A review by lukre
The Story of Britain: From the Romans to the Present: A Narrative History by Rebecca Fraser
4.0
This book was really good and interesting until perhaps the last 100 pages when Fraser decided that she would abandon all the structured writing she had employed so far and just do an association game.
A perfect example is her discussion of the Northern Irish question late 80s begining of 90s of the last century - she begins good, and then just stops in the middle of the action - Thatcher's mentor being blown up at the Commons parking lot. She then talks about everything else under the sun for some 10 pages, to finish Thatcher's tale by returning to the Northern Irish question, again out of the blue! This makes the last chapter VERY difficult to follow. So yeah, perhaps again I would give this a half star so the grade would be 3.5 and not a full 4.
A perfect example is her discussion of the Northern Irish question late 80s begining of 90s of the last century - she begins good, and then just stops in the middle of the action - Thatcher's mentor being blown up at the Commons parking lot. She then talks about everything else under the sun for some 10 pages, to finish Thatcher's tale by returning to the Northern Irish question, again out of the blue! This makes the last chapter VERY difficult to follow. So yeah, perhaps again I would give this a half star so the grade would be 3.5 and not a full 4.