The Steam, Steel and Shellfire reading suggestion

Would Steam, Steel and Shellfire be a suitable book for this period?

It remains a suggestion rather than a recommendation: the book has not been read, and the reply is uncertain about its authorship.

Steam, Steel and Shellfire is suggested as a history covering 1815 to 1905. Nicholas Lambert is tentatively associated with it in the reply, which praises some of his books and criticises others while treating them as generally interesting sources. The title has not been read, and the author identification remains conditional. A recommendation is withheld until it can be read.