Stories By Peter Bridges
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Italy
Notes from Italy: Getting into the Mountains
June 24, 2022I did not know that Neanderthals once lived hereabouts; that farmers first settled here six thousand...
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Nature
A Place for Three Seasons: Crested Butte
June 20, 2022Let us be clear on one thing: physically fit people tend to get more out of...
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History
Notes From Italy: Some Old Envoys
June 20, 2022Counts who stank of garlic–as did the whole country–had sponged on him for seats in his...
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History
The Day of Battle by Rick Atkinson
June 19, 2022This long, well documented book by Rick Atkinson is one of the best accounts of any...
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Italy
Notes From Italy: The Oversized Embassy
June 19, 2022Nor, it seems, do Americans get out of their diplomatic fortress the way they used to....
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History
Notes from Italy: Romulus and Neighbors
June 17, 2022The next time you go to Rome, take a half-day to go to Pomezia, just south...
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Germany
The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II by Andrew Nagorski
June 15, 2022He focuses on the assault on Moscow, the largest battle in history between two opposing armies....
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Italy
Notes From Italy: Running, Rome, and Red Brigades
June 13, 2022I knew what was coming but it was always a thrill. Suddenly to our left the...
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History
Notes From Italy: Looking Back at Mussolini
June 12, 2022Mussolini was not the only dictator of his time. In his Europe, in a time of...
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History
Notes From Italy: Cimitero Acattolico
June 11, 2022In 1738 came the first burial by the Pyramid that we know of, that of a...