I finished Barbara Tuchman's
The Guns of August, a history of the events leading up to World War I and the war's first few weeks. For the most part I enjoyed the book, except for the couple of chapters on the Russian front. Those chapters were very difficult for me to follow.
I'm also continuing with Franklin Foer's
How Soccer Explains the World. "How Soccer Illustrates the World" would be a more accurate title, as Foer uses soccer (football) to illustrate national pride, political corruption, xenophobia, etc.
A very enjoyable book, with one minor but to me memorable quibble: Foer misquotes
FC Barcelona's slogan in Spanish, and not the proper Catalan "Més que un club".