by Seymour Morris, Jr., 2014, Harper This book was somewhat of a disappointment. I was very interested in how a successful occupation of another company was managed, particularly after the disaster that occurred in Iraq. The book seemed to start … Continue reading →
by Steven R. Roberts with Alexander von Svoboda, 2013, Rouge River Press, Dearborn, MI This story is about a youth who was drafted into Hitler’s army and survived incredible hardship. At the age of 15 Alexander Svoboda was sent to … Continue reading →
by Erik Larson, 2011, Broadway Paperbacks, New York This is a fascinating book, well-written and extremely well-researched. I was amazed at how well the author could reconstruct events that occurred so many years ago. I couldn’t help compare his work … Continue reading →
by Elie Wisel, 1972 (new translation by Marion Wiesel, 2006), Hill and Wang, a division of Farrer, Straus, and Giroux, New York Compelling, horrifying, saddening – one individual’s story of his Holocaust experience. Also, I might add, beautifully written. Reading … Continue reading →
The Americans who Stood with Britain in its Darkest, Finest Hour by Lynne Olson, 2010, Random House, New York This book is about three Americans who played prominent roles in London during World War II, ambassador John Gilbert Winant, Edward … Continue reading →
by Ken Follett, 2002, Audiobook read by John Lee, Books on Tape, Inc., Santa Ana, California This was a fairly enjoyable book to listen to. It moved along, the characters were interesting (if somewhat predictable), and the reader was very … Continue reading →
by Douglas Waller, 2011, Free Press, New York This looked like a pretty good book as the subject sounded pretty interesting.  On the plus side, the book did have a lot of information about what went on behind the scenes in World … Continue reading →
by Michael Korda, 2009, Harper, New York This was a pretty interesting book, but only because I didn’t know much about this campaign. Missing was a sense of the hardships that the pilots and crew went through as well as the impacts … Continue reading →
by Victor Klemperer, Translated by Martin Chalmers, 1999, Modern Library Paperback Edition, Random House, New York (First published in Germany under the title Ich will Aeugnis ablegen bis sum ltestn: Tagebucher 1933 von Victor Kempere, Copyright Aufbau-Verlag GmbH, Berlin, 1995). … Continue reading →
by Tan Twan Eng, 2008, Weinstein Books, New York This novel is about the experiences of Phillip Hutton, a half-Chinese, half-English person in Malaya before, during, and after World War II. Prior to the war, he meets a Japanese man … Continue reading →