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So I've finished a couple more books, "The Prince" and George Orwells "fighting in spain".
I quite liked both of them. The prince was was very intresting, Machiaveli seemingly had a very good understanding of how people react to those in power. Obviously this is why he is so famous.
"Fighting in spain" was a fun book surprisingly light and quite amusing to read, this was writen right after he had gotten back to england and he through the book you see him strugling with his worldview as a result of his time in spain. You can also see how much his experience in spain influenced his later books, especialy animal farm and to a lesser extent 1984.
Heres whats left to go.
Child 44 by Tom Smith
Empire to Umpire by Norman Hillmer
The war of the world by Nial ferguson
Who killed the canadian military? by J.l.Granatstein
The Krimean war by Alexis Troubetzkoy
The inquisition by Micheal baigen and Richard leigh
1421:the year china discoverd the world by gavin menzies
1424:the year a magnificent chinese fleet sailed to italy and set of the rainaissance by gavin menzies
what stalin knew: the enigma of barbarosa by david Murphy
Hitler and churchill by Andrew Roberts
The death of yugoslavia by laura sibler and allan little
The last kingdom, by Bernard Cornwell
Fathers and Sons, by Ivan turgenev
1917 russia's year pf revolution by roy bainton
The Balkans:Nationalism,war, and the great powers, 1804-1999 by misha glenny
The scourge of god by S.M Stirling
I AM AMERICA (and so can you) by Stephen Colbert
Brisinger by christopher paolini
The white tiger by aravind adiga
The greatest battle by andrew nagorski
Lennin: a biography, by Robert Service.
The russian revolution: a very short introduction(they arent kiding under 200 pages!) by S.A.Smith
A storm of swords by R. Marten
and the books I've read since the new year
Fighting in spain by George Orwell (completed)
God is not great, by christopher hitchens (completed)
Dracula(graphic novel) (completed)
The prince by niccolo machieveli (completed)
I quite liked both of them. The prince was was very intresting, Machiaveli seemingly had a very good understanding of how people react to those in power. Obviously this is why he is so famous.
"Fighting in spain" was a fun book surprisingly light and quite amusing to read, this was writen right after he had gotten back to england and he through the book you see him strugling with his worldview as a result of his time in spain. You can also see how much his experience in spain influenced his later books, especialy animal farm and to a lesser extent 1984.
Heres whats left to go.
Child 44 by Tom Smith
Empire to Umpire by Norman Hillmer
The war of the world by Nial ferguson
Who killed the canadian military? by J.l.Granatstein
The Krimean war by Alexis Troubetzkoy
The inquisition by Micheal baigen and Richard leigh
1421:the year china discoverd the world by gavin menzies
1424:the year a magnificent chinese fleet sailed to italy and set of the rainaissance by gavin menzies
what stalin knew: the enigma of barbarosa by david Murphy
Hitler and churchill by Andrew Roberts
The death of yugoslavia by laura sibler and allan little
The last kingdom, by Bernard Cornwell
Fathers and Sons, by Ivan turgenev
1917 russia's year pf revolution by roy bainton
The Balkans:Nationalism,war, and the great powers, 1804-1999 by misha glenny
The scourge of god by S.M Stirling
I AM AMERICA (and so can you) by Stephen Colbert
Brisinger by christopher paolini
The white tiger by aravind adiga
The greatest battle by andrew nagorski
Lennin: a biography, by Robert Service.
The russian revolution: a very short introduction(they arent kiding under 200 pages!) by S.A.Smith
A storm of swords by R. Marten
and the books I've read since the new year
Fighting in spain by George Orwell (completed)
God is not great, by christopher hitchens (completed)
Dracula(graphic novel) (completed)
The prince by niccolo machieveli (completed)