A SCHOOL HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR
By
McKINLEY, ALBERT E.,
COULOMB, CHARLES A.,
GERSON, ARMAND J.
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Summary
This book explains the causes and developments of the First World War (The Great War). The eBook contains maps an index linked to pages, and chapters linked to pages. Continue reading...
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A SCHOOL HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR
John (The United States)
Tue Feb 26 2008 21:40
Thucydides presents the history of the Peloponnesian War with such delightful grace and nuance that the actors and events come to life. What really strikes me about this text is its philosophical side: though, as a history, it is grounded in a recounting of particular events, the manner of presenta...more...
John (Toronto, Canada)
Wed Dec 16 2009 22:03
This is the story of the tragic self-destruction of ancient Greece. Though the book itself was probably written for political purposes (an "internal" brief, written to help guide policy-making) it has been read for generations as the moving, human story of the destruction of fragile goodn...more...
Juan Pablo (Santiago, Chile)
Mon Mar 30 2009 22:38
La Historia contada con maestría: fruto de un talento literario, unido a una profunda capacidad de análisis. Decenas de episodios memorables se dan cita, contados con profundo conocimiento de los hechos. Destaca el conocidísimo discurso de Pericles en II 37. En resumen, historia del siglo IV a.C ...more...
Jesse (Winter Garden, FL)
Sun May 30 2010 11:32
The father of history, according to Hume, but that's a ribald assessment. After all, this is an examination of that one aspect of our world that is most disagreeable (unless you've had a lobotomy): power politics. The perennial behavior and psychology of states is laid out here for all to see. Recom...more...
Brook (Chicago, IL)
Tue Sep 22 2009 11:58
Completely awesome. Also reading this book will demonstrate to you that Coase, the Chicago School, and in general law and economics thinkers are doing nothing more than to rehash the ideas that Thucydides understood and applied in his analyses thousands of years ago.
Not that imitation i...more...
Lindalee (Parsons, KS)
Fri Oct 09 2009 05:06
Just before I started college, there was a two week late summer honors seminar on the Peloponnesian War and we read this. I had gone to a small, not so great high school-this kick started me into university. It was good to finally be on the same level as my classmates (I read above grade level all...more...
Alcyone (New Castle, AL)
Mon Dec 08 2008 18:06
This is among my top five favorite books. Thucydides is a master not only of history, but learning, writing, and speaking. No one was more suited to tell the tales of the dawn of Freedom, Independence and their struggle with demagogy and servitude during the Peloponnesian War. If all history books w...more...
Terri (Arlington, VA)
Tue Jun 30 2009 23:35
I'm a huge history nerd, so of course I loved this. It chronicles, obviously, the history of the Peloponnesian War, the war between Greece’s two most powerful city-states, Athens and Sparta, as it unfolded during the fifth century B.C.
I read this for an ancient Greek history class, the...more...
Brittany (Albuquerque, NM)
Thu Mar 19 2009 13:38
TOUGH READ!!! But totally worth it to see the roots of democracy reaching as far back as ancient Greece. From the funeral oration of Pericles to his rejection of the democratic notions he espoused, Thucydides documents the change war can wreak on the mindset of a people, even one predisposed to de...more...
C-tim (Morrisville, PA)
Wed Feb 17 2010 16:19
More than 2,000 years ago Thucydides explained why capital punishment doesn't work as a deterrent (the criminal never expects to get caught). And the best definition of capitalism I've ever heard (the strong take what they can and the weak yield what they must). Besides explaining how and why this w...more...
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