WWI is finally over...

I just got back from vacation where I had a little more time to read. During that time I finally finished Jeff Shaara's take on WWI: To The Last Man.

I'll start out by saying I have read all of Shaara's previous novels about the Civil, Revolution, and Spanish-American Wars. All of these books were good page turning reads.

Just like WWI got bogged down into a stalemate of trench warfare until the American's arrived, so did this novel. Shaara's previous novels contain lots of battlefield prose. In this novel, like the war, there was lots of political wrangling to discuss. While informative not the most entertaining read. Once the American's started shooting the novel picked up it's pace.

Not that I didn't enjoy reading the novel, it just wasn't as good as his other efforts. I beleive WWI is often; and rightly so, over shadowed by WWII. I think Shaara wrote To The Last Man to set up his WWII trilogy which is only two thirds complete. I look forward to reading those later on this fall.

I have the first six novels in Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt Series on loan to me and I need to get those knocked out before I read anymore Shaara.

However, I am in the last 100 pages of Brad Thor's The Last Patriot. It is by far Thor's best novel and I'm not done with, but I will be by the end of the evening.