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Post by monkey on Jun 10, 2007 23:34:57 GMT -4
Just started John Cornwell's Hitler's Scientists. It's primarily concerned with the role of ethics in science. Can anyone recommend a good book, taking a similar look at the Manhattan Project?
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Post by Mouse on Jun 17, 2007 18:01:52 GMT -4
Count me as another Tuchman fangirl. I love A Distant Mirror, because I'm fascinated by the Middle Ages. I've also read Alison Weir's biographies of Eleanor of Aquitain and Queen Isabella (consort of Edward II). Anyone else like Weir?
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Post by monkey on Jun 18, 2007 9:33:06 GMT -4
Mouse, I'm a Tuchman-lover, as well (particularly her WWI stuff). My favorite passage of A Distant Mirror was the part describing the miracle plays. I also loved Weir's bio of the six wives of Henry VIII. I've reserved her novel on Jane Grey at the library, but that's for a different thread.
Finished the book on Hitler's scientists. I'm about to start Philippe Burrin's France Under the Germans - not out of a new or particular enthusiasm for WWII studies, but because an uncle loaned it to me, unsolicited, and I feel compelled to move it up my reading list and get it back to him in a timely manner.
Underneath that, on my non-fiction reading list, are The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB, Norman Mailer's Armies of the Night (not sure exactly where this falls - the cover promises "History as a novel/The novel as history), and Bob Woodward's The Commanders.
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