A review by x0pherl
Catherine the Great by Simon Dixon

2.0

This reads like a high school history text. It is a fairly dry presentation of facts, without really choosing any of the many angles it could have taken into this remarkable woman's life (the creator of the "code russe", the feminist angle, the bizarre rumors and innuendo, etc). Maybe the dryness was the angle.
I certainly learned a lot, and occasionally got highly engaged, but overall this book was not as interesting as it could have been, or as I had hoped it would be.