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From: mcdaniel@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu (Tim McDaniel)
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Subject: Re: History of WWI
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Date: 10 May 89 01:24:32 GMT
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From: mcdaniel@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu (Tim McDaniel)

In article <6385@cbnews.ATT.COM> MJackson.Wbst@Xerox.COM writes:
>From: MJackson.Wbst@Xerox.COM
>For a thorough one-volume treatment I don't see how you could do better
>than Liddell-Hart's /The Real War 1914-1918/.  Might be hard to find - it
>was published in 1930; I have an Atlantic-Little, Brown paperback edition
>from 1964.
>Mark

I have in my hands "A History of the World War: 1914-1918" by Liddell
Hart (Faber & Faber Ltd., London, 1938).  It is an expanded edition of
"The Real War" (1930), so this later edition should probably be
preferred.

I found it in the Univ. of Illinois Graduate and Undergraduate
Libraries.  On the other hand, our libraries (considered as a unit) is
the 5th largest in the world, I am told.

BTW: I fail to understand the point of calling Tuchman a "journalist".
Did she get her facts wrong?  Did she misinterpret them?  Did she miss
some points?  et cetera.  If it was just a criticism of style, I don't
think that a journalistic style is of lesser worth per se.

To comment on an earlier article: the computer bibliographic search
showed 38 items by Liddell-Hart (with some duplication).  No book
called "The Great War" appeared there.  Probably just a misremembering
of the title above.


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