Alan Sked

Another monograph that I've been meaning to read for the better part of a decade, it started out decent enough, and, to be honest, it's not as though that there are many choices in English in regards to reading about the famous Austrian military leader.

However, the deeper I got into the work, the more my sense of unease grew. The Napoleonic period is not my best area of expertise, but at a certain point I felt as though I was being fast-talked, certainly that I was being fed a bit more of a show more polemic than I had expected. At that point I did some poking around about the late Prof. Sked, and it turns out that soon after he published this work Euro-skeptic politics became his main avocation, and it became difficult for me to take Sked's narrative seriously from that point on.

Having said all that, should anyone else be picking this book up to read? Maybe. If you just want a military life of Radetzky it's still probably serviceable. I wish that there was another option though. show less

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