And On The Other Hand

And On The Other Hand

Book Reviews

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…

War Day by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka

What would happen if the United States was hit by a limited nuclear attack; an…

The Histories by Herodotus

Herodotus according to Cicero is the Father of History. Does that mean that before Herodotus…

House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France by Justine Firnhaber-Baker

It used to be that you could look to the future and see a never-ending…

Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law by Neil Gorsuch and Janie Nitze

“The worse the society, the more law there will be. In Hell there will be…

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam

Before his death in a car accident in 2007, David Halberstam wrote over twenty excellent…

The Twenty-Five Year Century by Lam Quang Thi

Unfortunately, too few histories, written by Vietnamese of the First and Second Indo-China wars have…