Guess what I just got in the mail? Only the hot new book from one of my favorite authors - due for release in March.
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John J. Miller has a new Between the Covers podcast up. This one is with Anne Rice:
. . . on her new memoir about returning to the Catholic Church after many years away from it. This is an important public conversation—first and foremost, it’s an embrace of faith and a rejection of atheism. From looking [...]
Just found out about this interesting literary experiment:
Alexander McCall Smith is writing his first ever online novel Corduroy Mansions exclusively for Telegraph.co.uk. A new chapter will appear on this page each weekday for the next 20 weeks. The best-selling author welcomes your suggestions as the story unfolds.
You can read or listen to the serialized novel [...]
World War II Japanese Tank Tactics by Gordon L. Rottman and Akira Takizawa is another booklet in Osprey’s “Elite” series, which explores the history of military forces, artifacts, personalities, and techniques of warfare. The book is 63 pages, including a few pages of additional commentary at the back of the book.
The book is divided into [...]
Few sports fans would argue that we needed yet another book about the “Ten Year War” - the intense rivalry between the University of Michigan and Ohio State football teams and their iconic coaches Woody Hayes and Bo Schembechler. The subject has been covered voluminously in books, magazines, newspapers, and videos (I have reviewed a [...]
Alex Kershaw has done it again – he has written another fine non-fiction book that reads like a novel. His latest book, Escape from the Deep, tells the story of one of the most famous submarine patrols of World War II – the attack of the U.S.S. Tang in the Formosa Strait in September and [...]
–> Our Longest Days: A People’s History of the Second World War by Sandra Koa Wing
Description
“This was life as it happened and there’s nothing more fascinating than reading history through the words of those who lived it.”-Publishing News
This is a powerful, detailed, and warming story of World War II told through the previously unheard voices [...]
The Royal Hungarian Army in World War II by Dr. Nigel Thomas and Laszlo Szabo is a booklet in Osprey’s (the book’s publisher) “Men-at-Arms” series. The book is 47 pages, including several tables and charts at the back of the book.
If you ever wanted to know everything about the Hungarian Army during World War II, [...]
–> American Rifle: A biography by Alexander Rose
Amazon.com Review
Given the title, American Rifle is a book that many potential readers might dismiss without a thought. Don’t do it: Alexander Rose’s peculiar “biography” is not written for gun enthusiasts–though they’ll certainly enjoy it–but for anyone interested American history from George Washington to the Wild West to [...]
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