tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3566219501850777383.post673893743499910230..comments2023-03-29T10:25:18.702-04:00Comments on Read Me Deadly: World War II: The 1930sSister Mary Murderoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13721665989818474295noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3566219501850777383.post-48445734085220368982012-04-09T19:36:39.565-04:002012-04-09T19:36:39.565-04:00Guns of August was a terrific book. It's been...Guns of August was a terrific book. It's been eons since I read it. She's so good at writing history.<br /><br />I didn't know about Wm. Wiser's The Twilight Years. Thanks, Nikki.Sister Mary Murderoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13721665989818474295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3566219501850777383.post-56687620797090148842012-04-09T17:45:06.824-04:002012-04-09T17:45:06.824-04:00Sorry my post left out some words. It gets into a ...Sorry my post left out some words. It gets into a mode where I can't insert characters. :-( I meant Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs, and that many woman never married.<br /><br />Glad to turn you on to TGOA, Sheryl: I was listening to it on tape while jogging/walking and wished it had hyperlinks so I could keep the German generals with French names and French generals with English names, etc., straight!Bonniehttp://www.pixelplum.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3566219501850777383.post-54109308758190551412012-04-09T15:19:56.794-04:002012-04-09T15:19:56.794-04:00Thank you Bonnie for recommending The Guns of Augu...Thank you Bonnie for recommending The Guns of August. I just bought it.Sherylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13179246695308375796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3566219501850777383.post-35749031944404863412012-04-09T10:25:02.505-04:002012-04-09T10:25:02.505-04:00Not a mystery or espionage but another fascinating...Not a mystery or espionage but another fascinating read-The Twilight Years: Paris in the 1930's by William Wiser. NikkiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3566219501850777383.post-53043758692411264862012-04-09T09:59:13.897-04:002012-04-09T09:59:13.897-04:00Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August is a fasc...Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August is a fascinating read on the events leading. Up to WWI. The whole thing involved so many screw ups it just leaves you shaking your head at the enormous waste of lives. In her Maisie Dobbs addresses the situation where many women didn't because that generation of men had been so reduced by the war. I think the new one that just came out will take Maisie into that time period.Bonniehttp://www.pixelplum.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3566219501850777383.post-3578794981631975222012-04-06T16:52:01.824-04:002012-04-06T16:52:01.824-04:00Thanks all.
I was looking at the NYT book review ...Thanks all.<br /><br />I was looking at the NYT book review Crime section today and saw another book that looks perfect for this era: HOUSE OF THE HUNTED by Mark Mills. Check it out: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/books/review/house-of-the-hunted-by-mark-mills-and-more.html?_r=1&nl=books&emc=edit_bk_20120406<br /><br />Marilyn Stasio also includes short reviews of Donna Leon's BEASTLY THINGS (Commissario Guido Brunetti series), Christopher Fowler's THE MEMORY OF BLOOD (Peculiar Crimes Unit series) and James Sallis's DRIVEN.Sister Mary Murderoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13721665989818474295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3566219501850777383.post-82055284315782316382012-04-06T14:43:17.444-04:002012-04-06T14:43:17.444-04:00Sister, a masterful post. Thanks very much for sha...Sister, a masterful post. Thanks very much for sharing your knowledge of this history and these books with us.<br /><br />I second your suggestions of the Ambler, Coles, Kerr, and Pawel books. They're all wonderful.<br /><br />I'm looking forward to your review of Kerr's PRAGUE FATALE.Georgette Spelvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13853710671433406351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3566219501850777383.post-22099992369559420892012-04-06T13:13:48.905-04:002012-04-06T13:13:48.905-04:00Well done survey, SMM. Thank you!!Well done survey, SMM. Thank you!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3566219501850777383.post-35283708010157256022012-04-06T10:26:26.897-04:002012-04-06T10:26:26.897-04:00Hi Kev,
Yeah, it felt a little weird posting this...Hi Kev,<br /><br />Yeah, it felt a little weird posting this on a Friday, but at least I didn't give it a TGIF label!<br /><br />You know Philip Kerr's latest, Prague Fatale, is coming out on the 17th, right? I got an advance review copy and it was terrific. A much more straight-ahead story than his last two. It even includes a locked-room mystery, a classic touch I sure never expected from this series. I'll be posting a full book review in a couple of weeks.Sister Mary Murderoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13721665989818474295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3566219501850777383.post-83978311425276961452012-04-06T10:13:33.192-04:002012-04-06T10:13:33.192-04:00THe Evans book is great. so are Kerr 's.
Not t...THe Evans book is great. so are Kerr 's.<br />Not the usual TGIF , Sister M, but a sensatiomal blog! I enjoyed it, thanks. KevAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3566219501850777383.post-51467965506316661852012-04-06T09:56:12.963-04:002012-04-06T09:56:12.963-04:00Hi Sheryl, I think you're right that Snoopy ac...Hi Sheryl, I think you're right that Snoopy acting like the Red Baron flying his dog house couldn't be about WW2. Strange, when you think of the horrors of trench warfare in WW1. So you have to wonder if it's just the distance from us. But I think what it is, mostly, is the toll of WW2 on civilians. There were staggeringly high numbers of civilian deaths in WW2; from genocide, city bombings and sieges, deaths relating to being driven out of home territory, etc.<br /><br />My father being a WW2 veteran is what first got me interested. Reading Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl had a powerful effect on me too. When you read about the lead-up to the two world wars, you're right, it makes no sense. This list of events just doesn't do anything to explain how world wars resulted. So I've been reading ever since to try to get a better sense of it. One general history that I thought did a particularly good job was Richard J. Evans's The Coming of the Third Reich. He talks a lot about the 19th-century roots that gave rise to the 20th century wars. Very, very interesting.Sister Mary Murderoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13721665989818474295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3566219501850777383.post-37760493876262079952012-04-06T06:46:53.050-04:002012-04-06T06:46:53.050-04:00How interesting. I admit that I don't read eno...How interesting. I admit that I don't read enough serious mysteries. :-)<br /><br />I remember my frustration in school when every year we would skip WW1 because of time and we had to cover WW2 as it was so recent. One year I finally read the section on it. It didn't make sense to me. In the years since, it still remains a mystery to me in some ways. <br /><br />I think it was a pivot point along with the years between it and WW2. It was a war that came out of the preceding century but was waged very much in the 20th one. It is difficult for me with my modern eyes to comprehend. <br /><br />I was thinking that Snoopy riding on his dog house could not have been about WW2 and that difference has a lot to do with where the world is now.<br /><br />I have no idea why I am writing all this except you have set my mind off on how we look at history and what it means to us now. Thank you.<br /><br />SherylSherylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13179246695308375796noreply@blogger.com