Reddit reviews Baptism Of Fire

I was very excited to find a copy of Military Strategy and the Origins of the First World War (1991) on a local bookstore's discount table this week. The owner had dropped it from $10 down to $2 because the previous owner had highlighted some stuff in one of the chapters. The book is otherwise unmarked. It's a very good collection, and I'm particularly pleased that it contains an essay by Holger Herwig on German patriotic self-censorship in the post-war years that I seem to have occasion to cite all the time.

This is not the first time I've had good fortune in this regard -- the same storekeeper is friends with a fairly prominent Canadian popular historian, and this fellow recently liquidated a large section of his library to make room for new arrivals. This included a very, very large WWI collection, which he had used in the course of researching this.

As a consequence, I ended up buying something like twenty hugely discounted books that would not only have been useful in their own right, but which were also just full of the historian's marginal notes. I've been having a lot of fun making my way through them.