A 1967 graduate of West Point, Richard Barlow Adams captures the spirit of that grand old school for generals in his novel The Parting: A Story of West Point on the Eve of the Civil War. Several cuts above mass-market fiction on the... Read More

In the early 1960s, Harold Schwartz was stationed with the US military in West Berlin. Outpost Berlin: Cold War 1961-1964 is written with the kind of black humor known to people who are familiar with potentially hostile environments.... Read More

In July of 1814, two armies met in bloody battle at Lundy’s Lane, just across the Niagara River from New York in Canada. By midnight more than one in four of the 6,000 American, Canadian, and British soldiers were casualties. Although... Read More

Building a novel around the mother of Jesus is a brave, bold, and difficult undertaking, one sure to create controversy in some camps. A former seminarian, Melanie Bacon is to be applauded for her courage, as well as her ability to bring... Read More

Historical Fiction is at its best when the reader races to the bookstore (virtual or bricks and mortar) burning to know more about the subject—one that may have escaped notice before the author nurtured facts into fascinating fiction.... Read More

In this gripping novel of historical fiction, the author explores an infrequently examined aspect of the Holocaust: what happened to the money, jewelry, and other assets stolen from the Jews by the Nazis? How complicit were the banks of... Read More

At the heart of David Szalay’s exquisite yet maddening novel "Spring" is a love story. What’s exquisite is the writing. What’s maddening is its inconclusiveness. The author was listed in 2010 as one of the twenty best British... Read More

Located on the African continent and bordered by Burundi, Republic of Congo, Uganda, and Tanzania, Rwanda has a centuries-long history of internal conflict. Two of the three main social groupings, Hutus and Tutsis, have swapped control... Read More