And On The Other Hand

And On The Other Hand

Book Reviews

Poilu: The World War One Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrel Maker, 1914-1918

During the first world war, Corporal Barthas kept a diary, totaling some nineteen notebooks; in…

Against the Tide: Rickover’s Leadership Principles and the Rise of the Nuclear Navy by Read Admiral Dave Oliver, USN (Ret)

Prior to World War II, the established bureaucracy within the U.S. navy felt that battleships…

Wellington, the Path to Victory, 1769-1814 by Rory Muir

A massive biography which covers the first half of Wellington’s life. Not being the first…

Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy, 1905-1953 by Simon Ings

According to Marxist “scientific thought”, man is shaped by his environment; change the environment and…

Last Days of Glory; the Death of Queen Victoria by Tony Rennell

In January 1901. Queen Victoria died at the age of 81 after being Queen for…

Poland 1939 by Roger Moorhouse

Through the mists of time, the campaign against Poland in September 1939 has seemed to…

The House of Islam, a Global History by Ed Husain

Many years ago, just out of University my parents and I travelled to Spain.  We…

Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning by Nigel Biggar

We seem to be living in a time when a goodly portion of humanity, the…

Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline by Montesquieu

Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brede et de Montesquieu was from the middle…

Natural Gas as an Instrument of Russian State Power by Ion Iftimie

Given the war in the Ukraine, I thought this might be a good time to…