Campaigns of Napoleon is one of my favorite military histories, hands-down. The Shelby Foote trilogy is brilliant, as I expressed in my review of it. I reviewed Fisk a while back. I disagree with his position in many cases but the book was still very well-written.
However, one thing this book has going for it that none of the others you mentioned does is that it's short. It was only 293 pages in my Folio Society edition, and it's even shorter in some other formats (I believe - don't quote me on that). That makes it probably, oh, 1/20 the size of the Foote or Chandler books and still probably about 1/7 the size of the Fisk book (that book has a small font that makes each page about 2-3 times bigger than each page in Taylor).
However, one thing this book has going for it that none of the others you mentioned does is that it's short. It was only 293 pages in my Folio Society edition, and it's even shorter in some other formats (I believe - don't quote me on that). That makes it probably, oh, 1/20 the size of the Foote or Chandler books and still probably about 1/7 the size of the Fisk book (that book has a small font that makes each page about 2-3 times bigger than each page in Taylor).
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ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
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ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
A.J.P. Taylor, The Origins of the Second World War
- 11/05/2011 04:55:49 PM
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Interesting - I'm about two thirds of the way through it at the moment
- 11/05/2011 05:18:36 PM
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"Great minds think alike" or "Fools seldom differ"?
- 11/05/2011 08:03:52 PM
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I always fear the latter
- 12/05/2011 12:12:29 AM
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Ah, this reminds me of the old jokes
- 12/05/2011 04:58:07 AM
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Italian army rifle for sale...
- 12/05/2011 10:22:50 AM
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I was forced a few years back in a discussion on wotmania to look into Italy in WW1.
- 12/05/2011 10:20:29 PM
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Is it an academic work?
- 11/05/2011 05:23:11 PM
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Sounds interesting.
- 11/05/2011 10:17:39 PM
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Your list of books to read is pretty good.
- 11/05/2011 11:21:07 PM
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This is a pain in the ass...
- 11/05/2011 10:31:09 PM
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I've heard Pat Buchanan talking about his book and wondered about it
- 11/05/2011 11:16:03 PM
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Re: I've heard Pat Buchanan talking about his book and wondered about it
- 12/05/2011 12:47:50 PM
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