by envisionmg | Jan 23, 2015 | Biography, Discovery List, Fiction, Historical Fiction, History, Non-fiction, Reading Lists
SONS OF LIBERTY, the three-night, six-hour event, follows a defiant and radical group of young men–Sam Adams, John Adams, Paul Revere, John Hancock and Dr. Joseph Warren–as they band together in secrecy to change the course of history and make America a nation. [Text...
by envisionmg | Jan 5, 2015 | History, Jim Recommends
Doing a Russian spy themed Jim Recommends today. All of the books I’m recommend are perspective on espionage from the perspective of the Soviet Union. Spymaster -Tennent H. Bagley Spymaster is a unique book. It is the biography of Sergey A. Kondrashev, a major...
by envisionmg | Dec 24, 2014 | History, Jim Reviews
How about a little Russian Revolution on Christmas Eve? Ok maybe not every ones first choice for the night before Christmas but at some point you should really check this one out (I briefly tried to come up with Russian Revolution themed lyrics to Night Before...
by envisionmg | Dec 8, 2014 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, History, Non-fiction, Today In History
We’ve got some music and musicians and big political events on this day in history. Enjoy a nice reading list with a work of fiction and a work of non-fiction commemorating them. 1813 The Premier of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony The Seventh Symphony was...
by envisionmg | Dec 5, 2014 | History, Jim Reviews
You might remember this title from my post Jim’s Bedside Table. Well, it isn’t on the table any more. I read it over the holiday and really enjoyed it. Open Cockpit by Arthur Gould Lee (sadly we don’t own a copy of the book, however I’m working...
by envisionmg | Nov 10, 2014 | History, Jim Reviews
I picked this book up simply because it was the only time I had seen a history of World War II told from the perspective of the Japanese. What I hadn’t realized is Hara’s Japanese Destroyer Captain was actually a much older book. It was originally...
