They came, they saw, they pillaged
Category: Non Fiction
Review: Before the Revolution: America’s Ancient Pasts – Daniel K. Richter
The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there
Review: The Far Traveller: Voyages of a Viking Woman – Nancy Marie Brown
Wonderful book
Review: The Longest Kill: The Story of Maverick 41, One of the World’s Greatest Snipers – Craig Harrison
On target
Review: Zealot. The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth – Reza Aslan
'Aslan's riveting biography ... synthesises Scripture and scholarship to create an original account' The New Yorker
Review: Out of Auschwitz. The Untold Story – Stanley Goleniewski
With respect to those who died and warning to those still alive
Review: Forgotten Voices of The Holocaust: A new history in the words of the men and women who survived – Lyn Smith
It doesn't hit home harder than in the words of the people themselves
Review: Ghost. Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent – Fred Burton
A very interesting look at the beginnings of counterterrorism
Review: 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers – Jim Dwyer, Kevin Flynn
An astounding number of people actually survived the plane impacts but were unable to escape.
Review: The Jesus Discovery: The New Archaeological Find that Reveals the Birth of Christianity – James D. Tabor, Simcha Jacobovici
A major archeological discovery in Jerusalem is revolutionising understanding of Jesus and the earliest years of Christianity.
