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Old 06-13-08, 09:52 AM   #2
Tchocky
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But Colm Toibin, in the newspaper's Sunday Book Review, called it "riveting and fascinating" and "a serious and conscientious contribution to the debate about pacifism."
That's a copper-bottomed recommendation right there. Toibin is a great author, and absolutely riveting in conversation. I had the pleasure of having a long chat with him at a public reading several years ago.
I may pick this one up, the style of writing seems an interesting approach.


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Baker makes his case through hundreds of brief vignettes culled from newspapers, diaries and secondary sources that are presented chronologically and without context or commentary by the author.

The book slices and dices the years that led to war into hundreds of little anecdotes rather than a single sweeping narrative. Baker presents the facts in a detached, journalistic manner that belies his underlying passion and leaves it to the reader to sort out contradictions and infer the broader picture.
THe thread title is a little misleading. Questioning does not equal condemnation.
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