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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...
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...
Our Year of War: Two Brothers, Vietnam, and a Nation Divided by Daniel P. Bolger

Our Year of War: Two Brothers, Vietnam, and a Nation Divided by Daniel P. Bolger

by Howard Leighton | Jul 26, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), War & Military

The author of this book is a retired Lt. General of the U.S. Army with a special faculty appointment to the North Carolina State University where he teaches military history. He has written a number of books on military history. In 1968 Chuck and Tom Hagel, brothers...
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