Whenever I read a book about the German occupation of France during World War II, I am aghast at the horrible living conditions, the deprivations,
Kadare’s intriguing novel is the first I’ve read by an Albanian. It is set in World War II and narrated by (I’m guessing) a ten
Is there anything to be gained by reading another book about the World War II internment of Japanese Americans to relocation camps? If the book
Dorrigo Evans, protagonist of Richard Flanagan’s novel, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, is a man of many facets. Born in poverty in Tasmania,
At The Water’s Edge What an achievement—to create a shallow, dysfunctional narrative voice and then to make her story so absorbing that the reader actually
Normally we don’t talk about e-books on “Bookin’ with Sunny,” but Barry Lando’s The Watchman’s File is well-worth reviewing. For twenty-five years Lando worked as
Those of you who regularly read my “Bookin’ with Sunny” reviews must be aware of my near obsession with point of view. I’m intrigued by
When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II Did you ever wonder how WW II soldiers filled up the
My Life as a Foreign Country takes us into the nightmare terrain of war. Focusing on Iraq during a 2003 tour of duty, Brian Turner’s
JACK 1939 Imagine young Jack Kennedy as a spy, commandeered by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to innocuously roam Europe and uncover nefarious warmongering
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941 In April 1939 Charles Lindbergh strode into FDR’s White House Office. The
During the eighteenth century, when readers were still unsure whether or not the new genre of the novel was a legitimate literary form, epistolary novels
Any book that follows the lives of European Jewish men and women during the years before and during the Holocaust necessarily traces an unhappy downward
Connie Willis is one of the leading figures in science-fiction today. Her recent time-travel novels Blackout and All Clear (2010) won both the Hugo and
Never judge a book by its cover, especially if it’s Ellen Feldman’s Next to Love, which at first glance would appear to be just another
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye, Who cheer when soldier lads march by Sneak home and pray you’ll never know The hell where youth and
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