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Tag Archives: history
Thoughts: Citizen Clem, by John Bew
The conclusion to my Indian independence trilogy! Some light holiday reading on our month-long trip home, and I read most of this biography of Clement Attlee while breastfeeding and contact napping, though that’s how I read pretty much everything these … Continue reading
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Thoughts: Where Poppies Blow, by John Lewis-Stempel
The intersection between British (mostly) soldiers in World War I and nature seemed almost fanciful when I picked this one up. Like, there have been so many millions of words lavished on WWI from every possible angle, every conceivable breadth … Continue reading
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Thoughts: Shadow of the Great Game: The Untold Story of India’s Partition, by Narendra Singh Sarila
I love how every non-fiction book title is [Snappy Title]: [Cumbersome Thesis Statement So You Know What The Book Is Actually About]. Every single one. I can’t not notice it anymore. Anyway, I’ve by pure coincidence happened to read a … Continue reading
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Thoughts: The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Most Daring Sea Rescue, by Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman
Yeah, can non-fiction books have shorter titles, please? It’s like German film titles. Anyway, we saw a lot of films based on true stories last year, and most of them were books first, so here we are.
Thoughts: 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi, by Mitchell Zuckoff
Oh boy, so upfront, this is another one that really wasn’t for me, and it wasn’t for me right from the start. Lionisation of US foreign policy is not the way to win my heart and mind. This one resulted … Continue reading
Thoughts: SPQR, by Mary Beard
I’ve always been into the fun parts of British history, you know the ones? Celts, Romans, Vikings, Tudors. Anything that happened before, after or between those (up until about WWI) is just a blur. I was a big Horrible Histories … Continue reading
Thoughts: Why the West Rules – For Now, by Ian Morris
I’m back from a holiday which means I have a pretty huge backlog! We begin with a beast of a book I was in the middle of before we set off, and strap yourselves in, people. It’s going to be … Continue reading
Thoughts: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, by Michael Lewis
This is the beginning of a run of non-fiction books, so that means you get to learn exactly how much I don’t know about anything. This is also taking us right to the end of 2015 in my TBR. How … Continue reading