Some new information, but mostly old information. Each chapter deals (rather briefly) with a different catastrophe or calamity in history, which the author as arbitrarily decided is the "worst year in history". One chapter gives a brief overview of the Justinian Plague, another one mentions the ef...
While not bad, this bio of Charles II definitely doesn't live up to the promise of the title.
DNF page 144The book focused too much on just Charles's life and not in the women and I started to nod off. I don't know why but something in Charles always has that effect.
In which I am talking to myself:"So Aoife, tell me again: Did you ever read a crime short-story collection (apart from Sherlock Holmes) you actually liked?""Well, there was this one by Pater Tremayne.""And apart from that?""None.""So why exactly did you think you'd like that one?""Because of the con...
Interesting read.
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