{"id":23095,"date":"2021-06-28T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T14:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=23095"},"modified":"2021-06-28T07:21:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T12:21:38","slug":"happy-gavrilo-princip-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=23095","title":{"rendered":"Happy Gavrilo Princip Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us pause for a moment of silence in memory of FotB and valued commenter guffaw, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=11936&#038;cpage=1#comment-134317\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who originated Gavrilo Princip Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Guns of August&#8221; is a long (almost 1:40) documentary adapted from Barbara Tuchman&#8217;s book.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h4zPg5Kv_ug\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Shameful confession: I greatly admire Barbara Tuchman. I loved <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3gXDkit\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Proud Tower<\/a><\/strong>. I think <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3djZbP5\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Practicing History<\/a><\/strong> is an excellent collection of essays. I read <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3A44pIE\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century<\/a><\/strong> a long time ago, but it was at the right time for me, and I&#8217;m fond of that book.<\/p>\n<p>I have never been able to read <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3qyNwBh\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Guns of August<\/a><\/strong>. I have tried three times and just cannot get through it. I think it may be a matter of just too many people to keep track of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Bonus: I may be pushing things a little bit, but here you go: &#8220;The Russian Civil War in Siberia&#8221; from &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/TheGreatWarSeries\/videos\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Great War<\/a>&#8221; channel.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jCgABpQuKA4\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t exactly WWI, but I believe (and I think Mike Duncan will agree with me) that the 1917 Revolution and the Russian Civil War were consequences of a lot of things, including WWI, so I&#8217;m including this here.<\/p>\n<p>Bonus #2: This is an aspect of history I&#8217;m interested in, but I have not had a chance to sit down and watch this video yet. &#8220;Blood and Oil: The Middle East in World War I&#8221;. Looking at the description and comments, it may be somewhat biased: I would take this with some salt.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jP0evPEsc30\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Note for myself: <a href=\"https:\/\/telsociety.org.uk\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The T. E. Lawrence Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us pause for a moment of silence in memory of FotB and valued commenter guffaw, who originated Gavrilo Princip Day. &#8220;The Guns of August&#8221; is a long (almost 1:40) documentary adapted from Barbara Tuchman&#8217;s book. Shameful confession: I greatly admire Barbara Tuchman. I loved The Proud Tower. I think Practicing History is an excellent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23095"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23097,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23095\/revisions\/23097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}