Narrative History – Page 13

November 23, 2020

Review: Between the Rivers, Alexis Q. Castor

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…

August 29, 2020

Rating: 4 out of 5 This was a really interesting read for me: trying to understand how the United States came to be and…

August 19, 2020

Rating: 5 out of 5 There is something fundamentally simple in Mr Bryson’s approach. While we aren’t dealing with a historian extraordinaire, it is…

August 18, 2020

Rating: 3 out of 5 Leonardo was, no doubt, a genius. Mr Isaacson, on the other hand, I’m not so sure about. While a…

August 14, 2020

Rating: 5 out of 5 Mr White’s account of the RAF in the Falklands War is both spectacularly well written and contains amazing detail….

August 5, 2020

Rating: 2 out of 5 It feels weird for me to start a history, and to notice that the author says that he isn’t…