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Book Review: Codebreaker Girls: A Secret Life at Bletchley Park by Jan Slimming
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Book Review: Codebreaker Girls: A Secret Life at Bletchley Park by Jan Slimming

Man of la BookMarch 31, 2021

Codebreaker Girls: A Secret Life at Bletchley Park is a non-fiction account of the life of Daisy Lawrence, who worked at Bletchley Park during World War II.

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Book Review: Mission Command in the Israel Defense Forces edited by Brig. General (Ret.) Gideon Avidor
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Book Review: Mission Command in the Israel Defense Forces edited by Brig. General (Ret.) Gideon Avidor

Man of la BookMarch 6, 2021

Mission Command in the Israel Defense Forces edited by Brig. General (Ret.) Gideon Avidor is a collection of essays written by IDF officers.

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Book Review: Grunt by Mary Roach
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Book Review: Grunt by Mary Roach

Man of la BookJanuary 15, 2020

The book covers what it takes to keeping soldiers effective in the field. The author mostly concentrates on science and technology, but touches on policy as well. Actually, she is more amazed by the policy and how it has been implemented, but that’s a small part of the overall narrative.

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Book Review: Last Witnesses by Svetlana Alexievich
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Book Review: Last Witnesses by Svetlana Alexievich

Man of la BookJuly 24, 2019

The stories collected shattered many lives, not the least the childhood of the person telling. Several of them never recovered after their childhood ended.

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Book Review: The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson
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Book Review: The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson

Man of la BookJuly 1, 2019

The British are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775 – 1777 by Rick Atkinson describes the first 21 months of the Revolutionary War.

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Book Review: The Undercover Nazi Hunter by Wolfe Frank
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Book Review: The Undercover Nazi Hunter by Wolfe Frank

Man of la BookJune 12, 2019

A non-fiction book composed of articles the author wrote while he researched post-war Germany’s attitude through street level investigations after World War II

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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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Graphic Novel Review: Supergirl Vol. 5: Red Daughter of Krypton by Michael Alan Nelson
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Graphic Novel Review: Supergirl Vol. 5: Red Daughter of Krypton by Michael Alan Nelson

Man of la BookMay 6, 2019

The New 52 Supergirl hates everyone. It is no wonder that the Red Lantern ring finally found her, creating one of the most powerful beings in the DC Universe.

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Book Review: The True Story of the Great Escape by Jonathan F. Vance
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Book Review: The True Story of the Great Escape by Jonathan F. Vance

Man of la BookApril 24, 2019

The True Story of the Great Escape: Stalag Luft III, March 1944 by Jonathan F. Vance is the historical account of the largest prison break during World War II.

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Book Review: The Agitator by Peter Duffy
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Book Review: The Agitator by Peter Duffy

Man of la BookApril 15, 2019

A short biography of William Bailey, an American who stood his ground against Hitler’s Germany, in New York harbor, at a time when the US was solidly neutral.

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