Kingmaker
Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue by Sonia Purnell In her old age, she was the American ambassador to France and a confidant of Bill Clinton, […]
The Illusionist
The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler by Robert Hutton In December of 1940, Colonel Dudley Clarke arrived in Cario as ‘Personal Intelligence Officer (Special Duties)’ […]
The Guernsey Literary Potato Peel Society
The Guernsey Literary Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows GLPPS is a charming novel of 1946 London and Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands. London based […]
Good Evening, Mrs. Craven
Good Evening, Mrs. Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes I am always looking for a good Bedside Table Book (BTB), so I was pleased that my pretty box from […]
Madame Fourcade’s Secret War
Madame Fourcade’s Secret War by Lynne Olson I have read almost all of Lynne Olson’s World War II era nonfiction books. Although I have my favorites, Citizens of London and […]
Clementine
Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill by Sonia Purnell When you are married to a legend, you get short shrift in the great one’s biography. And if that legend […]
City of Thieves
City of Thieves by David Benioff At first glance, a novel about two young men who meet in Leningrad during the Nazi siege sounds unpromising. Russian novels (about or by) […]