I recommend it, but also recommend that you save your money and try to find a copy at a library as I did. It's pretty good, but not a keeper.
Now back to some detective stories for a while.
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