[nopardons]

Sorry...I watched a bit of this and its BULLSHIT!

This is revisionist history of the worst kind and biased! Whomever p0ut this together, knows little to NOTHING of Hungarian history and less about how the Hungarians were treated vis-a-vis those whom are being called "Slavs" and just WHO were actually Slavs in the Austro-Hungarian Empire!

For a MUCH better perspective, I suggest reading DREADNOUGHT, by Robert K. Massie and should anyone want a good read re the last days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, pre WW I, FRmail me and I'll give you a list AND some anecdotal, eyewitness history, from a VERY reliable source.

[newnhdad]

Dreadnought is a fantastic read.. My wife has recently become interested in the “war to end all wars” and I keep placing this behemoth of a book next to her phone..

[Califreak]

I’ve read all of his books on the Russian royals.

Very good reading.

[spankalib]

Loved Nicholas and Alexandra, I’ll get Dreadnought for sure.

Napolitano gives Wilson a rather scathing critique in Theodore and Woodrow.

[Buttons12]

“Dreadnought.”

I love that book! One of very few I don’t mind re-reading. Open it anywhere and I’m drawn right in.

[Bratch]

From Library Journal

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This is a case study in the limits of a particular style of history.

Massie's previous biographically focused narrative histories, Peter the Great ( LJ 9/15/80) and Nicholas and Alexandra ( LJ 7/67), succeeded intellectually because of the nature of autocratic decision making. The British and German systems were too complicated and too democratic to respond to a biographical focus.

This massive volume, while reminding us of the importance of individuals in decision making, nevertheless ultimately misrepresents the Anglo-German rivalry as essentially a conflict of personalities. The naval race, purportedly the book's focus, is submerged in a sea of anecdotes about ministers and monarchs. Many are interesting; few are original. Moreover, neither Massie's text nor his bibliography shows significant traces of the immense body of German-language scholarship on this complex subject. Long and intricate for the general reader, this is incomplete for the serious student.

Paul Kennedy's equally massive The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism (Allen & Unwin, 1980) is no less well written and provides a much more comprehensive account. BOMC main selection.
 

- D.E. Showalter, U.S. Air Force Acad., Colorado Springs

Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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