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It is incredibly interesting and well written. He has a way of making even dense history incredibly approachable and easy to understand. He delivers that narrative with a degree of clever wit and makes the necessary detail interesting. It is beautiful... Read More
The author describes the suppression of french huguenot protestants. The emotional account of cooper and his associates honoring simple french citizens for their acts of bravery and courage battling the *'s during world war ii is so powerful and movin... Read More
John julius norwich is a fine writer and historian from great britain. Norwich focuses on topics that seem to make up popular french stories of royals - their affairs, intermarriages, and political maneuvering. Portraits of larger-than-life figures su... Read More
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I could sense his love of the subject and the mindbogglingly vast amount of history included in the narrative
It was really great to read as it introduced me to historical characters and events that i knew nothing about while also tellin... Read More
Norwich ends with the horrors of the wars with germany starting in 1914 and 1939
In regard to france evolving in a modern nation state along with the rest of europe one might consider diplomacy by henry kissinger
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- This product had a total of 334 reviews as of our last analysis date on Feb 19 2023.
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At one point he names the son of henry vi as richard when he was edward a small point since there were a lot of men with both names running around at the time and the boy never really did much before dying
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The other was norwichs laying the blame for syphilis at the feet of christopher columbus who supposedly brought it back from the americas and the native americans
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This reasoning has been around for a while but given that from what ive read american archaeologists have not found any native american skeletons with the distinctive evidence of the disease it is unlikely
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It seems more likely to me that syphilis arrived either with the seljuk turks who were swarming over the byzantine empire at the time or possibly from traders from other parts of asia or possibly even africa
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It is more a coincidence rather than causation that the disease began to cause serious problems in europe at the same time as columbuss explorations occurred
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My only beef with it is that i came across two or three instances where the facts outlined in the book were inaccurate
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I dont think this was due to a lack of scholarship but rather due to poor editing
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I found that confusing and sadly it made me distrust the book to a certain degree
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