re: #341 ggt

Yes, I think you are correct in her lineage.

This is my first foray into this part of history as an adult. I should probably also get the Guns of August to round out my understanding.

The Balkan situation was unreal. I really didn’t have any understanding that feudalism was still the system in so much of the world at that part of history. I don’t think I ever thought of it at all. The idea that Royalty had so much power and ego, when really it was just a bunch of inbred capitalists.

I need to read Guns of August. I have a copy but didn’t finish it because I abandoned it. I’m doing a small trek on the Spanish Civil War though, first reading Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia, next is Anthony Beevor’s general history of the war, and there’s a new book out on it called Spanish Holocaust that explores how murderous Franco and his allies were. I’m still reading my Kershaw Hitler biography which will probably take me a while but it’s something that I can go back to while reading other material.