All posts tagged "World War II"
Great Britain
A Watchful Eye On… Winston Churchill
July 21, 2025Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, known best as the wartime Prime Minister, held in his distinguished...
Great Britain
Book Review: Winston’s War: Churchill, 1940-1945 by Max Hastings
May 31, 2025The next two years of the war for Churchill were a harrowing march through what his...
After Image
The Art of Japanese Internment Camps at the Renwick Gallery
May 6, 2025An exhibition at the Renwick Gallery in Washington DC titled The Art of Gaman: Arts and...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Churchill by Paul Johnson
April 16, 2025And Johnson reminds us of the memorable words he spoke after France capitulated: “Let us therefore...
Non-Fiction Reviews
With Hitler to the End: The Memoir of Hitler’s Valet by Heinz Linge
April 8, 2025Unfortunately the book, while delivering a few marginal insights into Hitler’s character, motivations and global strategies,...
Movies
Movie Review: Inglourious Basterds
April 4, 2025Smart though Tarantino may be, his self-aggrandizing filmic techniques grow old. Placing arrows and title cards...
History
Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath by Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman
March 31, 2025This continued fighting retreat for allied forces persisted for the four bloody months from December 1941...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Résistance by Agnès Humbert
March 13, 2025The early resistors soon discover that the Nazis don’t view their activities with similar lightheartedness. Oblivious...
Fiction Reviews
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
March 9, 2025Such a pity Mary Ann Shaffer is not around to enjoy her celebrity! Shaffer died in...
Biography
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...
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