I highly recommend reading this book in sunlight. Not before bedtime. It opens with American POW as slave-labor in a mining shaft, some die, but bodies have to be recorded properly so they get stacked up (right near the POW eating room) until the recording clerk comes around once a week. This sets … More The Liberators: America’s Witnesses to the Holocaust by Michael Hirsh
I highly recommend reading this book in sunlight. Not before bedtime. It opens with American POW as slave-labor in a mining shaft, some die, but bodies have to be recorded properly so they get stacked up (right near the POW eating room) until the recording clerk comes around once a week. This sets the tone … More The Liberators: America’s Witnesses to the Holocaust by Michael Hirsh
So many photos! And many are of Sousa himself, playbills, audience at his performances. My favorite part of the book is watching fashions change over the decades. I don’t know what his mama would have thought of him meeting up with bathing beauties showing their limbs at the “Atlantic pageant’, later known as the Miss … More John Philip Sousa’s America: The Patriot’s Life in Images and Words by John Phillip Sousa, IV
Cliche: Boy meets boss’s daughter. They marry. Not a cliche: 20 year old rich Jewish girl in Ye Olden Roman Empire decides to marry 40 year old unlearned man, Daddy’s chief shepherd, based on their conversations and her conviction that he could really make something of himself if only he got an education. Daddy wants … More Akiba by Marcus Lehmann
Very interesting. Reading up about Napoleonic wars. This is a first-person (translated) autobiography of a community leader, a rabbi, who lived through the shelling of Pressburg.
Very interesting, very readable. Lots of excellent anecdotes from interviews with White House staff, as well as public facts about the First Ladies. My entirely non-political teenager stole this book from because ‘wait, -that’s- what Hillary Clinton looked like 20 years ago?’ and then she read a few chapters before giving it back. View all … More First Women: The Grace and Power of America’s Modern First Ladies by Kate Andersen Brower
The Little House books are fiction, based on memory – this is the original story! With Pictures! and Maps! (please enjoy the squee. I loved the Little House series.) Is this for adults or kids? Well, this review is only of the first 1/4 of the book. Further notes must wait until my teen-aged daughter … More Pioneer Girl by Laura Ingalls Wilder
