The Rusty Battle Axe

Not that long ago, my history reading was focused on  WW2 memoirs . The latest batch of books, however, are more eclectic. Here is my lat...

Thanks to the influence of Max Hastings' Inferno , my WW2 reading has been sprinkled with more first-person narratives. Recently, I r...

My most recent World War 2 reading has taken me a bit off the beaten path. As near as I can tell, I have read about 100 books on WW2, goin...

My World War 2 reading over the past 18 months has been heavily influenced by the bibliography in Max Hastings' Inferno: The World at ...

It has been awhile since I have posted any of my World War 2 reads. Here are some of my more recent World War 2 reads (I will post more ne...

Several months ago, I posted a list of my favorite World War 2 books . I then added an update of some of my recent World War 2 reads . Her...

Buy It and Read It! I was going to post the following five books as a "Five for Friday" blog post. Then I realized there are s...

I've had some very good book recommendations in the comment section of this blog. Thanks, you guys, for giving me hours of literary en...

I am a big time history buff. My favorite topics include ancient Greece, Medieval (particularly Byzantium), the Reformation, Central Asia,...