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Tag: italy

March 8, 2025

Review: Blood and Power, John Foot

Rating: 3 out of 5 Not having much of an idea of the Italian struggle in the 1910’s through the 1940’s, I was happy…

April 3, 2024

Rocca d’Angera

Angera, the stronghold across the Maggiore from Arona, has been effectively repurposed into a tourist destination. Any ruins have been repaired and the great…

March 27, 2024

Rocca d’Arona

Of the things that one can remember from an old visit, the promise of walls stretching alongside the high cliffs of the beautiful Maggiore…

September 6, 2023

Review: City of Fortune, Roger Crowley

Rating: 3 out of 5 In truth, as much as one can take sides in history—an entirely pointless activity of course—I have never been…

October 15, 2019

Review: Prevail, Jeff Pearce

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 This was a difficult book to read. The continuous struggles of one nation — Abyssinia — against Italy are…

September 4, 2018

Review: The Mysterious Etruscans, Steven L. Tuck

Rating: 3 out of 5 I found this an enlightening series, mostly based on the fact that everyone knows so little about the Etruscans….

August 31, 2018

Review: Prisoners of Geography, Tim Marshall

I recently read Tim Marshall’s ‘Prisoners of Geography’, and this short post here is meant to be a brief look at some points within…

June 14, 2018

Review: The Vanquished, Robert Gerwath

Rating: 4 out of 5. This book makes for a compelling narrative of the early interwar years, combining together the stories of the primary…

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