by Jared Diamond, first published in 1997 this edition has an afterword published in 2004, W.W. Norton & Company This book was interesting for me to read, although a bit of a chore. The work is very repetitious and sometimes … Continue reading →
by Elie Wisel, 1972 (new translation by Marion Wiesel, 2006), Hill and Wang, a division of Farrer, Straus, and Giroux, New York Compelling, horrifying, saddening – one individual’s story of his Holocaust experience. Also, I might add, beautifully written. Reading … Continue reading →
by Michael Lewis, 1989, W.W. Norton & Company, New York This is an interesting read, but, unlike most everybody who has reviewed this book, I didn’t find it that funny. On the cover of the book is a quote by Tom … Continue reading →
The Americans who Stood with Britain in its Darkest, Finest Hour by Lynne Olson, 2010, Random House, New York This book is about three Americans who played prominent roles in London during World War II, ambassador John Gilbert Winant, Edward … Continue reading →
by Robert K. Massie, 2011, Random House, New York This book is extremely well-written and researched. I felt that I really understood the woman and also gleaned a tremendous amount of Russian and European history from reading it. While I … Continue reading →
by Candice Millard, 2005, Anchor Books, New York I was not aware that Theodore Roosevelt, after his defeat in the 1912 presidential election, had embarked on a dangerous journey of exploration in the Amazon. Having braved some somewhat less dangerous … Continue reading →
by Michael Lewis, 2010, W. W. Norton & Company, New York This book is about the the subprime meltdown and the individuals who bet that these securities would default. Lewis does an excellent job of capturing the character and personalities … Continue reading →
by Douglas Waller, 2011, Free Press, New York This looked like a pretty good book as the subject sounded pretty interesting. On the plus side, the book did have a lot of information about what went on behind the scenes in World … Continue reading →
by Michael Korda, 2009, Harper, New York This was a pretty interesting book, but only because I didn’t know much about this campaign. Missing was a sense of the hardships that the pilots and crew went through as well as the impacts … Continue reading →
by Victor Klemperer, Translated by Martin Chalmers, 1999, Modern Library Paperback Edition, Random House, New York (First published in Germany under the title Ich will Aeugnis ablegen bis sum ltestn: Tagebucher 1933 von Victor Kempere, Copyright Aufbau-Verlag GmbH, Berlin, 1995). … Continue reading →