The life of Kay Summersby changed dramatically that fateful day she became a driver for General Dwight D. Eisenhower in London, 1942. Kay worked with The Motor Transport Corps and was assigned to drive the American General around the war-torn [...]
Here is a well-informed, smoothly crafted, fast-paced novel based closely on events in Berlin during the crucial months of 1938-39, and the European politics leading inevitably to war. The author conveniently explains all this, and more, in his [...]
James MacManus has written an immersive, beautiful book centered on the events leading up to the US entry into WWII. MacManus chronicles the efforts of Harry Hopkins, Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Roosevelt trusts Hopkins [...]
By James MacManus Thomas Dunne Books, $25.99, 336 pages James MacManus’ Black Venus tells the story of the mixed race mistress of the poet Charles Baudelaire. From their first chaotic meeting in a bar brawl to their [...]
