by Tim Traudt, 2022, self-published This book is written by a former executive who worked in the bank where I once worked. I know Tim as an acquaintance, but I really didn’t have any dealings with him. Tim has had … Continue reading →
by Adam Hochschild, 1998, Audiobook on cassette tapes narrated by Geoffrey Howard released in 2010, Books on Tape, Random House Audio This book is an indictment of the colonization of the Congo by King Leopold of Belgium. It recounts the … Continue reading →
by Buzz Bissinger, 2022, Harper This is possibly the worst book I have recently read. It attempts to portray the marines who played a game of football on Guadalcanal prior to fighting in the battle for Okinawa where many of … Continue reading →
by Alan Moorehead, originally published in 1963, Kindle version, 2010, Skyhorse This book is about an exploration expedition into the interior of Australia in 1860. Much of Australia had never been explored at that time and this was one of … Continue reading →
by David Kertzer, 2022, Audiobook narrated by Arthur Morey, Random House Audio In 2020 the Vatican opened up numerous documents in their archives relating to communications and meeting between the Vatican and the Italian and German governments before and … Continue reading →
by Martin Dugard, Kindle edition, 2001, Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Â The book is interesting but it’s not a true biography as the author makes up scenarios that are likely but not necessarily valid. He … Continue reading →
by Mike Duncan, 2021, Audiobook narrated by the author, PublicAffairs This is a pretty good biography about an amazing individual. Lafayette was a person whose life story is almost unbelievable. He was present in the American Revolution at almost every … Continue reading →
by Allen C. Guelzo, 2021, Kindle Edition, Alfred A.Knopf, New York  This is a balanced, well-researched, and well-written biography of Robert E. Lee. The author delves into the aspects of Lee’s life that made him the person he was. … Continue reading →
by Nelson Mandela, 2008, Kindle Version, Little, Brown and Company  I read most of this book while on a trip to South Africa. It provided me with an understanding of what the country had gone through under apartheid and … Continue reading →
by Fred Kaplan, 2020, Simon & Schuster This book is about the development of the strategy of national defense and how we would utilize nuclear weapons in the event of a threat to our country. Actually, that statement isn’t exactly … Continue reading →