A lousy book review (or "Why did I even buy this?")

Just added to my library Japan's Blitzkrieg: The Allied Collapse in the East 1941-42, by Bernard Edwards. Now, just based on the title, you'd think that this book is right up my World War II alley and fits perfectly with my ongoing interest in the activities of the slender American, British, Dutch and Australian forces trapped in the western Pacific in the days after Pearl Harbor to face Imperial Japan basically by themselves. And you'd be right.

So, when I got this book, I immediately went to the section on the Battle of the Java Sea, February 27-28, 1942. And was aghast at what I read:
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