Reading the Great War: Lessons of World War One

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Lessons of World War One

Victor Davis Hanson has a good article on lessons from WW1...

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/371300/lessons-world-war-i-victor-davis-hanson

2 comments:

Ted HenkleApril 1, 2014 at 8:31 PM
While I love Mark Steyn's tongue-in-cheek style of writing, VDH has a pleasantly intellectual way of associating history with current events.
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Keith SloanApril 2, 2014 at 8:03 AM
Agreed! Steyn is the happy face of doom. VDH is just plain brilliant. Amazing what a classical education gets you!
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Books Completed

13. The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
12. The Marne, 1914: The Opening Battle of World War I and the Battle that Changed the World by Holger Herwig
11. The Origins of the First World War by William Mulligan
10. The Arming of Europe and the Making of the First World War by David G. Herrmann
9. The Origins of the First World War by Ruth Henig
8. The War Plans of the Great Powers, 1880-1914 edited by Paul M. Kennedy
7. Decisions for War: 1914-1917 by Richard Hamilton and Roger Herwig
6. The First World War: An Illustrated History by A. J. P. Taylor
5. The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
4. Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War by Max Hastings
3. The Lions of July: Prelude to War, 1914 by William Jannen
2. Dreadnought by James K. Massie
1. A Short History of World War I by James Stokesbury