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Originally posted by Chris Johnson
I have to be careful what I write as I have had some minor involvement in the book, but having read his endnotes, it's safe to say that Brian Reid has done the most comprehensive primary research to date.
Cheers,
Chris
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It's funny, but the cynic in me is struck by the irony of all this attention devoted over the years to the death of one man in a war which took 50,000,000 souls.
Regardless, I shall like to read this new work for its hiostorical perspective. I only hope he's personalized it a bit in the way in which Graves was so successful. "Who went where when and did what" is interesting and significant, of course, but the soldiers' tales are equally so, and to me, perhaps a bit more so than dry history.
15-04-05, 15:51
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