Americans In Paris by Charles Glass
Before the Second World War, approximately thirty thousand Americans lived in Paris. When war broke out in 1939, that number had been reduced to five thousand, many of whom continued […]
At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
Although Bill Bryson’s most well know book is A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bryson is not a traditional historian. He does not offer illuminating insights or new interpretations of […]
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell
EARLY YEARS Mrs. Edwin Lee Hall of Baltimore had high hopes for her only daughter Virginia, born April 6, 1906. That her ambitions for her child were limited solely to […]
A Spy Among Friends by Ben Macintyre
I am a big fan of the non-fiction works of Ben Macintyre, Operation Mincemeat and Double Cross, and his latest, A Spy Among Friends, doesn’t disappoint. Ken Philby was one […]