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John Dodds's Book Blog
Bookfan. Likes include classic fiction, crime and thrillers.
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Steve Jobs
The Cuckoo's Calling
The Far Corner: A Mazy Dribble Through North-East Football
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The Bicycle Book
World War I: The "Great War"
A History of Ireland in 100 Objects
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea (Swallows And Amazons)
Her Majesty's Pleasure: How Horse Racing Reveals the Queen
America, Empire of Liberty: Power and Progress v. 2 (BBC Audio)
This second volume of the BBC Radio series on US history, with its 30 x 13 minute episodes covering 1860 to 1945 slightly disappoints compared to the excellent first volume.Some parts, especially the later episodes covering the early twentieth century match volume 1 for excellence - being gripping and drawing you onwards, but the Civil War episodes take a confusing thematic approach (the war is "over" before Gettysburg makes an appearance) and they are followed by several episodes mired in dry stories of inter-party machinations and skullduggery.
Worth sticking with, because the twentieth century episodes do perk up, and I'm heading into Volume 3 (the Cold War and beyond) with enthusiasm.