Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: A real disappointment

I returned this book, after browsing through it for about an hour. For $80, I expected an excellent work of scholarship, filled with good illustrations, descriptions and analyses of various weapons, schools and styles, etc. Instead, this book is a thin rehash of existing scholarship, with a few, weak illustrations and very little insight into anything having to do with the sword. There is very little description of technique of Western sport fencing, much less of more esoteric or historical styles. The section on saber fencing is appalling. Weapons are catalogued, but there are few illustrations, none in color, and no discussion of how the design of a particular weapon determined the style of fencing associated with it