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          Robert Mahnke:
          If you liked The Guns Of August, you might like Tuchman's book 
          about the preceding years, The Proud Tower.  Good setting for 
          Guns Of August and ATD.

Thanks, I'll keep my eye out. There's two I bought, but have yet to crack their 
spines: "King Leopold's Ghost" by Adam Hochschild:

ttp://tinyurl.com/2mo3jr

Covering Leopold II's "Free Congo State" and all the atrocities that went along
with the world's largest rubber plantations,

and "Castles Of Steel" by Robert K Massie:

http://tinyurl.com/36w2ou

concerning the great era of shipbuilding around WW I.