Thanks for the recommendation on the WWI book - it sounds like exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for, in that I want to have in my head a general sort of overview of everything without bogging myself down in stuff like precise blow-by-blows of every battle ever fought... (i.e. one of my novel characters is a veteran and it's very germane to the plot, but I am trying not to be one of those writers who has to read an entire encyclopedia in order to write confidently on a subject she lacks direct knowledge of)...
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Thanks for the recommendation on the WWI book - it sounds like exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for, in that I want to have in my head a general sort of overview of everything without bogging myself down in stuff like precise blow-by-blows of every battle ever fought... (i.e. one of my novel characters is a veteran and it's very germane to the plot, but I am trying not to be one of those writers who has to read an entire encyclopedia in order to write confidently on a subject she lacks direct knowledge of)...