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I’ve been carrying around this fat paperback since Christmas and I finally finished it.  The binding is broken and the cover is disintegrating.  Thrilling, appalling, sad, it reads like an epic tragedy.  The world and characters Barbara Tuchman paints are as vivid as any novel.  It’s not just an amazing history book, it’s an amazing book, period. 

I’ve been carrying around this fat paperback since Christmas and I finally finished it.  The binding is broken and the cover is disintegrating.  Thrilling, appalling, sad, it reads like an epic tragedy.  The world and characters Barbara Tuchman paints are as vivid as any novel.  It’s not just an amazing history book, it’s an amazing book, period. 

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    poopy…. SO MANY BOOKS TO READ BUT I JUST WANA READ THIS ONE NOW
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    This is one of my favorite, most dog-eared books ever. I adore how Tuchman wove all of these fascinating stories about...
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    I turned my grandma on to this book a couple months ago. She loves it.
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    I need to see about this.
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    Reminds that I’ve listened to a quarter of the book on Audible - it merits finishing after the massive Robert Caro bio...
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