July 14, 2010
Nineteen forty-eight by Benny Morris
A revisionist history of the first Arab-Israeli War. In Pelletier Library.
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Category: History
July 14, 2010
Gettysburg by Stephen W. Sears
According to the Times, Jay Winik, “Sears’s reconstruction is “The Civil War equivalent of a modern spy satellite photograph. He hovers above the action, giving...
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Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester Himes *** (of 4)
This is such an accurate rendtion of 1960s Harlem I could smell the trash in the streets, sense the despair, hear the sirens, and feel...
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Hunting Eichmann by Neal Bascomb **** (of 4)
Adolph Eichmann, architect, planner, and executor of “The Final Solution” for the Jews escaped to Argentina at the end of the World War II. It...
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Parrot and Olivier in America *** (of 4)
At the end of the 18th Century, following the French Revolution, Olivier, a French aristocrat modeled on Alexis de Tocqueville arrives in America accompanied by...
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QBVII by Leon Uris
About a trial of a libelous author who writes about Nazis, autobiographical. Uris is a class-act story teller making big books go by quickly.
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O Jerusalem by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre **** (of 4)
Very engaging history of Israel war for independence. I read it in 2001 before I was keeping this book blog.
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Nuremberg: The Reckoning, by William F. Buckley ** (of 4)
It was surprisingly bad. I learned a fair amount about the Nuremberg trials after WWII, but was shocked by how trivial the plot was and...
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The Lost: A search for six of six million, by Daniel Mendelsohn **** (of 4)
Nearly sixty years after the author’s great-uncle, wife, and four daughters disappeared in the Holocaust, the author searches for their memories. Beginning with his grandfather’s...
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A Journey to the End of the Millennium by A.B. Yehoshua **** (of 4)
The year is 999. European Christians are awaiting the return of the Messiah. Ben Attar a Jewish Moroccan trader packs a ship with his desert...
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