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Charged - review
Posted on: 17 November 2023
The history of an electric car battery begins with one of the biggest mass extinction events in the history of the plant. I’m talking of course about the Permian-Triassic mass extinction 250 million...
★★★★☆ (2022)
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Assyria - review
Posted on: 10 November 2023
What have the Assyrians ever done for us? In Assyria: the Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire Eckart Frahm explains that: they established a template for domination that has been used ever...
★★★★☆ (2023)
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New history books in October 2023
Posted on: 1 November 2023
Fewer history books than normal were published in October - maybe it is a bit of a lull before the Christmas releases? But still nine to choose from, and most of them the product of years of hard...
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The Middle Kingdoms - review
Posted on: 27 October 2023
I admit that I bought this book without too much research about what it was about: from the picture on the front cover and title I got the vague idea that I was buying something on German medieval...
★★★★☆ (2023)
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The Age of Atlantic Revolution - review
Posted on: 13 October 2023
It's history is the creation of a world. Simone de Beauvoir, America Day by Day. In Colombia the first song I learnt on my battered travelling guitar was “Soy Colombiano” (“I am Colombian”)...
★★☆☆☆ (2023)
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New history books in September 2023
Posted on: 1 October 2023
I like the look of a lot of these, not that one should judge a book by looks alone, but there certainly are more than usual. Click the book covers to see a zoomed in image and links to Amazon if you...
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Pax - review
Posted on: 8 September 2023
Do you - can you? - think like a Roman? Here’s a test. What would you do in this situation? Imagine you are the pie-loving commander of a powerful army of Roman legions stationed on the Rhine. Your...
★★★★★ (2023)
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New history books in August 2023
Posted on: 1 September 2023
So here they are, the 14 history books published in August that I could track down and that met my criteria for inclusion! A nice range of different subjects are covered, albeit most of them have a...
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII - review
Posted on: 18 August 2023
He began his reign as the dashing image of knightly chivalry. He ended it as a bloated, stinking whale, hated and feared across the land. Dominic Sandbrook, The Six Wives of Henry VIII In The...
★★★★☆ (2021)
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White Gold - review
Posted on: 11 August 2023
Dressed in Moorish djellabas and wielding damascene scimitars, they made a terrifying sight as they burst into the parish church. The 1625 Moroccan raid on the Cornish village of Mount’s Bay was a...
★★★☆☆ (2004)
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New history books in July 2023
Posted on: 3 August 2023
A great selection in July 2023 with a surprisingly large number of books on ancient history - 6 out of the 12 published. (A quick google reveals that there is no such thing as Ancient History...
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Courting India - review
Posted on: 14 July 2023
Ah Rahim, now you’re perplexed. Stick to truth and you lose the world, stick to lies and you never get Ram. Abdur Rahim, statesman to the Mughal court and poet, 1556 to 1627. Quotation from...
★★★★★ (2023)
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