On a side note, have you read Lothar Höbelt's history of the Habsburgs and, if so, what did you think of it?
It must be seriously minor for me to not have even heard of it before. What is the exact title? Now I need to go and check up on it.
So...I only finished half of Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- 05/03/2010 02:11:08 AM
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I found it hard to finish
- 05/03/2010 02:10:19 PM
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The emperors tend to run together far before the middle
- 05/03/2010 02:34:55 PM
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My copy is one single book and I can't remember which volume I stopped on
- 05/03/2010 06:06:29 PM
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Ah...you probably have the abridged version.
- 05/03/2010 08:01:57 PM
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Finish it. It's an important piece of literature.
- 05/03/2010 02:22:08 PM
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I own Norwich's History of Venice (Folio Society edition) but haven't read it yet.
- 05/03/2010 02:30:55 PM
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The Dutch Republic takes a while to get into. Too much back story. Far far too long for
- 05/03/2010 04:10:20 PM
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And now I've ordered both those books.
- 06/03/2010 10:19:01 PM
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I haven't even come across the title.
- 09/03/2010 02:03:26 PM
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Finish it
- 05/03/2010 04:47:15 PM
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It is well written. Of course, it's hard to stay excited about it.
- 05/03/2010 08:12:21 PM
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I need to get into Byzantium. I'm hoping to do a senior thesis on Byzantine diplomacy. *NM*
- 07/03/2010 06:42:49 AM
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