Disputing Disaster: A Sextet on the Great War
Six major historians of the First World War, examined for how each explained the catastrophe and which national position each was quietly arguing from.
How did the catastrophe happen, and who was each explanation written for? Anderson takes six major historians of 1914 and reads them as much for national position as for argument, making this a study of historiography rather than of the war itself. It reads like a senior scholar returning to questions that preoccupied him decades earlier.
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Tyler Cowen
This strikes me as the kind of book where a very established author is seeking to work out issues that preoccupied him as a much younger man. Such books tend to be interesting but also incomplete and unsatisfying? Overall I am glad I read this one.
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