by annegregor | Jun 11, 2018 | American Civil War/Reconstruction
Hess, Earl J. In the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications and Confederate Defeat. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009. Earl J. Hess has created a masterful trilogy on trench warfare during the Civil War. The first book in the series Field...
by annegregor | Jun 11, 2018 | American Revolution
Rose, Alexander. Washington’s Spies: The Story of America’s First Spy Ring New York: Bantam Dell, 2006. Wars are not always fought in the open. They can be quiet, secretive, and won from the shadows. Though the mind wants to conjure explosions, black and eye-watering...
by annegregor | Jun 11, 2018 | American Revolution
Richards, Leonard L. Shays’s Rebellion: The American Revolution’s Final Battle. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. Leonard L. Richards, in Shays’s Rebellion: The American Revolution’s Final Battle walks the reader through the unsuccessful rebellion...
by annegregor | Jun 11, 2018 | American Revolution
Buchanan, John. The Road to Valley Forge: How Washington Built the Army that Won the Revolution. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2004. John Buchanan details the struggles and triumphs of the heroic, yet humble George Washington in The Road...
by annegregor | Jun 10, 2018 | WWI
Ferguson, Niall. The Pity of War: Explaining World War I. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1999. Niall Ferguson’s The Pity of War: Explaining World War I is not a chronological account of the war, but rather he has attacked...
by annegregor | Jun 10, 2018 | WWI
Fussell, Paul. The Great War and Modern Memory. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1975, 2000. The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell looks at the literature produced during World War I and how it has shaped our modern ideas of...
by annegregor | Jun 9, 2018 | Historical
The Century Trilogy is a mental, cinematic blockbuster for the literary world. The amount of passion and just plain humanity that Ken Follett pours into his novels is insanity – he is the master of portrait narratives, pen and paper his canvas (If you have never...
by annegregor | Jun 6, 2018 | Contemporary
“This is us. You and me, Flame. And this is my choice. I want you because of who and what you are, not because of an experiment. You’re in my heart. You have to understand that. This is only between us.” ...
by annegregor | Jun 6, 2018 | Fantasy
There’s nowhere to run, I realize as we pass beneath Blackcliff’s iron-spiked portcullis and into the fabled grounds. There’s nowhere to go. There’s no other way to save Darin. I’m in now. And there is no going back. Laia...
by annegregor | Jun 5, 2018 | Blog
I just finished putting up a review for The Outlander series and remembered I had a picture of Diana Gabaldon signing my first edition of Outlander!! I drug my three kids to a Scottish Festival the summer of 2001 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to stand in a long queue – in...
