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12. Mär 2015
Well intended but poorly written by an amateur historian authoress.
A book which is embarrassingly juvenile. Its repetitive prose is insufferable. Especially so when, as the author tells us, everyone seems to have constantly "quipped" to one another. Concerning historical accuracy I cannot speak to facts regarding the Ritz Hotel itself. However, I do know a great deal about the second world war; far more than the author. Her errors are frequently blatant to the educated reader while they may be passable to those with only a secondary-school education. Often the text reads more as a propaganda flyer than as serious academic research. More than once I nearly pitied the writer in she has obviously absorbed every trope and slogan of the conflict and now believes those to be genuine historical fact. This of itself gives one great pause in trusting her to impart other information. Moreover, her characterizations of individuals involved in the war are unseemly for an adult mind. Although it may serve the purpose of B-films from the 1940s to present people as one dimensional representative stand-ins for their various nations that is a trite and sophomoric standard of comprehension for someone the dust-jacket tells us is a "Professor." Due to having spent time at the actual Hotel Ritz myself I was eager to receive this book. Having read it I regret wasting my time. There may indeed be worthwhile anecdotes here but they are rendered by an unreliable narrator. I would highly criticize the editing, though that is of course no fault of the author. There were at least three portions of the text in varying chapters that repeat the same sentence or parts thereof. Again, this is the standard one anticipates from a self-publisher not a professional company. Do not do the disservice of paying any sum near the retail price. It is unfortunate to be forced to render such a lowly verdict upon a writer but this is really quite below par and in no way should she consider herself an actual, or adequate, historian. This is all the worse since a historical account is what this pretends to be. Some of the numerous blatant factual errors found by myself and others:
1. (from ray mcvinnie at Amazon) P20 Serge Diaghilev is described as a "lithe ballet star", in fact he was a portly impresario. He is also described as frequenting Coco Chanel's table at the Ritz. She is described as resident since the 1930s. Diaghilev died in 1929!
2. (id) P33 Sacha Guitry is described as a"young playwright" attending Parisian literary salons in 1897, which would make him 12 years old, young indeed.
3. (myself) P231 Ernest Hemingway did not commit suicide in Key Large, but Ketchum Idaho.
4. (Richard H. Harrell at Amazon quote, error also found by myself) “her statement American Assimilated Colonel Fred Wardenburg was called from a hotel in Washington late one evening in 1944 and at the Ritz Hotel in Paris the following morning. If his aircraft had flown by the fastest possible route, stopping only at Gander or Goose Bay, and then at Shannon or Prestwick, he would not have arrived in Paris until the following night.”
5. (myself, innumerable others) Finally, this is supposedly a book concerning the Hotel Ritz, not the Holocaust. If she wanted to write about the Holocaust she ought to have done so. Instead, she shoe-horns the Holocaust (and to only a slightly lesser extent the Dreyfus Affair) into every breakfast, lunch or dinner that ever occurred near the hotel.
Overall a wonderful topic unprofessionally rendered by a poor author and worse historian.
11. Mai 2024
Item paid for May 4, Item not mailed until May 6, and missed Mothers Day on May 12 which is unconscionable, AVOID, F-
Item paid for May 4, Item not mailed until May 6, and missed Mothers Day on May 12 which is unconscionable, AVOID, F-