I recently read another one of Robert Harris' excellent historical novels, this time "Precipice", covering the last Liberal Prime Minister of the UK, Herbert Asquith, in the run up to and first part of the First World War.
Like all his novels it is meticulously researched, and many of the incidents and much of the reproduced correspondence is true, as in his Cicero trilogy. It is extremely well written and pacey, although some of the characters have clearly been dropped in to aid the narrative and enhance the plot, most of them are real people and we find their eventual fates at the end.
I dont want to give away the plot, but Tbh the staggering levels of incompetence and entitlement on show are just jaw dropping. As the poor Germans in the infamous Fawlty Towers episode noted "How did they ever win?". Highly recommended.
No comments:
Post a Comment