"Everyone interested in history should read this book. Jared Diamond explains why white people conquered everyone else. You will learn more from this book than from any ten or twenty other books."
"This is the best novel I have read for years and I can't understand why it doesn't have a UK publisher. Like Robert Harris's Fatherland only infinitely better written."
"It's that old sci-fi plot: someone invents a time machine and decides to use it to change history for the better (in this case, by eliminating Hitler); everything goes horribly wrong."
"The blurb and legal disclaimer claim this book is set in the future, but it is actually set in an alternative, hyper-Americanised present. Scarily plausible."
"The Flashman??!! Makes him sound like a super-hero rather than an anti-hero. The correct title of this book is actually Flashman. First in the series about the caddish Victorian soldier."
"If you ever want to research anything, hit the children's books first. The entire Horrible History series is so loaded with odd facts as to be unputdownable."
