Book Reviews
Historical Fiction
Amgalant One: The Old Ideal
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Mar 22, 2013
This book is about Temujin, commonly known as Genghis Khan in the Western world. Read On
In Arms and Idleness
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Mar 11, 2013
Heroic David Ricksen and slippery Michael Hurley, two intelligent privates whose friendship seems odd even to themselves, arrive in Yokohama. They discover a world where a small amount of funny money, military scrip used in lieu of U.S. currency, can buy women and a lot more besides. Read On
Not One Among Them Whole: A Novel of Gettysburg
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Feb 22, 2013
In “Not One Among Them Whole,” author Edison McDaniels, takes us by the hand and leads us through the horrors of battle as witnessed by a handful of individuals. It serves as a timely reminder for the video game generation that might see war as a glorious endeavor from which heroes emerge triumphant and whole. Read On
Shaken, Not Stirred
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Jan 09, 2013
A spellbinding fictional account of Ian Fleming’s early intelligence and writing career during World War II. Read On
Provenance
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Jan 02, 2013
PROVENANCE is the history of a painting, from its creation in Amsterdam in1641 to its discovery in 1990 in a hallway of an administrative building of small college in Brooklyn. Read On
Justa
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Dec 07, 2012
Light reading for romance lovers with an interest in early Roman history. Read On
Vida Nocturna
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Nov 08, 2012
The thrilling and harrowing tale of a Sara and her involvement in the drug trade in decadent 1980s Chicago. Read On
The Settler
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A riveting story of love and forgiveness set during British expansion in Rhodesia and the Second Boer War in South Africa.
Soldiers’ Field: A Novel of Postwar Germany
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Oct 19, 2012
David Streiber is a 19 year-old enlistee from Brooklyn, who joins the U.S. Army in 1959 as a means to escape his sheltered life in the Jewish Ghettos of Brooklyn, New York. Read On
An American in Vienna
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Oct 10, 2012
The book’s focus on the Eastern European front opens up new territory, most westerners are probably more familiar with the Western Front and its long and deadly trench warfare. Read On
