by Robert Huddleston | Jul 29, 2018 | Reviews
Charles Sweeny, the Man Who Inspired Hemingway by Charley Roberts and Charles P. Hess. McFarland & Company (Jefferson, NC), 2017. Paperback, 279 pages, $35. Reviewed by Robert Huddleston Charles Michael Sweeny met Ernest Hemingway “in war-torn Turkey in the...
by Robert Huddleston | Jul 23, 2017 | Reviews
Fighter Pilot by L. C. Beck. [Wetzel 1946] Kessinger Publishing, 2010. Paperback, 200 pages, $20. June 6, 1944, D-day for the long awaited Allied invasion of continental Europe. Success meant the beginning of the end of Germany’s Third Reich; failure would give new...
by Robert Huddleston | Nov 4, 2016 | Reviews
German Rocketeers in the Heart of Dixie: Making Sense of the Nazi Past During the Civil Rights Era by Monique Laney. Yale University Press, 2015. Hardcover, 320 pages, $35. On April 11, 1945, just short of a month before VE-day and the end of the conflict in Europe, a...
by Robert Huddleston | Aug 1, 2016 | Reviews
The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War Over Europe, 1940–1945. By Richard Overy. New York: Viking, 2013. Paperback, 592 pages, $18. In 1938, as war clouds gathered, America’s commander in chief, President Franklin Roosevelt met in November with an ad hoc...
by Robert Huddleston | Apr 27, 2015 | Reviews
Intrepid Woman: Betty Lussier’s Secret War, 1942–1945 by Betty Lussier. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2010. Hardcover, 240 pages, $35. Betty Lussier was born in Canada but raised on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Her father, born in the U.S. but a Canadian...
