As a Brit, reading this book is easy. After all, we come out on top in all the particular campaigns talked about. I imagine a patriotic Frenchman would find it rather irritating.

However, I must somewhat take issue with the title of the book. 1759 was not, so far as I am aware, quite the year that Frank McLynn cranks it out to be. Oh to be sure there were a crucial series of events, but Canada and India were not finished off for another couple of years, the war in Europe itself dragged on, and so on and so forth. The only particular part where I think the subtitle is merited is when it comes the Battle of Quiberon Bay, and even there it is incidental. The Seven Years War was the point when Britain managed to get naval logistics sorted out, and Quiberon Bay was surely one of the results. The seeds harvested at Trafalgar were sowed here, and in that small realm the title has some truth.

A fun read though, as I said. And quite useful in its way if you want a little more detail on the first half of the Seven Years War - at least from Britain's perspective. For as I have intimated, this book is thoroughly Anglo-centric. ( )