MARLPIT PRESSIndependent PublisherThe history and biography list is built around strongly interpreted lives. Liddell Hart reads Sherman through the strategic problems of the twentieth century. William Bolitho turns twelve biographies into a theory of the adventurer. Axel Munthe turns his own life into a literary world centered on Capri and Villa San Michele.
These books are valuable partly because their authors do more than record events. They select, arrange, argue, mythologize, and sometimes distort. The accompanying research notes make those interpretive choices part of the reading.
Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American
B. H. Liddell Hart
Twelve Against the Gods
William Bolitho
The Story of San Michele
Axel Munthe
Research notes
All notesHow Liddell Hart Turned Sherman Into a Strategic Argument
Why B. H. Liddell Hart chose William Tecumseh Sherman, how the 1929 biography shaped his indirect approach, and why later historians read the book critically.
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Why Twelve Against the Gods includes figures from Casanova to Woodrow Wilson and what William Bolitho meant by the dangerous psychology of the adventurer.
Read research noteHow Much of The Story of San Michele Is Autobiography?
How to read Axel Munthe's The Story of San Michele as memoir, literary reconstruction, medical anecdote, fantasy, and self-mythology.
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