Narrative History – Page 12

December 13, 2020

Review: Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendentalist Movement, Ashton Nichols

Rating: 4 out of 5 I’m not in two minds after finishing this book—but I can’t deny that when I started it sounded a…

December 8, 2020

Rating: 4 out of 5 Both Attlee and Churchill were the giants of their time, there is no doubt about that. One might doubt…

December 3, 2020

Rating: 4 out of 5 The Satsuma Rebellion, or at least its Hollywood version in ‘The Last Samurai’, is probably known to many but…

November 27, 2020

Rating: 2 out of 5 I was disappointed in this. Norse influence in Britain is a wonderfully intricate subject, so to begin a book…

November 25, 2020

Rating: 5 out of 5 Mr Barr has the quality of being able to find the most outrageous anecdotal incidences that led to an…

November 23, 2020

Rating: 3 out of 5 The rating is for the content and not the presentation… Having investigated Ancient Egypt last year, it felt reasonable…

October 11, 2020

Rating: 2 out of 5 Mr O’Donnell’s scholarship for this work is impressive, no doubt, but I found the presentation complex and illogical. The…

September 21, 2020

Rating: 2 out of 5 This didn’t rise to my expectations. Mr Montefiore’s attempts to categorize letters into specific topics failed as often as…

September 6, 2020

Rating: 3 out of 5 Mr Nicolle’s take on Cyprus and the Peloponnesian crusader states was a bit disappointing overall. The wider geographic spread…

September 1, 2020

Rating: 4 out of 5 I remember reading another book by Mr Wolmar in the past, on the global development of railroads. Nevertheless, I…