A review by sammibreads
The Uses and Abuses of History. Margaret MacMillan by Margaret MacMillan

informative medium-paced

2.0

The book includes very well known ideas of manipulation of history and backs it up with numerous historical examples. These examples bled seamlessly into each other showing the similarities between often poorly compared countries. Though many of the examples were new to me the book still did not meet my expectations. I had hoped for a deeper analysis of historical propaganda in ways new to me, which was not the case. I also felt the vast number of examples meant many were not well explained. It felt like the author expected you to know everything and thus what’s the point of reading a non-fiction book like that?