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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...
Russia
The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II by Andrew Nagorski
February 10, 2025He focuses on the assault on Moscow, the largest battle in history between two opposing armies....
Non-Fiction Reviews
Notes From Italy: Running, Rome, and Red Brigades
February 9, 2025I knew what was coming but it was always a thrill. Suddenly to our left the...
Italy
Notes From Italy: Looking Back at Mussolini
February 6, 2025Mussolini was not the only dictator of his time. In his Europe, in a time of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Notes From Italy: Cimitero Acattolico
February 6, 2025In 1738 came the first burial by the Pyramid that we know of, that of a...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Notes From Italy: Dawn in the Suburra
February 4, 2025In early June, the best time in Rome is dawn. A little after first light the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Notes From Italy: Sunday With the CAI
February 3, 2025This is not Labrador. We are fifty miles northeast of Rome and a mile above sea...
Economics
Dear Minister, America is Headed Down; Can It Reverse Course?
January 30, 2025In my view, the Americans’ most serious problem for the longer term is the development of...
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