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The Warrior Queens
The Warrior Queens
Author: Antonia Fraser
This is an examination of those women in history that have both ruled and led in war. From Boadicea to Margaret Thatcher, the author compares and contrasts the various styles of leadership of the world's women warriors both on an off the battlefield. The author includes as her subjects Catherine the Great, Elizabeth I, Isabella of Spain, the...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780749301095
ISBN-10: 0749301090
Publication Date: 1993
Pages: 400
Edition: First Printing
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Publisher: Mandarin
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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I wanted to read this book. Really! But the writing made it impossible. Somewhere in the sixth chapter I had to call it quits. Not that the subject was boring, but because the author was. Reading the text was like slogging through hip-deep mud. In every paragraph, on every page, the author would discuss something and then fly off on a tangent, as if to prove how well-read she was. It was almost as if she thought stream of consciousness was the way to hold the reader's attention. Plus, her writing was stilted.

And the reviews on the back cover once again lead you to believe most reviewers don't actually read the books they review. For example---from The New York Times Book Review---"...it is a pleasure to encounter the kind of quick and lively mind that informs every page."

Huh? Perhaps the reviewer was reading some other book, as it certainly wasn't this one, and mistakenly submitted that review for this book. I kept putting this book down and went off to read another. hoping when I came back later it would be better. Didn't happen.

Note: I read a lot of books about women and their role in history, and enjoy almost all of them. In fact, reading history is an addiction of mine. But this book was unbelievably irritating.


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