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March 7, 2022

Review: The Korean War, Max Hastings

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

Review: Imperial Nostalgia, Peter Mitchell

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

Arvustus: Sama hästi kui venelaste maa, Kaarel Piirimäe

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

Review: Freeing the Baltic 1918-1920, Geoffrey Bennett

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…

September 24, 2021

Review: The Prime Ministers, Steve Richards

Rating: 3 out of 5 This book is a journalist’s look into the latest Prime Ministers. Going back about fifty years, we start with…

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

Review: Indian Summer, Alex von Tunzelmann

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

Review: Attlee and Churchill, Leo McKinstry

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

Fort Ticonderoga

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

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….

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