And On The Other Hand

And On The Other Hand

Book Reviews

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…

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…

Front-Line Stalingrad by Victor Nekrasov

Nedrasov who fought as a sapper in the trenches of Stalingrad does not present a…

Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia’s City of Steel by John Scott

During the Great Depression, thousands of Americans went to work in the Soviet Union which…

Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 by Max Hastings

One of the advantages of building a library is the luxury of being able to…