Literature, from the point of view of the Triple Alliance authors.
The Shrike Send a noteboard - 14/01/2014 01:55:07 PM
Robert Musil's 'The Man Without Qualities'. Not quite WWI, but relevant to the last days of the Habsburg Empire. Gives a good idea of what was going on then in the Habsburg Empire and why it would do what it did regarding Serbia.
Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Švejk. I had a chance to read this in the original Czech so don't know about how good the translations are. But it's a great novel set during WWI. This one also takes place on the Eastern Front.
Thomas Mann's 'The Magic Mountain'. Given that WWI actually interruped the writing of this book and that Mann then rewrote it as the war was going on, this would be a good book also.
Edit: Just saw you edit. Now you know the full title.
This message last edited by The Shrike on 14/01/2014 at 01:56:19 PM
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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