There could be no better time to read this definitive and vivid account of
the first thirty days of the Great War by a masterful and highly accessible
historian. Though Tuchman wrote this in 1963, it hasn't dated except in one
instance. Modern historians are perhaps more forensic about the horrific
atrocities committed during the German invasion of Belgium, sensitised by
contemporary stories of ethnic cleansing. Hopefully, history in this regard,
will not repeat itself.
(Jeremy Miller - bwl 72 Spring 2014 ) |
