Sep 5, 2016 | Book Reviews
Summer is almost over but that doesn’t mean one can’t enjoy seasonal reading into the Fall. Good candidates abound in the multi-volume works of Englishman Andrew Wareham. The Duty and Destiny series traces the rise of a fighting captain in Nelson’s Royal Navy. The...
Apr 12, 2016 | Book Reviews
Every now and then I read a book and feel “every American should have to read this.”” That is how I feel about Black Flags, the work of Washington Post reporter Joby Warrick. The book details the rise of the Islamic jihadist group that broke away fromEl Qaeda – or...
Jan 17, 2016 | Book Reviews
A New York Times Best Seller by Paula McLain who is considered the new historical fiction author. This is the life story of Beryl Markham, a real life heroine, who was abandoned by her mother and older brother and left in Africa with her father when she was quite...
Jan 4, 2016 | Book Reviews
Sometime ago a friend suggested I try Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series. “I know it is chicklit” she said “but it covers a period of Scottish history that interests you as well as early life in North Carolina.” So I did and was...
