Literary Reviews – Page 30

September 4, 2020

Review: How to Rule an Empire and Get Away with It, K.J. Parker

Rating: 5 out of 5 Mr Parker’s joyful style as he takes the persona of Notker is a pleasure to experience. Not only is…

September 3, 2020

Rating: 4 out of 5 So… This was a complex work, though still more an introduction given the span of time Mr Guelzo covered….

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 30, 2020

Rating: 4 out of 5 A very straightforward book, this read in the majority like a dumbed down, combined, version of ‘Thinking, Fast and…

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 21, 2020

Rating: 3 out of 5 The best part of this historical crime puzzle was the setting: late 18th century Stockholm. Many of the ancillary…

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…