Well-written and easy to follow if not exactly exciting. I visited the battlefield and wanted to know more, so I bought this book in the visitor center.

It only strengthened my view that there was no way that an increasing, civilized culture could co-exist with a nomadic culture that viewed war and attacks on enemies as a mainstay of its way of life -- particularly for young men. No treaty was going to stop a young man who had been taught that he couldn't become a real man without killing an enemy. It was tragic, as all war is, and there were good people and bad people on both sides. It's another example of man's inhumanity to man -- on both sides.