My love affair with Igor S.

[Dave Monroe]

On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Robert Mahnke
<robert_mahnke at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 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.

I'm a big fan of the Watkins book (Pyramids at the Louvre) myself ...