Eric Dorn Brose
Autore di The Kaiser's Army: The Politics of Military Technology in Germany during the Machine Age, 1870-1918
Sull'Autore
Eric Dorn Brose completed graduate and postgraduate degrees at Miami University in Ohio and Ohio State University. He was a professor at Drexel University, where he was awarded special emeritus status upon retirement in 2015. His publications on German and European history have included much on the mostra altro history of warfare in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. mostra meno
Opere di Eric Dorn Brose
The Kaiser's Army: The Politics of Military Technology in Germany during the Machine Age, 1870-1918 (2001) 30 copie
A history of the Great War : World War One and the international crisis of the early twentieth century (2010) 17 copie
Technology and Science in the Industrializing Nations 1500-1914 (Control of Nature Series) (1997) 14 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Brose, Eric Dorn
- Data di nascita
- 1948-06-14
- Sesso
- male
Utenti
Recensioni
Statistiche
- Opere
- 9
- Utenti
- 121
- Popolarità
- #164,307
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 5
- ISBN
- 24
This review should start with a warning siren, because if you read the online descriptions, you'll think this is a history. It's only when you look at the title page that you'll read that it is a "novelistic history and Senecan tragedy." Which is bad enough, given that Seneca was given to ponderous blood-and-thunder tragedies. But on page 286, in the "Afterword on Historical Methodology," you'll read that "Death at Sea is nine parts history and only one part historical fiction."
The problem, of course, is that 10% fiction means that it is 100% unreliable, unless you know which parts are the 10% fiction. Which is not evident. To misquote the Apostle Paul, a little fiction fictionalizes the whole lump!
Of course, you may want your history fictionalized. I feel cheated, but your mileage may vary. I have to offer some other warnings, though: although the book is 294 pages, which sounds substantial, it's printed in what appears to be (very large and wide) 13 point type -- easy on the eyes, perhaps, but it means that that 294 pages would be only about 200 pages if ordinary 11 point type were used, and perhaps 170 if 10 point type were used. So it's a slim volume disguised as something bigger. And the type isn't a serif. It's not even an ordinary sans serif. It's a gothic, and a hypermodern one (Futura, maybe? -- there are no descenders on the lower case u's, for instance). The page color is bad and the type is eye-wearying; whoever designed this knew very little about typography. Even if you don't mind the novel part, you may want to read this in small doses. Me, if I want history, I'll read history, and if I want Seneca... I'll go try to sleep off whatever somebody slipped me that would make me want Seneca.… (altro)