And On The Other Hand

And On The Other Hand

Book Reviews

The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World by Hal Brands

A friend of mine recently lent this book to me and it brought to mind…

The Autobiography of Henry VIII by Margaret George

Yes, an autobiography of this famous English King; obviously a work of fiction but one…

The Annals of Tacitus

Tacitus was a Roman Senator and had access to the official records and books of…

Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes

The average citizen expects that after the changing of the guard at the White House,…

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…