Eat your veg
Book Review: The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England by Dan Jones …so the story about how I picked up this meaty history book is one you have all heard before (I’m naively assuming you all read my first post about the book “We Were Soldiers Once…and Young”). I scooped it up amongst the dross of a Lake District charity shop for the lowly sum of £1. Despite its price, this book played a pivotal role in an impressive trio, a grouping which I can’t help but think came from the same conservative elderly gentlemen. A book on England’s greatest royal dynasty, another on the Vietnam War, and then Bravo Two Zero (the quintessential British bloke book of an SAS patrol trapped behind enemy lines in Iraq). This collection screams of someone who is going to chew your ear off about the geopolitical factors leading to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, or give you a deep historical background of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Interesting in a purely informational and academic sense,...
