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41 years of the history of the wars of an entire continent in one Osprey, that's err... ambitious to say the least.
I know, but I'm trying to get into practice of being a role-model for my grandson, in the "if you can't say anything nice..." way. Ospreys tend to fall short when they only cover one conflict and even if the author speaks the language concerned, or is even a nativo, it's no guarantee of quality research in any case.
I wouldn't single out this book though, there are a few in the range that have been equally 'ambitious', Medieval European Armies being the one that comes immediately to mind, albeit that's about thirty or so years old. The two newer Spanish Civil War ones are almost as hopeless as the original single volume one, despite being written by a Spanish speaker and with original source material reasonably available. He was the guy who wrote The Bay of Pigs book though, so y'know?I always like the pictures.
It does make me giggle to see that have included an illustration of a cangaceiro on the front cover, despite there being no reference to the subject in the list of topics and despite the cangaço phenomenon not being a war or even a civil conflict in the strictest sense. Almost certainly a nod to the Foundry volume on Inter-war conflicts.