Rick Atkinson. Atkinson concludes his
series on the war in Europe and North Africa with this superb work.
Though lacking an overall theme, the book is distinguished by its
astonishing range of coverage peopling the pages are German, British,
French, Canadian, and (primarily) American generals and common soldiers.
Excerpts from the letters of dead soldiers on both sides, as well as
from the diaries of captain generals, fill out the story. It is hard to imagine a better history of the western
front's final phase.--Publishers WeeklySunday, February 24, 2013
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945
Rick Atkinson. Atkinson concludes his
series on the war in Europe and North Africa with this superb work.
Though lacking an overall theme, the book is distinguished by its
astonishing range of coverage peopling the pages are German, British,
French, Canadian, and (primarily) American generals and common soldiers.
Excerpts from the letters of dead soldiers on both sides, as well as
from the diaries of captain generals, fill out the story. It is hard to imagine a better history of the western
front's final phase.--Publishers WeeklyFriday, February 15, 2013
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
Robert Macfarlane. Macfarlane returns with another masterful, poetic travel narrative. The author's latest, focusing broadly on the concept of walking, forms what he calls "a loose trilogy," with his two earlier books, Mountains of the Mind and The Wild Places, "about landscape and the human heart." A breathtaking study of "walking as enabling sight and thought rather than encouraging retreat and escape."--KirkusSaturday, February 9, 2013
The Fourteenth Day: JFK and the Aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis: The Secret White House Tapes
David Coleman. Utilizing
recently released White House tapes, Coleman shows that a crisis atmosphere
still prevailed within the administration after the apparent
acquiescence of the Soviets. Kennedy and his advisors struggled with
issues of Soviet compliance with the agreement, the difficulty in coping
with a still-belligerent and supposedly dangerous Cuba, and especially
with the potential flashpoint of Berlin. Coleman has provided an excellent analysis of both short-
and long-term results of the crisis.Saturday, February 2, 2013
Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy
Douglas Smith. Smith examines the much-neglected "fate of the nobility in the decades
following the Russian Revolution, " when they were sometimes given the
Orwellian title "former people." Smith focuses on three generations
of two families: the Sheremetsevs of St. Petersburg and the Golitsyns
of Moscow. This is an anecdotally rich, highly
informative look at decimated, uprooted former upper-class Russians.--Publisher's Weekly
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