All posts tagged "European history"
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History
The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson
June 19, 2020In some respects, the Thirty Years War resembles the Great War of 1914-1918. Political friction in...
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Architecture
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
June 11, 2020Mawer’s The Glass Room is a genuine intellectual achievement—a breath-taking story of love and its loss,...
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Great Britain
Democracy: 1,000 Years in Pursuit of British Liberty by Peter Kellner
June 10, 2020Magna Carta, that legendary document which is so frequently referred to in discussions of freedom, and...
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Biography
The Bolter by Frances Osborne
June 5, 2020She introduces a woman who may have upset those around her by her promiscuity, even nymphomania,...
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Biography
The Travels of Marco Polo Translated by W. Marsden
June 3, 2020It seems that world is more fantastic than our own travel brochures today can suggest for...
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Fiction Reviews
Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell
May 28, 2020Much more serious, though, is the book’s take on the medieval world as a whole. Alongside...
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Biography
Erskine Childers and The Riddle of the Sands
May 26, 2020Set 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
May 25, 2020Nicolson concludes his reflections by noting that “the custom of the manor” believed “to an extent...
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History
God’s Crucible by David Levering Lewis
May 13, 2020For English-speaking peoples, 1066 and 1776 still evoke powerful recollections of liberty lost and freedom won....
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History
Notes From Italy: Some Old Envoys
May 6, 2020Counts who stank of garlic–as did the whole country–had sponged on him for seats in his...
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