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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: History of WWI
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Date: 11 May 89 01:25:51 GMT
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
>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...

Do remember, though, that any history published soon after a major war is
probably incomplete.  It will tell you what happened, but won't necessarily
tell you why, because important facts won't have been declassified.  The
obvious case in point is that cryptanalysis tends to stay secret for a long
time.  (And yes, it was significant in WWI, although not to quite the same
extent as in WWII.)

                                     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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