And On The Other Hand

And On The Other Hand

Book Reviews

Legionnaire: An Englishman in the French Foreign Legion by Simon Murphy

Why would a man join the French Foreign Legion?  For some, it is to hide,…

The Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour Hersh

Legends die hard and when this book originally came out, there still existed a legend…

Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves

This is his classic auto-biography and covers his life from early childhood, through College, the…

Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman

During the Second World War, Grossman was an outstanding war correspondent for the Soviet Union…

Grant by Ron Chernow

A lengthy biography of General and President Ulysses S. Grant (given name, Hiram Ulysses Grant),…

The Downing Street Years by Margaret Thatcher

This massive-almost nine hundred pages-book is an almost day by day, detailed record of her…

Panzer Leader by General Heinz Guderian

Considered by many to be the founding father of the Panzer concept in pre-war Germany,…

The Secret Paris of the 30s by Brassai

Starting in the late 1920’s the author began prowling the back streets and alleys of…

The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric

Over three hundred years ago, a Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire built a bridge…

The Line Upon the Wind; The Great War at Sea, 1793-1815 by Noel Mostert

A massive (just over 700 pages) history of the naval battles between the United Kingdom…