content: What more can be said about this work which has the distinction of changing the way late 20th Century man thinks? (Well, at least the way JFK thought) All I can say that the book is as gripping as it is important. It should be on any educated person's mandatory reading list and it's a helluvalot more enjoyable than Paradise Lost or the Divine Comedy! Pick it up...no one brings history alive better than Tuchman.