Stories By Peter Bridges
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Notes from Italy: Romulus and Neighbors
November 8, 2023The next time you go to Rome, take a half-day to go to Pomezia, just south...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II by Andrew Nagorski
November 6, 2023He 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
November 5, 2023I 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
November 3, 2023Mussolini was not the only dictator of his time. In his Europe, in a time of...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Notes From Italy: Cimitero Acattolico
November 2, 2023In 1738 came the first burial by the Pyramid that we know of, that of a...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Notes From Italy: Dawn in the Suburra
November 1, 2023In early June, the best time in Rome is dawn. A little after first light the...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Notes From Italy: Sunday With the CAI
October 30, 2023This is not Labrador. We are fifty miles northeast of Rome and a mile above sea...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Dear Minister, America is Headed Down; Can It Reverse Course?
October 25, 2023In my view, the Americans’ most serious problem for the longer term is the development of...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Lincoln Emancipated: The President And the Politics of Race edited by Brian R. Dirck; foreword by Allen C. Guelzo
October 22, 2023What is heartening is that, as Professor Michael Vorenberg stresses in his essay, Lincoln’s thinking about...
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Israel
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
October 17, 2023The title of Fisk’s new work is a mocking one, taken from a campaign medal his...
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