I picked this up for cheap on Kindle some time ago, and meant to get to it a lot sooner than this. Especially as its part of an interesting period as our perception of how the world works. Winchester is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Too often, brief looks at the Conquest start at Stamford Bridge and end at Hastings. Well, this isn’t a brief look. Morris starts with nearly a century’s worth of Anglo-Saxon politics, including the fact that much of Anglo-Saxon “England” had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was a difficult book for me. In general, an examination of food sources and consumption in the Revolutionary War era is a good topic. Personally, I found the treatment here not so good. One problem, of course, is I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Osprey’s various medieval armies Men-At-Arms books are generally solid, and this one does not disappoint. It’s not spectacular, either. The main thrust of the text is that Scandinavia lagged behind West European fashion/technology. Denmark of course, had lots of influence[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is my second book of “The Peoples of Europe” series, and I was surprised to find it was brand new. Turns out it was done via print-on-demand at the time of purchase, but is otherwise the 2004 printing (including[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a slightly earlier book than Hughes’ works on the end of the Western Empire. Unfortunately, the main way this shows is that the Kindle edition has problems. This seems to be an OCR translation to ebook as there’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Andrew Roberts spared no effort in writing a new biography of Napoleon. He spent a lot of time with the archives, toured many of the sites of Napoleon’s battles (the vast majority of them, in fact), and just spent a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
William Doyle is one of the leading English-language experts on the French Revolution, and his book from Oxford University Press is what you’d expect: A concise, clear overview of about three decades in France, concentrating on 1788 through 1799. Having[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of the quotes from the back of my second edition copy is “…if you believe in drowning freshmen in significant works, then by all means drown them in this one.” Which is pretty much how I got it, as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In concept, this is a great book: A look into the personalities and politics of roughly the first decade of the United States, as the men who would become known as the Founding Fathers struggle to turn the new nation[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…