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The Battle for Baltimore: 1814

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I bought this book to do some research for my own writing. While the historical information is interesting and accurate (as far as I know), the writing is awful. This book is absolutely teeming with typos and misused words. Unless "belligerant" has become a word while I wasn't looking, I don't think the book was even spellchecked! The grammar errors are constant enough that they really detracted from my enjoyment of the book. But the topic is pretty specialized, and this is the only book I've found that deals with it exclusively, so it's worth checking out if you need to know about this particular battle or about the politics and culture of Chesapeake Bay around the time of the War of 1812 (about which there are plenty of good details). I just hope the folks at the Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company have since hired a proofreader!

I must echo the comments from the previous review of this book. Overall this book is well researched and gives a good overview of the politics and battles in the Cheaspeake Bay region during the War of 1812. The writing style and presentation is difficult to digest. To read a few pages of this book without growing weary is a serious accomplishment. The research seems to be original, however, and unique to this book. Bottom line, I would be hesitant to buy this book without making sure there we no better written and researched books about this specific topic.