BRITAIN’S WAR: INTO BATTLE, 1937-1941 Looking to give a book to a guy in your life? If he’s a World War II buff, you might
THE GENERAL vs. THE PRESIDENT: MACARTHUR AND TRUMAN AT THE BRINK OF NUCLEAR WAR “I should have fired him [General MacArthur] six months sooner.” If
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Sapiens was not a book of my choice. It was assigned as the next tome in our couples’ book
HILLBILLY – A MEMOIR OF FAMILY AND A CULTURE IN CRISIS: Traditionally, an elegy is a poem or song of lamentation. Although neither a poem
THE APACHE WARS: THE HUNT FOR GERONIMO, THE APACHE KID, AND THE CAPTIVE BOY WHO STARTED THE LONGEST WAR IN AMERICAN HISTORY. Some Apaches believed
1941: FIGHTING THE SHADOW WAR, A DIVIDED AMERICA IN A WORLD AT WAR Do I think this book is worth reading? Yes. Does this book
White Trash: the 400-Year Untold History of Class in America Conventional wisdom holds that seminal social problems in America and Britain are contrasted thusly: “Britain
The President, the Purchase, and the Explorers Who Transformed a Nation In our cultural memory, the Lewis and Clark expedition dominates the early years of
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape and the Making of Winston Churchill Winston Spencer Churchill (WSC) was in most respects a
The Invention of Nature – Alexander von Humboldt’s New World Territorial Nevadans in the 19th century considered naming their new state-to-be Humboldt. Instead, the famous
Pacific – Silicon Chips and Surf Boards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires and the Coming Collision of the World’s Superpowers Simon
Old Glory, A Voyage Down the Mississippi Who in his right mind would navigate a sixteen-foot, fifteen-horsepower outboard aluminum motorboat down the Mississippi from the
Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings Raban’s Passage to Juneau doesn’t fit easily into a genre category. True, this is an absorbing, stylistic
Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar You may have seen the TV show of the same name, but this Dynasty is
The Garden of Evening Mists Tan Twen Eng is two-for-two. Each of his first two novels has made the long list for the Man Booker
The Gift of Rain The year is 1995. An elegant but frail seventy-five year-old Japanese woman, Murakami Michiko, knocks on the door of Philip Hutton’s family
Since 2011, the very best in reviewing – connecting good readers with equally good writers
