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b_b  ·  4050 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Kleinbl00's Red Pill Reading List: Geopolitic

Yes, here is the extension Fomkin makes, in a nutshell. You say of GoA:

    Basically outlines, in gripping terms, how a calcified alliance system and the crumbling remnants of the Hapsburgs brought about unconditional European annihilation despite everyone's best intentions.

Which I would agree with. Fromkin uses his archived material to show that the calcified alliances were what set up the conditions of unnecessary war, but that one singular man, von Moltke, was almost entirely responsible for precipitating it. It shows that in the right place at the right time, one man can have dramatic effects on the world.





kleinbl00  ·  4050 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Interesting. I found Tuchman's allegation that the escape of the Breslau was the single most important event in 20th century history to be compelling. I may have to read this.

b_b  ·  4050 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't think you'll be disappointed. When I get off my current fiction kick (I tend to go back and forth in long stretches of only reading fiction or non-fiction; I don't know why I do that), I plan to read his A Peace to End All Peace, which also might interest you, because the subject matter is the creation of the modern Middle East, a subject that you appear to have read at some length about.

blackbootz  ·  4049 days ago  ·  link  ·  

interested third party here

I did some googling and couldn't find a satisfying answer to what Breslau as an event means. Was it the siege of Breslau in 1914? Was it the name of a ship that Tuchman witnessed as a two year old?

kleinbl00  ·  4049 days ago  ·  link  ·