Nicholas Murray (2)

I found this book to be disappointing. Murray uses the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78, the Second Anglo-Boer War, the Russo-Japanese War and the 1912-13 Balkan Wars to illustrate his analysis of the use of field fortifications, but keeps forcing the discussion into a framework of comparing their use against the same several areas of analysis, using examples to illustrate how the use of field fortifications in each war did or did not fulfill the premise of each of those areas. While he does provide some interesting overviews and observations, I found that his attempt to repeated address those areas of analysis made the reading feel repetitive.… (meer)