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ardentiaverba wrote 5 months ago: Mrs Astor Regrets The Hidden Betrayals of a Family Beyond Reproach By Meryl Gordon Hardcover; 336 pa … more →

Tags: autobiography, scoundrels, Journalism, wwii, brook astor, Anthony Marshall, Wealth, Meryl Gordon, Court Case

Blackwater by Jeremy Scahill

ardentiaverba wrote 7 months ago: Nation Books © 2007/08 – 550 pps The rise of the world’s most powerful mercenary army. “Jeremy … more →

Tags: blackwater, Jeremy Scahill., iraq, Bush administration, private army, Rightwing, Leftwing

Winston Churchill - Flawed genius of WWII

ardentiaverba wrote 7 months ago: Winston Churchill The Flawed Genius of WWII By Dr.Christopher Catherwood Berkley Caliber © 2009 326 … more →

Tags: Great Britain, Churchill, wwii, Russia, Christopher Catherwood, Catherwood, Troops

The Irregulars by Jennet Conant

ardentiaverba wrote 8 months ago: The Irregulars by Jennet Conant Simon & Shuster © 2008 416 pps. $27.95 (Amazon $18.45) A Review … more →

Tags: Churchill, Hitler, Roald Dahl, sex, spies, USA, Washington, World War II

The Last days of the Romanovs

ardentiaverba wrote 8 months ago: The Last days of the Romanovs By Helen Rappaport St. Martin’s Press ©2008 254 pps $25.95 (Amazon $16 … more →

Dali and I

ardentiaverba wrote 8 months ago: Dali and I by Stan Lauryssens Thomas Dunne Books (2008), Hardcover, 304 page A Review by Colin Edwar … more →

Tags: salvador dali, Stan Lauryssens, Art Fraud, Colin Edwards

A Frenchwoman's Story of Her War1 comment

ardentiaverba wrote 10 months ago: Résistance By Agnés Humbert (Translated from the French by Barbara Mellor) Published by Bloomsbury 2 … more →

Tags: Blogroll, book reviews,history,literature,

The Terminal Spy1 comment

ardentiaverba wrote 1 year ago: The Terminal Spy By Alan S. Cowell   Published by Doubleday 2008 $26.95  432 pps.   A True Story of … more →

Tags: Alan Cowell, Alexander Litvinenko, putin, Russia, espionage, intelligence, London, Polonium 210, Nuclear

Sea of Thunder

ardentiaverba wrote 1 year ago: Sea of Thunder by Evan Thomas Published by Simon & Shuster 2006 414 pps. A Review by Colin J. Ed … more →

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

ardentiaverba wrote 1 year ago: The Man Who Made Lists By Joshua Kendall. . G. P. Putnam’s & Sons. (297 pps) 2008 $25.95 A Revie … more →

Nothing Changes and Yet Everything is Completely Different

ardentiaverba wrote 1 year ago: Vienna 1814 by David King A Review by Colin J. Edwards Published by Harmony Books $27.50 2008 434 pp … more →

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ardentiaverba wrote 1 year ago: ­­­The Immortal Game (330 pps) by David Shenk Published by Doubleday @ $26.00 “Think of a virus so a … more →

Tags: Davis Shenks, Chess, Adolf Anderssen, Lionel Kieseritsky, Immortal Game

Amusing, But Nothing More.1 comment

ardentiaverba wrote 1 year ago: The Prosecution of George W Bush for Murder By Vincent Bugliosi Published by Perseus Publishing 352 … more →

Tags: George Bush, Iraq War, Truth, lies, Life, death, Vincent Bugliosi, Grief

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”4 comments

ardentiaverba wrote 1 year ago: Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War by P.J.Buchanan.   A Review by Colin J. Edwards   Publishe … more →

Tags: Jews, Hitler, Great Britain, america, Japan, Churchill, WWI, wwii, Kaiser

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

ardentiaverba wrote 1 year ago: Richard and Adolf By Christopher Nicholson   A Review By Colin J. Edwards   “Patriotism is the last … more →

Tags: Jews, Germany, Israel, Hitler, Wagner, Anti-Semitic, World War II

Wicked Wife or Innocent Victim?1 comment

ardentiaverba wrote 1 year ago: Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford by Julia Fox   Published by Ballantine Boo … more →

Tags: Julia Fox, Ballantine Books

Number cruncher par excellence

ardentiaverba wrote 2 years ago: The Age of Turbulence by Alan Greenspan A Review By Colin J Edwards It is difficult to place Alan Gr … more →

Tags: Economics, federal reserve, Alan Greenspan, andrea mitchell, Book Review, autobiography, The Age of Turbulence, Economist, Born in 1926

A Little Too Much History

ardentiaverba wrote 2 years ago: Talking Back: …to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels  By Andrea Mitchell A Review … more →

Tags: andrea mitchell, autobiography, scoundrels, Lady Greenspan, Journalism, Jewish, Ivy League, Cambridge,

Stonewall or Oddball?

ardentiaverba wrote 2 years ago: Stonewall Jackson by Donald A. Davis (Palgrave Macmillan (2007), Hardcover, 224 pages)  A review by … more →

Tags: Book Review, Stonewall Jackson, American Civil War, Clarksburg West Virginia, Ambrose Burnside, Mexican War, Fort Mead in Florida, Lexington Virginia, A.P.Hill


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