[lit-ideas] Re: Busted by an unknown dog lady
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 22:39:43 -0700
Thanks for the cheering up. I love your subject. I am now thoroughly
soothed. To return the favor, here is a review of two books from the
current issue of The Weekly Standard. The two books are:
Churchill, Hitler, and the 'Unnecessary War,' How Britain Lost Its Empire
and the West Lost the World by Patrick J. Buchanan.
Human Smoke, the Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization by
Nicholas Baker.
You can read this review at
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/378tnyyt.a
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Which should in no way be construed to suggest that I might be interested in
these books. I think Buchanan and Baker are a couple of crackpots.
Lawrence Helm
San Jacinto
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Busted by an unknown dog lady
Lawrence, I have news to soothe you. I spent much of the day in
Powells, assessing possible titles for my course next semester which
will be reassessing the Second World War. Essentially I want to
convey to students what opening the Soviet archives has done to
Second World War scholarship, but the students will probably be
starting from zero. So who is currently on the list?
Norman Davies, "No Simple Victory"
Niall Ferguson, "The War of the World"
Niall Ferguson, "The War of the World" DVD, available Aug 12.
Basil Liddell Hart, "History of the Second World War"
John Keegan, "The Second World War"
There will be more but yes, Basil Liddell Hart, writing so long ago,
made the cut. I didn't know that he taught at UC Davis.
I also liked the volume that Keegan edited on Churchill's Generals.
Davies looks like a very good book. Ferguson will provide grist for
the mill; it takes him four hundred pages to reach WW2.
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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