If you read a lot about World War II, you’ll come across not one but several battles mentioned as the “turning point.” Focusing only on Europe, five events surface. Moscow (January 1942). Stalingrad (February 1943). Kursk (August 1943). Operation Bagration (August 1944). And, of...
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Wherever Europeans established colonies, there was always at least a handful of the local elite who prospered. Europeans rarely learned the local languages or worked with any of the millions of poor people they ruled—except when they hired them as household servants. But there was always a need...
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Alice Mortimer lives in a college town where nothing much happens—until Alice finds herself in the middle of a mass shooting. She’s at the end of a 10-hour shift at a burger joint when a deranged young man starts shooting up the place. Alice gets seriously pissed off. She wrests the...
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The main event at the Scottish psychiatric hospital Craiglockhart is the arrival of Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) in the summer of 1917. The celebrated young poet had recently circulated an anti-war message attacking Britain’s political leaders. He charged that “the war is being...
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When Winston Churchill launched the storied Special Operations Executive (SOE) on June 13, 1940, just a month had passed since he moved into 10 Downing Street. Yet France had fallen to Hitler’s minions and the British Expeditionary Force had barely escaped annihilation at Dunkirk. But the...
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Mysteries & Thrillers Tuesday includes my latest mystery and thriller book review,
with links to other science fiction content.
Nonfiction Wednesday includes my latest nonfiction book review,
with links to other nonfiction content.
The Weekly includes summaries and links to all the previous week’s three to five book reviews, including some that don’t appear in any of the other newsletters.
Mysteries & Thrillers Tuesday includes my latest mystery and thriller book review, with links to other science fiction content.
Nonfiction Wednesday includes my latest nonfiction book review, with links to other nonfiction content.
The Weekly includes summaries and links to all the previous week’s three to five book reviews, including some that don’t appear in any of the other newsletters.