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Tansy_Gold

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2. I had almost forgotten I even had this book

Reply to Warpy (Reply #1)

Wed Aug 2, 2023, 11:09 PM

Aug 2023

I think I've posted a QFTD from David Fromkin's A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East, which I see as kind of a companion to Tuchman's, but I realized today I hadn't posted anything from the latter. As I do with almost all the daily quotes, I opened the book to a random place, and there was "August 3" in the middle of the page.

"Nobody understood what was happening or why," truly sums it up. Or as Tuchman herself later put it, "The March of Folly." I need to do some re-reading.

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STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Thursday, 3 August 2023 [View all] Tansy_Gold Aug 2023 OP

The war was sold to the British people through heavy propaganda Warpy Aug 2023 #1

I had almost forgotten I even had this book Tansy_Gold Aug 2023 #2

I need to reread that one, it's on Audible Warpy Aug 2023 #3

I seem to have missed a lot of history during my lifetime DemReadingDU Aug 2023 #4

You're very welcome! Tansy_Gold Aug 2023 #5