It's what they aren't, that makes them what they are.
Category: History
Review: The Norman Conquest – Marc Morris
The best book since 1066.
Review: Fatherland – Robert Harris
"Powerful and chilling...convincing in every detail."
Review: Zoo Station – David Downing
"A extraordinary evocation of Nazi Germany on the eve of war", says CJ Sansom author of 'Winter in Madrid'. He's not wrong.
Review: If The Dead Rise Not – Philip Kerr
An enjoyably glimpse at life in Berlin just before the Second world War.
Review: XPD – Len Deighton
Close, but cigar not in close enough proximity.
Review: The Red Coffin – Sam Eastland
A good start in the end
Review: The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1944-1945 – Ian Kershaw
Phenomenally well researched account giving incredible insight into a long unanswered question.
Review: The Second World War – Antony Beevor
Although filling the broadest canvas on a heroic scale, Beevor's The Second World War never loses sight of the fate of the ordinary soldiers and civilians whose lives were crushed by the titanic forces unleashed in this, the most terrible war in history.
Review: Forged in Fury – Michael Elkins
My version: HardbackGenre: Non Fiction, The Holocaust and afterPublisher: Judy Piatkus Publishers LtdFirst published: 1981ISBN: 0861880986Pages: 274Bought I was recently having a hyggelig old time cataloging books to my new Book Keeper application, when I came across this one. I remember Michael Elkins - from when I was growing up in the UK - as the BBC's … Continue reading Review: Forged in Fury – Michael Elkins
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