by envisionmg | Dec 21, 2015 | History, Jim Reviews
If you are like me you haven’t heard much about the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905). Which as I found out is kind of a shame because it really sets the stage for a lot of the wars of the 20th century. Pleshakov’s Tsar’s Last Armada, takes you through...
by envisionmg | Dec 7, 2015 | History, Jim Reviews
People have been writing books about the Battle of Guadalcanal basically from the moment the island was secured. As the first US land offensive of World War II, this battle has attained almost mythical statues. Hornfischer in Neptune’s Inferno tries to edit some...
by envisionmg | Nov 20, 2015 | Jim Reviews, Non-fiction, Staff Review
One Soldier’s War is the memoir of Babchenko’s service as an infantryman in the Russian army during the First and Second Chechen Wars in the 1990s. Both these wars grew out of attempts by Chechnya to break away from the Russian Federation. Fresh out of college,...
by envisionmg | Oct 22, 2015 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Jim Reviews, Staff Review
By Jim I admit I picked up this book because of the cover. I first saw it on the new book display by the circulation desk in the lobby (if you haven’t checked that display out you really should, there are a lot of gems there). And everything on the cover of The...
by envisionmg | Oct 2, 2015 | Graphic Novels, Jim Reviews
One of the best parts of doing interlibrary loan (besides having the god like power of summoning books from all corners of the globe 😃 ) is all the books, music, movies and tv shows you encounter because other people have asked for them. Andrew...
by envisionmg | Sep 25, 2015 | Historical Fiction, Jim Reviews
By Jim One of the things I’m always on the look out for is historical fiction set in an under represented time periods and locations. Elsa Hart’s Jade Dragon Mountain fits both of those categories. This is Hart’s first novel and it is set in 1708 in...
