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Book Review: The Island of Extraordinary Captives Simon Parkin
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Book Review: The Island of Extraordinary Captives Simon Parkin

Man of la BookOctober 20, 2022

The book tells of the camps by following Peter Fleischmann, a Jewish aspiring artist, and orphan who got to England through the kindertransport

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Book Review: After the Apocalypse: America’s Role in a World Transformed by Andrew Bacevich
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Book Review: After the Apocalypse: America’s Role in a World Transformed by Andrew Bacevich

Man of la BookJuly 28, 2021

After the Apocalypse is a short book talks about a true, reality based, vision of where American needs to strive towards, and lead.

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Book Review: War of Shadows by Gershom Gorenberg
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Book Review: War of Shadows by Gershom Gorenberg

Man of la BookJanuary 13, 2021

The book does a great job to taking a complex, and messy, narrative and shaping it for the reader to understand. It was amusing to read how an obscure, but genius, cryptographer working in a dank room had far reaching consequences on the other side of the world without anyone knowing about it.

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Book Review: The Second World War Illustrated by Jack Holroyd
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Book Review: The Second World War Illustrated by Jack Holroyd

Man of la BookOctober 15, 2019

A non-fiction book which covers the beginning of World War II full of pictures, many of which I have never seen, each one with an engrossing caption.

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Book Review: D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II by Sarah Rose
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Book Review: D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II by Sarah Rose

Man of la BookMay 22, 2019

D-Day Girls The Spies Who Armed the Resistance Sabotaged the Nazis and Helped Win World War II -historical accounts of women spies, tied into a single narrative

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Book Review: Atlas of World War II by Stephen G. Hyslop and Neil Kagan
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Book Review: Atlas of World War II by Stephen G. Hyslop and Neil Kagan

Man of la BookDecember 6, 2018

Atlas of World War II is incredible, it covers all theaters of the war, provides copies of the maps the generals used (along with their notes on them)

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Book Review:  The Allies: Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Unlikely Alliance That Won World War II by Winston Groom
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Book Review: The Allies: Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Unlikely Alliance That Won World War II by Winston Groom

Man of la BookNovember 15, 2018

The Allies: Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Unlikely Alliance That Won World War II – recounts how Russia became and unlikely ally with the US & England

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Book Review: Operation Columba – The Secret Pigeon Service by Gordon Corera
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Book Review: Operation Columba – The Secret Pigeon Service by Gordon Corera

Man of la BookOctober 31, 2018

I never thought I’d enjoy a book about pigeons. A thrilling book about an oddball corner of history including brave citizens, and creative intelligence officers

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Book Review: God & Churchill by Jonathan Sandys and Wallace Henley
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Book Review: God & Churchill by Jonathan Sandys and Wallace Henley

Man of la BookOctober 5, 2015

The book attempts to explain Winston Churchill’s inner strength which helped him during some of the darkest days the world has ever known during World War II

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Book Review: The Hunt for Hitler’s Warship by Patrick Bishop

Man of la BookJuly 6, 2013

Arti­cle orig­i­nally pub­lished as Book Review: ‘The Hunt for Hitler’s Warship’ by Patrick Bishop on Blogcritics.org About: The Hunt for Hitler’s Warship by Patrick Bishop is a non-fiction book about the attempts of the allies to sink the German battleship Tirpitz during World War […]

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