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World War I Novels Never End Happily

The Ghost Road by Pat Barker

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#cbr10bingo This is the End The Ghost Road is the third and final volume in Pat Barker’s Regeneration trilogy. Set during WWI in England, the trilogy tells the story of both real and fictional characters trying to make sense of a senseless war. The first book focused on the patients at Craiglockhart Hospital, an asylum for soldiers suffering from shell shock and being treated so as to be sent back to the front. Book two centered on the fictional character Billy Prior, a soldier recovering from both physical and psychological injury in an England in the throes of raging homophobia […]

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10/4/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:40 |

Psychological Conflict Management

The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker

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In volume one of Pat Barker’s award winning Regeneration Trilogy, readers experienced life in a hospital for English soldiers suffering from “war neurosis” (PTSD) during WWI. Barker uses both fictional and real historical characters (Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Dr. Rivers) to show the trauma of war for soldiers expected to heal and return to action, and the impact of their experiences upon the doctor treating them. At the end of that novel, Rivers’ patients are being released back to action, which was his goal, but he is questioning whether or not this is right. Sassoon’s anti-war ideas are beginning to […]

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9/28/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:39 |

What Happens After the War?

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

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I listened to this one on Audible – figured it’s the kind of story I’m usually interested in but also am more hesitant to pick up nowadays because the genre does sometimes blend together so it seemed like the perfect selection for, “damn, how did I end up with so many Audible credits, I have no idea what I want!” The novel begins in 1947 with nineteen-year-old Charlie on her way to Switzerland for a procedure to take care of “her little problem.” The last few years have been a bit hard on her family – her mother is originally […]

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7/31/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:140 |

Women & Espionage in the World Wars

The Alice Network: A Novel by Kate Quinn

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The Alice Network by Kate Quinn is an ambitious work of historical fiction that straddles two world wars and their aftermath, and that shines a light on the heroic work of female spies. Quinn uses a solid base of historical fact and real people to create her fictional heroine Eve (aka Evelyn Gardiner, aka Marguerite Le Francois), a spy for England in WWI who made shattering sacrifices and has never healed from her tragic and brutal experiences. Eve is an alcoholic recluse when, in the spring of 1947, an assertive and unrelenting American girl named Charlie (Charlotte), who is single […]

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4/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:15 |

Army Chief of Staff Reading List #11

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

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The Sleepwalkers is one of the most thorough books I have recently read.  It attempts to describe and make sense of the factors that led to WWI.  The author attempts to discover the real causes beyond the notion that the war was inevitable.  It’s a nearly impossible task that I think Christopher Clark does quite well.  His findings do not provide a clear or simple answer but it is comprehensive and much better than the tired tropes we learned about in high school history class. I think that one of the most interesting, and also depressing, aspects of the lead […]

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4/10/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:18 |

The Greatest Work That Four Men Have Ever Done

Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan

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Note: This review is long. The book was long and interesting, so the review is long, but may not be interesting. I love history, but I’m not a diligent scholar. My history knowledge is thin and wide spread with occasional deep dives. I have been fascinated by the events that led to World War 1, but didn’t know much about the Paris Peace Conference that dealt with the end of the war. Last year I listened to Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History series, “Blueprint for Armageddon.” At the end of it I wanted to know more about the end of WWI. […]

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2/1/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:3 |

Army Chief of Staff Reading List #3

The First World War by Hew Strachan

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I read The First World War by Hew Strachan mostly because it was recommended by the Army Chief of Staff.  I also realized that my knowledge of WWI is woefully inept considering I have a history degree.  I took a class on World War II and the US Civil War.  There are dozens of movies about WWII and the Civil War.  We joke about the days in which the History Channel showed only profiles of Hitler, as opposed to Ancient Aliens, as a sign of the times.  Outside of of the tales of Diana, Princess of Themiscyra, I know very […]

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1/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:3 |

“You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!”

Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed

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There is a complex tapestry of finely woven threads that make up this story; each one reaching back into antiquity, becoming drab of color and less distinct. The tapestry details the modern world, and without these threads, it’s impossible to understand the context in which we live. This book is an attempt to explain this tapestry, and details its creation via the economic systems of Great Britain, France, Germany and the United States. It follows their development in the 19th century, through WWI and it’s tumultuous aftermath and through the implosion of the Great Depression and rebirth following WWII. Which […]

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2/24/2017 's CBR9 Review No:10 |


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