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Article: World War I was their finest hour.(COMMENTARY)(BOOK REVIEW)(Column)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- September 7, 2009
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Byline: Martin Rubin, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
It has long been one of the great truisms of 20th-century historiography - and even of popular culture - that World War I was the crucible that inevitably forged a second global conflagration a mere two decades later. Countless historians and books have made this point on a grand scale, perhaps even proved beyond any reasonable doubt its veracity and validity.
But in this unusual book, William van der Kloot, distinguished professor emeritus at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, takes a different approach. Eschewing any overt links or conclusions from the case studies he presents, he ...