Syntactic Case and Morphological Case in the History of English Book

I blew off reading this book for a long time; I suspected that it would be a difficult book to read, and it was. All wars scar people either physically, psychologically, or both; this particular conflict took a very long time, and so scarred a comparatively large number of people. The fall of Saigon on April 29th, 1975 had such an enormous impact on so many people around the world that reading about it is itself a bit like measuring the last fading tremors after a massive earthquake. So many of us who remember that day have at least an indirect connection with the war which ended on it that it is difficult to be objective. Although necessary and important from a historical perspective, reading about so much betrayal and incompetence simply leaves a bad taste in one's mouth, figuratively speaking...
This book is well put together, but as with all oral histories care needs to be taken by the reader to check and double-check statements of alleged fact, which can at times be colored by self-interest, inaccurate memory, or simple ignorance.