Advantages: A sincere and modest account of an ordinary man helping to win a war. Disadvantages: None
George Millar a British soldier and escapee from an Italian POW camp volunteered his service to the SOE prior to D-Day in 1944 to assist the French resistance or “Maquis” as they were known.
During the German occupation of France, the French population w ...
Advantages: Sheds light on an unfamiliar subject Disadvantages: None
I live in the area in which Millar operated in 1944. As far as I know, his is the only first-hand description in English of local Resistance activities. It should be far better known and yet local people generally are still reticent and/or uninformed. His ...
Advantages: Highly Informative for the layman Disadvantages: None
With the current discontent that we see so much of on the news these days,
I have been finding myself more and more drawn to gaining an insight to the Arab mind and their rich history. "The Arabs" by Peter Mansfield is
a highly informative book which ve ...
Advantages: Wealth of subject matter covering many centuries Disadvantages: Boring script. Boring editing. Boring.
...Ye History was never one of my favourite subjects at school, yet in my adult-life I have experienced cultures or events that seem interesting enough to prompt some further reading.
In doing so, I considered the history of this fair land we know as Great ...
Advantages: a massive and wide ranging study of prehistory Disadvantages: potential information overload
The sub title of this book is an ideal summation of the books subject and at the same time an audacious claim, "A Global Human History 20000-5000BC." That is a long period of time to condense into one volume, even one like this that runs to over 600 pages ...
