fraudio>rosado>mp3non fic> hist> russiansummer 2013> tbr busting 2013Slightly prefer this more erudite approach of Massie over Rounding's tome on the same subject. I overdosed marathoned on this for nigh on a day. Excellent, yet the history it describes is so cruel.4* Nicholas and Alexandra 5* Cath...
A couple of years ago, I discovered my love for learning more about powerful women in history. Soon after listening to the audio of Cleopatra, I picked up the audio of Marie Antoinette. I loved both of them, though I found Marie Antoinette a bit easier to take in. The crazy thing about all this is t...
I was surprised how interesting I found this book to be. I had no particular interest in Catherine the Great and the only reason I read it was to reinforce my knowledge of history in preparation for a trip to Europe to trace the route of my wife’s ancestors' migrations. Their movements included a nu...
I generaly do not read biographies. While I love history and learning, I ofter find biographies to be a retelling of facts and boring. But Catherine the Great has also interested me and after seeing this biography on numerous must read lists I decided to give it a shot.I am so glad I gave this book ...
As we approach the 100th anniversary of the start of WWI (2014), this Pulitzer Prize winning history deserves a re-read. Tuchman's writing grips the reader as a world marches, seemingly inexorably, to madness and war.World War I may seem like ancient history to some, but its echoes still resonate in...
One of Robert Massie’s books concludes with the line “When the last stroke fell, Great Britain was at war with Germany.” Another one of his books ends with the sentence “The Great War was over.” What lies between these two lines is an unparalleled work (more than 800 pages long) of history about the...
I did not finish this book. I started it in August and it took me forever to read. I only got to page 400 before the library called to tell me this book was overdue- and I had renewed it the maximum amount of times. So I made pretty good progress, but I had other books to read and then school starte...
Wow. Who'd have thought the first world war would be so fascinating! Barbara Tuchman is such a fabulous writer, she could make paint drying fascinating, so WWI must have been a breeze.
B. Tuchman's 1963 Pulitzer The Guns of August may not have invented the 'rewrite book,'* but it's as if she did. still being read today, Tuchman was not a professional historian but a skilled lyricist who composed an eminently readable examination of August 1914, and the gun battle that erupted in n...
This is a magnificent work, a phenomenal accomplishment, describing the reign of Catherine the Great, covering her own history and the future of her reign, including all major and minor players who participated in her march to greatness. The amount of research, as evidenced by the bibliography and f...
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