Review:I'll always opt for fiction over nonfiction, but this book held my interest because of an original perspective , the French. I'd never heard of the Milice before and they were a scary group, maybe worse than the SS because they knew everyone in the smaller villages.
She was an extremely brave, almost ruthless spy, but exceptionally good at her craft. She is sort of the female Lindbergh, modest, fairly unemotional about her accomplishments. She made an e Read more

Review:Doctor Morris writes an interesting and thorough book about Edward I. He describes his good and bad attributes and seems to take a neutral position and let the facts determine my opinion of Edward. His style of writing is easy to follow but the book appeals to the reader with a background in English history as well as the newcomer to the period. I can recommend this book without reservation. Read more

Review:Fantastic epic escapist entertainment, if a "tall" tale. Was surprising that a prison story would be so colorful:

"The Llalanes with their Roman profiles and bronzed faces illumined by eonormous brilliant black eyes, their breasts exposed as if to say: "See how perfect they are." Lots to shock: sadists, stoolies, torture, sodomy, murder, rats, sharks, snakes, piranhas, and quicksand. Suffering is shown as character building.

Most interesting is how Papillon comes up with the... Read more

Review:And you thought only the Jewish were persecuted.

Very easy to assume only the Jewish were persecuted, as it's only been well publicized for the past century. But after reading this short book; the reader will eventually easily question, that during those times, how could one be sure that they were only targeting the Jewish based on the rudimentary few nonstandard information collected during this time? (ie. Very few Census records were present during this time.) Can only guess that tho... Read more

Review:The book includes detail and captures emotions and outrage beyond what is in an excellent movie. It captures the Nazis' inhumanity to a population they considered "sub-human," including the irrationality of while fighting a war on two fronts, they dedicated resources sorely needed elsewhere to exterminating millions of people.
Man's hatred of those they consider inferior to themselves reaches an all-time level portrayed in Schindler's List, this irrationality continues today in multiple are... Read more

Review:After reading some of the one and two star reviews of this book, I ordered it anyway. At first it seemed very exciting and interesting but as I continued to read the individual accounts, they seemed to sound very similar. I feels like the author took his father's notes and embellished the accounts to add interest. I may be all wrong with my observations but I couldn't finish the book as it started to read like fiction. I really had wished for better, but I cannot recommend this book. JIM Read more

Review:This was an amazing short journey into the wonderful world of Norse mythology. I've started several books on the subject but became bored with confusing details and bogged down descriptions. Don't let the size of this book fool you. The author covers all aspects that I have found in other anthologies but with a straight, to the point writing style that was informative yet not overbearing. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in Norse culture. Also a big plus are the links to extende... Read more

Review:Yet another Asatru book that only covers the VERY basics, and yet another book on Asatru that is trying to liberalize the religion. What this book represents is about one step away from "Norse Wicca".

As you may or may not know, the media, including book publishers tend to be very liberal. Asatru tends to be very conservative. If you want a liberal "new age" or neo-pagan religion there are plenty of them, Wicca being the main one as well as many new age books etc. The problem is few publi... Read more

Review:Excellent. Extremely well-researched, extremely well-written. If you read ONLY ONE book on Joe Stalin, this should be IT. It is no accident that John LeCarre highly praises it --- on the
cover! Montefiore asks ALL of the questions.....and answers MOST of them, too! Amazing. Read more

Review:Excellent first person account of the Battle of Britain but not the best I've read. If you're looking for something with a little more of the overall picture, try Fly For Your Life by Robert Stanford Tuck. Tuck's book is definitely the best memoir on the Battle of Britain I've come across and one of the best WW II books I've ever read. Read more