That was significantly more difficult to read than I thought it would be. There were many repetitions, I think that was why. There’s only so much you can read about fire. The devastations of fire on a battle was present in every chapter, regardless of the subject. Still an interesting read, but I didn’t enjoy myself as much as I did the other informative, nonfiction books, such as “Spice” or “Pest”. while it’s true that I thought “pest” was not written very well, I still enjoyed the book as a whole. This one? Not as much. It’s obvious that the author devoted her life to this book, but it was just too long.

Important book to read, showing human ingenuity at its worst. Well researched. There was however quite a lot of repetition, which made reading it less enjoyable.