by Site Owner | Apr 5, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, History, War & Military
By R. H. S. Stolfi Prometheus Books, $27.00, 475 pages In the world of biographies, Hitler is one of the more common topics chosen by authors. Among the more popular topics include Stalin, Churchill, and FDR. On the book shelves there are many biographies of Hitler....
by Site Owner | Apr 5, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, War & Military
By Denis Avey, Rob Broomby Da Capo Press, $25.00, 264 pages Just outside of Auschwitz III in 1944, Denis Avey was being held in a British POW camp. While Avey was deprived of proper food, hard labor, and uncomfortable living conditions, he constantly heard about the...
by Site Owner | Feb 1, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, History
by Dr. Nicholas La Bianca Xlibris, $19.99, 254 pages Remnants of Italy’s archaic feudal system remained when Mussolini became prime minister in 1922. By traditional standards, the author’s family was considered a lower middleclass family of landowners in their small...
by Site Owner | Jun 29, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, History, War & Military
by Sabina DeWerth Neu Prometheus Books, $19.00, 260 pages A Long Silence: Memories of a German Refugee Child, 1941-1958 is a unique and welcome contribution to the shelves of WWII memoirs and a poignant account of the lasting effects of war on children. Coming of age...