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NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman ∙ A Jew Today, Elie Wiesel ∙ American Caesar, William Manchester ∙ E.M. Forster: A Life, P. N. Furbank ∙ In Search of History, Theodore H. White ∙ The Ides of August, Curtis Cate ∙ Thoughts in a Dry Season. Gerald Brenan...
...IDES OF AUGUST by Curtis Cate; Evans; 534 pages...
...villain of a book is seldom an inanimate object. But in this case, the Berlin Wall qualifies for the role. If Curtis Cate's richly detailed, gripping history has a villain, however, it lacks a hero. For the author, a longtime commentator on European affairs and a biographer of George Sand and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, strongly implies that the Wall would never have been built if the Western Allies had shown a little more sophistication and a little less fear...
...leaders fitfully attempting to deal with the crisis of 1961. Obscured from public sight are the embattled East Berliners making a last attempt to escape before the Wall is completed. The contrast is sometimes too theatrical and may do less than justice to statesmen who must always improvise, but Cate sharply points up the courage demonstrated belowstairs that was so urgently needed...
...story of the Wall has been told before, but not with such cold fury. Cate paints an unflattering picture of President