tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4167684119478977136.post4185479186980213465..comments2024-03-22T08:23:38.715+00:00Comments on Trouble At T’Mill - a wargaming blog: Book Review - "War By Timetable". AJP TaylorMike Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02165272678144625943noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4167684119478977136.post-12540378512020991672013-10-09T14:16:43.159+01:002013-10-09T14:16:43.159+01:00Does that mean it is time to RunDoes that mean it is time to RunPiscatoreshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09993952341776678764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4167684119478977136.post-58083072149796464422013-10-09T13:22:08.485+01:002013-10-09T13:22:08.485+01:00AJP Taylor's writings have to be repected, but...AJP Taylor's writings have to be repected, but I'm not sure I always agree with him. However, I've not read this particular book. However, I do know that the topic of it was on the New Zealand secondary school History curriculum 20-odd years ago. Apparently the 'hook' was having to transport a whole bunch of schoolkids to some venue or other, given a limited number of buses. Then one of the buses breaks down, a driver calls in sick... How to adapt?<br /><br />Whatever, I should not be surprised if AJP Taylor's conclusion includes confirmation of the dictum: no plan survives first contact with the enemy.Archduke Piccolohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15533325665451889661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4167684119478977136.post-33943451623667164402013-10-09T11:45:41.295+01:002013-10-09T11:45:41.295+01:00Mike, "War by Time-Table" is a magnifice...Mike, "War by Time-Table" is a magnificent little book. It was a great choice by you!! The MacDonald version of the physical book is lovely, with lots of great photographs. AJP Taylor was a fine historian, and pretty radical in his day in some of his ideas. Reading "War by Time-Table", "The Pity of War", and Fritz Fischer's "Germany's Aims in the First World War" and you have a great bed-rock for almost all of the arguments about why on earth the War broke out. A really endlessly fascinating, nightmarish historical disaster.Sidney Roundwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14795563060856586670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4167684119478977136.post-57502575151585443552013-10-09T10:20:35.297+01:002013-10-09T10:20:35.297+01:00Indeed - using it to describe the killing of Archd...Indeed - using it to describe the killing of Archduke Ferdinand is where I came across it first, thjough....Mike Whitakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02165272678144625943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4167684119478977136.post-32258053746202088772013-10-08T22:51:06.655+01:002013-10-08T22:51:06.655+01:00I used to watch Taylor's lectures on TV - clas...I used to watch Taylor's lectures on TV - classic stuff! I wonder if they're on You Tube?<br /><br />The cloud the size of a man's hand is a Biblical reference from the story of Elijah and Ahab.Diplomatisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04154642903216207181noreply@blogger.com