The beginning of The Honor of Spies overlaps with the ending of Death & Honor. Where the last book has Enrico describing the assault that takes place on the fly, the beginning chapter here gives a blow-by-blow account of it. The reader gets a front row seat as Enrico plans the ambush with military precision, […]
Look Who’s Back isn’t a book on World War 2 per se; but it features two aspects that made me want to review it here – the presence of Adolf Hitler as the primary character, and the dark undertone of the book that reminds us that the more things change, the more they stay the […]
Once in a while, you come across a story that is extremely simple on the surface, but as you read it and finish it, it keeps tugging at your memory with its subtle layers. Then you pick it up and read it again, and slowly the layers all become visible simultaneously and you see it […]
As far as historic fiction goes, Mila 18 is for me THE definitive book in the genre. The story is based on a real-life incident (the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943) and is the only book where I as a reader identify with not one but two characters, with both of them ideologically on opposing […]
Band of Brothers (full title Band of Brothers, E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne: From Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle Nest) was one of the rare occasions where I saw the TV adaptation first and then read the book. And though the TV series is in this case superior in terms of visuals and the storytelling […]
Battle Cry holds a special place in my heart. It was the first book I ever read from the Historic Fiction genre and has been instrumental in shaping my love and interest in it. I was then studying World War 2 in my History lessons, and the name Leon Uris kept popping up when my […]
War Crows 