Mark Thompson (3) (1959–)
Autor de The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919
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Créditos de la imagen: Susan Forrest (LT Mark Thompson #1)
06-02-09 Stonewall Anniversary History panel, City of West Hollywood.
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Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1959
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- England
UK - Lugares de residencia
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Educación
- University of Cambridge
- Ocupaciones
- head of media analysis for the biggest peacekeeping mission mounted by the United Nations
first political officer to serve with the UN's smallest peacekeeping mission
spokesman and head of media affairs for the mission to Croatia of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe
Balkans Program Director of the International Crisis Group - Premios y honores
- Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History
Orwell Prize
National Book Critics Circle Award
Jan Michalski Prize for Literature
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 6
- También por
- 3
- Miembros
- 550
- Popularidad
- #45,355
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 22
- ISBNs
- 138
- Idiomas
- 9
Focusing on Italy actually helped me understand the wider picture of WW I. I had recently taken a long hiking trip along the Isonzo front so was familiar with many of the battle sites. Slovenia and Italy have created a memorial hike called the Walk of Peace that visits many of the WW I battle scenes.
The biggest weakness of the book is the lack of maps and the exclusive use of Italian place names. The Italians and Austrians had very different names for towns and mountains. Most of the area covered in the book is in present-day Slovenia so the Italian place names are not used in any of the current maps of the area. The maps included in the book are too few to make up for this deficiency.… (más)