Reviews and Comments

Needed to put this on my reading list as suggested by @blogdiva@mastodon.social

Putting this finally on my list /cc ‪@vicgrinberg@mastodon.social‬

Because of det.social/@t_matam_t/110627825853103872

This sounds interesting /cc @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social

Das klingt nach einem sehr schönen Buch für K3 /cc @sasastanisic@chaos.social

of course I'm going to read this. It's available for free as well.

picking this up again and hopefully finish this week.

While this is a biography and thus rather dense with dates of events and names etc. I found it still very interesting to read. Halil managed to really tell the story of Mustafa Kemal. Carefully collecting sources and trying to carefully tell the tales of the mythos from evidence. He provides references to all the material and also context into other historic events and figures of the time. Really interesting to read the implications of the colonial powers and the demise of the ottoman empire in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The book helps connecting the dots of my rather sparse knowledge of recent european history.

Very dense and interesting biography about the founder of the Turkish Republic. It describes his remarkable achievements as a politician, revolutionary and soldier but also pays attention to his flaws.

Sehr spannendes Buch finde ich. Endlich mal gelernt was Mustafa Kemal Atatürk für'n krasser Typ war.

Bisher eher Grundsätzliches noch als Einführung. Mal sehen ob das noch spannender wird.

Started reading this book in support of my sons school project. Turns out as an interesting collection of documents about Chinas "Cultural Revolution". Going to read that ...

This is going to be exciting. Reading this for the third time now.

This was marvelous again. A bit sluggish at the beginning, but got better with everything page. Now off to the last part of the trilogy "Death's end".