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A Dual Biography that works

Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks

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I read Churchill and Orwell because I am a fan of the author, Thomas E. Ricks.  Ricks is best known as a military historian who wrote Fiasco and The Generals, both of which I highly recommend.  This book is a bit of a departure for Ricks but the topic seemed interesting.  Churchill and Orwell is a dual biography of two British men who had similarly parallel lives during WWII-era Great Britain.  I was surprised to find how much the two men had in common, especially considering how different they were.   Churchill and Orwell is not a comprehensive dual biography. […]

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9/5/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:36 |

Some People Fight Injustice. Some People Perpetrate It.

Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly

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Best for: Those looking for a bit of inspiration in tough times; those who want to learn more about a group of WWII women (the Rabbits) who haven’t received a lot of coverage. In a nutshell: Three women’s lives intertwine – Caroline, a retired US Broadway star who volunteers at the French Consulate in NYC, Kasia, a Polish teen who is just starting to assist the resistance, and Herta, a German Doctor who experiments on young girls in a concentration camp. Worth quoting: “To make things worse, Washington tightened visa restrictions, and it became almost impossible to enter the United […]

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6/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:35 |

Army Chief of Staff Reading List #13

The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (World War II Liberation Trilogy #3) by Rick Atkinson

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The Guns at Last Light is the finale of the Liberation Trilogy by Rick Atkinson, the first of which, An Army at Dawn, won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2003.  The series encompasses the history of the United States activity in the European theater of World War II.  An Army at Dawn is about the U.S. Military during the North Africa campaign.  Book two, The Day of Battle, is about the the war in Italy and the Mediterranean; it is subtitled, The War in Sicily and Italy.  Finally. The Guns at Last Light begins at D-Day and continues through […]

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5/22/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:24 |

Stick With This One, It’s Worth It

Never Anyone But You by Rupert Thomson

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This is my first ever experience reading a book before print, and it took a little while for me to get into this one, but once I was in, the payoff was worth it. Never Anyone But You follows Suzanne and Claude (Luci) from falling in love as teenagers in the early 1900s through the many different Paris art movements post World War I, onto their Nazi resistance during World War II, and their final years on the small isle of Jersey. In truth, the first 100 pages of this book were a little rough to find my footing in, and […]

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4/26/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:9 |

War sucks

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

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I just recently turned thirty-nine, so forty is just around the corner. Not too long ago, I stumbled on a reading list on the internet: 50 Books Every Woman Should Read Before She Turns 40. It’s a list with many great books, some of which I’ve already read. However, the list loses some credibility for a number of reasons. First, the blurb states that the list celebrates female writers, but then Gustave Flaubert is one of the authors? Second, and more importantly, Fifty Shades of Grey is on this list. Their defense is that it became a literary sensation and reminded women that […]

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4/21/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:17 |

Women & Espionage in the World Wars

The Alice Network: A Novel by Kate Quinn

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The Alice Network by Kate Quinn is an ambitious work of historical fiction that straddles two world wars and their aftermath, and that shines a light on the heroic work of female spies. Quinn uses a solid base of historical fact and real people to create her fictional heroine Eve (aka Evelyn Gardiner, aka Marguerite Le Francois), a spy for England in WWI who made shattering sacrifices and has never healed from her tragic and brutal experiences. Eve is an alcoholic recluse when, in the spring of 1947, an assertive and unrelenting American girl named Charlie (Charlotte), who is single […]

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4/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:15 |

Another tale of brave teenagers in time of war

Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse

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Girl in the Blue Coat won the 2017 Edgar Award for Best YA Mystery and is one of the most thrilling and engaging books I have read in a while. I started this book one afternoon and tore through 200 pages in no time, and I couldn’t wait to finish the last 100 pages the next day. Set in 1943 Amsterdam, Girl in the Blue Coat tells the story of Hanneke Bakker, an 18-year-old girl who is trying her best to support her parents and herself during WWII. The Nazis have occupied Hanneke’s country, creating danger and hardship for the […]

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4/5/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:14 |

A war, depression, and a sociopath. And three other books not about the 2016 election.

Pacific Crucible; The Executioners; Herbert Hoover, What Happened by Ian W Toll; John D. MacDonald; Glen Jeansonne, Hillary Clinton

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64. Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 by Ian W. Toll (5 stars) The Pacific Crucible examines the naval war in the Pacific theater of WWII from Pearl Harbor to Midway, and traces its origins back to the naval strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan’s seminal book, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History. This is the first in a nonfiction trilogy about the Pacific theater of WWII. The second, The Conquering Tide, was published in 2015. I think it’s a fairly stellar book about half the time, alternating between both the Japanese and American sides, and going into a […]

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10/30/2017 's CBR9 Review No:68 |


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