Pre-Owned Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Hardcover) by Robert K Massie

from the.ken.petersen

This book is a strong contender for my book of the year. I am not an historian; I have, or perhaps should say had, no particular interest in Catherine the Great, simply reading this to cover another vast area of my ignorance. I particularly enjoyed the way in which Mr Massie made his cast of char...

from brenzi

Being mostly a reader of literary fiction, I had been trying to expand my reading choices to include more non-fiction so some time ago (long before LT) I googled "non-fiction that reads like fiction" and discovered many books that appealed to me. Had this book been published at that time, it cert...

from Tloue

Great book, easy to read

from stellarexplorer

Massie's new Catherine the Great is a highly readable account of a life and of a colorful period in Russian history. He set a high standard with Peter the Great, which was a singular achievement. While Catherine does not climb to those heights, it is still a delight, certainly for the reader less...

from AnnieMod

Good history books are written by two types of authors - historians, that can be forgiven for some weird word choices because of their knowledge and the fact that they can connect the dots between the events, and good authors that know how to tell a story. Massie is from the second type -- he has...