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Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath by Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman
June 3, 2020This continued fighting retreat for allied forces persisted for the four bloody months from December 1941...
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How Rome Fell by Adrian Goldsworthy
June 1, 2020Goldsworthy takes many of the reasons advanced by earlier scholars and shows them to be of...
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Celebrating Galileo in Florence
May 29, 20202009 is officially “The Year of Astronomy,” commemorating Galilei’s first observation of the Moon through his...
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The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary Beard
May 28, 2020Nevertheless, in my personal library there are 130 books on Pompeii. Of all these, this is...
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The Patron’s Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art by Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser
May 27, 2020No less than the American financier who donates a museum wing on condition it bears his...
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Moscow & St. Petersburg 1900-1920: Art, Life, & Culture of the Russian Silver Age by John E. Bowlt
May 27, 2020Writers of the caliber of Anton Chekov, Alexsander Blok and Anna Akhmatova, visionary artists like Mikhail...
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Kentucky Clay, Eleven Generations of a Southern Dynasty by Katherine Bateman
May 26, 2020“In the South, stories are the effervescence of conversation, and no stories are more gripping to...
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The Irish Americans: A History by Jay P. Dolan
May 26, 2020America’s love affair with all things Irish – with J.F.K. and seedy bars in “The Departed,”...
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Erskine Childers and The Riddle of the Sands
May 26, 2020Set against the backdrop of a yachting trip to the German coast, the story weds a...
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Quarrel with the King by Adam Nicolson
May 25, 2020Nicolson concludes his reflections by noting that “the custom of the manor” believed “to an extent...
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