[bookshare-discuss] Re: e: Re: Wishlist Request and a Question

  • From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:15:35 -0500

Volume 1 was one of the volumes which expressed a great deal of contempt for so called "less civilized" peoples. It also was written in the thirties making much of what is in it extremely outdated. It might be read just for that outdated time capsule perception of people. Amazing stuff really and horrifying in some ways. 


E.


At 11:05 AM 2/13/2009, you wrote:
Started volume I, got bogged down in the potery descriptions. I need to give that another go. 
----- Original Message ----- From: "kelby carlson" <kelbycarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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A Distant Mirror is fascinating. I enjoy most her discussions of culture, art and literature rather than politics or battles; there are far too many scheming characters I have to keep track of, and all their unpronounceable French names blend together after awhile. Very good book still, though. Have you read any of the Story of Civilization by Durant? 

Kelby
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Date sent: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:46:09 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Wishlist Request and a Question



Woe, do they have that one? I'll have to check it out.
Guns of August was actually recommended in my grad intro to IR

class, and I

liked what I read of her book on the fourteenth century, A

Distant Mirror.

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Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 10:34 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Wishlist Request and a Question




Barbara Tuchman is always a good place to start.  She writes

well

researched extremely readable informative books.  You cannot

understand The

First World War without knowing something about the twenty-five

years

which preceded the war.  So you may want to start with
  Tuchman, Barbara W.
The Proud Tower: A Portrait Of The World Before The War

1890-1914



At 10:13 AM 2/13/2009, you wrote:

I'd like to request the following book.  It is a sort of

follow-up to one

already in the collection.



Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany and the Winning of the Great

War by

Robert K.  Massie



On a similar note.  I've seen plenty of fantastic histories of

the second

World War on Bookshare.  Can anyone recommend me some good

general works

on WWI, thou?



Kelby



"Oh Adam's sons, how cleverly you defend yourself from all that

might do

you good."



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