The Quartet

I will write more later, but it is interesting to read a history of a particular part of history and compare it to the many biographies of the same people covered. It is different and I think useful to read both. Biographies necessarily make the individual the main focus. And everything revolves around the person's involvement. So it can look like anything not mentioned is less important. Histories look at the events but not usually deeply at the people and so they can miss how the people matter to the history.

Full review on my blog http://bookwi.se/quartet/