“Here we find all the well-known characteristics of this authoritative writer: the clear careful analysis of events, the masterly reconstruction of naval manoeuvres and combats, the passionless style, relieved now and then by touches of sarcasm and the entire fairness to both sides.” Theodore Clarke Smith.
+ + + Atlan. 98: 704. N. ’06. 340w.
“This crowning labor is characterized by great philosophic insight and masterly arrangement of details, but it far surpasses its predecessors in its abundant evidences of independent and painstaking investigation.” Anna Heloise Abel.
+ + – Dial. 40: 45. Ja. 16, ’06. 1820w.
“Tho prolix in style, and tho reiterations occur with unnecessary frequency, the work attains an exceptionally high standard of historical writing. The treatment is studiously fair.”
+ + – Ind. 60: 45. Ja. 4, ’05. 810w.
“Here, as in all previous work of the great historian of naval warfare, there is the philosophical grasp which seizes upon the essentials and passes unheeding the details which do not show the meaning of things.”
+ + Ind. 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 80w.
“It is thus apparent that this work is an original as well as vigorous brief in support of the views Captain Mahan has so long and so ably advocated.”
+ + Lit. D. 31: 999. D. 30, ’05. 950w.