by envisionmg | Nov 30, 2015 | History, Michelle Reviews, Non-fiction, Staff Review
The Hunter Killers: The Extraordinary Story of the First Wild Weasels, the Band of Maverick Aviators Who Flew the Most Dangerous Missions of the Vietnam War – Dan Hampton The Hunter Killers’ prologue reads a bit like a combined manufacturer’s manual for a...
by envisionmg | Aug 14, 2015 | History, Jim Reviews
by Jim Abulafia’s The Great Sea has been on my bedside table for what seems like years. Actually it has been years. It is just exactly what it says it is a history of the Mediterranean from prehistory to 2010. The thing that has been stopping me is that, minus...
by envisionmg | Jul 29, 2015 | History, Memoir, Reading Intersections
Fall down the rabbit hole with us! In our Reading Intersections series, we’ll give you a place to start and where to go next, piling titles on until you’re neck-deep in books, and movies on a similar theme. Start Here Testament of Youth 2015 This is the...
by envisionmg | Jun 12, 2015 | History, Jim Reviews
By Jim When I first saw Michael Pye’s The Edge of the World: A Cultural History of the North Sea and the Transformation of Europe I though “huh I don’t really know anything about life around the medieval North Sea.” And that’s kind of...
by envisionmg | May 18, 2015 | History, Jim Reviews
By Jim Now that we are through the first year of the hundred year anniversary of World War 1 I thought it would be interesting to read a history of that first year of the war. So I picked up Peter Hart’s Fire and Movement: The British Expeditionary Force and the...
by envisionmg | Apr 27, 2015 | History, Jim Reviews, YA
by Jim The obvious hook of Georg Rauch’s memoir Unlikely Warrior: A Jewish Soldier in Hitler’s Army is how did a Jew end up in the German army in World War II? Until I read this book I would have thought it was impossible, but apparently it was a thing...
