Richard James has reviewed
Kingwalks: Paths of Glory
by Bruce Harper & Yasser Seirawan
from Russell Enterprises
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Kingwalks: Paths of Glory
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Re: Kingwalks: Paths of Glory
I could help but notice this:
"there’s a short list of sources (four chess books/series and two Tolkien books)"
Was wondering what the Tolkien books were used for?
"there’s a short list of sources (four chess books/series and two Tolkien books)"
Was wondering what the Tolkien books were used for?
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Re: Kingwalks: Paths of Glory
I thought you might be interested!Christopher Kreuzer wrote: ↑Wed Apr 12, 2023 9:00 pmI could help but notice this:
"there’s a short list of sources (four chess books/series and two Tolkien books)"
Was wondering what the Tolkien books were used for?
The authors quote the first sentences as good ways to start a book, but they couldn't use them for this book as they'd already been taken.
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Re: Kingwalks: Paths of Glory
Will have to work out (guess) which books now!
The subtitle "Paths of Glory" has at least three antecedents. The most famous is probably the 1957 Stanley Kubrick film, then the book it is based on (published 1935 by Humphrey Cobb), both about events in World War I.
There are other less well-known examples such as the Jeffery Archer novel about Everest (2009). The 1917 painting by Christopher Nevinson was famously censored for showing dead bodies and exhibited in 1918 with the artist putting a censored strip across it.
Both the 1935 novel and the 1917 painting are quoting from Thomas Gray's poem 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' (1751) with the line:
"The paths of glory lead but to the grave".
Do the authors of the book make any allusions based on their use of this phrase, or is it just a throwaway reference? I think the phrase is used in other contexts as well, including a WWI poetry anthology:
https://archive.org/details/pathsofglorycoll00lloy
The subtitle "Paths of Glory" has at least three antecedents. The most famous is probably the 1957 Stanley Kubrick film, then the book it is based on (published 1935 by Humphrey Cobb), both about events in World War I.
There are other less well-known examples such as the Jeffery Archer novel about Everest (2009). The 1917 painting by Christopher Nevinson was famously censored for showing dead bodies and exhibited in 1918 with the artist putting a censored strip across it.
Both the 1935 novel and the 1917 painting are quoting from Thomas Gray's poem 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' (1751) with the line:
"The paths of glory lead but to the grave".
Do the authors of the book make any allusions based on their use of this phrase, or is it just a throwaway reference? I think the phrase is used in other contexts as well, including a WWI poetry anthology:
https://archive.org/details/pathsofglorycoll00lloy
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Re: Kingwalks: Paths of Glory
Hans Ree's Foreword mentions the Kubrick film, so this may have been the authors' inspiration.Christopher Kreuzer wrote: ↑Thu Apr 13, 2023 9:38 amWill have to work out (guess) which books now!
The subtitle "Paths of Glory" has at least three antecedents. The most famous is probably the 1957 Stanley Kubrick film, then the book it is based on (published 1935 by Humphrey Cobb), both about events in World War I.
There are other less well-known examples such as the Jeffery Archer novel about Everest (2009). The 1917 painting by Christopher Nevinson was famously censored for showing dead bodies and exhibited in 1918 with the artist putting a censored strip across it.
Both the 1935 novel and the 1917 painting are quoting from Thomas Gray's poem 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' (1751) with the line:
"The paths of glory lead but to the grave".
Do the authors of the book make any allusions based on their use of this phrase, or is it just a throwaway reference? I think the phrase is used in other contexts as well, including a WWI poetry anthology:
https://archive.org/details/pathsofglorycoll00lloy
The two Tolkien books are those you'd expect.