It Sounds Like A Biography: Never Surrender by Michael Dobbs Never Surrender begins like a biography from the point of view of Winston Churchill as a boy — at the very most a fictional biography. It doesn’t sound at all… Continue Reading →

Starts Out Slowly Winston’s War: A Novel of Conspiracy by Michael Dobbs starts out very slowly sounding like a history textbook with reflections not only about the First World War and the Napoleonic War but the Romans, too! The author’s… Continue Reading →

The Education of a Spy: Churchill’s Secret Agent by Linda and Max Ciampoli In Churchill’s Secret Agent by Max Ciampoli and Linda Ciampoli Churchill recruits Free Frenchman to go undercover in Europe and do spying for him. The clever man… Continue Reading →

The spy novel, Double Eagles by Bill Getz, opens with a hook — a brief skirmish in the skies with the words “death stalked the skies”. Really the point is to introduce the German pilot who is shot down who… Continue Reading →

Mr. Churchill’s Secretary: A Novel by MacNeal The novel starts out with a bang. We hear that the lady is tidying up her desk right before she dies. That immediately creates suspense. You wonder how she dies and why. She… Continue Reading →

This novel begins with grand adventure. Someone is sneaking into an Egyptian tomb, confronting a mummy, and looking for secrets. It reminds me of the scene where the main character in another adventure thriller lowers himself into the tomb of… Continue Reading →

William Boyd’s Waiting For Sunrise starts out with a description of Vienna, but you can’t tell through all the verbiage what kind of novel it is. It could be a romance or an historical novel. There’s nothing in the first… Continue Reading →

You Are There : Web Griffin’s Empire and Honor You are there in Web Griffin’s Empire & Honor whether scooping Nescafe into a china mug or looking through a periscope sailing through a storm on a U-boat or entering the… Continue Reading →

I got a Canon Rebel camera for Christmas and returned it after about a week. I was accustomed to using a Leica digital non-SLR camera for my travels and my everyday needs. The best thing about the Leica was the… Continue Reading →

Eva Was A Person In Her Own Right: Review of First DVD of Eva Braun’s Home Videos Hitler knew that Eva Braun wasn’t just a woman in his shadow. He knew she was a person in her own right, and… Continue Reading →