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Book Review - Champions Day
James Carter, an historian at St. Joseph’s University, takes us into the horse racing world of antebellum Shanghai...
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Year Zero - Book Review
I wrote recently in my novel Above the Water, "the most dangerous times during a war are at the end. That is when the discipline that has...
Jody Ferguson
Priscilla - Book Review
In his book Priscilla, The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France the English novelist Nicholas Shakespeare...
Jody Ferguson
City of Devils - Book Review
Paul French, whose first book Midnight in Peking became a New York Times bestseller, explores a topic dear to me in his latest book...
Jody Ferguson
Remember Ben Clayton - Book Review
Stephen Harrigan's novel Remember Ben Clayton is a beautiful tale of family, war, art and perseverance.
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.
Jody Ferguson
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
Okinawa
Seventy-five years ago today on June 23, 1945, U.S. Marine and Army forces captured Okinawa.
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
Join me on my Journey
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Jody Ferguson
In Defense of the Republic
My father’s mother was a Linscott. Her family came to the New World and settled in Maine in the 1600s.
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
Why Historical Fiction?
Reading great novels teaches us so much about humans, with all of the accompanying beauty and warts. History books do the same...
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
V-Day in Stalingrad
The year 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the conclusion of the Second World War.
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...
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