Customer Reviews:
 For shirkers and cowards December 3, 2007
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I like the every day info in this series but was a bit disappointed in this one. As I read it to my son, 7, I realized that the perspective was heavy on shirking and avoiding danger. I can appreciate that most people pressed in to military service just want to stay alive and get back home but bravery, hard work, loyalty, service and commitment are important values that this book sorely misses. I would never want my son to have the attitude this book seems full of - even if he were drafted. It also completely skips the brutality of the Assyrians implying that their policy was to let the defeated get on with their lives so they could pay taxes - umm not quite true there was a lot of slaying the defeated and hauling people off into slavery.
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