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January 7, 2019

Review: Strategy, Lawrence Freedman

Rating: 3 out of 5 This is so broad… The author talks about military, political, and economic strategy, with the one guiding principle across…

January 6, 2019

Rating: 3 out of 5 This is a story of a more-or-less accidental rebellion organised by Taira Masakado in the mid-10th century. The area…

January 3, 2019

Rating: 5 out of 5 I am particularly happy I chose to take up this book as the first one to read this year…

December 31, 2018

Rating: 3 out of 5 This is an… interesting… book. Most of other people seem to either love or hate it. I do not…

December 14, 2018

Rating: 5 out of 5 I really enjoyed this, mostly due to Mr Weatherford’s perspective in putting himself in the shoes of the people…

December 9, 2018

Rating: 2 out of 5 This is in general an alright book, but entirely misleading in its title or content. Offa features in the introduction…

December 7, 2018

Rating: 4 out of 5 This work presents a compelling case for independence as opposed to other methods of government and treats this in…

December 5, 2018

It was with pleasure I noted during the opening scenes of this film that it is based on a book by Ryotaro Shiba, a…

December 4, 2018

Rating: 5 out of 5 There are two sentiments in this well-known piece which echo through the years — the first is of the…

December 2, 2018

Rating: 5 out of 5 Hamilton, the arch-Federalist, is a typically maligned fellow in the history of these United States as it probably would…