Very detailed, very interesting, the first fifty years of this rather amazing family. You could never say they wouldn’t take a punt. Proved that family is everything, risk was spread coupled with a strong work ethic and a fortune made. Disproves many of the anti Semitic myths that have been around for a couple of centuries
A list of books I've read recently with some occasional gibberish thrown in.
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
ENLIGHTENMENT - Roy Porter
Get through the first chapter and you find the British enlightenment is a fascinating subject and 18th century Britain was an exciting place to be.
HEART OF EUROPE A Short History of Poland - Norman Davies
A very detailed history political history of Poland. It goes backward in history from 1983. I found it heavy going which is unusual for Davies but its chock full of interesting information
Monday, August 5, 2024
LONDON A SHORT HISTORY - A N Wilson
THE ROMANOVS - Simon Sebag Montefiore
Another book huge in scope but the author keeps it all manageable and readable.
Fantastic, buy this book
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A HISTORY OF WARFARE - John Keegan
A detailed history that starts asking and finishes supporting "On War" by General Carl Von Clausewitz, that war is just an exte...
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A continental government with a civil war on its hands sends D., a former lecturer in romance languages, to Englan...
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Unacknowledged Legislation is a celebration of Percy Shelleys's assertion that 'poets are the unacknowledg...
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This is a collection of late Sherlock Holmes stories with the last one, this collections title, published in 1917....