by Howard Leighton | Feb 8, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography, Biographies & Memoirs, Film, TV & Theater, History, War & Military
This is a memoir of one man’s experience during the Vietnam War, beginning approximately April of 1966 and ending April of 1975 with the fall of Saigon. It is a beautifully told story by a cameraman with 10 years of experience in Japan who wanted to become a...
by Katie Richards | Jan 12, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, War & Military
A Crime in the Family is Sacha Batthyany’s telling of a massacre of Jews during the Holocaust, one horrific act among many, that was carried out with the knowledge and complicity of the author’s aunt – a member of the old Hungarian aristocracy....
by L Ruby Hannigan | Jan 11, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, History, War & Military
Dorothea Wollin Null was a young six-year-old German girl who lived happily with her family when her world, as she knew it, drastically changed. It was 1943, and she lived in the city of Stettin, Germany when the bombs landed on her very street and her family fled...
by Howard Leighton | Jan 2, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History, Nautical, War & Military
This is a history book of an element of the Revolutionary War most likely little known to us as Americans, and certainly not recounted in our elementary or high school education about the War. From 1776 through 1783 a series of about seventeen British ships were used...
by Seniye Groff | Nov 2, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction, War & Military
The Baker’s Secret focuses on the small French coastal town of Vergers. World War II submerges the town with German soldiers and Jewish persecution. Emma apprenticed with the town’s master baker until she was hauled off to a prison camp. Emma is renowned for her...
by Mary-Lynne Monroe | Aug 1, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Sponsored, War & Military
Like any good story, most memoirs have at their core an event or a thematically related series of events. Generally, traumatic ones. Kari Rhyan’s debut memoir Standby for Broadcast provides this to an extreme. Her experiences as a combat nurse in Afghanistan entwine...