The trawl from last month has resulted in 16 new history books: 16 being a pleasing square number, pleasing because it means the covers stack up nicely for the socials. Even more important than the covers though are the books. In general there is a theme of culture running through them. The three that I will pick out are:
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Napoleon and his Marshals: Victory, Rivalry, Betrayal, by Andrew Roberts. Never known to write a book under 700 pages long, this latest epic from the pro biographer Roberts may be an interesting new angle on a familiar story. (I started this a couple of days ago so will be writing up the review in a few weeks.)
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Birth of a Global City: London in a Revolutionary World, 1789-1815, by Jerry White. This combines my home city with my specialist period so I hope to be able to find the time to read this one.
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Unearthed: Rediscovered poetry from ancient times to the middle ages, by Nicholas Bateman. This looks really interesting, the idea being I think is that all the poems in the book were not found in old books but preserved by chance on fragments of pottery. Hopefully they are good ones.
Click the book covers to see a zoomed in image and links to Amazon if you like to buy your books there.
The full list:
- 📕 Lord's and Maharajas: Cricket, Empire and India's First Test Tour
- 📘 Napoleon and his Marshals: Victory, Rivalry, Betrayal
- 📔 Mapping Britain: The Story of an Island through the Ordnance Survey Archives
- 📗 Castles: A Fortified History of the World
- 📙 The Garden: Our 4,000 Year Quest for Paradise
- 📓 Great Powers: A History of Britain and Germany
- 📒 Wine: A Global History
- 📙 Birth of a Global City: London in a Revolutionary World, 1789-1815
- 📘 Chaucer's England
- 📔 God’s Hammer: A superb history of Vikings, Crusaders and the Making of Medieval Europe
- 📗 Charlemagne's Dream: The Rise and Fall of the Carolingian Empire
- 📕 Unearthed: Rediscovered poetry from ancient times to the middle ages
- 📘 Imperial Predator: Britain and the Destruction of the Ottoman Empire
- 📔 Dreams of Empire: A History of the Ottomans
- 📗 The Romans: A People’s History
- 📙 Portrait of an Obsession: How England's Greatest Private Library was Built from the Ruins of Europe's Monasteries
