As head of the Institute of Military History of the USSR and General of the Soviet Army, Dmitri Volkogonov had access to secret Soviet documents not available to other historians up to the time of Mikhail Gorbachev’s glasnost and perestroika. This authoritative, engaging, and instructive biography of the Red Czar of Soviet Communism, Comrade Joseph […]
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This is a great book, and once again I must disagree respectfully with the average reviewer in the case of one of Louis Kilzer’s books! Incidentally, I don’t know Mr. Kilzer personally, but I do know of his journalistic accomplishments and salute him for this and for writing yet another very remarkable book, Churchill’s Deception:
Hitler’s Traitor: Martin Bormann and the Defeat of the Reich by Louis C. Kilzer Read More »
This a great book for history buffs and World War II aficionados. The author, Louis C. Kilzer, a respected journalist who has twice earned a Pulitzer Prize, has written an intriguing book. I must respectfully disagree with the unfavorable Amazon book reviews that have been posted so far in this forum, and so I am
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Macon Telegraph journalist Charles Richardson, former Mercer University President, Dr. Kirby Godsey, and Mercer Law Professor David Oedel have all brought interesting points to the discussion of the problem of education and ethics. I believe this is a problem — not just affecting Georgia and Bibb County — but also the nation. And, in contemporary
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Mr. Epstein’s books are always fascinating and enlightening. He has done this repeatedly with his tomes, Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald (1978) and Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer (1996). He repeats his superb performance with Deception: The Invisible War Between the CIA and the KGB (1989). Before we start a
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Contrasting Revolutions Even though politicians and some historians in both America and Europe have likened the French and American Revolutions, these two landmark events of world history were as dissimilar as the men who forged them. The American Revolution (1775-1783) was a war for independence from England, a war for self-governance, as well as a
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