Oct 16, 2008 Posted by booktiger

The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front – Mark Thompson

I received The White War as an Early Reviewer on LibraryThing, and it wasn’t a disappointment. I love reading history, particularly when the period is relatively unknown and undocumented as this. As readers of this blog will know, I read Hemingway’s Farewell to Arms and wasn’t particularly enamoured with it, although that was more for the writing style than than the period of history... read more

Oct 1, 2008 Posted by Nancy Williams

Blood River: A Journey To Africa’s Broken Heart – Tim Butcher

More than a hundred years ago, Henry Morton Stanley famously found the lost Dr Livingstone with “Dr Livingstone, I presume?”, and a soundbite which became more well known than the country in which it was spoken was born. Stanley was the first European to travel the length of the Congo River in Central Africa, before he played an instrumental part in the downfall of that enormous country. King... read more