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Encouragement and necessary reminders

Revisado: 12-18-23

Bruce uses this book to reminds us of what is easy to forget when life hits and we get busy dealing with the daily issues.

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Interesting story marred by self loathing author

Revisado: 06-25-20

What could have been an interesting modern detective story was twisted into a woke lesson on how we are killing people by eating nuts and criminals are victims who shouldn't be punished.

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The personification of revisionist history

Revisado: 07-26-17

Would you try another book from G. J. Meyer and/or Rob Shapiro?

Rob Shapiro has a pleasant voice and reads well. G. J. Meyer is likely admired by leftists everywhere for making the UK and America share the blame for being the evil villains of WW1. He slants his history while claiming to be unslanted.

What could G. J. Meyer have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

Give a fuller unbias view. One can lie with truth but Meyer did not rise to even this level. As an example, if it is said I struck the man next to me it might be true but by leaving out my words and intention, "Hold still while I knock a spider off you" the truth of my striking another is recast and made malicious rather than beneficial. This is Meyer's method but he goes further and denies any history that is unfavorable to his view.
A person unfamiliar with WW1 history will think they have been given the inside scoop and believe his turning of history on its head. If you think me too harsh read The Guns of August which is full of quotes and footnotes from the same period of history and you will get a completely different view. A prime example is the orders the Germans had to kill civilians in Belgium. Meyer dismisses these stories as propaganda. He has to if he is to make the Germans victims and morally superior to the allies. There are graves to visit and memorials in Belgium to what Meyer dismisses as just propaganda.
He takes delight in showing the faults of allied leaders and works hard to make sure you do not admire them. It is right to show that they like all men have feet of clay. But this is one sided and not balanced. Both sides had such men but we are only shown one side.
The glaring tell that this is not going to be just a historical narrative but is revisionist is at the beginning. When a book begins with words to the effect that no one really understands the origins of WW1 but the author and there has yet to be a book written that tell it correctly it is right to be skeptical.
The level of pride in such an introduction can only be reached by a modern leftist.

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A secular history protestantism.

Revisado: 07-19-17

I took a Bible as literature class in college and it was basically a professor trying to say that the Bible was worthless and not worthy of study or reading. It quickly became apparent that the professor had not even read the Bible because he would miss quoted continually and was unfamiliar with passages I would suggest that would counter his claims.
While this book was full of historical information it was devoid of anything but descriptions of a Godless religion. It felt a bit like a color-blind person talking to me about sunsets.
If you are interested in history of all the Obscure Cults that have fragmented out of different denominations by all means read this book.
The Reformation, which gave rise to protestantism, was about abandoning the empty religion and forms of the Catholic Church for a direct relationship with God and yet he focuses more on the forms and empty religions of different religious sects that have sprung up as a replacement to the forms of Catholicism. Of all the different groups and sects not once was anything like a typical Bible believing church found in America discussed. An atheist could read this book and feel proud of their decision and maybe that was the books goal.
I liked was expecting something different so was disappointed.

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