All posts tagged "World War II"
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath by Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman
December 20, 2023This continued fighting retreat for allied forces persisted for the four bloody months from December 1941...
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History
Résistance by Agnès Humbert
December 3, 2023The 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
November 30, 2023Such 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
November 28, 2023The three Libby’s men were the first American businessmen to receive Allied permits to travel to...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews
November 24, 2023Again, it took an intervention, this time by Moss Hart, to point her in the right...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Nancy Love and the WASP Ferry Pilots of World War II by Sarah Byrn Rickman
November 24, 2023They were also a PR dream. Initially working for her future husband, Robert Love, the young...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Day of Battle by Rick Atkinson
November 11, 2023This long, well documented book by Rick Atkinson is one of the best accounts of any...