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From: lance@kodak.com (Dan Lance)
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Subject: Re: WWI History
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Date: 11 May 89 01:25:43 GMT
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From: lance@kodak.com (Dan Lance)

In article <6345@cbnews.ATT.COM> budden@manta.nosc.mil (Rex A. Buddenberg) writes:
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>From: budden@manta.nosc.mil (Rex A. Buddenberg)
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>Don't confuse history with journalism.  Liddel-Hart writes
>history; Barbara Tuchman writes journalism.
>Rex Buddenberg
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Au contraire.  Barbara Tuchman is most definitely a historian, and
most of her books (_A Distant Mirror_, _The Guns of August_, _The
Zimmermann Telegram_, _Stilwell and the American Experience In China_,
_Bible and Sword_, and _The Proud Tower_, to name a few) are historical
works.  She's also written a book about the study of history and a book
entitled "The March of Folly" which are harder to classify.

Why do you classify Tuchman with the journalists?  She's trained as a
historian and she writes about historical subjects.  Her work may not
be as dry or as rigorous as some academic works, but that certainly
doesn't justify lumping her in with the hacks.

None of this, of course, should be interpreted as maligning Liddell-Hart.
I'll recommend _The Great War_ to any student of WWI.

--drl
Daniel R. Lance / drl@kodak.com / Federal Systems Division, Eastman Kodak