Reviews for The German poets of the First World War

The average rating for The German poets of the First World War based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-12-03 00:00:00 Ivan Swanson 3.5 at best. Given the fact that this book was published twenty years ago, the scope of it is too limited but the lack of resources on the Chinese side, so he has to spend way to0 many pages discussing ideology's role behind the forging the "lean-towards-one-side" foreign policy of the Chinese Communist Party at the very end of the civil war. With the (periodical and temporary) opening of Chinese MFA's archives, the declassification of relevant Russian documents and more memoirs of the American foreign service people in China during the Sino-Japanese War or civil war who were lated purged as a result of the upsurging McCarthyism coming out, it occurs to me that all parties in this story (well not sure about the KMT) were playing double games. No such thing as "leaning towards one side" was predestined.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-10-22 00:00:00 Jack Lori The author challenges some assumptions academics have made regarding whether the US was primarily responsible for China's entry into the Korean War. He bases his assumption on various records that became available as well as open sources that provide insight into the ideology and assumptions of the Communist regime that they assumed a confrontation with the US would come on the Pacific rim. Also, China's crossing the Yalu was not in response to the US crossing the 38th Parallel under MacArthur. They had already been socializing the idea of confronting the US with the Soviets prior. The book is a useful corrective to the standard history.