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This is very good so far. Better than the Andrew Roberts biography, I'd say - gives a much better idea of Napoleon the man, rather than the myth.

This is excellent. Wonderfully, unpredictably opinionated - and rammed full of interesting phrasing.

This is pretty decent so far. I like the idea of money as a technology. Hadn't considered it that way before, but makes a lot of sense.

Restarted this one having stopped for no apparent reason a couple of years back. Re-reading the intro and first chapter makes me wonder why I left it unfinished, as it's exactly my kind of thing - and has far more emphasis on ancient India than most general histories.

This continues to be amazing in its sheer whimsy, but it's not a book that encourages rushing through.

This is pretty decent so far - has been blitzing through the early centuries at quite a pace, but now Poland and Lithuania have teamed up it's all going to get more complicated (aka better documented...)

This'll be far, far too chatty for many, and the style / jokes (yes, jokes) will date badly - but I think it kinda works.

They don't seem to have the 2021 revised edition of this on Goodreads, but in theory this has been extensively reworked since this started out as a 1981 BBC TV series. Seems solid so far.

This is good fun so far. Popular historiography - whoever would have thought?

I've vaguely decided that we're likely to see a more obvious Russian incursion into EU / NATO territory and/or a more explicit Chinese move to take over Taiwan soon, and this is so far proving an excellent (worrying) primer for the former...