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Ironically, this makes me most think of the massive mobilizations of both the French Revolution and the American Civil War. The Civil War I have more general knowledge of, but the mass mobilizations of that conflict showed off how hard it can be to get a functional army together, the Battle of...

I'm going to pick on Stirling too and say his recent novel The Black Chamber wasn't very inspired. The prologue is actually rather nice, but as it goes on the sheer density of the prose and the fact that his heroine has an completely unpronounceable name makes it harder and harder to read. The...