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He loved art, but not puzzles

The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Eugene Yelchin

August 8, 2022 by BlackRaven 3 Comments

I had not realized how recently published The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Eugene Yelchin was. I figured this was a 1990s books or even earlier due the 1980s style of cover. But then again, since the author was growing up in the 1960s and 1970s it is probably appropriate to have that feeling to the cover. We learn about the author/illustrator in a way only they can tell us. The troubles, the love, the misunderstandings, the political and […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: 1953-1985, art, drawing, Eugene Yelchin, family, siblings, Soviet Union

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:439 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: 1953-1985, art, drawing, Eugene Yelchin, family, siblings, Soviet Union ·
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Hiding in plain sight.

Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis by Susan Hood and Greg Dawson

December 2, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis is a romanticized look at how two Jewish girls lived when millions did not. Told in alternating voices, the Narrator, and “Anna” herself or, Zhanna Arshanskaya we learn how Zhanna and her sister Frina, were hiding in plain sight. They performed for the Nazi command, allies of the Nazi and eventually, for themselves. But no matter how much they feared being found out, betrayed by supposed friends, or their hatred of the Nazis, they always felt […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Religion, Young Adult Tagged With: Adolph Hitler, Child musicians, Frina Arshanskaya, Greg Dawson, hitler, Holocaust, Jewish children in the Holocaust, Jewish/Jews, music, piano, Soviet Union, Susan Hood and Greg Dawson, the ravine Drobitsky Yar, Ukraine, World War II, Zhanna Arshanskaya, Zhanna Arshanskaya ("Janna") Dawson

BlackRaven's CBR13 Review No:405 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Religion, Young Adult · Tags: Adolph Hitler, Child musicians, Frina Arshanskaya, Greg Dawson, hitler, Holocaust, Jewish children in the Holocaust, Jewish/Jews, music, piano, Soviet Union, Susan Hood and Greg Dawson, the ravine Drobitsky Yar, Ukraine, World War II, Zhanna Arshanskaya, Zhanna Arshanskaya ("Janna") Dawson ·
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A Different Focus for WWII

Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 by Max Hastings

March 6, 2020 by thewheelbarrow Leave a Comment

This book is on the Army Chief of Staff Reading List so I read it when it became available. I’ve read a lot of WWII both in my life and in over the last few years. As this is professional reading, I suppose the kind way to phrase it is that I am over-saturated with WWII at the moment. I was a history major in college, I’m in the military, and my father was described by John Mulaney this week on SNL – he is […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Germany, Japan, Max Hastings, Nazi, Soviet Union, WWII

thewheelbarrow's CBR12 Review No:9 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Germany, Japan, Max Hastings, Nazi, Soviet Union, WWII ·
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Fascination into passion

Chernobyl 01:23:40 by Andrew Leatherbarrow

June 3, 2019 by Claire Badger 2 Comments

If you’ve been watching HBO’s Chernobyl than you’ve probably jumped down the nuclear disaster rabbit hole, and you may be looking for something to explain the finer details of the disaster. If, like me, you’re a laymen and can understand the basics of the technology but not the specifics, than a lot of the books out there may be daunting. Maybe you want a more personal account, but you don’t want to pick up one of the 500-800 page tomes out there documenting survivor stories, […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: accidents, andrew leatherbarrow, chernobyl, disasters, fukashima, nuclear power, Soviet Union

Claire Badger's CBR11 Review No:12 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: accidents, andrew leatherbarrow, chernobyl, disasters, fukashima, nuclear power, Soviet Union ·
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I kept expecting a wizard, but all I got was Richard Nixon.

Camelot's Court by Robert Dallek

December 16, 2016 by ingres77 2 Comments

The aura that surrounds John F. Kennedy is, by itself, worthy of enough attention to warrant a book all by itself. From his familial history to his infamous relationship with women to his storied political career and untimely, traumatizing assassination, few Americans are both so well known and mysterious. I’ve stated before my intention to read a biography on every president. This goal grew out of a plan to rank every president (plus Jefferson Davis) by various criteria. I generally have that done already, but […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Bay of Pigs, Camelot's Court, Civil Rights Act, Cuba, Cuban Missile Crisis, john f kennedy, Richard Nixon, Robert Dallek, Soviet Union, Vietnam

ingres77's CBR8 Review No:105 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Bay of Pigs, Camelot's Court, Civil Rights Act, Cuba, Cuban Missile Crisis, john f kennedy, Richard Nixon, Robert Dallek, Soviet Union, Vietnam ·
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War Is Never Over

The Reawakening by Primo Levi

March 30, 2014 by Berry Leave a Comment

Primo Levi’s memoir The Reawakening begins where his Survival in Auschwitz ended. It’s the last days of the WWII, and Levi is trying to stay alive in what passes for a hospital or sick bay in concentration camp. Levi, who committed suicide in 1987, was an Italian Jewish writer and a chemist. He was arrested in as a part of the Italian resistance in 1943, and to escape being shot as a partisan, he confessed to being Jewish, and after a short interment in Italy, […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, Auschwitz, biography, Holocaust, Soviet Union, WWII

Berry's CBR6 Review No:6 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, Auschwitz, biography, Holocaust, Soviet Union, WWII ·
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