Reviewed by Martin
It's hard to review a novel without ruining it for the reader with spoilers. But, there are no spoilers in this short review!
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Reviewed by Martin
McGrath has written a very complete and detailed history of the Revolutionary American Navy His book fills in a gap left by many historians focusing on Revolution. There is no shortage of heroic figures, to satisfy the most ardent patriot!
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Reviewed by Marcia
America Light not a cheerful book, although the author leavens it with large helpings of humor. And he does manage to end on a hopeful note. He reminds readers that America has a history of over coming bad times. He declares that we will do it again.
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Reviewed by Martin
John Hunter was a man far in advance of his time who fought against superstition and stubborn resistance to scientific discovery. By necessity, he resorted to devious methods to obtain cadavers for his anatomical research. He had a huge impact on countless students of medicine, including Joseph Lister and others.
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Reviewed by Martin
A Summons To Perdition is not a happy book. It is, as it’s subtitle states, a “novel of suspense.†John Work did a lot of research in writing this book and one can only hope that the dire picture he paints about the degree to which radical Islam has infiltrated American society and government is merely Work’s construct for the purposes of making a good story. If not, Work had best watch out for himself.
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Reviewed by Martin
This is a something worth reading more than once. It was on this this reader's list for at least 20 years, before finally getting around to it. Epictetus and his stoic philosophy figures prominently in Admiral Stockdale's book about his experiences as a P.O.W.
There is a lot to be admired in the stoic philosophy.
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Reviewed by Martin
There are some interesting themes in this book. One of these is that there are some things worth dying for, and if you're not willing to compromise your principles, you may end up dying for them.
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Reviewed by Marcia
Bloody Spring is a valuable addition to the Civil War compendium. One reviewer said that the book reads like a novel and that is correct. Except, of course, readers already know how this story ends. Bloody Spring is well written and engrossing. But it is not a book that can be read with equanimity.
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Reviewed by Martin
According to this biography, Balbo was Fascist more because it suited his own personality and desire to evince heroic characteristics and ultra patriotism, more than any deep seated attachment to the finer points of a political belief. In later years, after the bloodless "march on Rome" that saw the Fascists come to power in Italy, Balbo became very disillusioned with the direction that Mussolini was taking the country and with the cult of personality cultivated by Il Duce's dictatorship.
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Reviewed by Marcia
West of the Revolution provides readers with an enlarged perspective of that seminal year in American history and the illustrations help to locate the reader in the political geography of the time. I suspect most readers, like this reviewer, did not know what they didn’t know before reading West of the Revolution.
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