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...
by envisionmg | Nov 3, 2014 | History, Jim Reviews
I have to confess I used to hate the Italian Renaissance. This is largely because my only exposure to it was an art history class in which the teacher would (when not talking about the wonders of two point perspective) flash slides of paintings up on a wall and say...
by envisionmg | Sep 15, 2014 | History, Jim Reviews
Like many people, I first read about the Hundred Years War in Barbara Tuchman’s A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (which I got totally by accident because I mixed the title up with A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America which I was...
