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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > The History Book Thread! looks like I need to set up space for a Nazi shelf
 
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Red Crown
Oct 20, 2008

Pretend my finger's a knife.

Amaterasu posted:

Currently reading The Guns of August. I've been on a non-fiction bender lately.

But I think the next thing I'm looking for is a good book on Vichy France. Or just France during World War II. Can anyone suggest anything? I think what caught my attention was some of the scenes from the World at War, narrated by Laurence Olivier (highly recommended btw).

The Guns of August is an extraordinarily well written book, but bear in mind that it is now roughly 60 years old. I took a very good class on WWI, and talked to my teacher about that book - apparently, consenus has evolved on several key issues since then. Mostly, the view of leadership has changed. Flag officers from the war used to be portrayed as distant, inept, and glory-minded. Modern interpretation and evidence suggests that they were very caring and deeply invested in the war and their troops, but that they were simply wholly unprepared for modern war.

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