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2.0
(Audiobook, narrated by Roy Mcmillan.)
I'm probably being unfair to this book, since it promises to talk about world history through the lens of war, and it does exactly that; but oh, how boring it was! It felt like an almost endless sequence of names of emperors, dates and number of casualties, listed monotonously, without so much as a spark of interest, deeper explanation or humor.
The fact that I've listened to it as an audiobook helped me finish it, and closer to the end there were some interesting reflections on the role of diplomacy and History's judgment of who is guilty and how much. However, the analysis of colonial struggles was weirdly almost absent, and I could not help but think that this is not a great History book to read. Maybe a solid book, but not a pleasant reading.
I'm probably being unfair to this book, since it promises to talk about world history through the lens of war, and it does exactly that; but oh, how boring it was! It felt like an almost endless sequence of names of emperors, dates and number of casualties, listed monotonously, without so much as a spark of interest, deeper explanation or humor.
The fact that I've listened to it as an audiobook helped me finish it, and closer to the end there were some interesting reflections on the role of diplomacy and History's judgment of who is guilty and how much. However, the analysis of colonial struggles was weirdly almost absent, and I could not help but think that this is not a great History book to read. Maybe a solid book, but not a pleasant reading.
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