Stories By Peter Bridges
Non-Fiction Reviews
A Boy’s View of a World War
March 7, 2025The three Libby’s men were the first American businessmen to receive Allied permits to travel to...
History
Notes from Italy: A Homer of the Dolomites
March 1, 2025Some say that the story of the Kingdom of Fanes is an epic that goes back...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Worries of a Liberal Conservative
February 26, 2025My friend objects that “Islamofascists” will never change their ways. Sure, there are deadly and dangerous...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Notes From Italy: Villains, Romance, and Views
February 24, 2025Filettino was not always a happy place, in history or in fiction. In the time of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Notes from Italy: Getting into the Mountains
February 20, 2025I did not know that Neanderthals once lived hereabouts; that farmers first settled here six thousand...
Nature
A Place for Three Seasons: Crested Butte
February 16, 2025Let us be clear on one thing: physically fit people tend to get more out of...
History
Notes From Italy: Some Old Envoys
February 16, 2025Counts who stank of garlic–as did the whole country–had sponged on him for seats in his...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Day of Battle by Rick Atkinson
February 15, 2025This long, well documented book by Rick Atkinson is one of the best accounts of any...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Notes From Italy: The Oversized Embassy
February 15, 2025Nor, it seems, do Americans get out of their diplomatic fortress the way they used to....
Non-Fiction Reviews
Notes from Italy: Romulus and Neighbors
February 13, 2025The next time you go to Rome, take a half-day to go to Pomezia, just south...




