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The March of Folly
- From Troy to Vietnam
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
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Summary
The March of Folly brings the people, places, and events of history magnificently alive for today's listener.
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"Admirers of her earlier works will find Barbara Tuchman's familiar virtues on display. She is lucid, painstaking and highly intelligent. She is also highly expert." ( Sunday Times, London)
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- mr s gilmore
- 10-08-17
Simply outstanding
This is truly a fantastic read that has insight throughout the ages and also shows how things can go wrong and right
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Tom
- 18-04-11
An interesting and absorbing book
This book should be of interest to anyone who wants to understand better how Governements can sometimes make a terrible mess of their business. It tries to draw lessons from one semi-fictional (the Fall of Troy) and three real life episodes from history-the last two - the loss of the Amreican colonies and Vietnam - are worth the price of the book on their own.
Although the author sets out the events, this is not narrative history as she intersperses her judgments, analysis and opinions as she goes through. This is OK if you have some familiarity with the history, but can be confusing - as it was for me when she dealt with the creation of Protestantism - if you are not.
I think this must be quite an old recording as the editing was not what you expect - but the narrator is excellent, with great judgement of pace and tone, always important, I think, for narrated history books.
Barbara Tuchman is a very fine historian, and I intend to get another of her books with next month's credit. In the meantime, I can recommended this book wholeheartedly.
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- balzar
- 27-05-15
Fascinating
What made the experience of listening to The March of Folly the most enjoyable?
Learning history
What did you like best about this story?
Nothing
What do you think the narrator could have done better?
Could have sounded less grumpy
Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
No
Any additional comments?
Barbara Tuchman always had a tendency to sound omniscient. The narrator sounds quite exasperated at all times
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- Jeffrey Slater
- 24-08-16
it's not her best
...quite the contrary. It is basically about the Vietnam war, the rest is just there to provide other examples of the mistakes make in the Vietnam war section - which, in itself is very good. And as for treating Homer as history....
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