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Reviewed by Steve Weatherbe I have just completed, with considerable pleasure and some sadness, the only novel in a series by British soldier\author Allan Mallinson that I had yet to read. It was the second in the series of 11 or 12, because I read them as I found them, out of sequence, in bookstores, [...]
Reviewed by Roy Peache One of the greatest pieces of literature to have emerged from the Great War was Erich Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front. It is the story of a young man and his classmates just out of school and their catastrophic experiences during the Great War. Remarque was baptised and raised [...]
Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Abacus; Reprint edition (2009) ISBN-10: 034912129X ISBN-13: 978-0349121291 Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 4.9 x 1 inches reviewed by Roy Peachey William Brodrick’s Father Anselm novels are very welcome additions to the literary canon. There are many fine novels about World War I but, in A Whispered Name, Brodrick gives us something [...]
Paperback: 156 pages Publisher: Arx Pub (August 23, 2010) ISBN-10: 1935228048 ISBN-13: 978-1935228042 reviewed by Tannia Ortiz-Lopès Leave If You Can was originally written in German—Geh fort wenn du kannst—by author Luise Rinser and translated into English by Margaret Stevens. Ms. Rinser tells the story of Angelina and of her spiritual awakening after the devastation of Italy in World [...]
Paperback: 236 pages Publisher: Idylls Press (August 30, 2006) ISBN-10: 1595970088 ISBN-13: 978-1595970084 reviewed by Roy Peachey Farrell O’Gorman has set himself a tough task in Awaiting Orders. The novel focuses on four young naval officers who are waiting for their orders for active duty to come through. Assigned to a holding unit in California, [...]
reviewed by Steve Weatherbe It was 1571 and the shadow of Islam lay over Mediterranean Europe. The Turks had just conquered Cyprus city by city, finishing with the brutal sack of Famagusta that saw Turkish troops ignore the terms of the conditional surrender in many ways, hideously torturing of the Christian commander and parading his [...]
published 1922 reviewed by Ellen Gable Hrkach During the climax of One of Ours, the extraordinary novel by Willa Cather, as men are dying by the dozens, I couldn’t help but recall the words of the moving WWI poem, In Flanders Fields by Canadian Dr. John McCrae: “We are the Dead. Short days ago, we [...]
reviewed by John J. Desjarlais Belisarius: Book I, The First Shall Be Last by Paolo A. Belzoni Arx Publishing, 2007 $14.95 ISBN-13: 978-1889758-78-7 Historical fiction set in the distant past has often been used as a platform to comment on contemporary events. Yes, the reader says, that situation was like the one we face today, [...]
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