by Philip Rafferty | Sep 5, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction, Historical Fiction
Shortly after WWII, a cameraman for the Nazis, one who worked directly with the famed Leni Riefenstahl, moves his family to Bolivia. Hans Ertl, the patriarch, has not put his camera away, and instead is filming a documentary about a lost city in the Bolivian forest...
by Addison Fleming | Jul 9, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Film, TV & Theater, History, War & Military
Christopher Nolan’s film Dunkirk, released in 2017, follows allied troops during World War II as they retreat to the beaches of coastal French city, Dunkirk. In the panic that ensued, Allied troops were slowly evacuated from the beaches, though transportation was...
by Whitney Smyth | Apr 5, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction, Romance, Sponsored, War & Military
Already in her twenties, Analise is beginning to feel left behind. All her close friends are married with children, but she and Jacob have been engaged for three years. During dinner he announces he’s volunteering to go to Spain to help with the war and Analise can...
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 Howard Leighton | Dec 23, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History, Social Science, War & Military
A segregated infantry unit of Japanese-Americans in October of 1944 was sent to rescue another unit of American soldiers trapped in the mountains of eastern France. That unit was the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Although this combat action was only from October 24th...