Symon
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Joined: 11/24/2012 From: De Eye-lands, Mon Status: offline
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Love Rick Atkinson. But history is written from the perspective of the writer. Rick has seen the elephant and understands. His contextualizations are perfect, but his contexts could use some informing. There is no one book that dials it all in. Mr Atkinson suggests that other works should be consulted as background (or foreground) for his conceptual conclusions. I use Carlo D'Este as a tactical sidebar. Met Rick once, we talked about this, and he thought Carlo was perfect for the premise. When you read history, be aware that writers have agendas. They may be right, they may be wrong, but the good ones will tell you just who wrote something different, and maybe subsume some righteousness from their sources/contemporaries. I read Rick and Carlo together, day by day. What one misses, the other gathers, and the pairing is much more that the sum of the parts. Ciao JWE
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