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...point out that in your Feb. 9 review of Historian Barbara Tuchman's new book, The Guns of August, an inaccurate statement is made: "General Erich Ludendorff routed the Russians at Tannenberg before his reinforcements arrived." For some years, I have been teaching my classes that it was General Paul von Hindenburg who fulfilled the dream of his life in leading an army against an enemy in East Prussia, an area he knew as well as his own estate. With Ludendorff as his chief of staff, Hindenburg proceeded to set the trap for the advancing Russian army...
President Kennedy was kept up to date on the questioning by CIA Chief John McCone, who showed up at the White House every day to give him an oral briefing. At his news conference, the President announced that Powers was cooperating fully and that he had seen his wife Barbara and his parents. When the questioning is done, said Kennedy, Powers would become "a free agent," available to the press and to Congress. But the President warned that Powers will publicly reveal only information that "would be in the national interest to give...
...Detectable Plan. Inside, the Observer scattered, according to no detectable pattern, a clutch of articles, feature stories, puzzles, pictures, cartoons, weather maps and poetry (including all 60 lines of John Greenleaf Whittier's Barbara Frietchie). Two stories on Pope John XXIII ran on separate pages (4 and 26); an obituary on Violinist Fritz Kreisler appeared on page 8, an obituary on French Artist Andre Lhote on page 15. Readers anxious to discover how the new paper would deal with U.S. culture were soon disillusioned: the Observer begged the question. Theater and book reviews were shot through with a rehash...
...Guns of August, by Barbara W. Tuchman. A detailed and dramatic account of the fateful first month of World War I; a set piece every actor in it had rehearsed for years and managed to turn into a shambles nevertheless...
...What Barbara Tuchman does accomplish is to knit all the personalities and plans of the opening battles of World War I into a colorful, fact-filled narrative. "The Battle of the Marne was one of the decisive battles of the world," she writes, "not because it determined that Germany would ultimately lose or the Allies ultimately win the war, but because it determined that the war would go on. Afterward there was no turning back. The nations were caught in a trap, a trap made during the first thirty days out of battles that failed to be decisive...