All posts tagged "European history"
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Battle for Europe: How the Duke of Marlborough Masterminded the Defeat of France at Blenheim by Charles Spencer
August 3, 2024Even the greatest deeds of brave men can be forgotten in the mists of time -...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
After the Victorians by A.N. Wilson
August 1, 2024Like its predecessor, The Victorians, this book is a portrait of an age, rather than a...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson
January 7, 2024In some respects, the Thirty Years War resembles the Great War of 1914-1918. Political friction in...
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Fiction Reviews
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
December 29, 2023Mawer’s The Glass Room is a genuine intellectual achievement—a breath-taking story of love and its loss,...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Democracy: 1,000 Years in Pursuit of British Liberty by Peter Kellner
December 28, 2023Magna Carta, that legendary document which is so frequently referred to in discussions of freedom, and...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Bolter by Frances Osborne
December 22, 2023She introduces a woman who may have upset those around her by her promiscuity, even nymphomania,...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Travels of Marco Polo Translated by W. Marsden
December 21, 2023It seems that world is more fantastic than our own travel brochures today can suggest for...
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France
Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell
December 13, 2023Much more serious, though, is the book’s take on the medieval world as a whole. Alongside...
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Literary Themes
Erskine Childers and The Riddle of the Sands
December 10, 2023Set against the backdrop of a yachting trip to the German coast, the story weds a...
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Great Britain
Quarrel with the King by Adam Nicolson
December 8, 2023Nicolson concludes his reflections by noting that “the custom of the manor” believed “to an extent...
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