Reading Freely

The Rape of Nanking © 1997 Iris Chang 290 pages Long before bombs fell on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese were at war in China.  'War...

Oil on the Brain: Petroleum's Long, Strange Journey to Your Tank © 2007 Lisa Magonelli 336 pages Every moment, oil is surgi...

Another week gone, another entry from the 2015 reading challenge: earlier I received "Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol" and...

The Horse in the City © 2007 Clay McShane, Joel A. Tarr 242 pages To the American imagination, horses are the stuff of country dream...

Blitzkrieg © 1979 Robert Warnick 200 pages As much as I'd hoped to read Len Deighton's Blitzkrieg , it's weeks overd...

Convoy: The Greatest U-Boat Battle of the War © 1976 Martin Middlebrook 384 pages In his memoirs,  Winston Churchill admitted that n...

The Foxes of the Desert © 1960 Paul Carell 370 pages When Erwin Rommel was dispatched to Africa to rescue his nation's ailing all...