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The Invention of Good and Evil - review
Posted on: 22 December 2024
The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality, by Hanno Sauer, has - I think - one of the best titles of any non-fiction book. Who could fail to be intrigued? After all who hasnโt...
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The Wager - review
Posted on: 8 December 2024
My sailing experience is fairly limited, but I do remember a trip in the North Sea as a boy, painfully tacking back and forth as we inched up the Yorkshire coast. Landlubber that I was, I still...
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New history books in November 2024
Posted on: 1 December 2024
I identified a mere nine history books published in the UK in November 2024 (excluding the hundreds of highly dubious titles with AI slop covers). Of the nine there is one I will be putting on my xmas...
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The Mongol Storm - review
Posted on: 24 November 2024
Hands up if you've heard of the Ilkhanate Empire? If you've got your hand up: well done (assuming you are not bluffing). For everyone else, and me included before reading Mongol Storm: Making and...
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New history books in October 2024
Posted on: 1 November 2024
I couldn't find too many new popular history books published in October. I'm not sure why they seem so thin on the ground, perhaps I have overlooked a few? All of those that I did find look well worth...
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The Savage Storm - review
Posted on: 11 October 2024
This book comes highly recommended, both for Second World War history buffs and those of us who have had relatively less exposure to military history. James Holland (a Second World War expert with his...
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New history books in September 2024
Posted on: 1 October 2024
A great list this month, possibly the largest number of high quality history books published in a single month since my records began! (in 2019) There are four in particular that I'm looking out for,...
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History book prize shortlists 2024
Posted on: 26 September 2024
History book prizes divide opinion - how can you ever fairly decide on a 'best' book? What does best even mean? And how come my book didn't win? Personally I like them. Even trying to keep tabs on all...
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Tracks on the Ocean - review
Posted on: 20 September 2024
Back in 2001 Maddox Von Ranke and I were in a small Moroccan mountain village, planning an ascent of Mount Toubkal. Mount Toubkal is the highest mountain in North Africa (I believe) and we had...
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