In the interwar years of the 1920s and 1930s several books about World War I came out that have become seminal works in their own right. Among these is Goodbye To All That by Robert Graves, his autobiography written and… Continue Reading →
Since 2014 there have been a whole slew of books released dealing with World War I in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of the war. This volume is one of them. In The Great War Peter Hart has produced a… Continue Reading →
[FULL DISCLOSURE: I received my copy of this book free from the author and/or publisher. I was not paid for this review and the opinion expressed is purely my own] Hannibal’s Road covers a period in history that is often… Continue Reading →
Sea Power is a book that takes a fresh twenty-first century look at the world’s oceans and the geopolitical challenges facing the United States in the century ahead. As always, the stats. There are 343 pages of texts divided into… Continue Reading →
[FULL DISCLOSURE: I received my copy of this book free from the author and/or publisher. I was not paid for this review and the opinion expressed is purely my own] As interesting books go Mortal Wounds is way up there…. Continue Reading →
I thought that the victory laps the press and others are doing about the supposed defeat of ISIS in Iraq was a good time to post this. Apparently the leaders of the West and most of the Western population has… Continue Reading →
The Battlefields of the First World War: The Unseen Panoramas of the Western Front by Peter Barton is one of the most visually stunning books about WWI I have ever read. This work is more than just a history of… Continue Reading →
[FULL DISCLOSURE: I received my copy of this book free from the author and/or publisher. I was not paid for this review and the opinion expressed is purely my own] I would hazard to guess that when most people think… Continue Reading →
Happy Veterans Day To all my fellow veterans! Somebody has to be at the pointy end of the stick and you all took up the challenge, Today is Veteran’s Day in the US and Armistice Day in Britain and France…. Continue Reading →
[FULL DISCLOSURE: I received my copy of this book free from the author and/or publisher. I was not paid for this review and the opinion expressed is purely my own] Anybody who has read this blog over the past few… Continue Reading →
I kind of had an idea of what to expect from this book just from reading the title and I was not wrong. Perhaps I am not the person to critically review a work of this type as I knew… Continue Reading →
A Generation of Sociopaths is an interesting book with an interesting thesis, to say the least. The main thesis of the book is that the Baby Boomer generation (those born between 1944 and 1964) has used its power at the… Continue Reading →
The Napoleonic Wars waged for twelve years with many weapons and tactics employed in the fight. This is especially true of the epic Battle of Waterloo on June 18th of 1815, a battle which finally brought the tyrannical rule of… Continue Reading →
Liberal Fascism is to me, a fascinating look inside the historical and philosophical roots of the modern liberal/progressive movement. It is also a scathing indictment of the totalitarian tendencies of the modern liberal/progressive movement but that is essentially the whole… Continue Reading →
Deng Xiaoping: A Revolutionary Life.By Alexander Pantsov and Steven Levine.Oxford University Press; 610 pages. One of the hardest things about biographies of leaders like Deng Xiaoping is that it feels like nothing more than a collage of newspaper or magazine… Continue Reading →
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