Dave Vicks
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Randy M, Richard Matheson is a very, very good writer.
I've not read this one, but the two Harkaways I have read would certainly be easy to get confused!I've finished this now, has anyone else?
I'm a bit confused over a part of the story and I need a different viewpoint in case I misinterpreted it
I don't want to elaborate here in case I spoil the book for future readers
Yes the one on the right! But I don't remember it being a second book!
I've downloaded both of these today and I'm a few stories in with the first book now. I think I've read one of them by Arthur C Clarke somewhere else!Yes the one on the right! But I don't remember it being a second book!
Christendom Destroyed: Europe 1517-1648 by Mark Greengrass
Christendom Destroyed covers the religious and political turmoil in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. This is a very broad overview of the time-period. Approximately half the book provides a broad survey of thematic topics such as peoples' socio-economic place in the world, the Church, religious observance (and dissent), fiscal matters, trade, taxes, living arrangements, the discovery of the Americas and global trade, the development of science and medicine, as well as the development of the printing press, correspondence, postal service and literacy. The remainder of the book has a more familiar (and messy) political-military structure that tends to jump around between the various regions in Europe. This section is particularly dense and concise (no long winded battle plans here!). The development and spread of the Protestant Reformation, Counter-Reformation, and the consequences thereof, gets much page space, and is clearly described. Maps and genealogical tables are provided where relevant. An interesting history book that provides a broad, dense overview of what was going on in Europe between 1517 and 1648 in a concise manner.
I've read the ones before, but not the following ones. I was waiting for the Renaissance volume, but that doesn't seem to be happening? I'm glad the next one is extremely good. I might bump it up the list.I've read the next one in the Penguin History of Europe (1648-1815) and it's extremely good. The following one (1815-1914) didn't impress me quite so much.
Sounds familiar...Re-read of the Deathstalker series starting today
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