All posts tagged "World War II"
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Biography
Churchill by Paul Johnson
June 18, 2020And Johnson reminds us of the memorable words he spoke after France capitulated: “Let us therefore...
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Germany
With Hitler to the End: The Memoir of Hitler’s Valet by Heinz Linge
June 10, 2020Unfortunately the book, while delivering a few marginal insights into Hitler’s character, motivations and global strategies,...
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Movies
Movie Review: Inglourious Basterds
June 7, 2020Smart though Tarantino may be, his self-aggrandizing filmic techniques grow old. Placing arrows and title cards...
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History
Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath by Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman
June 3, 2020This continued fighting retreat for allied forces persisted for the four bloody months from December 1941...
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France
Résistance by Agnès Humbert
May 21, 2020The early resistors soon discover that the Nazis don’t view their activities with similar lightheartedness. Oblivious...
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Fiction Reviews
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
May 19, 2020Such a pity Mary Ann Shaffer is not around to enjoy her celebrity! Shaffer died in...
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Biography
A Boy’s View of a World War
May 18, 2020The three Libby’s men were the first American businessmen to receive Allied permits to travel to...
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History
Nancy Love and the WASP Ferry Pilots of World War II by Sarah Byrn Rickman
May 15, 2020They were also a PR dream. Initially working for her future husband, Robert Love, the young...
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Biography
Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews
May 14, 2020Again, it took an intervention, this time by Moss Hart, to point her in the right...
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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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