Besser kann man es nicht machen [it couldn't be done better] * Peter Blickle, Historische Zeitschrift * It has hardly ever been told better * Alec Ryrie, English Historical Review * This is history as it should be written: meticulous, provocative and intelligent. By studying the past for its own sake, and on its own terms, it also illuminates the present and the future * William Whyte, Church Times *