Let me air a couple of complaints. With no maps (Audible needs PDFs for maps), I found it a challenge to follow in the footsteps of the action. Looking online was not a big help as Faragher points out in the book that 9 out of 10 French place names have been changed to English. I don’t speak french, so the French names and places were unintelligible from time to time, so I could not find them on Wikipedia or other sources as I could not spell them. As a result, I did not Audible a good way to comprehend the author’s statements.

Like many Americans, my knowledge of Canada is limited although I am somewhat familiar with when the Dominion of Canada started and then added provinces. I am familiar with French & Indian War history, but Acadia is hardly mentioned in the books that I have read. It was eye-opening to me to see that the Acadians barely regarded themselves as French which created problems with the French and English. The fact that the Acadians were more interested in their (extended) families than their ‘home’ country 3000 miles away (France) is refreshingly non-national. Unfortunately the officials that they dealt with were highly nationalistic (my country is good, your country is bad), and this led to a series of travails. The neutral Acadians got caught between opposing forces and the results were an embarrassment to the human race.