And On The Other Hand

And On The Other Hand

Book Reviews

The Fortress: The Siege of Przemysl by Alexander Watson

This is one of those rare books which gives excellent descriptive detail of a battle…

Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China’s Push for Global Power by Howard W. French

Years ago, when China was beginning to come out of its Maoist straight jacket, and…

The Private Life of Chairman Mao by Dr. Li Zhisui

The 2005 biography of Mao by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday opened many Westerns eyes…

Recollections of Three Reigns by Sir Frederick Ponsonby, First Lord Sysonby

A treasure of a book!  If you are interested in interesting behind the scenes stories…

Wheeling and Dealing by Bobby Baker

In 1963 the Democrats faced a crisis as great as Watergate, but they were saved…

The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror and Repression

How do you write the history of a political movement which killed between 100,000,000 and…

Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger

When the introduction of a book describes the author as “nearly as good a specimen…

Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

For nearly eighty years, Dreiser’s novel, written in 1900, was only available in a basically…

On the Eve, the Jews of Europe before the Second World War by Bernard Wasserstein

There was a time when the question of the future of Jews in Europe did…

The Forgotten Man, A New History of the Great Depression by Anity Shlaes

“As soon as A observes something which seems to him to be wrong, from which…