united kingdom – Meditations

July 27, 2021

Review: On Secret Service East of Constantinople, Peter Hopkirk

Rating: 4 out of 5 This is a fairly long-winded book as it concerns itself with two distinctly different operations. The first of these…

July 26, 2021

Rating: 4 out of 5 India, the Imperial subcontinent. A day in 1947 was historic, in the most basic meaning of the word, for…

December 8, 2020

Rating: 4 out of 5 Both Attlee and Churchill were the giants of their time, there is no doubt about that. One might doubt…

October 14, 2020

Ticonderoga has a name which might be difficult to remember at first, but once it’s in a mind it’s also unlikely to be forgotten….

August 14, 2020

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….

May 14, 2020

Rating: 4 out of 5 I liked these memories. Mr Lawrence wrote well, he managed to captivate with some very good descriptions, and, most…

April 24, 2020

Rating: 3 out of 5 I finished this a long while ago now, but I wanted to wait with a review such that I’d…

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…

February 27, 2020

Rating: 5 out of 5 It is a remarkable opportunity to find a man who has occupied every great office of state and yet…

January 6, 2020

Rating: 5 out of 5 This was a really good story! Good not because of its morality or straightforwardness, but because the history that…