A Fighting Chance by Elizabeth Warren
I am knocked out! Listening to the Audible version which she, herself, reads. Highly recommend. The timbre of her voice as …
Category Archives: Books
The New Oxford Book of War Poetry
I just ordered my copy…. From the Iliad to John Balaban (a friend), from the Vietnam war. [None that I …
WW I: Ultimatum to the Serbs Approved by Germany
July 22, 1914 The final text of the Austro-Hungarian ultimatum to Serbia is provided in advance to the German Embassy on July …
WW I: French Russian Summit Signals ‘Concern’ to Austria
On July 20, 1914 French President Raymond Poincaré and his Prime Minister René Viviani, arrive in St Petersburg for a Russo-French …
WW I: Austria-Hungary sends troops to the Serbian frontier
July 20, 1914 Austria-Hungary sends troops to the Serbian frontier
WW I: On the Eastern Front in The Forest of the Hanged
World War I as it is written of and imagined in European and American minds is almost entirely of what …
WW I: Germany Impatient with Austro-Hungary Indecision
On July 12, 1914 Ambassador Count Laslo Szögyény reported from Berlin that everyone in the German government wanted to see Austria-Hungary declare …
WW I: War Preparations Grip Austria-Hungary
On July 9, 1914 Austria-Hungary Foreign Minister Leopold Berchtold advised Emperor Franz Joseph that he would present Belgrade, [Serbia] with an ultimatum …
A Soldier on the Southern Front — Italy, WW I
World War I brought with it some 10 million combatant deaths, 23 million wounded. Two and one half million non combatants died from fire and …
Virtual Unreality: A Warning
As a genetically formed skeptic I am gollywogged over what so many people believe so much of the time without …
America: Digging out the Past
Charles C Mann’s book, 1491:New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, (2005) is a thoroughly researched, fluidly written overview and …
Franz Kafka: Lost in Prague and finding “Lost in America”
The best way to get a city, for me, is to put away the maps and follow promising promenades and …