Originally posted by jon-nyc:
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Originally posted by Nina:
Reading "the Guns of August," something I never read before. Amazing writing.
I need to be honest, I thought that book was overrated.
I think Churchill does a much better job describing the events leading up to the war in the opening chapters of his WWI memoir, even the one volume abridged version.
I also think her personal distaste for Germans comes out in a rather unprofessional way.
I did like her book 'The Zimmerman Telegram' from the same era. It's about German efforts to get Mexico to try to win back the territory taken by us in the 19th century, essentially to keep us out of the European war.