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The Duchessby: Amanda Foreman August 04, 2008 |
List Price: £7.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £3.99 You Save: £4.00 (50%)Prices subject to change. Used Price: £1.45 |
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Having watched the film I felt I should read the book as they are almost always much better than the large screen counterpoint. I was left somewhat disappointed by this.
Sure, the book is well researched and referenced and the work behind the historical fact that has gone into this book is undeniably impressive. As a history text for one to reference it is entirely suitable. However this book seems to be promoted as a highly entertaining story. That it is not. The plot is just a blow-by-blow historical account with no attempt to really make the story entertaining or actually give much insight into the characters. I only finished the novel out of sheer stubborness and that in itself was a chore. As a historical ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshireby: Amanda Foreman June 07, 1999 |
List Price: £9.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £4.99 You Save: £5.00 (50%)Prices subject to change. Used Price: £0.47 |
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Although 'Georgiana' is competently written and well-researched, I am frankly amazed that it has achieved such massive success and popularity since its first publication ten years ago. As other reviewers have pointed out, it perhaps fulfills a useful purpose in putting women back in the 'front-line' of the eighteenth-century political scene but, speaking for myself, I found the exhaustive discussion of the ups-and-downs of the Whigs and Tories tedious in the extreme and an almost total turn-off. This was doubly disappointing, since the rave reviews had led me to expect so much more.
Strangely enough, the most engaging part of the book was the introduction, in which the author writes with real verve and enthusiasm of how she was first 'introduced' ... Read More: >>More Details |
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The Duchessby: Amanda Foreman August 04, 2008 |
List Price: £14.00 Vegetarian Books Price: £13.99 You Save: £0.01 ( 0%)Prices subject to change. Used Price: £8.06 |
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Having watched the film I felt I should read the book as they are almost always much better than the large screen counterpoint. I was left somewhat disappointed by this.
Sure, the book is well researched and referenced and the work behind the historical fact that has gone into this book is undeniably impressive. As a history text for one to reference it is entirely suitable. However this book seems to be promoted as a highly entertaining story. That it is not. The plot is just a blow-by-blow historical account with no attempt to really make the story entertaining or actually give much insight into the characters. I only finished the novel out of sheer stubborness and that in itself was a chore. As a historical refernce text it fits. ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshireby: Amanda Foreman May 18, 1998 |
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Although 'Georgiana' is competently written and well-researched, I am frankly amazed that it has achieved such massive success and popularity since its first publication ten years ago. As other reviewers have pointed out, it perhaps fulfills a useful purpose in putting women back in the 'front-line' of the eighteenth-century political scene but, speaking for myself, I found the exhaustive discussion of the ups-and-downs of the Whigs and Tories tedious in the extreme and an almost total turn-off. This was doubly disappointing, since the rave reviews had led me to expect so much more.
Strangely enough, the most engaging part of the book was the introduction, in which the author writes with real verve and enthusiasm of how she was first 'introduced' to the duchess ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction (Making History)by: Martin Gilbert March 20, 2006 |
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On November 7 1938, a 17 year old German Jew, Herschel Grynszpan, enraged by the suffering of his parents, who had been expelled from Germany together with 12 000 other Jews, walked into the German embassy in Paris and shot junior German diplomat Ernst vom Rath, who died three days later.
Vom Rath's assassination sparked what the Nazis had been planning for months, a nationwide pogrom and orgy of destruction against the Jews, across the Third Reich (Germany, Austria and Sudetenland). On on November 8 it had been announced that Jewish children could no longer attend "Aryan" state elementary schools, something that had hitherto been allowed where there were not sufficient Jewish elementary schools. At the same time all Jewish cultural activities were suspended "indefinitely."suspended ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Gamble (Making History)by: Andrew Roberts February 07, 2005 |
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This book is excellent for its concise approach to a comples subject.
I like his new explanation for the start of the French Cavalry charges commencing but also for his sympathetic understanding of Marshall Ney's predicament at Quatre Bras when he pinpoints battle fatigue as a lokely explanation of Ney's behaviour. It fits in well with Ney's prodigious feats on the retreat from Moscow and his subsequent campaigns in 1813. However like all historians he does not understand Marshall Grouchy's predicament when he was specifically ordered by Napoleon to got to Wavre. You have only to look at the treatment meted out by Napoleon to those Marshalls who displeased him such as Junot to appreciate what he might have done to those who disobeyed his orders. Direct disobedience of orders is ... Read More: >>More Details |
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George IV: The Rebel Who Would Be Kingby: Christopher Hibbert June 12, 2007 |
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This book is excellent for its concise approach to a comples subject.
I like his new explanation for the start of the French Cavalry charges commencing but also for his sympathetic understanding of Marshall Ney's predicament at Quatre Bras when he pinpoints battle fatigue as a lokely explanation of Ney's behaviour. It fits in well with Ney's prodigious feats on the retreat from Moscow and his subsequent campaigns in 1813. However like all historians he does not understand Marshall Grouchy's predicament when he was specifically ordered by Napoleon to got to Wavre. You have only to look at the treatment meted out by Napoleon to those Marshalls who displeased him such as Junot to appreciate what he might have done to those who disobeyed his orders. Direct disobedience of orders is ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Georgiana's Worldby: Amanda Foreman October 01, 2001 |
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This book is excellent for its concise approach to a comples subject.
I like his new explanation for the start of the French Cavalry charges commencing but also for his sympathetic understanding of Marshall Ney's predicament at Quatre Bras when he pinpoints battle fatigue as a lokely explanation of Ney's behaviour. It fits in well with Ney's prodigious feats on the retreat from Moscow and his subsequent campaigns in 1813. However like all historians he does not understand Marshall Grouchy's predicament when he was specifically ordered by Napoleon to got to Wavre. You have only to look at the treatment meted out by Napoleon to those Marshalls who displeased him such as Junot to appreciate what he might have done to those who disobeyed his orders. Direct disobedience of orders is ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshireby: Amanda Foreman 2000-01 |
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Although 'Georgiana' is competently written and well-researched, I am frankly amazed that it has achieved such massive success and popularity since its first publication ten years ago. As other reviewers have pointed out, it perhaps fulfills a useful purpose in putting women back in the 'front-line' of the eighteenth-century political scene but, speaking for myself, I found the exhaustive discussion of the ups-and-downs of the Whigs and Tories tedious in the extreme and an almost total turn-off. This was doubly disappointing, since the rave reviews had led me to expect so much more.
Strangely enough, the most engaging part of the book was the introduction, in which the author writes with real verve and enthusiasm of how she was first 'introduced' to the duchess and how her sympathy and interest grew ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshireby: Amanda Foreman October 18, 1999 |
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Although 'Georgiana' is competently written and well-researched, I am frankly amazed that it has achieved such massive success and popularity since its first publication ten years ago. As other reviewers have pointed out, it perhaps fulfills a useful purpose in putting women back in the 'front-line' of the eighteenth-century political scene but, speaking for myself, I found the exhaustive discussion of the ups-and-downs of the Whigs and Tories tedious in the extreme and an almost total turn-off. This was doubly disappointing, since the rave reviews had led me to expect so much more.
Strangely enough, the most engaging part of the book was the introduction, in which the author writes with real verve and enthusiasm of how she was first 'introduced' to the duchess and how her sympathy and interest grew to such an ... Read More: >>More Details |
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