Jody Ferguson
Imperial Twilight - Book Review
Imperial Twilight dissects the causes of the First Opium War between Great Britain and the Qing Dynasty in China in the 1840s.
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Storm on Our Shores - Book Review
Mark Obmascik relates a beautiful wartime tale in his book The Storm On Our Shores.
Jody Ferguson
Eastern Approaches - Book Review
Fitzroy Maclean was an adventurer, a gentleman, a scholar, a diplomat, a warrior, and a hero.
Jody Ferguson
Forgotten Ally - Book Review
His book, Forgotten Ally, is a history of China’s role in the war, which for China began in 1937, four years before Pearl Harbor.
Jody Ferguson
Empire of the Sun - Book Review
In his autobiographical novel Empire of the Sun J.G. Ballard tells us how he survived his adolescent years alone in an internment camp...
Jody Ferguson
Wild Palms - Book Review
I recently re-read the novel The Wild Palms by William Faulkner, which he published in 1939.
Jody Ferguson
The Opium War - Book Review
In her book The Opium Wars British academic Julia Lovell describes both the historical and the contemporary Chinese distrust of the West...
Jody Ferguson
Empire Summer Moon - Book Review
The focus of Gwynne’s book is Quanah Parker, the last wartime Comanche chief, who ironically was the son of Cynthia Parker...
Jody Ferguson
Ambulance Drivers - Book Review
This friendship between Hemingway and Dos Passos is documented nicely in the book The Ambulance Drivers by James McGrath Morris.
Jody Ferguson
Lawrence in Arabia - Book Review
The subtitle of the book tells you much more about the story Anderson is trying to relate to the reader: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly...
Jody Ferguson
The Swerve - Book Review
Before reading The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, I had vaguely heard of Epicurus...
Jody Ferguson
Sapiens - Book Review
The Israeli scholar Yuval Harari takes on the most basic, yet difficult subjects in his fascinating history Sapiens.
Jody Ferguson
Mudbound - Book Review
Mudbound takes on a variety of salient topics, utilizing a number of unique voices.
Jody Ferguson
The Hummingbird - Book Review
Stephen Kiernan’s book The Hummingbird tells the story of Deborah, a dedicated hospice nurse who is struggling...
Jody Ferguson
Third Down and a War to Go - Book Review
For college football fans and history buffs, I highly recommend Terry Frei’s book Third Down and a War to Go.
Jody Ferguson
Big Rock Candy Mountain - Book Review
The Big Rock Candy Mountain is a book set in the Mountain West and Canada in the first three decades of the 20th century.
Jody Ferguson
Return of a King - Book Review
It was with this in mind and to try to better understand the situation, that I took up William Dalrymple’s history Return of a King.
Jody Ferguson
Manhattan Beach - Book Review
Jennifer Egan’s novel Manhattan Beach is one of the best-written books I have read recently. The language is rich, and the nuanced story...
Jody Ferguson
On Desperate Ground - Book Review
Hampton Sides’ latest book On Desperate Ground is about the U.S. ‘fighting’ withdrawal from the Chosin Reservoir.
Jody Ferguson
City of Women - Book Review
The story takes place in Berlin during the final grim years of the Second World War, as Allied bombers pound the city...
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