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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica?
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To: Zoltan! who wrote (2420)1/27/1998 5:35:00 PM
From: Diogeron   of 20981
 
It appears you are animated about this issue, so let me recommend a new book by John Keegan, called "The Second World War." Keegan is a British scholar, whom Tom Clancy calls "the best military historian of our generation." While only a small portion of the book deals with the issue of Yalta, it is a great read. Assuming you are open minded on this issue and interested in history, you should give it a try.

As a "reformed academic" who thought I knew something about WWII, I certainly learned a lot from Keegan. It is also valuable to have a British perspective on the war. William F. Buckley once said, "The trouble with liberals is they only read liberal writers, and the trouble with conservatives is they don't read anything." While I think that has changed since he made that remark in the early 70s, he does have a point about our penchant for reading only things which reinforce our predispositions.
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