Books by Norman Stone
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review 1: Not a bad book. It doesn't sell itself as being big on details and information, like most historical books about wars - but it does deliver on what it calls itself. Namely, "A Short History (of WWI)." It covers a lot of territory very concisely and quite swiftly. Some of the det...
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review 1: While it purports to be a history of the Cold War, this overlong volume by a distinguished WWI historian is actually a a grab bag of topical essays, some pertinent to the volume's subject and some not. Stone begins with an able account of the Soviet takeover of eastern Europe an...
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review 1: After reading Guns of August, which only covered the first month of the war, I wanted more. I read about this book and thought it would give a good overview of the war, and I liked the year-by-year analysis. However, the author's too-frequent use of parentheticals chopped the s...