The Guns of August was a good book, but I would also read The Proud Tower, which you can get together if you buy the Library of America version. I believe I posted a review here about the two books back in 2012.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
Well, it's now April 2. No fools, excepting those who read. So what are you reading, fools?
- 02/04/2014 07:50:50 AM
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A few histories and novels of World War I are likely
- 02/04/2014 07:52:56 AM
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Not reading Jünger's In Stahlgewittern?
- 02/04/2014 07:30:25 PM
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Curious, why are you so interested in WWI?
- 09/04/2014 07:52:31 PM
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I think it's because 2014 is the 100th anniversary of the start of the war...
- 09/04/2014 08:08:19 PM
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When I was a history grad student, I focused on German cultural/religious 1914-1939
- 10/04/2014 03:35:30 AM
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On the contrary - they are one of the few things that still has some semi-decent activity.
- 02/04/2014 07:12:53 PM
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Have you read the Veronica Wedgwood history of the Thirty Years' War?
- 02/04/2014 07:31:51 PM
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No. Haven't read anything on the Thirty Years' War other than the first few chapters of this one.
- 02/04/2014 07:54:11 PM
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Having a lot of fun now with Felix Palma's "El Mapa del Tiempo" / The Map of Time. *NM*
- 10/04/2014 08:45:14 PM
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I am finally getting around to For Whom the Bell Tolls.
- 02/04/2014 07:34:46 PM
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still reading words of radiance. slow going because not much time. *NM*
- 06/04/2014 02:39:56 AM
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Just blew through 3 books of Rosemary Kirstein's The Steerswoman, very good
- 08/04/2014 04:38:13 PM
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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
- 08/04/2014 06:33:56 PM
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Karen Joy Fowler is a must-read writer for me
- 10/04/2014 03:38:03 AM
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She might be for me, now. I had not heard of her until about a month ago.
- 10/04/2014 09:15:04 PM
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It's not very weird, at least compared to some of his other recent works
- 11/04/2014 05:40:09 AM
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