“Conscious of the propaganda value of displaying to the world how much he liked children, Hitler stooped and impulsively hugged me for a few moments…” This embrace, caught on camera at the German movie studio where Kuttner’s... Read More

In 1580, the French essayist and minor nobleman Michel de Montaigne had an audience with Henri III, King of France. The king broke the ice: he had read Montaigne’s Essays, he said, and had liked them. “Sir,” the author reportedly... Read More

It’s not quite fair to compare The Heart of a Pilot to Ernest K. Gann’s superb Fate is the Hunter, but readers who enjoy aviation books will close Pilot with an appreciation for their similarities. Everyone who enjoys reading about... Read More

While many readers are familiar with Washington Irving as the author of such classic tales as “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” few may be aware of his other singular adventures in life as a diplomat,... Read More

“A lot of people describe their wild days as a time when they were experimenting with drugs,” the author observes in this memoir. “Not me, I was into full scale research.” Even that is an understatement. In Not That Well Rounded,... Read More

These days, we tend to take cell phones for granted. Most people are used to being able to contact their friends and families with a simple press of a button, no matter the distance that has to be covered. In the late nineteenth and... Read More

The story of one remarkable person is often the story of a family. Carolyn Dungee Nicholas’ book, Hilda, about her mother, Hilda Howland May Minnis Mason, pays homage to Hilda’s rise from humble origins in segregated, rural Virginia... Read More

Leah M. Reasor assures readers from the beginning that her twins, Marcus and Mirielle, did survive after being born seventeen weeks premature in 2004—but her nail-biting memoir will still leave them wondering how the twins will make it... Read More