Posted on 09/24/2008 1:01:08 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY
Certainly intended all the names addressed, yours especially, and a good many more I didn't happen to list. Thanks for a great thread!
After finishing Pat Buchanan's new book, The Unnecessary War, I've gone back to carefully, carefully re-read Barbara Tuchman's 1962 book, The Guns of August about the beginning of World War One. First read it over 30 years ago, and could not remember exactly what she said.
Does Tuchman agree more with Buchanan, or with my favorite theory, from David Fromkin's 2004 book, Europe's Last Summer?
I think the summer of 1914 is the modern political equivalent of the Bible's Garden of Eden story, and exactly how you understand those events bears hugely on your view of the world situation today.
Answer: So far as I've re-read it, Tuchman agrees entirely with Fromkin, not with Buchanan.
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