6 Oct 2024, 13:00 UTC≈3,040 views33 reactionsread 8 August 2026 Photo
I don't usually care about anything non-European in the slightest really but I do find the Ottomans and the Persians interesting to a degree. This is a great overview of the entirety of Persian history from the very beginning up until today.
Never got too bogged down and was just the right size for someone who's interested but not obsessed with the topic.
Great overview from a great author. Loved his book on Charle…
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6 Oct 2024, 12:30 UTC≈2,570 views52 reactionsread 8 August 2026 Photo
A gem of a book. Very concise (perhaps too concise?) but to a new reader this book lays out the events brilliantly from the early days of the party all the way up until the seizure of power. Since this book was written at the time, too, there is a lot of details that later historians have felt convenient to leave out. Being written at the time by the literal SS Main Office obviously also causes it to be bias, but it'…
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6 Oct 2024, 12:00 UTC≈1,740 views15 reactionsread 8 August 2026 Photo
There is only so much you can do with so little sources. Edward's Father, Alfred, was obsessive when it came to literacy and learning and the difference in sources really reflects that. Key did his best to form a narrative here but ultimately it's a near impossible task.
Interesting nonetheless and truly one of the greats. The Alfred/Edward/Aethelstan trio might be the greatest run we've had.
6/10
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6 Oct 2024, 11:30 UTC≈2,400 views40 reactionsread 8 August 2026 Photo
Saint Francis was assigned to the town of Chablais by the Duke of Savoy, a location in which Calvinism had become the new faith 60 years ago and in which anti-Catholic feeling was immense. With a 'gentle' approach however in the form of first preaching and then by slipping Catholic Apologia leaflets into letterboxes and other similar methods he turned the tide.
When Francis arrived there was merely 27 Catholics out …
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6 Oct 2024, 11:00 UTC≈1,330 views21 reactionsread 8 August 2026 Photo
An excellent and highly readable narrative of one of England's greatest Kings. Easy to follow and doesn't get lost in bizarre details. Can't really fault it.
10/10
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6 Oct 2024, 10:01 UTC≈1,200 views18 reactionsread 8 August 2026 Photo
Sometimes hard to follow Bain's narrative here but that's probably because the situation itself at the time was so unbelievably confusing. An excellent short read of one of the most interesting men of the time. Very little in English on the topic or Scandinavia in general!
What a man Charles XII was!
8/10
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6 Oct 2024, 09:57 UTC≈1,170 views30 reactionsread 8 August 2026 Photo
Absolute masterpiece. Marc Morris is probably my favourite British medevial author and once again it's an essentially perfect book. Just the right amount of detail is focused on everything so that the narrative doesn't veer off in bizarre directions and you're able to actually grasp everything that you're reading.
Honestly can't fault it. The ultimate history of my people.
10/10
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6 Oct 2024, 09:55 UTC≈1,080 views18 reactionsread 8 August 2026 Photo
Very interesting but also very much a product of its time by which I mean that much of the book is not relevant at all to todays political climate. This mostly applies to the first essay of the two. In general though Maurras was an extremely interesting man. This is all there is of him in English as far as I know and so there isn't much for me to compare this to but it was a very interesting short read.
Anyone inte…
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20 Sept 2024, 19:45 UTC≈1,400 views21 reactionsread 8 August 2026 Photo
Excellent military history. At times there can almost be too much detail and it became a little boring, but is that really a knock? It's almost certainly the go-to however when it comes to understanding what on earth was going on with Italy's disasterous second world war (or less disasterous Ethiopian war or Spanish Civil War)
8/10
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20 Sept 2024, 19:11 UTC≈1,250 views13 reactionsread 8 August 2026 Photo
These 'Dark Age' Britain books can really be hit or miss sometimes. I suppose it takes a certain type of person to enjoy such books where the hyperfocus seems to be on autistic details about archeology rather than stringing together a narrative. What some form of narrative does appear the book is great and I couldn't put it down. So much of it is just hyperfixating on archeology though.
It's alright.
6/10
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20 Sept 2024, 19:09 UTC≈1,170 views9 reactionsread 8 August 2026 Photo
Like the other book I read from him 'Mussolini's Italy' the narrative is just so disgustingly disjointed. Genuinely hard to read at times. There is interesting information in here but due to the way its written there is just so much context missing.
Extreme self-admitted anti-Mussolini bias, too. Leaves a lot to be desired.
5/10
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20 Sept 2024, 19:07 UTC≈1,070 views20 reactionsread 8 August 2026 Photo
Lacking on details of his early days but really really picks up after his rescue on Gran Sasso. Other books on Mussolini's life tend to be extremely light on content when it comes to Salo and even his death but here Hibbert goes absolutely above and beyond in such incredible detail. Worked wonders for the end of my video and so much information here that is just left out of other biographies.
Extremely fairly writte…
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