It's the anti-Killer Angels. While the fictionalized account of the civil war endowed each character with a sort of super-sympathy (failures brought about by 'caring to deeply', etc.), all of the generals in Tuchman's non-fiction account of WW1 are clouded with fear, doubt, ego, caprice, and malice....
Excellent narrative.Still listening, but much, much better than I had expected -- The comparison (in her foreword to the new edition) with Thucydides is ridiculous, of course. And this is not an academic history based on archival research. But her instincts are good, imo -- and it is a clear, and w...
This summer, I read one memoir and three works of fiction concerning World War I, and am now finishing up with a history. I'm in the fourth chapter, and am finding it very clear. The account of the bottomless stupidity of the French War Office in the time leading up to the war is chilling; the other...
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