![]() ![]() Although this is not a particularly long audiobook, especially in the realm of nonfiction, that doesn't mean it isn't detailed. Tuchman books (The Proud Tower and The Guns of August), I knew I had to listen to this one too, and it didn't disappoint me. However, once I listened to other Barbara W. Being Canadian, we never went into great detail on why the Americans entered the First World War - we were involved once Britain was involved. ![]() – Mexican or U.S.-Japanese relations in the twentieth century.īefore I found this book, I'd never heard of the Zimmerman telegram. participation in World War I or, for that matter, to anyone with an interest in U.S. I recommend this book without hesitation to anyone who has any interest in the events leading up to the start of U.S. reaction to Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor 25 years later. This is doubly so because it is clear that many of the views described prior to the release of the Zimmerman Telegram are representative of the American view of Japan during the first half of the twentieth century and make it easier to understand the U.S. Tuchman’s sense of the absurd and the events are so interesting as to leave one wondering why much of this was not presented as a basic part of U. McCaddon’s reading of this book is first class. Those who think highly of the Woodrow Wilson’s handling of domestic and international affairs might find this book at odds with that view. ![]() While the events leading up to the sending of the Zimmerman Telegram were serious and involved Germany's efforts to get the United States involved in enough trouble to keep it from arming the Allies, a description of those events and the Wilson Administration's reactions to them sound more like a script from a Max Sennet comedy than the actions of a deliberative and serious government. Tuchman's books (The Proud Tower, A Distant Mirror, The Guns of August, Stillwell and the American Experience in China, The March of Folly) but until I read this book I never sensed any humor or sense of irony in her writing. entry is so interesting that I find it surprising that it was not covered in detail in the history classes I took in High School or College. ![]() efforts to first keep out of World War I and then by its actions as a participant. The tensions between Mexico and the United States prior to World War I are reasonably well known (for example, General Pershing's assignment to track down Pancho Villa) although the details seem to have been cast into the shadows by the U. Most of this book is concerned with the events leading up to the sending of the Zimmerman Telegram and reveals a part of U.S. I was not expecting too much, but was very pleasantly surprised. Thus, when I saw Barbara Tuchman's book on sale on Audible, I bought it thinking that finally I would find out what it was all about. Years later, when I started to actually read history for pleasure, I found that World War II consumed most of my interest in twentieth century history and I never actually got around to reading anything about the telegram. I remember thinking that I wanted to know more about what happened and the validity of the telegram. entered World War I, but we were also told that there was a common view that the telegram was actually a British hoax designed to draw the U.S. The telegram was mentioned as the reason the U.S. I first heard about the Zimmerman Telegram a long time ago when in High School taking a U.S. ![]()
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