request for indulgence
January 2nd, 2009 From
>To: mahan@microworks.net, rickt@cris.com (Eric Bergerud)
>Subject: Re: request for indulgence
>Date: Wed, 12 Nov 97 07:55:29 GMT
>From: salvin@ocslink.com
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> > >I think this is the kind of thing Mahan is for.
> > >
>Me too!
> > >By the way, I taped a few weeks ago a C-SPAN show of a lecture by
> > >Keegan. he mentioned that his Naval warfare book was not well
> > >received, asserting that the Naval Historian writers formed rather
> > >a closed club and that if you made a few small errors you were raked
> > >over the coals by them.
> > >
> > >I would assert that if you get details wrong, to what extent can we
> > >trust you in the big picture too? At any rate, I would be interested
> > >in seeing your comments.
> > >
> > >Brooks A Rowlett
> > >brooksar@indy.net
> >
> > Frankly I think Keegan has a point. Both naval and aviation history has
> > become overly specialized in my humble opinion. Keegan’s _Face of Battle_
> > contained a host of assumptions that a military historian could > question but
> > it was a brilliant book nevertheless.
>
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>Normally I try to avoid `hear, hear’ posts, but I agree with everything Eric
>said. Keegan sometimes misidentifies the trees, but his veiw of the >forest is,
>imho, very insightful. If I was to assign just one book on military history,
>it would be _Face_. Keegan is probably the most important military historian
>of his generation. Even if you disagree with his conclusions, his work has
>stimulated a mountain of new research in military history.
>
> > Eric Bergerud, 531 Kains Ave, Albany CA 94706, 510-525-0930
> >
> >
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>
>Steve Alvin
>Department of Social Sciences
>Illinois Valley Community College
>
>salvin@ocslink.com