Narrative History – Page 14

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

May 13, 2020

Rating: 2 out of 5 Well, I stepped into this myself. I know how Ms Weir writes and what she writes about. What I…

May 3, 2020

Rating: 2 out of 5 While Ospreys may be an acquired taste, what one should find in one of these really shouldn’t surprise the…

April 21, 2020

Rating: 5 out of 5 This is a great overview with insightful analysis — including the author noting times when other researchers disagree with…