Instruct: Classify the given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: If you are an historian, spend your money someplace else

Blum's book seems accurate as far as it goes, and might be enjoyable for someone who knew nothing of the Yom Kippur War. However, for any casual student (let alone a serious one) of military history in general, or the Arab-Israeli wars in particular, the book is as useful for in-depth understanding as "Johnny Tremain" was for the American Revolution.There are much better personal accounts of the heroism involved ("The Heights of Courage"). And, though the spy story is interesting, Blum omits entirely the mid-war US re-arming of Israel, and the desperate and deadly backdrop of concurrent US-USSR diplomacy. The superpower confrontation shaped the whole conduct of the war; making no mention of it in his reonstruction of top-level Israeli wartime strategic discussions is ludicrous.