i did not finish this book.

i think this book is slightly different from what i was expecting. so i do not want my DNF to be implied as this being a bad book. the book focused a lot more on the history and context of the time than i was expecting.

the author has been very thorough in gathering information and data from the time (it is very well sourced). in my opinion they just gathered so much information, that the information which was included didn’t feel purposeful, rather like everything that was gathered was included. therefore i found it going on tangents that i couldn’t quite see the reasoning behind, and included a lot of names that i started to get lost with.