by Site Owner | Apr 17, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History
The Spy Game; East Meets West By Edward Lucas Walker & Company, $26.00, 372 pages Edward Lucas points out in his book that the spy game has been around since the Roman empire, and continues today highlighted by the arrests of ten Russian operatives...
by michaeld | Mar 18, 2013 | Tweens
Evil’s Never Looked So Middlegrade By Jamie Thomson Walker & Company, $16.99, 290 pages Dark Lord: The Early Years begins with the fall of the great and mighty Dark Lord. Not only is he banished from the Darklands and stripped of his power, he...
by michaeld | Jan 13, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History
Discovering the Most Famous Painting in the World By Ross King Walker & Company, $28.00, 336 pages “The Last Supper was the triumphant discharge of the debt that his genius —da Vinci’s— owed to history”, writes author Ross King on the epilogue of...
by michaeld | Dec 29, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History
The Tragic WWII Siege When St. Petersburg was Called Leningrad By Anna Reid Walker & Company, $30.00, 492 pages This is the tragic story of the siege of Leningrad, Russia by the German Nazi army during World War II. It is well written and thoroughly...
