Book Review: Six Frigates
Wow ... Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll was a marathon read. And not like a sitting for 26 hours straight never wanting to put the book down. More of the ... took somewhere near 26 week sto read...
Don't get me wrong. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and I learned A LOT from the 482 pages of riveting Navy history. It was just a long read. And it read a bit like a text book much of the time.
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