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How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi Neal Bascomb's The Nazi Hunters reads like a fictional spy thriller but tells the very real story of the hunt for and capture of top Nazi Adolf Eichmann. The book is intended for YA readers and the author treats them and the … Continue reading The Nazi Hunters
Hindsight is everything and Lawrence Wright knows it. Wright is the author of The Looming Tower, a methodical and sweeping history that's so engaging and interesting you feel guilty for enjoying it. He published it in 2006, won the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction for it in 2007, and it was made into a mini-series … Continue reading The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11
I've been quiet for a while, reading a lot but not writing much. Now I'm back with a review of a children's book. Baby steps. It's impossible not to think of Ukraine when you read Nour's Secret Library which is set in war-torn Syria. Nour and her cousin Amir live in Damascus (which means fragrant … Continue reading Nour’s Secret Library
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