Archive for 'Books'
Oliver Wiswell – novel with a Loyalist perspective
It isn’t often that I go back more than 70+ years to find a book to read but awhile back I was give a used copy of Kenneth Roberts’ book, Oliver Wiswell. The premise of Roberts’ historical novel is that the American revolutionary war was as much the first civil war as a war of […]
Posted: January 6th, 2011 under Books.
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Geography of Secrets
Frederick Reuss’ newest book is quite a stretch for this reader. My normal book selections (as you can see in my other reviews) tend toward the scientific nonfiction. When I do take a break, my fiction selections are usually action thrillers from Brad Thor, David Baldacci or Dan Brown. My favorite fiction characters may not […]
Posted: November 19th, 2010 under Books.
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The Perils of Peace
I recently finished Thomas Fleming’s book, The Perils of Peace. If you are not familiar with Thomas Fleming, he is a Pulitzer Prize winning historian and the author of over forty nonfiction and fiction titles, including Liberty! The American Revolution companion to the PBS series, Washington’s Secret War: The Hidden History of Valley Forge, and […]
Posted: November 5th, 2010 under Books.
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