Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: A Lame View of History

If you want to read about what war in the 20th Century was really like, do not read this book. This book is war-lite, an attempt by a novelist of limited means to create an unrealistic hero who is never wrong in his decisions. Readers of this novel will be edified in no way: the main character is a cardboard cut-out of what Army officers should be, and his antagonist is portrayed as an effete snob. If you want propaganda reading material, read this novel. That's why the Army/USMC likes it so much: it stresses the core values of the modern military. This novel fails in every attempt to create real characters in real situations: the main character, Sam Damon, is a man who does no wrong (and we all know how false a premise that is). If you want to read about what WW2 was really about, pick up something by Wolf Heckman.