Reviewed – MacArthur’s War; Invasion: Alaska; and Neue Europa
Counterfactual history is a genre based on the question ‘what if?’. It’s one of my favourite types of fiction, combining creativity based on historical events.
27 February 2012
Tag: book review
Reviewed – High Wire Act: Ted Rogers, by Caroline Van Hasselt
Where to start in reviewing this 520-page tome? WHAT a book. This book is not just a biography on Canadian media / technology owner and
25 February 2012
Reviewed – Beyond Band of Brothers (Major Richard D Winters)
This review coincides with the first anniversary of the passing of Major Richard Winters. Major Winters died in January 2011, aged 92. I was given
1 January 2012
Reviewed: In the Firing Line. Diary of a Season (Ed Cowan).
There are cricket books, and then there are cricket books. Such are the mysteries of life, that sometimes you read a cricket book and put
5 November 2011
Reviewed – Paul Henry, What Was I Thinking
To be honest, I bought this book on Kindle out of curiosity to learn, if I could, what the fuss was about with Paul Henry
9 July 2011
Reviewed – Strong Armed Men
Robert Leckie’s tome on the United States Marines’ battles in the Pacific is intense as it is detailed – nearly 600 pages – and covered
13 June 2011
Reviewed – Barassi
At the outset, let me declare I’ve been a Melbourne Football Club supporter since I can remember. Flower, Grinter, Stynes. I wore number 2 on
10 May 2011
Reviewed – Soldier
General Colin Powell, is, arguably, one of the most well-known Americans of the past decades – a solider, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
17 March 2011
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Reviewed – Given Up for Dead – America’s Heroic Stand at Wake Island
Wake Island sits alone, an atoll in Pacific Ocean, in the middle of the nowhere, unimportant – at least it was until the US foresaw
7 January 2011