So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.

Sylvia Plath
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Tolstoy on History

he really dislikes the great man theory of history, but more than that, he dislikes Napoleon.

Like a river of steel it flowed, grey and ghostlike

An account of the WW1 German Army marching through Brussels by Richard Harding Davis.

The Ides of March are upon us

celebrate by declining all meetings

F. Scott Fitzgerald about the first world war

from Tender is the Night

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

A review of the Richard Rhodes book

Why is Sapiens so polarizing?

Partly a book review, partly a rant

January 2020 Release Notes

Hardcore History, Kobe Bryant and new adventures.