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Category: Narrative History

August 29, 2020

Review: The American West, Patrick N. Allitt

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

Review: The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Bill Bryson

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

Review: Leonardo da Vinci, Walter Isaacson

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

Review: Vulcan 607, Rowland White

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

Review: October, China MiƩville

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…

July 24, 2020

Review: Clouds Above the Hill Vol. I, Ryotaro Shiba

Rating: 5 out of 5 I am a great fan of Ryotaro Shiba. It is always in February I get the wish to re-read…

July 20, 2020

Review: The Sword of Persia, Michael Axworthy

Rating: 5 out of 5 It is not to my credit that I had not heard of a figure as instrumental as Nader Shah…

July 11, 2020

Review: Crusaders, Dan Jones

Rating: 4 out of 5 The introduction to this narrative history made promises the book itself didn’t keep. The author’s statement that he would…

June 17, 2020

Review: The Elite, Ranulph Fiennes

Rating: 1 out of 5 Having a cursory overview of world history, most people could probably make a decent guess at who Mr Fiennes…

June 12, 2020

Review: Elizabeth of York, Alison Weir

Rating: 1 out of 5 I don’t know why I even tried reading this, having so recently tried another book by Ms Weir. Perhaps…

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