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Never in Finer Company: The Men of the Great War’s Lost Battalion by Edward G. Lengel

Never in Finer Company: The Men of the Great War’s Lost Battalion by Edward G. Lengel

by Howard Leighton | Apr 25, 2019 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History, War & Military

Edward G. Lengel is a military historian whose books have centered on the Revolutionary war, particularly on George Washington, and on World War I. This book is the second with a focus on the American involvement in the battle of the Meuse-Argonne in the north-eastern...
The Widower’s Notebook: a memoir by Jonathan Santlofer

The Widower’s Notebook: a memoir by Jonathan Santlofer

by Howard Leighton | Mar 20, 2019 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs

Five years ago, Jonathan Santlofer, a writer of crime novels and an artist, was working in his New York loft apartment. His wife, Joy Santlofer, a food writer and historian, was reclining on their living room sofa after having had outpatient knee surgery the previous...
Madman Walking by L.F. Robertson

Madman Walking by L.F. Robertson

by Howard Leighton | Feb 13, 2019 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller

A semi-retired public defense lawyer, Janet Moodie, living in a small town north of San Francisco is contacted by an appeals lawyer, Mike Barry, with whom she had previously worked. Janet reluctantly agrees to help him with a death sentence appeal for an inmate on...
The Undertaker’s Daughter by Sara Blaedel

The Undertaker’s Daughter by Sara Blaedel

by Howard Leighton | Nov 23, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction, Mystery, Crime & Thriller

Ilka Jensen and her mother Karin live in Copenhagen, Denmark. Ilka works as a school photographer. They were abandoned by Ilka’s father, Paul, when she was seven years old. He moved to live in the United States leaving large debts including a funeral home. The only...
Machines That Think: The Future of Artificial Intelligence by Toby Walsh

Machines That Think: The Future of Artificial Intelligence by Toby Walsh

by Howard Leighton | Oct 1, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Science & Technology

Thankfully the author of this book has chosen to write about Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a manner that is understandable to those of us without a significant background in physics, mathematics, or computer science. Additionally he has structured his book in three...
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