I think I am going to spend my Memorial Day weekend writing about history. And it’s not going to be about the nice bits of history, either. I have been holding off on a number of these reviews because sometimes the subject matter was just a little too depressing. At best, we are dealing with a conga line of arseholes. At best. And at worst? Well, we’re dealing with some pretty bad ‘at worsts’ here… The first book is Adam Hochschild’s King Leopold’s Ghost: A […]
History and its Bastards. Greedy, Greedy Bastards.
King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa. by Adam Hochschild
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple