A personal review of books, the only link between them is that there is NO LINK!
by A.J.P. Taylor ISBN: 978-0-140-02481-4 First published 1963 287 pages Publisher: Penguin Books Cover photograph: British soldier at Ypres (Paul Popper/Popperfoto/Getty Images) 5 / 5 Stars Very interesting book, and a very useful book if you are to visit the battlefields, cemeteries and graveyards of World War in Northern France or Türkiye. And there are… Continue reading The First World War
by Mark Kurlansky ISBN: 978-0-099-28413-0 First published 1999 359 pages Publisher: vintage-books.co.uk Cover illustration by Nikolai Punin 5 / 5 Stars The story of a people that has never had its own nation-state and yet has thousands of years of history. They sailed the Atlantis, not only the Bay of Biscay. They could have found… Continue reading The Basque History of the World
by Hans Rosling with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund ISBN: 978-1-473-63749-8 First published 2018 329 pages Publisher: sceptrebooks.co.uk Designed by Steven Seighman 5 / 5 Stars A truly ground-breaking book. Momentous in its scale and purview. The world has developed faster than you can imagine. That is the first take-away. The second is that… Continue reading Factfulness
Hans Rosling was a public health educator, speaking at conferences and events across the world. When he found out he had cancer he immediately started the process of gathering his notes and starting an autobiography, which was published after his death in 2017.
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