by idris | Feb 21, 2024 | Ancient History, Christianity, France, History, Islam, Medieval History, Religion, Rome
Book Powers and Thrones By Dan Jones Read in February 2024 Powers and thrones is a thousand-year adventure that moves from the ruins of Rome, sacked by barbarians in AD410, to the first contacts between the old and the new worlds in the late fifteenth century....
by idris | Feb 5, 2024 | History, Naval History
Book The Wager By David Grann Read in February 2024 On 28th January 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were...
by idris | Jan 31, 2024 | History, Military, Non-fiction, Peninsula War
Book Rifles By Mark Urban Read in January 2024 An an exhilarating work of narrative history, Mark Urban traces the story of the 95th rifles, the toughest and deadliest sharpshooters in wellington’s Army. My Review The book traces the story of a unit of the British...
by idris | Jan 2, 2024 | Fiction
Book Eat the Dust By John Fante Read in January 2024 One of the great novels of L.A., a semi-autobiographical story of a struggling writer One day Arturo Bandini is going to make big as a writer. A great writer. But until then, Los Angeles is as good a place as any...