Pure ‘Game of Thrones’, but for real: why we love to read history books under the umbrella

Also this summer you will doze under the parasol with your head on a stack of history books. No fewer than six titles of the current Top 30 non-fiction of De Standaard Boekhandel are about the past. “Ha, but that’s never how they explained it to us at school”, explains Bart ‘de Grote’ Van Loo – author of ‘The Burgundians’ – already his own gigantic success.

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