As Will Durant wrote, "It was a supreme example of generalship, never bettered in history... and it set the lines of military tactics for 2,000 years".
Will Durant included Faure's 4-volume History of Art on his list of 100 Best Books for an Education.
Philosopher Will Durant later created a fictionalized version of this bombing and placed the semi-autobiographical narrator, using the name "John Lemaire," in the story as the innocent fourth roommate.
When the book "The pleasure of Philosophy" by Will Durant was translated into Urdu, by Syed Abid Ali Abid, he translated the word aristocracy with the Urdu word 'Raiseeat' 'رئیسيت'.
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Other major literary influences included the Greek Classics, Balzac, Dostoievski, Thomas Mann, Will Durant and Arnold Toynbee.
He became Editor-in-Chief of the company and was a major figure in the book industry, publishing numerous works by high-profile writers and personalities such as William L. Shirer, Will and Ariel Durant, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.
There, he created the Discussion Guild, arranging lectures and debates among some of the most notable thinkers of the day, including Clarence Darrow, Bertrand Russell, Will Durant, John Dewey and many others.
Noteworthy among those whose parents settled in the United States are writer Jack Kerouac, politician Mike Gravel, singers Rudy Vallée and Robert Goulet, Emil Beaulieau, historian Will Durant and many more.
This book served its purpose in popularizing the subject it discussed like Will Durant's The Story of Philosophy.
Will and Ariel Durant The Age of Napoleon, New York:Simon and Schuster (1975)
For instance, Pulitzer Prize winning historian Will Durant dates these writings as early as 2880 BCE within The Story of Civilization: Our Oriental History.