Japanese Fairy Tales

Yei Theodora Ozaki, 1903 [1970]

(May 2013)

The caption to the frontispiece reads as follows:

Prince Yamato Take bade his wife help him to attire himself like a woman

So right from the off you can be pretty sure of what you’re going to get.

Britain's War Machine

David Edgerton, 2011
(April 2012)

The idiosyncrasies of the English education system mean that I’ve not been formally taught History since I was 14 years old. I’ve tried to make up for lost time since then, but I can’t recall that much from school. The Norman Invasion, The Spanish Armada, and The Somme were pretty much it. No WWII, though.