Mangis

Three WWl books, plus. Since this year (2014) is the 100 year anniversary of World War 1, I thought it would be interesting to do some solid reading regarding its hows and whys; very interesting. And, too, a good reminder that we humans appear to be incapable of learning from history, despite all the talk we sometimes hear of "lessons from history." yea right. --I started with the (now) classic Barbara Tuchman book, The Guns of August. --Next I read July 1914: Countdown to War, by Sean McMeekin. --I am now about half-way through The Sleepwalkers: How Europe went to war in 1914, by Christopher Clark; a tour-de-force of history writing--deeply impressive. Before I reading these 3, I had been reading V.S. Naipaul's A Bend in the River.