A personal review of books, the only link between them is that there is NO LINK!
This book will give the reader an understanding of the tragedy of the French Revolution. A Revolution that failed to feed the population, a Revolution that failed to protect the population from outside invaders, and a Revolution that failed to protect the population from corruption and tyranny. A failure on all accounts.
Nero has seized control of Rome and the crown. He is willing to destroy anyone that gets in his way. no one is safe - not even his scheming mother.
In 1839, young army officer Cecil Hambrough was murdered, unleashing one of the most gripping court cases Victorian Britain had ever known.
Subtitle: Wrath, Ruin, & Reason in The Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 by Nicholas Shrady ISBN: 978-0-14-311460-4 First published 2008 228 pages Publisher: penguin.com Cover design: Gabriele Wilson Cover art: The Earthquake in Lisbon, Portugal, November 1, 1755 coloured wood engraving The Granger Collection New York 4/5 Stars Lisbon was one of Europe's leading cities… Continue reading The Last Day
by Steven Runciman ISBN: 978-1-84511-895-2 First published 1980 144 pages Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbooks Cover image: Hagios Nikolaos, Mistra Cover image by Vanni/CORBIS 5/5 Stars Take a trip into the past, into the last flourish of the Byzantine culture. The last cultural outpouring of a people that traced their lineage back through thousands of years,… Continue reading Lost Capital of Byzantium
Drugs in Nazi Germany By Norman Ohler ISBN: 978-0-141-98316-5 First published 2015 281 pages Publisher: Penguin RandomHouse UK 5/5 Stars A rather remarkable book, translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside. This book focuses on the pharmacological underpinnings of the Third Reich. With the ascent of the Nazi Party to power in 1933, recreational drugs… Continue reading Blitzed
A History of the Crusades III : The Kingdom of Acre By Steven Runciman ISBN: 978-0-241-29877-0 First published 1954 401 pages Publisher : Penguin Classics Cover illustration: Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris 6/5 Stars A wonderful end to the trilogy of books written about the crusades. The attention to detail and fast pace reminded me of Stieg… Continue reading The Kingdom of Acre
The Revolutionary Year By Steve Turner ISBN: 978-0-06-247558-0 419 pages Publisher: HarperCollins Cover photograph: Bob Whitaker / Camera Press / Redux 3/5 Stars A well researched and authoritative book about the magical year of 1966 when the Beatles wrote and recorded their first studio album, 'Revolver'. As special extras, we have a 'Jukebox' playlist from… Continue reading Beatles ’66
By Thomas F. Madden ISBN: 978-0-14-750980-2 First published 2012 427 pages Publisher: Penguin.org Cover photograph: Josef Hoflechner 5/5 Stars A super history of a once great city-state. Madden reveals how Venice was formed by refugees of the fallen Western Roman Empire, and was nurtured for most of its long life by the Eastern Roman Empire.… Continue reading Venice – A New History
Life and teachings of Jesus supplementary to the New Testament Edited and compiled by Tim Newton ISBN: 978-11-84529-656-8 First published 2009 179 pages Cover image: Unknown Publisher: Constable & Robinson Ltd. 5/5 Stars A well-written, well-researched and well-thought out description of the beginnings of the canon of the New Testament and the passages, verses and… Continue reading The Forgotten Gospels
by Dwight Jon Zimmerman ISBN: 978-0-8090-5358-2 First published 2012 148 pages Illustrated by Wayne Vansant Publisher: Hill and Wang (Farrar, Starus and Giroux) 3/5 Stars A great introduction to the lead up to the American civil war. Abraham Lincoln is well known, but not so much Frederick Douglass. This is an illustrated parallel biography of… Continue reading The Hammer and the Anvil
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