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Book Review - Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler by Anne Nelson
Synopsis: In this unforgettable book, distinguished author Anne Nelson shares one of the most shocking and inspiring–and least chronicled–stories of domestic resistance to the Nazi regime. The Rote Kapelle, or Red Orchestra, was the Gestapo’s ...
War Through the Generations Reading Challenge: The Viet Nam War
Oh, look! Another reading challenge for 2010! Just what I need!Actually this looks like a great one - I'm just sorry I missed the WWII challenge this past year. Ah well.I am signed up for a Wade- Read 6-10 books in any genre with the Vietnam War a...
Teaser Tuesdays
Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Miz B of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:Grab your current readOpen to a random pageShare two (2) random teaser sentences from somewhere on that pageBE CAREFUL NOT TO I...
Book Review - Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World\'s Most Notorious Nazi by Neal Bascomb
Synopsis: The first complete narrative of the pursuit and capture of Adolf Eichmann, based on groundbreaking new information and interviews and featuring rare, never published Mossad surveillance photographs. When the Allies stormed Berlin in the l...
Book Review - The Wrong Mother by Sophie Hannah
Synopsis: Sally Thorning is watching the news with her husband when she hears an unexpected name—Mark Bretherick. It’s a name she shouldn’t know, but last year Sally treated herself to a secret vacation—away from her hectic family life—and...
Book Review - Gallows Lane by Brian McGilloway
Synopsis: In Gallows Lane, the Donegal summer dawns unusually hot, and Inspector Devlin returns to the borderlands separating the North and South of Ireland, waiting for a notorious ex-con, James Kerr, to return home on early release. Kerr claims to...

