Category: Book Review

Dark December

A step by step account of the German planning of the Bulge, encirclement of the Allies, and the Allied counter-offensive.

A Time for Trumpets

The firsthand experiences and insights of a distinguished historian places this profound human drama unforgettably on the landscape of history.

Of Windmills and War

An interesting historical fiction novel of WWII that eventually brings us to the food drops operation in Holland at the end of the war: Operation Chowhound.

Shifty’s War

From D-Day to the Battle of the Bulge and more, here is the authorized biography of one of the most celebrated paratroopers of Easy Company, Sergeant Shifty Powers.

Eisenhower: A Soldier’s Life

Chronicles the Allied commander and future president's unlikely rise to power, tracing his impoverished youth as the son of pacifists, his West Point education, toil under MacArthur in the Philippines, and involvement in D-Day.

The Wild Blue

Ambrose describes how the Army Air Forces recruited, trained, and selected the elite few who would undertake the most demanding and dangerous jobs in the war.

Collapse

A study of the downfall of some of history's greatest civilizations such as the Anasazi, the Maya, and the Viking colony on Greenland by tracing patterns of environmental damage, climate change, poor political choices, and other factors that were pivotal to their demise.

A Full Life

Jimmy Carter looks back from ninety years of age and reveals private thoughts and recollections of a businessman, politician, evangelist, and humanitarian career.