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What a great #historyread! Very interesting, informative and well written. Never dull. And very varied! It should be required reading for our world leaders, so we don't keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again.

This book is so fascinating. Currently reading about the trainwreck that was the perception that US politicians had of Vietnam and how easy it would be to beat the Viet Cong. I think I'm staying in bed til I finish this! ☕️ 📚 🐶

Reading about Vietnam while listening to my 'Nam playlist.

"In the general election of 1774, Charles James Fox, no mean consumer himself, complained of the entertaining he had to do while canvassing. Eight guests came on one afternoon, stayed from three to ten, and drank 'ten bottles of wine and sixteen bowls of punch, each of which would hold four bottles' - the equivalent of nine bottles per man." ? ?

"Prison does not silence ideas whose time has come, a fact that generally escapes despots, who by nature are rulers of little wisdom."

"A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests. Mankind, it seems, makes a poorer performance of government than of almost any other human activity." #firstlines

Excellent narrator and great story. This is a most entertaining and well written story.