Monday, October 30, 2006
On the Bookshelf
After some heavy European history earlier this month, I had some fun this past weekend with Chris Roberson's Paragaea, reviewed here.
I was reading the history mainly to get a sense of the Church's role in the Great War. I learned that the French almost pitched away victory because of their cultural anti-Catholicism. I read of how military leaders were snail-slow to take advantage of the advances in military technology, and how they continued to throw soldiers into harm's way simply by conducting a 20th century war with their brains (if not butts) in the Napoleonic Era. It made me wonder about Iraq even more.
