united kingdom – Meditations

November 2, 2023

Review: Return of a King, William Dalrymple

Rating: 5 out of 5 I’ve read a bit of Mr Dalrymple and I was quite interested to pick up one of his earliest…

October 30, 2023

Rating: 4 out of 5 I’ve enjoyed Mr Bryson for many years now though the majority of his travel works are very old. This…

February 2, 2023

Rating: 4 out of 5 Ms Ludowyke’s look at the story of the Carpathia is one to enjoy. The research has been detailed and…

December 25, 2022

Rating: 4 out of 5 I thought the author did a pretty good job throughout of explaining things from first principles. Rather frequently, describing…

December 4, 2022

Rating: 3 out of 5 What starts out claiming to be a decent history of PMQs as an institution quickly loses a lot of…

November 6, 2022

Rating: 5 out of 5 It’s not all that rare for me to say that I’ve found a really good book, but I often…

March 7, 2022

Rating: 3 out of 5 Not knowing much about the Korean War, I thought this would be a good way to educate myself and,…

February 16, 2022

Rating: 2 out of 5 This book looked promising–after all trying to describe one of the foremost social problems of the time should be….

January 20, 2022

Hinnang: 3 / 5 Hr Piirimäe doktoritöö, mis on siin avaldatud, on küll mastaapne ja huvitav, kuid minu jaoks oli midagi puudu. Kuna tegu…

November 20, 2021

Rating: 5 out of 5 Mr Bennett’s overview of the British squadron’s fight to support the independence of the Baltic nations flows. The book…