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📕 Book review! The Savage Storm: The Heroic True Story of One of the Least told Campaigns of WW2, by James Holland - a savage meatgrinder, but what about the book? Find our more in our review here: popularhistorybooks.com/post… #WW2 #SavageStorms #HistoryBooks

📕 Book review - Tracks on the Ocean, by Sara Caputo. The first line on a map showing a sea voyage is only 500 years old. To find out where this trail led................................................................................................. popularhistorybooks.com/post…

📔Flint Tools Filed Guide: Identifying Stone Age Tools by Robert Turner - Book review! Short, to the point, and practical! A great way to add a layer of interest to a walk 🪨. popularhistorybooks.com/post…

What do Cromwell, Mangos, Manuscripts and Germans have in common? They all feature in the 📚 new history books published in August 2024... Follow the link for something a bit more useful on the topic! popularhistorybooks.com/post…

📕Book review! After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations by Eric Cline. 😎 Phoenicians 😎 Cyprians 🙂 Assyrians 🙂 Babylonians 🙂 Central Canaanites (Isrealites?) 😢 Egyptians 😬 Mycenaeans and Minoans 💀 Hittites 💀 Southern Canaanites More info👉 popularhistorybooks.com/post…

📚 July 2024 new history books - published in the UK 📚 Son, sea and far off lands on the shelves this month, among other things... 🌹🇨🇳🇬🇧✝🤺🕵️‍♀️🐘🤔🌊🗺`⛵ For more details: popularhistorybooks.com/post… #historybooks #july2024

📕 Book review: Kingdom of Characters, by Jing Tsu A nice premise - exploring the changes in Chinese language and in language related tech over the 20th century... but the book felt arcane and abstruse. Full review here: popularhistorybooks.com/post… #history #china

📚 New history books published in June 2024 in the UK 12 on the list - mostly European plus one on Jerusalem and one on evolutionary biology / history thrown in too... popularhistorybooks.com/post… #historybooks

📕 Book review - Discovering Pompeii by Natasha Sheldon Covering 🏛️ , 🏠 and 🌋 , I found it an excellent way to ingest further info on the site and doomed - yet immortalised - inhabitants. Full review here: popularhistorybooks.com/post… #pompeii #vesuvius

📚 New history books from May 2024, with a theme of colonial conflict running through many of them. More info at the link! popularhistorybooks.com/post… #history #historybooks

📕 Book review: Conquered: The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England, by Eleanor Parker Covering favourites such as: 🤴👸👨‍👩‍👧‍👦🤴 and 👴. 😀 Full review: popularhistorybooks.com/post… #Anglo-Saxons #Hereward

To celebrate our third year anniversary 🎂 - here are all the history books that have received our sought after top rating (5x⭐) If you wrote one of them: brilliant work, and looking forward to the sequel! 😀 #historybooks

📕 Book review: Arise, England, by Caroline Burt and Richard Partington John 😡 bad Henry III 🥺 feeble Edward I 😎 awesome Edward II 😨 abjectly pathetic Edward III 😍 my hero Richard II 😬 rubbish popularhistorybooks.com/post… #historybooks #john #edward #henry #richard

📚 New history books from April 2024 14 on the list, quite a high proportion of which I would like to read, although I know that for only a low percentage of this high proportion will I do so 📗📘📙📔📕 📘📔📗📙📔 📘📗📙📔 More info: popularhistorybooks.com/post… #historybooks

📕 Book review - The Nirvana Express by Mick Brown All about Indian gurus who brought Eastern spiritualism to the West, from the late 19th C up to the 1980s. Mostly excellent, with lots of colourful characters! Full review: popularhistorybooks.com/post… #enlightenment

📚 New history books published in Mar 2024, covering: Silver, propaganda, heresy, language, poison, Capetians, Victorian PMs and graffiti! For more details: popularhistorybooks.com/post… #history #historybooks #newbooks #tumbleweed

📕 Book review! Footmarks by Jim Leary Its not the destination, but the journey... Footmarks ponders journeys from the dawn of mankind to nowadays. I loved the idea, but felt it hit a few bum notes Full review 👉 popularhistorybooks.com/post… #historybooks #archaeology #bumprint

📚 New history books from February 2024, covering the following topics: ⚓💪🧱🇮🇩🦴🌍🇹🇼👸🦜☠️✡️🤏🇬🇧🌎🇪🇸⌛🛡️ More global in scope than usual this month! More details below: popularhistorybooks.com/post… #historybooks

📓 review - One Fine Day, by Matthew Parker In 1923 the British Empire was the largest ever. Parker gives us a tour of the 🌍 stopping off at: 🇰🇮 🇦🇺 🇮🇳 🇲🇾 🇲🇲 🇰🇪 🇳🇬 🇯🇲 The tour is long, sometimes exhausting, but worthwhile. popularhistorybooks.com/post… #britishempire #History

📚 New history books from Jan 2024 📚 Shia and Sunni, Male-Male relations, Strange deaths, Russia, Picnics, British Empire, WW2 Japan, etc etc! More here 👉 popularhistorybooks.com/post… #history #historybooks #picnics