Posts Tagged with ‘Books:History’
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Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain’s Memoir of WW I
17 Jul 2015Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth, recently brought to view by the movie of the same name, unaccountably escaped my decades long reading…
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Vera Brittain: Not only the Movie, the Book
06 Jul 2015Military historian, Simon Jones, says Vera Brittain’s memoir, Testament of Youth, upon which the new movie is based, is one…
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The Pope and Mussolini
30 Apr 2015Reading David Kertzer’s The Pope and Mussolini:The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe will be a…
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Lawrence In Arabia — the Southern Reaches of WW I
20 Nov 2014As World War I came to its bloody close in the fall of 1918 the British public had to be…
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How Wars Begin
05 Nov 2014Among his many popular, controversial and and voluminous texts on European history, British historian A. J. P. Taylor produced one…
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The Guns of August — 100 Years Ago
23 Aug 2014It is a mark of Barbara Tuchman’s power as a writer that her ground breaking narrative history of the first month…
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Making Memorial
09 Aug 2014Geoff Dyer’s 1994 The Missing of the Somme, published in the United States in 2011, takes us on a…
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A Soldier on the Southern Front — Italy, WW I
03 Jul 2014World War I brought with it some 10 million combatant deaths, 23 million wounded. Two and one half million non combatants died from fire and…
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America: Digging out the Past
01 Jul 2014Charles C Mann’s book, 1491:New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, (2005) is a thoroughly researched, fluidly written overview and…
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The Rich Will Keep Getting Richer, Unless…
07 Apr 2014Several commentators take a look at, and are impressed, with the new English translation of Thomas Picketty’s French published book,…
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Clouds Above the Hill — Japan’s Good Wars
27 Mar 2014Shiba Ryōtarō is said to be one of Japan’s favorite authors. Prolific in multiple genres, he’s credited with over 500…
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Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and the Great Wave of Progress
13 Feb 2014Just finished listening to a very able Audible reading of The Bully Pulpit, Doris Kearns Goodwin’s paean to Theodore Roosevelt,…
