And On The Other Hand

And On The Other Hand

Book Reviews

The Price of Glory, Verdun 1916 by Alistair Horne

There are many beautiful locations in France and during a month-long driving trip across the…

The March of Folly from Troy to Viet Nam by Barbara H. Tuchman

Re-reading Barbara Tuchman’s The March of Folly from Troy to Vietnam (originally published in 1984)…

The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig

In the period from just before the First World War until the early 1940s, Stefan…

War, Logistics and Cannibalism

When Japan decided to go to war with the United States in 1941, it went…

The Age of Battles: the Quest for Decisive Warfare from Breitenfeld to Waterloo by Russell F. Weigley

Victor Davis Hanson in his The Father of Us All; War & History, Ancient &…

Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydide’s Trap? by Graham Allison

The Thucydides’s Trap is when a rising poser threatens to displace an existing one.  This…

The House of Government by Yuri Slezkine

Martin Amis wrote, “The chief demerit of the Marxist program was its point-by-point defiance of…

The Splendid and the File by Erik Larson

History can be the best of subjects or the worse depending on your individual mindset,…

Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita and the Battle of Manila

Over the decades, I have read many books, transcripts, interviews, done personal interviews, etc. regarding…

The Twilight Years: the Paradox of Britain Between the Wars by Richard Overy

What makes a civilization decline?  Is a decline caused by economic or moral faults or…