Written on Feb, 13, 2018
by Thom
https://www.amazon.com/Grant-Ron-Chernow/dp/159420487X If there’s an afterlife, I see Ron Chernow meeting Ulysses Grant and saying to him, “Hello there, General. I made you come alive for a whole new generation of Americans,” and Grant will smile and reply, “I know. Thank you!” In Chernow’s…
Written on Nov, 13, 2017
by Thom
Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History King of Kings III http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-58-kings-kings-iii/ Carlin takes readers on a tour of some of the most popular subjects in history in this series including Alexander the Great, Thermopylae, Marathon, and Salamis. The difference, is that this tale is told…
Written on Nov, 13, 2017
by Thom
Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History King of Kings II http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-57-kings-kings-ii/ There really wasn’t a moment in this entire marathon of text where I wasn’t deeply intrigued by what Carlin was talking about, and I think that in many ways that’s because I was so…
Written on Nov, 13, 2017
by Thom
Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History King of Kings I http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-56-kings-kings/ Often relegated to the role of slavish cannon fodder for Sparta’s spears, the Achaemenid Persian empire had a glorious heritage. Under a single king they created the greatest empire the world had ever seen.…
