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Originally Posted by LovesMacs
The Tuchman book is interesting at times but other times I lose track of all the names. I'm continuing to read the book mostly because of the war's anniversary. Is the book the problem, or is it me? Perhaps I'm not in the right mood for this kind of writing.
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No, it's not you. I had much the same problem with The Guns of August, and then followed that by reading T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom, which has the same problem. Of course Lawrence was writing just a few years after the end of the war, when most folks reading the book would know many, if not most of the names - at least of the English officers.
I'm current about half way through
The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell. It's set in colonial India a bit earlier - 1857 or so - but is proving to be a snarky story poking fun (in a very black humor way) at the manners and attitudes of the English in India at the time. Kind of Jane Austen meets Gunga Din - and so far really interesting.