Morale
by John W. Gardner, 1978, W.W. Norton & Company, New York As is the case with many of the books I read, I didn’t really seek this book out as one I would really want to read. It was in … Continue reading →
Tag Archives: History
Imagined Communities
by Benjamin Anderson, 1991 revised and extended edition, Verso, an imprint of Left Wing Books My son went to George Washington University in Washington, D.C., to get his Master’s degree in Eastern European History. After graduating he had a collection … Continue reading →
Demons of Unrest
by Erik Larson, 2024, Audiobook narrated by Will Patton, Random House Audio This book is a detailed account of the events that led up to the attack on Fort Sumter which was the start of the Civil War. The author … Continue reading →
So Close to Home
by Michael J. Tougias and Alison O’Leary, 2016, Pegasus Books, Ltd. I didn’t initially think much about this book. It’s the story of a family that was on board a freighter bound to New Orleans from Costa Rica during WWII … Continue reading →
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
by David Grann, 2023, Doubleday, New York This is the story of the Wager, a ship that was shipwrecked on the coast of Chile during the War of Jenkin’s Ear between England and Spain in 1740. The ship was part … Continue reading →
Executive Office: A Look at the U.S. Presidents Through the Lens of Leadership
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 →
King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
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 →
The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II
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 →
Cooper’s Creek: Tragedy and Adventure in the Australian Outback
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 →
The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler
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 →