War Book Club Regina

Saturday, November 17, 2018

On the Slaughter Bench of History

On this eve of the centenary of the Great War, an essay by Algis Valiunas, published in the Claremont Review of Books in 2014:

https://www.claremont.org/crb/article/on-the-slaughter-bench-of-history/ 

Books cited in the article:

1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War, by Charles Emmerson

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914, by Christopher Clark

The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War, by Peter Hart

The First World War: The War to End All Wars, by Geoffrey Jukes, Peter Simkins, and Michael Hickey

The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914, by Margaret MacMillan

July 1914: Countdown to War, by Sean McMeekin

The Guns of August; The Proud Tower, by Barbara W. Tuchman

The Great War and Modern Memory, by Paul Fussell


Never forget.
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The War Book Club is a group that meets at the Regina (Saskatchewan, Canada) Public Library for an informal discussion of books about military history. Each meeting has a different theme and each participant brings a book relating to the topic, so, no, we don't all read the same book. After each meeting, the facilitator (Warren James) produces a list of the books discussed.

These book lists will form the majority of the initial posts on this blog but, as time marches on, we hope to also provide information on upcoming events concerned with military history in our area -- and anything else that would be of interest to our readers.

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