The level of detail in the series was also considered excessive by some reviewers. While British official historian Stephen Roskill regarded "Royal Australian Navy, 1942–1945" as being "well written, excellently illustrated and produced, and provided with a good index", he also stated that it was "perhaps too detailed for the general reader". In his unfavorable review of "The Final Campaigns" Louis Morton, who wrote a volume in the official history of the US Army in World War II, judged that "even the student of military affairs and of World War II will find this meticulous account of operations that had little bearing on the final outcome far too detailed". In 1992, Australian historian Peter Stanley suggested the "New Guinea Offensives" length and highly detailed narrative may have contributed to the fighting in New Guinea during 1943 and 1944 being little known amongst the general public and neglected by other historians.