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American Railroads, published in 1961, is a reasonable starting point if one does not know much about how the American railroad system began, starting with the canal system that used the nation’s navigable rivers such as the Erie. Stover’s history delves into why the railroad…

Review of American Railroads by John Stover

January 15, 2023

Siobhan’s latest novel (published in 2021) merges a modern-day granddaughter Charlotte who discovers a picture of the recently deceased grandmother, Elena with another young woman from when both served in the WWII Italian Resistance. Intrigued by the picture and puzzled by her grandmother’s cryptic words…

The Girl From Venice by Siobhan Daiko

October 16, 2021

Richard Breitman’s account of U.S. Foreign Service Senior Consul Raymond Geist’s heroic efforts at warning FDR and other high U.S. officials of the evil of Hitler’s grandiose plans to conquer and dominate the world and Geist’s efforts from the mid to late 1930’s through the…

Review of Richard Breitman’s The Berlin Mission: The American Who Resisted Nazi Germany from Within

September 7, 2019

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WWII, the Nazi’s, the Resistance, and Vichy France come alive in Aaron Rockett’s Fake Papers: Survival Lessons from Grandma’s Escape. When I first started reading Fake Papers, I thought that it was a series of short accounts. It is not. Rockett alternates between eras, the…

Review of Fake Papers by Aaron Rockett

July 6, 2019

If you like WWII fiction set in the German-occupied areas or Holocaust concentration camp-Resistance fiction, Solahütte is one to read. It came out before Heather Morris’ debut release The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Both books are similiar though Morris’ book is a cross between true crime…

WWII Fiction — Review of Steven Donahue’s Solahütte

June 16, 2019

Based on a true story, Heather Morris’ The Tattooist of Auschwitz tells the story of Lale, who in 1942, traveled from Slovakia to Prague (now in the separate Czech Republic) and then with several hundred other Jews found himself being transported a month later…

Review of The Tattooist of Auschwitz

March 10, 2019

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When their father dies suddenly, three kids are left to struggle into youth and then adulthood. One doesn’t make it very far. Toby the youngest, stayed in a make-believe world after the father’s death until he is jolted hard back into reality during a stay…

Tempting Fate: Review of Ralph Cohen’s After Dad

April 13, 2017

Michael Doane’s Six Miles to Roadside Business resembles accounts of the 1960’s flower children era that I’ve read in the past. The writing has a counter-culture, hippie feel. Doane’s writing is not exactly stream of consciousness but real close in that at times it can…

A Metaphysical Journey Through The Desert: Review of Michael Doane’s Six Miles to Roadside Business

October 28, 2016

Set in New York City, Sarah Rees Brennan’s Tell the Wind and Fire is a dystopian novel in which two worlds, the Dark and the Light are pitted against each other. In the afterword, the author relates about how Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two…

A World of Us Versus Them: Review of Tell the Wind and Fire

April 17, 2016

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At 109 pages on the Kindle, Wyatt North’s Pope John XXIII: The Good Pope is a fast easy to understand introduction into Catholicism as well as being a brief biographical sketch of Pope John XIII who served as pope for four years.and seven months, during the…

A Primer on Catholicism: Review of Wyatt North’s Pope John XXIII: The Good Pope

April 14, 2016

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Posts tagged ‘WWII’

Review of American Railroads by John Stover

The Girl From Venice by Siobhan Daiko

Review of Richard Breitman’s The Berlin Mission: The American Who Resisted Nazi Germany from Within

Review of Fake Papers by Aaron Rockett

WWII Fiction — Review of Steven Donahue’s Solahütte

Review of The Tattooist of Auschwitz

Tempting Fate: Review of Ralph Cohen’s After Dad

A Metaphysical Journey Through The Desert: Review of Michael Doane’s Six Miles to Roadside Business

A World of Us Versus Them: Review of Tell the Wind and Fire

A Primer on Catholicism: Review of Wyatt North’s Pope John XXIII: The Good Pope