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Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in WWII by Arthur Herman

This is the story of how American business, which is the American people came together…

Swords Around A Throne: Napoleon’s Grand Armee by John R. Elting

Elting, a noted historian and lecturer at West Point has put it all together in…

For God and Kaiser: The Imperial Austrian Army by Richard Bassett

This is an outstanding and very readable history of the Imperial Austrian Army which was…

The Transylvanian Trilogy by Miklos Banffy

This is a massive novel (about 1600 pages) written in three sections: They Were Counted….

Hunger by Knut Hamsun

Hamsun is widely credited as opening European literature to a new level of realism and…

The Changing of the Guard

Last week I posted (But Will Europe Listen) about the threat to Europe, not from…

But Will Europe Listen?

Europe is going through a challenging time. For decades it has lived in a never-never…

Her Privates We by Frederic Manning

The Middle Parts of Fortune: Somme and Ancre, 1916 I found a list of the…

Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War by Stephen R. Platt

Reading Chinese history can be difficult for a Westerner due to the names, locations, time…