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Marlborough: England's Fragile Genius by: Richard Holmes List Price: £25.00 City Travel Guides Price: £12.50 You Save: £12.50 (50%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9780007225712 ISBN: 0007225717 Label: HarperPress Manufacturer: HarperPress Number Of Pages: 512 Publication Date: May 06, 2008 Publisher: HarperPress Studio: HarperPress Sales Rank: 1055 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - A fine overview of the great manA fine overview of the life of Marlborough with some interesting details and fascinating insights. This may not be the definitive book on Marlborough (I think that honour still lays with Churchill's 3 volume history of his illustrious ancestor) but it would serve as a useful companion to the Churchill series giving some much needed balance to Churchill's occasionally one sided view. The book has a minor but niggling weakness in that the title, 'England's Fragile Genius' seems to have little connection with the contents. It mentions his headaches and various illnesses but he doesn't seem to be portrayed as particularly fragile. The major strength of this book is Holmes descriptive capabilities. I've previously read descriptions of ... Read More: Rating:  - Well worth a lookYet another great biography of a great man that I have read in the past few weeks. There must be something in the water that encourages authors to turn these out! This a very readable and informative biography of someone who is possibly not as well known or appreciated as perhaps he should be as he was directly and indirectly responsible for much of the Europe we see today, so his legacy truly lives on. The fact that he is probably best known as an ancestor of Winston Churchill and Princess Diana does him a great disservice as his life story is so remarkable that in the hands of such an experienced and skillful biographer as Mr Holmes it fairly leaps from the page, and makes this book, (cliche alert!) a real page turner...sorry but it's ... Read More: |
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