-
Almost a Miracle by John Ferling
June 16, 2022As contemplated by Ferling, few, if any, colonial Americans escaped the impact of hostilities. Wars were...
-
The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II by Andrew Nagorski
June 15, 2022He focuses on the assault on Moscow, the largest battle in history between two opposing armies....
-
Plucked from Perdition: One Who Lived To Tell Her Tale
June 13, 2022I was told in Prague at midday that I had to be at the Wilson Station...
-
Notes From Italy: Looking Back at Mussolini
June 12, 2022Mussolini was not the only dictator of his time. In his Europe, in a time of...
-
Last Night I Dreamed of Peace by Dang Thuy Tram
June 12, 2022Whether amputating a shrapnel-torn limb or performing an emergency appendectomy, Dr. Tram proved to be remarkably...
-
Notes From Italy: Cimitero Acattolico
June 11, 2022In 1738 came the first burial by the Pyramid that we know of, that of a...
-
History of Madness by Michel Foucault
June 11, 2022By the 1700s the “correctional” metaphor prevails and most of them are placed in moral and...
-
The Yorkists by Anne Crawford
June 9, 2022To be sure, the fifteenth century was one of the most politically unstable periods in English...
-
The Perfect Summer by Juliet Nicolson
June 9, 2022...essentially, the book remains a story of British upper classes and the author has seemingly trawled...
-
A Talk With Cullen Murphy, Author of Are We Rome?
June 9, 2022"That said, the thinking that lay behind the invasion of Iraq—the notion that we could transform...