Instruct: Classify an Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Only thing lacking are space aliens.....

I don't normally review books, but this is over the top. I purchased it because it is a nice compendium of "last battles"... Let's just say that there are two problems throughout this book. Much of it seems to be taken from Victorian ( or other) accounts that were greatly embellished - artillery in use all over the place at the Siege of Constantinople 1453!?!?!? Just one example - plus there is an annoying "Great White Man" theme. Locals are savages being "saved" by France, Britain or whatever 19th century power occupies them; almost every one of the natives seems, to the author's surprise, to resent foreign occupation. The Nazi's would blush at some of the the various atrocities committed by seemingly every non white, or non Christian in the book.I guess I just like to read eyewitness accounts unembellished...