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Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
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So it seems I'm just going to continue reading more WW2 nonfiction, maritime novels and shipwreck stories until I complete a full personality descent into "America's Favorite Boomer Grandpa" ? Well guess what, that's fine because frankly... I can't get enough.
This is a brutal and fascinating story. Well told and-when the historical facts are scarce- well imagined. I did get a bit bogged down in the names occasionally, hard to keep track of or differentiate some of the people involved. But much of the book was a real page-turner, some of it edge-of-your-seat stuff, truly emotional and immediate.
Best of all, like all good non-fiction this book includes lots of asides and fascinating little historical windows opened onto areas for further exploration. 4.5
This is a brutal and fascinating story. Well told and-when the historical facts are scarce- well imagined. I did get a bit bogged down in the names occasionally, hard to keep track of or differentiate some of the people involved. But much of the book was a real page-turner, some of it edge-of-your-seat stuff, truly emotional and immediate.
Best of all, like all good non-fiction this book includes lots of asides and fascinating little historical windows opened onto areas for further exploration. 4.5
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Jun 29, 2022 10:05AM
Let’s all embrace our early-arriving old man tendencies. At least the fun ones like reading war books, maybe not, like, xenophobia.
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Haha yes exactly that! This one in particular is a great reminder that human beings overall are... NOT GREAT. While reading I did in fact mutter out loud "what a piece of SHIT" on multiple occasions which is the understatement of the (17th) century.
