by Michael J. Tougias and Alison O’Leary, 2016, Pegasus Books, Ltd. I didn’t initially think much about this book. It’s the story of a family that was on board a freighter bound to New Orleans from Costa Rica during WWII … Continue reading →
by Kate Quinn, 2022, Audiobook narrated by Saskia Maarleveld, Harper Audio This is an historical novel portraying Mila Pavlichenko, a Russian librarian who decided to become an expert marksman and was subsequently recruited to be a sharpshooter in the Russian … Continue reading →
by Alexander McCall Smith, 2017, Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York This book is about a young woman in rural England during and after WWII who becomes involved with an American pilot whom she eventually … Continue reading →
by Buzz Bissinger, 2022, Harper This is possibly the worst book I have recently read. It attempts to portray the marines who played a game of football on Guadalcanal prior to fighting in the battle for Okinawa where many of … Continue reading →
by David Kertzer, 2022, Audiobook narrated by Arthur Morey, Random House Audio In 2020 the Vatican opened up numerous documents in their archives relating to communications and meeting between the Vatican and the Italian and German governments before and … Continue reading →
by Kate Quinn, 2021, Audiobook narrated by Saskia Maarleveld, Harper Audio We listened to this audiobook on our way from Rhode Island to Florida this year. It is an interesting story about three young women who were recruited during WWII … Continue reading →
by Robert Orlando, 2021, Kindle Edition, Humanix Books I was asked to present this book for our men’s book club and, unfortunately, I didn’t like it much. Rather than a history book, it seems to be more of a long … Continue reading →
by Elizabeth Wein, 2012, Hyperion Press This novel is about an English woman pilot in WWII and her friend who was trained to be a spy but was captured by the Germans in France. The characterizations and the events were … Continue reading →
by Malcolm Gladwell, 2021, Kindle Version, Allen Lane This book is about a group of Army aviators in the bomber school in Alabama. The thrust of the book is that General Haywood Hansell, who was in charge of the school, … Continue reading →
by Leon Uris, 1961, Doubleday This book is fictional account of the Warsaw Uprising during WWII but it is based on journals that were kept by some of the Jews during that time. The Germans attempted to keep their actions … Continue reading →