We Americans tend to forget WWI. There still isn't a memorial for it in DC yet, for instance. While the Lusitania may have gotten a bump from Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, Preston's book places the sinking into the narrative of WW I. In many ways, her book is better than Larson's, t...
Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China's War on Foreigners that Shook the World in the Summer of 1900 by Diana Preston (?)
I have really enjoyed reading this book. I don't read many non-fiction and especially not biographies / auto-biographies. I found it very interesting how one can have such intelligent minds yet be involved in piracy. Is it the means to the end or does he really enjoy it? That's the question runn...
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