HISTORY / World

Book Review: Plunder: Napoleon’s Theft of Veronese’s Feast by Cynthia Saltzman

The subject might be just one painting, but it also tells of the history of the time, military tactics, art…

3 years ago

Book Review: The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos by Judy Batalion

The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos shines light on the women resistance…

3 years ago

Book Review: Last Witnesses by Svetlana Alexievich

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

5 years ago

Book Review: The Agitator by Peter Duffy

A short biography of William Bailey, an American who stood his ground against Hitler’s Germany, in New York harbor, at…

5 years ago

Book Review: The Banker and the Blackfoot by J. Edward Chamberlin

A book about the author’s grandfather, John Cowdry befriending the Blackfoot warrior Crop Eared Wolf. Mr. Chamberlin is a professor…

5 years ago

Book Review: Titans of History by Simon Sebag Montefiore

A nonfiction book of extremely short biographies of those people the author deemed as changing the world they lived in.…

6 years ago

Book Review: Best of Enemies: The Last Great Spy Story of the Cold War by Gus Russo and Eric Dezenhall

Best of Enemies is a non-fiction book which narrates the relationship between KGB officer Gennady Semyovich Vasilenko and legendary CIA…

6 years ago

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