I also didn't know we could recommend general history. I would suggest the Strachan treatment (just called The First World War) of the subject, as well as Martin Gilbert's history with a similar if not identical name, the Tuchman books you mentioned (as well as The Proud Tower, which is sold together with The Guns of August in one volume by the Library of America), and even Jack Beatty's The Lost History of 1914, though that last book was not as rigorous (or well edited) as I would have liked.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
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*
Need some help with this World War I reading/reviewing project I'm planning for the summer
- 13/01/2014 03:20:14 AM
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Ernst Jünger, In Stahlgewittern. Very pro-war, became popular with the Nazis.
- 13/01/2014 02:27:46 PM
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Hmmmm. That's difficult.
- 13/01/2014 10:14:48 PM
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Ha! Yes, I have too many books.
- 14/01/2014 03:44:59 AM
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Well, I'm not planning on reading a lot of general histories when I have specialist studies on hand
- 14/01/2014 09:35:03 AM
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Literature, from the point of view of the Triple Alliance authors.
- 14/01/2014 01:55:07 PM
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