The Austro-Hungarian Empire was a strange creature. It spanned a huge swath of central and […]
Regeneration, by Pat Barker
Early in Pat Barker’s moving, thoughtful novel Regeneration, Dr. William Rivers reflects on an experiment he […]
The Verdun Affair, by Nick Dybek
Nick Dybek’s The Verdun Affair turned out to be a perfect choice to read on […]
The Winter Soldier, by Daniel Mason
If Gavrilo Princip had not fired the shot that started World War I, Lucius Krzelewski […]
The Hawkman, by Jane Rosenberg LaForge
After World War I, millions of traumatized men returned to their homes to sink or […]
The Sojourn, by Andrew Krivak
It might seem strange to begin and end a book about a soldier and a […]
Ghost Talkers, by Mary Robinette Kowal
Mary Robinette Kowal’s Ghost Talkers is a compulsive, affecting read. I read the whole book in […]
The Angel Makers, by Jessica Gregson
Sari has always been an outsider in her small Hungarian village. Before World War I […]
The Empire of the Senses, by Alexis Landau
One of the most difficult things to teach the students in the World War II […]
The Hundred-Year Walk, by Dawn Anahid MacKeen
The more I learn of history, the more I see events repeating themselves. In some […]