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Savage Wilderness (Hardcover)

by Harold Coyle (Author)
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"Nobody knows war like Harold Coyle, and nobody writes it better," says Stephen Coonts, and the proof is that his books have sold ten million copies. Here he takes on the French and Indian War.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.


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Savage, indeed, were the French and Indian wars. Given this assortment of individuals and geography, Howard is as fine a guide as one could ask. Howard's clipped tones hold a hint of military discipline; his regional accents convince, and he moves easily over moments of awkward phrasing. This is a fine conjunction of narrative and narrator. S.B.S. (c) AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
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3.0 out of 5 stars History does indeed tend to repeat itself., Mar 23 2004
This is my introduction to Harold W. Coyle's writing because of my earlier readings of the colonial life in America. The Prologue and Chapter 1 could have been omitted, as they were at an earlier time and not American in any way. It would have been better to start with Chapter 2 as the background info could have been incorporated into the intros.

He admits that his assistant did all the detailed research for this volume. Why, then does he take credit for the entire book?I can't see much documented or which needs to be so. I kept wondering what had been research and what from his imagination.

There was a discrepancy at the very beginning in his rendition of the Native American who was converted to Christianity. Is it true that they regard any person not Indian as 'white'? That's strange, to say the least.

We endured such savage blood-thirsty cruelty in this account of a useless war. But, most of them are -- as they occur. It is the consequences some years on down the road which make them neccesary at that time.

I was most frustrated with this writer's use of prepositions at the end of long, rambling sentences. Maybe he knows what he has in mind, but it gets lost along the way.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Savage Reading, Mar 3 2004
By Robert Bottos "Rebel Rob aka Avid Fan" (Coquitlam, British Columbia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Savage Wilderness (Audio Cassette)
Once again this Harold Coyle starts with lots of promise but quickly fades into mediocrity. There are too many characters and all the various plot lines suffer accordingly. We are given glimpses of the French Indian War but that is all. With 125 pages to go and 3 more years of war the author suddenly drops two characters and their plot lines and races through the remaining acts of the war to conquer New France. The fight on the Plains of Abraham before the gates of Quebec is a mere after thought. The campaigns against Louisbourg are totally overlooked. We get to read about the after effects of raiding parties but we don't get to see any raids. At one point the author describes a scene of canabalism performed on captive white settlers by a character who up to this point had been anything but a "savage". In my opinion, while the novel covers a historical period I believe it is a bad representation of both the British and Native Indians. At one point the author has two characters postulating a future revolt in the America's against the British. While the roots of America's revolution can indeed be found in the French Indian War, the feeling of resentment did not come to the fore till after the conclusion of the war when Britain set about making the colonies pay for their defence. This novel had great potential but is sadly lacking in the end result.
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