My love affair with Igor S.

[Robert Mahnke]

I read Rites of Spring earlier this month, and thought it was terrific.  I
really enjoyed the Proud Tower when I read it a few years ago, as I maybe
mentioned then on this list.  The Proud Tower is about the pre-war Europe,
while the Rites of Spring is more about the effects of the war on European
culture.  The Tuchman book is more straight history, in a traditional vein;
Eksteins' book is more in the way of cultural history.


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Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
By Modris Eksteins

http://books.google.com/books?id=yM8lkb3z68oC
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Proud Tower
Written by Barbara W. Tuchman

http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345405012
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