Reviews
Friday, November 14 2008
Quantum of Solace by Ian Fleming
The best of Ian Fleming’s work inspired a generation of espionage writers, but sadly, not these stories.
Tuesday, September 2 2008
Life and Death in the Third Reich by Peter Fritzsche
Fritzsche shows the systematic breakdown and reshaping of a society, which in part paved the way for the Holocaust.
Thursday, July 17 2008
Eldorado
This tries to capitalize on the topicality of European illegal immigration, but ends up a pedestrian effort at putting a face on the multitudes that wash up on the continent’s shores each year.
Tuesday, June 17 2008
Ghettostadt by Gordon J. Horwitz
The book is exhaustively researched and while that’s admirable, it's done at the expense of a narrative momentum for an important story that might otherwise appeal to the layperson.
Monday, May 19 2008
AK47 by Michael Hodges
A tour across decades and through some of the planet’s worst hellholes to chronicle the impact of the AK47.
