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Book Review: Gated Grief by Leila Levinson
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Book Review: Gated Grief by Leila Levinson

Man of la BookApril 18, 2011

Author Lelia Levinson travels all over the world and the US in order to get firsthand accounts from other surviving liberators of Nazi camps.

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Book Review: A Fierce Radiance by Lauren Belfer
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Book Review: A Fierce Radiance by Lauren Belfer

Man of la BookApril 14, 2011

A Fierce Radiance makes penicillin interesting. Spies, sex, big money, scrupulous industrialists, incorruptible scientist as well as corruptible ones.

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Book Review: Field Gray by Philip Kerr
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Book Review: Field Gray by Philip Kerr

Man of la BookApril 11, 2011

The past of Bernie Gunther catches up with in 1954 Cuba while doing work for mobster boss Meyer Lansky. Even though this anti-Nazi PI survived the Nazi regime

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Book Review: Killing Rommel by Steven Pressfield
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Book Review: Killing Rommel by Steven Pressfield

Man of la BookApril 4, 2011

A historical fiction book taking place in the early 1940’s when General Erwin Rommel’s (The Dessert Fox) troops were intent on capturing the Mid East oil fields

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Book Review: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
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Book Review: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

Man of la BookMarch 30, 2011

The book touches on a part of American history which is rarely talked about, the internment camps built for Japanese Americans

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Book Review: Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel
2 Stars Fiction

Book Review: Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel

Man of la BookFebruary 28, 2011

I really didn’t know what to think about “Beatrice and Virgil” by Yann Martel. I didn’t like it yet didn’t hate it either.

I was impartial to the book,

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Book Review: We, The Drowned by Carsten Jensen
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Book Review: We, The Drowned by Carsten Jensen

Man of la BookFebruary 4, 2011

We, The Drowned by Carsten Jensen is a spellbinding, award winning novel spanning 100 years in a small Danish coastal town Marstal, and its inhabitats

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Book Review: And The Show Went On by Alan Riding
4 Stars Non-Fiction

Book Review: And The Show Went On by Alan Riding

Man of la BookJanuary 14, 2011

The ambiguities and complexities which are presented in this book when it comes to the artists resisting the occupation are astounding.

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Book Review: Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
5 Stars Biographies & Memoirs Non-Fiction

Book Review: Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

Man of la BookJanuary 7, 2011

The amazing story of Louis Zamperini an American athlete, World War II Air Corp bombardier who survived a crash and interment in a Japanese POW camp.

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Book Review: The Losing Role by Steve Anderson
4 Stars Historical Fiction

Book Review: The Losing Role by Steve Anderson

Man of la BookDecember 27, 2010

Max Kaspar, afailed German-American, is fighting on the Eastern front when he is drafted by the SS to impersonate American officers and cause havoc

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