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BANDIT HEAVEN – Tom Clavin
I am fascinated by the American West. I’m not sure when this started – quite possibly it began with the Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid movie of 1968, followed by my reading of The Wild Bunch by James D. Horan in the mid-1970’s. But it’s not just the history that attracts me, but the landscape as well. Add Continue reading
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THE MANUSCRIPTS CLUB – Christopher de Hamel
There was a time when I considered myself more than just an avid reader, but a collector of books. Had I the resources, I have no doubt that I would have collected manuscripts if I’d had the resources (ie money) and so this title really grabbed my attention. I have to admit, though, that I Continue reading
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THE ISLAND OF EXTRAORDINARY CAPTIVES – Simon Parkin
Being from the U.S., I was moderately aware of POW and Internment camps here in the States. I honestly hadn’t given much thought to such camps in England during WWII, but of course there were. This book examines one such camp, meant to detain Germans and German sympathizers during the war. Unfortunately, camps such as Continue reading
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THE VIKING HEART – Arthur Herman
Arthur Herman’s The Viking Heart is a history book … well, no, it’s a sociology study … er, it’s a personal memoir … or, rather, it’s … it’s a little bit of everything. Including flawed. The subtitle, How Scandinavians Conquered the World, is meant to be quite broad. We don’t realize this at first, reading through the early Continue reading
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THE REAL VALKYRIE – Nancy Marie Brown
Vikings and Valkyries – these two words can conjure up a lot of images, especially today with the popularity of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But the real Vikings and Valkyries (real Valkyries?) were much more interesting, and although the Vikings we are referencing here were alive more than one thousand years ago. Even so, we’re Continue reading
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1973: ROCK AT THE CROSSROADS – Andrew Grant Jackson
One of my children is very much interested in music and, because I listened to a lot of what we now call ‘classic rock’, he is also quite fond of this music period. We’ve talked about it quite often and how I always felt that there was a real strength of music and musicians in Continue reading
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THE FIVE – Hallie Rubenhold
By today’s standards, sadly, a mass murderer or serial killer who kills five women is hardly even worthy of front page news. But mention the name Jack the Ripper and most people will have at the very least heard the name and many will know he was a notorious killer from the late 1800’s, and Continue reading
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A LAND APART – Ian Roberts
Have you ever visited a historical site – in the U.S., these places are usually identified with brown signs signifying they are places of historic significance – and then gone into the visitor’s center at this historic site and seen the plethora of memorabilia that is somehow connected with that site, usually including plenty of Continue reading
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VALLEY FORGE – Bob Drury and Tom Clavin
I am finding that the older I get the more I have started to enjoy reading non-fiction, specifically biographies and histories. And if you had ever suggested to my younger self that I would ever enjoy history, I would have laughed in your face. Ah, how we change. Admittedly, part of my interest in this Continue reading
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THE BATTALION ARTIST – Janice Blake
For three years, three months, and three days, Nat Bellatoni of Massachusetts served in the South Pacific during World War II. Nat was a young artist and served with the Navy Seabees on different islands during the war, often not allowed to tell his loved ones where he was. As time allowed, even on short Continue reading
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TOMBSTONE – Tom Clavin
Tombstone, the city, holds a bit of magical appeal to me. I find that I am enjoying reading history books more and more (perhaps because I’ve got more of it myself?) and I absolutely love the American Southwest for its landscape and history and few cities in this region have more history that Tombstone, Arizona. Continue reading
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PLAYING TO THE GODS – Peter Rader
Sarah Bernhardt. Eleonora Duse. Most people are familiar with Sarah’s name, even if they don’t know why she is famous. Only a few dedicated history or theatre buffs probably know the name of Eleonora Duse. But at one time their rivalry was watched and reported internationally and the art of acting, as we know it Continue reading
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