Advantages: funny and light reading Disadvantages: requires a knowledge of history to some degree
Many books, history books especially, seem to have the hidden agenda of promoting the career of the author as much as its educational value. This is one of the few books that can by placed in the historical camp that is designed to console the reader, alt ...
Most everyone on the internet (which makes most of you, as you're reading this review via the internet portal of Ciao) has encountered, either in a website or a mass emailing, various humourous and hilarious historical satires, usually presented (alas, ur ...
Advantages: Funny, funny, funny - surreal humour at its best Disadvantages: Too busy laughing to find any...
1066 And All That is truly a unique book. I first read it as a child - my dad remembered liking it when he was a kid and got it for me (everybody say aaaaaaaaah…). Like many things it got lost duringthe passage of time, but I recently rediscovered it - wh ...
