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Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45by: Max Hastings April 15, 2005 Best Selling > Books > History |
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Max Hastings is not a character I instinctively take to. His bluff manner, pinstripe suits, right wing views and - most of all - strange hair leave me thinking 'okaayyy' every time he pops up as a talking head on the TV.
As a rule, I don't like 'celebrity' history books. It's easier to get published if you're a 'name' journalist, but that doesn't mean you're any good. Hastings bucks the trend. This book joins 'The Korean War,' Bomber Command' and 'Overlord' as top quality, popular military histories. He synthesises many sources to produce a highly readable narrative and does not shirk from ethical judgements. Why did the german army go on fighting in the West after the Bulge? The moral failure of the German ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Queens Consort: England's Medieval Queensby: Lisa Hilton October 09, 2008 Best Selling > Books > History |
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Max Hastings is not a character I instinctively take to. His bluff manner, pinstripe suits, right wing views and - most of all - strange hair leave me thinking 'okaayyy' every time he pops up as a talking head on the TV.
As a rule, I don't like 'celebrity' history books. It's easier to get published if you're a 'name' journalist, but that doesn't mean you're any good. Hastings bucks the trend. This book joins 'The Korean War,' Bomber Command' and 'Overlord' as top quality, popular military histories. He synthesises many sources to produce a highly readable narrative and does not shirk from ethical judgements. Why did the german army go on fighting in the West after the Bulge? The moral failure of the German ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Tunnels, Towers and Temples: London's 100 Strangest Placesby: David Long April 19, 2007 Best Selling > Books > History |
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Sequels aren't meant to be as good as the original, are they, but having enjoyed David Long's SPECTACULAR VERNACULAR last year I had to have this one, and I'm not disappointed. Far from it. In fact for anyone bored with all those London books which just go over the same old ground again (Tower of London, yawn) these two books have been a revelation to me. Packed full of places and buildings most of us don't even notice, and with every one photographed and explored by an author with a real talent for the subject, they're original, funny, and above all fascinating in terms of the detail, the history and the personalities they describe and which together make London what it is today.
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A History of Modern Britainby: Andrew Marr May 17, 2007 Best Selling > Books > History |
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This is an interesting and readable history of our country since the Second World War marred (pun intended) by a liberal/left-wing bias. Andrew Marr deals with a number of topics and this book is neither political nor social history but contains bits of each and more.
Much of the book is a re-hash of information that I had already gathered from elsewhere but some topics were new to me. For example, Andrew Marr spent some time discussing the rise of pop music and how this and the fashion industry seems to have originated mainly from people who went to art school rather than e.g. university or technical college. The main strengths of the book are a clear writing style and the willingness to tackle slighly off beat subjects ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Fermat's Last Theoremby: Simon Singh June 05, 2002 Best Selling > Books > History |
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The book looks like the author is just postponing the end of the story just repeating and repeating the same ideas. The part of the proof and the attempts to correct the proof are quite disappointing because they are too much redundant. Moreover Singh is sliding some e-mails which don't add anything to the story and are quite "impenetrable". I do not like this way of writing. The author pretends not to use math symbology and math concepts beyond very basic ones, and then he lets go concepts like Hecke algebra, Euler system, "quasi-automorphic representations", i.e. without giving any clue about what they mean.
I think it leaves too much maths unexplained (and in a book about a math conundrum you understand it is a big problem!); I would have ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe (Allen Lane History)by: Mark Mazower June 05, 2008 Best Selling > Books > History |
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This is an excellent book, with a qualifying 'but'. If you want to understand the dynamic of 'Hitlers Empire', how it developed and collapsed, and the details of its particular favour of genocidal gangsterism, then this will satisfy all the curiosity you have, and then some. My only complain about the main content is that it is a bit short on personalities (though this may be an unavoidable problem - the focus of the book is, after all, on process and governance). You get little real feel for the _people_ who did all this. Mazower does not mention anyone having nightmares, or developing a drink problem (lots of people are mentioned as having drinking problems, but only for the usual, soap-opera sort of reasons, not because of a day job in the mass murder ... Read More:
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Eating For Victory: Healthy Home Front Cooking on War Rations (Official Wwii Info Reproductns)by: Foreword by Jill Norman September 06, 2007 Best Selling > Books > History |
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I bought the pair for my mum a year ago and they have ended up going round the whole family, young and old. Yes they have a nostalgic feel to them and it's food that nana used to make but thats what makes them so good, we are now having to live as if things are rationed, the meals that were made back then weren't full of e numbers and other nasty things (lets face it, we've all become alergic to them all anyway), they were wholesome and filling with no waste, after all I'm sure it's not only me that loves bubble and squeek on a monday with the sunday roast left overs. It has made me realize how lucky I am to have everything I want but I can survive on next to nothing.
Also the Make do and Mend is also full of cleaning tips and a definate must for anyone living ... Read More: >>More Details |
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McMafia: Crime without Frontiers: Crime Without Frontiersby: Misha Glenny April 03, 2008 Best Selling > Books > History |
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An eye-opening look at how the globalisation of organised crime effects day-to-day life-whether we like it or not.
The timing of the liberalistion of the international financial markets and the coincidental collapse of communism in central and eastern Europe and the USSR means that the face of crime has changed for ever. And as the author points out, so long as the profits are so big and demands for illegal products so high, no amount of policing can ever stamp it out. In fact, the more resources poured in to the "War on Crime", the bigger organised crime becomes...... >>More Details |
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Young Stalinby: Simon Sebag Montefiore May 01, 2008 Best Selling > Books > History |
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I enjoyed reading this book, and actually finished it, which I often do not manage with books of this length. I thought it started off really well, and the last 100 pages or so were really good, but I struggled around the middle. I have been fascinated by Russian history for a long time, so had a reasonable, if somewhat rusty, knowledge of the background. If you were completely unfamiliar with the period, I suspect there would not be enough background information to really put things into context. I hesitate to order the earlier work by the same author, as it is even longer, and reviews suggest it does not read as well as this one. Although there are plenty of pictures, I would have liked even more. Particularly of some of the other prominent Bolsheviks, like Kamenev and Zinoviev ... Read More:
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Gaunty's Best of British: It's Called Great Britain, Not Rubbish Britainby: Jon Gaunt October 16, 2008 Best Selling > Books > History |
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In this book, Jon Gaunt, Sony award winning journalist and radio 'Shock Jock' lists the things that are great about Britain. He describes many, but my favourites include:
5. The sight of Britain growing smaller and smaller as you wing your way to a beano in Cyprus. 4. The laws that allow for the mistakes of bankrupts to gradually be forgotten about. 3. The Sony awards system, which rewards whole show output but whose allocation is so vague as to be easily claimed by anyone involved in winning formats. 2. What one man can do with two cups. 1. How nepotism is such a British trait that one might even endure failure after failure and the bare minimum of preparation in a job at a workplace run by your mate. A fine book ... Read More: >>More Details |
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