Stories By Peter Bridges
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Nature
A Place for Three Seasons: Crested Butte
May 6, 2020Let 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
May 6, 2020Counts 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
May 5, 2020This 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
May 4, 2020Nor, 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
May 2, 2020The 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
May 2, 2020He 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
May 1, 2020I 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
May 1, 2020Mussolini 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
April 30, 2020In 1738 came the first burial by the Pyramid that we know of, that of a...
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Italy
Notes From Italy: Dawn in the Suburra
April 30, 2020In early June, the best time in Rome is dawn. A little after first light the...
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