All posts tagged "World War II"
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Biography
A Watchful Eye On… Winston Churchill
November 20, 2022Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, known best as the wartime Prime Minister, held in his distinguished...
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Great Britain
Book Review: Winston’s War: Churchill, 1940-1945 by Max Hastings
September 29, 2022The next two years of the war for Churchill were a harrowing march through what his...
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After Image
The Art of Japanese Internment Camps at the Renwick Gallery
September 5, 2022An exhibition at the Renwick Gallery in Washington DC titled The Art of Gaman: Arts and...
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Biography
Churchill by Paul Johnson
August 16, 2022And 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
August 8, 2022Unfortunately 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
August 3, 2022Smart 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
July 30, 2022This continued fighting retreat for allied forces persisted for the four bloody months from December 1941...
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France
Résistance by Agnès Humbert
July 13, 2022The 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
July 9, 2022Such 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
July 8, 2022The three Libby’s men were the first American businessmen to receive Allied permits to travel to...