Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Competent contemporary journalistic novel

Max Brand will impress the person willing to place himself in the timeframe of the conflict. This is a writer who relates to his real-life characters, revealing their otherwise unspoken fears as they face an enemy superior in numbers, equipment and training. Yes, you must separate out patriotic fervor to meet the objective descriptions sometimes hidden just below the surface. And thankfully it's not another action book, loaded with nothing but sensational battle descriptions that eventually dull the senses to otherwise vital character and storyline development. There is a reason why Max Brand is one of America's most prolific writers of a vast span of subject material - he is simply a professional who produces readable prose. If you want Star Wars, look elsewhere. If you want to investigate the stuff of the men who fought the fight, check out this only account of Max Brand's visit to the Pacific Theater.