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The American School of Spies: The Archaeologists Who Fought the Nazis and Saved the Treasures of Ancient Greece by Stephan Talty tells about the “Greek Desk”, an OSS operation during World War II using a ragtag team of archaeologists and academics instead […]
About: Saving My Enemy: How Two WWII Soldiers Fought Against Each Other and Later Forged a Friendship That Saved Their Lives by Bob Welch is the story of Don Malarkey, from the now famous Band of Brothers, and Fritz Engelbert who unknowingly […]
About: The Jewish Hospital by Jonathan Hammel is tells about the only Jewish hospital to remain operational in Nazi Berlin. Mr. Hammel, a physician, used the experience of his grandmother to write this historical novel. My rating for The Jewish Hospital – […]
About: Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II by Arthur Herman tells of America’s extraordinary achievement mobilizing industries to make war machines through the eyes of two businessmen. Mr. Herman is a historian writing from the perspective of […]
This is a story with many layers, brutal and naked, which had several twists I did not see coming. There are many themes, consequences of choices made, secrets
American Prometheus is an exceptional biography which manages to weave politics, science, and humanity into an engaging story which changed the world we live in
A Tale of One January by Albert Maltz is a historical-fiction story of two women who escaped from a Nazi death March in January, 1945
Night by Ellie Wiesel is a memoir of the author’s experiences with his father in the Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald
Ms. Allende focuses on children, and how policies of cruelty use them as pawns. Only the fact that good people have attempted to help them save those children
Hedda by Peter Haden is an enjoyable historical fiction. It is intelligent, the main characters are intriguing, and the narrative is grounded in the history
