I enjoy history, military history and the study of it because of the value in teaching future generations of military personal general ideas and giving them perspective. This book is a true history book in that it is rather dry and boring. I feel the author may have benifited if he had focused mo...
It was there, in the early days of November, that his final illness took hold. Confined to his chamber for almost a fortnight, he died in the evening of Wednesday 16 November 1272. He was sixty-five years old, and had reigned for fifty-six years. Since his death was not sudden, we may suppose wit...
To see the whitewashed walls gleaming and the flags fluttering in the breeze, we have to screw up our eyes and work our imaginations hard. However noble and refined the interior may once have been, chances are it now seems crude and Spartan. We constantly have to remind ourselves that, despite th...