Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Poor Use of English Language for an Important Subject

You should believe the other reviewers when they say the writing is poor. Let me give you an example from page 27: "Though A.J.P. Taylor was flippantly wrong to characterize the outbreak of 1914 as 'war by timetable,' since statesmen might have averted it at any time, given goodwill, by ignoring professional military advice, the characterization is accurate in a deeper sense." Do you get the idea? Every paragraph has sentences like that, making this book difficult to read. On the positive side, his knowledge is deep and wide, but you are going to have to dig.I just finished Barbara Tuchman's "The Guns of August"--what a difference. I wish I knew of another book on this general subject so I could recommend it. Tuchman's book covers only about the first 30 days of the war.