All posts tagged "World War II"
Theatre
Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews
March 3, 2025Again, it took an intervention, this time by Moss Hart, to point her in the right...
History
Nancy Love and the WASP Ferry Pilots of World War II by Sarah Byrn Rickman
March 2, 2025They were also a PR dream. Initially working for her future husband, Robert Love, the young...
Italy
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...
Fiction Reviews
Fire in the Blood by Irène Némirovsky
February 12, 2025Silvio’s tale proceeds to unravel the neighborhood secrets, as he uncovers them with a skill that...
Germany
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
Plucked from Perdition: One Who Lived To Tell Her Tale
February 6, 2025I was told in Prague at midday that I had to be at the Wilson Station...
Fiction Reviews
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
January 29, 2025Sarah Waters’ fourth novel, The Night Watch, is set in 1940s London, during and after the...
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