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Loading... I Wish I'd Been There: Twenty Historians Revisit Key Moments in Historyby Theodore K. Rabb (Editor), Byron Hollinshead (Editor)
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"What is the moment in history that you would like to have witnessed; and why?" This is the thought-provoking question that Theodore Rabb and Byron Hollinshead posed to 20 of our finest historians. Their answers can be found in this fascinating and thoroughly readable book, which trains a lens on crucial moments of our past and brings them to vivid life.Contributors include Tom Holland, John Elliott, John Julius Norwich, Margaret MacMillan and John Keegan and with these - and other - peerless scholars as their guides, readers will be transported to the death of Alexander the Great, Christmas 800CE when Charlemagne was crowned Holy Roman Emperor, Hannibal's legendary crossing of the Alps, Runnymede where King John was forced to sign Magna Carta, the Spanish Armada, the Battle of the Nile, Paris 1919, the German surrender in 1945 and the end of the First Gulf War. Imaginatively executed and vividly written, the result is a pageant of character and event that will attract and delight readers of history. No library descriptions found. |
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The book covers world history, from Alexander the Great to WW2. Some historians are art, music or science historians and their pieces are a lot more specific to their field. Too specific for my taste, but then again, I am not really interested in art or music history, and with science history I am not beta enough to understand all the theories.
As I expected I liked the pieces about "my" periods (pre-1500) the best, but all pieces were a good read. ( )