Reviews
From the Archives: Antony Beevor’s Second World War
While I continue to struggle with the next blog post about a stop on our D-Day tour, I thought I would share this review from the archives on a related subject. With any luck I’ll have successfully found my way into the Grand Bunker museum and out again by next week. When Antony Beevor’s…
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The Poisoner’s Handbook: A Belated Review
It is possible you have already read Deborah Blum’s The Poisoner’s Handbook. I was late to the game when I first picked it up and I have been reading it on and off for several years.* For those of you who haven’t read it, the book’s sub-title says it all: Murder and the Birth of…
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The Longest Day
As I’ve mentioned before, My Own True Love and I are traveling to Normandy in May on a tour led by the National World War II Museum. The focus of the trip is D-Day–something I know about in only the broadest of terms. Which means I decided to read up, because that is what I…
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