Book Review – A Train in Winter - Caroline Moorehead - 2011 – An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, New York, NY 10022 I usually open all my reviews on Holocaust books with a statement of how unique, or impactful, or important is the specific book I am reviewing. And here, with a “A Train In...
Laurie M. Johnson The Gap in God's Country A Longer View on our Culture Wars This book - The Gap in God's Country, A Longer View on our Culture Wars - written by Laurie Johnson, a professor of political science at Kansas State University, president of the Maurin Academy...
Book Review - Irena's Children - The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto - A True Story of Courage - Tilar J. Mazzeo - Gallery Books, New York, 2016 *** I have read many books on the Holocaust, but this is the first one I have read which centers...
An Informal Book Review - His Truth is Marching On - John Lewis and the Power of Hope – Jon Meacham – Random House, New York, 2020 First Things First - The Acquisition - the Gift - of this Book John Lewis has had a strong, significant, and lasting influence upon my life for about a half-century...
Into the Arms of Strangers - Stories of the Kindertransport *** Introduction Summary and legacy statement of this book from the back dust cover of the book: The documentary film, Into the Arms of Strangers, reminded the world of this chapter of Holocaust history. The movie went on to win the...
A Meditation Upon “The Book Smugglers – Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis – The True Story of the Paper Brigade of Vilna” This posting is not so much a formal book review as it is a personal meditation on “The Book Smugglers”. This book spoke volumes and...
Boiled Eggs, Fresh Flowers, Chicken Fat, & An Old Cat Not Pictured Even though I write fiction and nonfiction, I primarily read history - good history that focuses on persons and presents the human element, the pathos, suffering, evil and good, very intimate moments, or just minute details...
I Only Wanted to Live I have read many books on the Holocaust, but this book is unique and important in many ways. Written a few years ago entirely by the author, now in his eighties, the book is based on his memories of the Holocaust as a boy between the ages of about seven through...