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 enlarge | Manufacturer: Penguin
Category: EBooks
List Price: $25.95
Buy New: $9.34
You Save: $16.61 (64%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 33822
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.332640973
ASIN: B000W4RFG6
Publication Date: August 16, 2007
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 Nothing new September 1, 2007
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
If you were a serious fan of an team in the NFC East during the 2006 season, you probably know most of what is in there already or could have guessed it pretty easily. There are only a few behind the scenes glimpses, and generally they are focused on the owners in the NFC East and the rest of the owners at the labor negotiations, although not Jeff Lurie as much as the others. I didn't think "war without death" would include labor negotiations so I began skipping those dull chapters. The game descriptions are all very routine, exactly like an AP story in a distant city (example: "Garcia threw a 75 yard touchdown pass to Stallworth, Westbrook ran for a 49 year touchdown") - no discussion of how the play was structured, or executed, or strategy going into the game. There is some discussion of personnel decisions, mostly of the Redskins' free agent strategy, which is pretty funny since they were mostly busts, but the author does not go back and interview their decision makers to find out what they think now about their bad decisions. There is a little discussion of the Eagles 2006 draft strategy but really not much of that and hardly any discussion of any other team's. So "War Without Death" is also "war without very much strategy, tactics or details of combat". So if you have a desire to relive the season and don't have the old newspapers laying around, I guess this is a good book to buy. Otherwise, I'd look for something else.
 A Must Read for NFC East Fans! August 29, 2007
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
As an avid reader of the Washington Post, Mark Maske's "NFL Insider" is one of the most interesting, lively and to the point columns. While the book delves into behind-the-scenes nuts and bolts, it is Mark's personal profiles that are the most interesting to read. His writing conveys a particularly human touch to the NFL's bigger than life characters and that definitely comes shining through in this book. Interesting reading!
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