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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden | 12 | 29.27% | |
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer | 9 | 21.95% | |
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot | 6 | 14.63% | |
A Night to Remember by Walter Lord | 15 | 36.59% | |
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England by Daniel Pool | 7 | 17.07% | |
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark | 10 | 24.39% | |
We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch | 9 | 21.95% | |
Gulp by Mary Roach | 12 | 29.27% | |
Faust in Copenhagen by Gino Segrè | 6 | 14.63% | |
Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England by Neil McKenna | 15 | 36.59% | |
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06-25-2013, 06:02 AM | #46 | |
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Still--an interesting and thought provoking theory . . . . Thanks. |
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06-25-2013, 10:50 AM | #48 |
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It was. He quite deliberately signed the 1940 armistice with France in the same railway carriage that the 1919 armistice was signed, then had the carriage removed to Germany and the rest of the site demolished.
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Ferguson on The Sleepwalkers. Quote:
I do think some revisionist theories are nuts: that Haig was a master strategist, for example. But I'm not prepared to throw out what Clark has to say. It would be great if this book were picked, so we could all have at it. |
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I've already downloaded it from Amazon and intend to read it soon regardless of the winning choice. I've already read the preface and it seems a very polished, well-researched, and interesting study.
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06-25-2013, 05:29 PM | #51 |
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It is a shame that The Sleepwalkers looks like it will not be selected. I can see that it could provoke a spirited discussion, and about events now far enough back in history that movement to the P&R forum would not be necessary.
I've not read the book, but if the conclusion is that the assassination of of Archduke Franz Ferdinand caused that war I would certainly question it. What I have always read suggests that there were a great number of contributing factors, some going as far back as Congress of Vienna in 1815. What I have always read in the past is the assassination was the the prick in the highly pressurized vessel that led it to explode. |
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Niall Ferguson? The homo atlanticus redux himself? The West and the Rest If you have time, check this out http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n21/pankaj-...watch-this-man I am sure there are better reviewers than him... Forgot - should you by any chance have Ferguson's West and the Rest, check out how many times he quotes the very Clark Last edited by jmilica; 06-25-2013 at 06:07 PM. |
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In the meanwhile( cheering from the side): go Fanny and Stella |
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06-26-2013, 04:54 PM | #55 |
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It seems obvious at this point that The True Believer and What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew don't stand much of a chance, but I still have hope that Gulp by Mary Roach will make it in under the wire. It's been steadily rising in the poll.
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06-26-2013, 06:46 PM | #56 |
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Yeah, I'd like to read Gulp, too.
C'mon on guys. Say Yes to Gulp. |
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Gulp just needs three more votes with nothing else getting voted on for it to win. Please help Gulp win. It's the best of the top vote getters. In fact, Gulp is the best of the nominated books.
So please do yourself a favor and vote for Gulp. Mary Roach is a very entertaining author and she writes on current subjects and makes then very entertaining and educational and you'll be glad you read Gulp. Trust me, WT Sharpe knows Mary Roach is the best author in the list. By voting for Gulp, you'll be helping us out by not allowing a book to win that's on a topic that's just been done to death (over and over and boring and more boring). |
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Come on Titanic just one vote to break the tie.
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06-27-2013, 02:18 AM | #59 |
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Vote for "A Night to Remember" - you won't regret it!
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06-27-2013, 06:20 AM | #60 |
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Na, we all know how it ended. It sinks.
But here something is born, something great is discovered. Show up all you lovers of physics and the history of science! Let's turn the tables and overtake all the other books in a Faustian finish! |
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