{"id":426,"date":"2003-03-12T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-12T13:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/?p=426"},"modified":"2003-03-12T09:06:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-12T13:06:00","slug":"426","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/?p=426","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/01402845838\/tomleslieca-20\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0140284583.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg\" width=90 height=140 vspace=3 hspace=5 align=left border=0 alt=\"Stalingrad\"><\/a>Not a fun read, but my history kick recently took me through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140284583\/tomleslieca-20\">Stalingrad<\/a> by Anthony Beevor.  I started off by re-reading Barbara Tuckman&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/034538623X\/tomleslieca-20\">The Guns of August<\/a> to get into the mood &#8212; Tuckman&#8217;s remains the premier book in this genre &#8212; and in comparison, I found Stalingrad to be slower and to be missing some of the rich character detail Tuckman managed to include.  Still, Stalingrad is a gripping book, thick with the awful story of one of the worst campaigns in modern history.  Beevor doesn&#8217;t spare the reader, and the horror of the struggle, from both sides, is made stunningly clear.  It&#8217;s content makes it a difficult book to read, but no less important for that.  5 out of 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not a fun read, but my history kick recently took me through Stalingrad by Anthony Beevor. I started off by re-reading Barbara Tuckman&#8217;s The Guns of August to get into the mood &#8212; Tuckman&#8217;s remains the premier book in this genre &#8212; and in comparison, I found Stalingrad to be slower and to be missing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}