tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post3709141240873395232..comments2024-03-28T22:15:17.067-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/29/24: The shot that started World War I Neil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-30514156876966568872017-06-24T11:40:57.922-05:002017-06-24T11:40:57.922-05:00A Farewell to Arms, comes to mind.A Farewell to Arms, comes to mind.Privatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10757585399827295128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-91378873357819121022017-06-24T11:40:21.232-05:002017-06-24T11:40:21.232-05:00A fascinating period in History and a warning abou...A fascinating period in History and a warning about entangling alliances.<br /><br />All Quiet on the Western Front, is a good one.Privatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10757585399827295128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-9864574889843166542014-06-24T16:38:09.332-05:002014-06-24T16:38:09.332-05:00It was also a war that inspired great literature, ...It was also a war that inspired great literature, a subject addressed memorably in Paul Fussell's "The Great War and Modern Memory." Poets like Wilfred Owen, Edmund Blunden, Isaac Rosenberg, et al. Evocation of battlefield life by Robert Graves in "Goodby to All That" and Sigfied Sassoon in "Confessions of an Infantryman. More that in earlier conflicts the unglamorous aspects of life and death in battle were highlighted -- "the old lie, 'dolce et decorum est pro patria more.'"<br /><br />Interesting that the Chicago City Council renamed streets with Germanic names. It must have been a humanist gesture that spared Goethe and Schiller.<br />Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-31898929015723837572014-06-23T18:39:07.272-05:002014-06-23T18:39:07.272-05:00Thanks. Her "March of Folly" is an essen...Thanks. Her "March of Folly" is an essential book.Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-42940143905728253482014-06-23T18:13:22.564-05:002014-06-23T18:13:22.564-05:00Great piece Neil. I just started rereading Barbara...Great piece Neil. I just started rereading Barbara Tuchman's Guns of August to mark the occasion of the anniversary. No doubt the greatest opening paragraph ever written in a nonfiction book.Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11877510657560930972noreply@blogger.com