The World of a Tiny Insect is a wonderful memoir of a childhood spent in the violence of the Taiping Rebellion. The author was 7…
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Day: November 6, 2019
An excellent book – Russia Against Napoleon: The True Story of the Campaigns of War and Peace
An excellent book based on Russian sources let down by very poor maps as well as no maps accompanying the narration of battles. I hope…
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Masterly translation – The Iliad
This is a wonderful prose translation. The introduction is extremely useful. It has excellent summaries of each book of the Iliad.
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Excellent essays – Sahibs Who Loved India
Sahibs Who Loved India is a set of essays commissioned by Khushwant Singh when he was the editor of Illustrated Weekly of India. KS had…
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A useful book – The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer’s Iliad and the Trojan War
Iliad ended with King Priam retrieving the body of his beloved son Hector from Achilles and the subsequent burial ceremony inside Troy. The subsequent well…
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