And On The Other Hand

And On The Other Hand

Book Reviews

Brute Force: Allied Strategy and Tactics in the Second World War by John Ellis

There is a scene in the movie “Patton” where he is standing as a mass…

The Iron Flood by A. Serafimovich

The author (1863-19490) was born on the Don and his father was paymaster in a…

Bismark’s War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe

A few years ago, my wife and I spent a month in France, starting at…

Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman

 When the manuscript for this book was first reviewed by the Soviet censor, he told…

What If?

History is full of “what ifs”, “near things”, and “almost”.  In Hitler’s American Gamble by…

The Winter War: Russia’s Invasion of Finland, 1939-40 by Robert Edwards

For 105 days, the small and ill-equipped Finnish army held off the full might of…

A Homeland Denied by Irena Kossakowski

As we are growing up, we have a tendency to either ignore or tune out…

Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962 by Frank Dikotter

What is the correct number?  Thirty-Two million?  Thirty-Seven million?  Forty million? The correct number of…

Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientist to America by Anne Jacobsen

French President Charles de Gaulle once said, “The State is a harsh mistress”.  He may…

August 1914 by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

In August 1914, the Imperial German Army won a total victory over the Imperial Russian…