Full disclosure, my wife co-authored this book, so I can’t claim to be impartial. Washington, DC is my adopted home city. I moved to the area more… Read more “Book Review: 111 Places in Women’s History (in Washington, DC) that You Must Not Miss”
Category: History
Book Review: War Plan Red
I grew up just a few hours from the Canadian border. I had family in Canada, and my own Grandfather was Canadian by birth. I always knew… Read more “Book Review: War Plan Red”
Book Review: The Huns Have Got my Gramophone!
This is a short book with a ton of illustrations, but I think it gets the job done. It looks at the Great War through the eyes… Read more “Book Review: The Huns Have Got my Gramophone!”
Comic Review: The Harlem Hellfighters
I have to admit, I was not expecting Max Brooks’s follow up to World War Z to be a historical fiction graphic novel about World War I,… Read more “Comic Review: The Harlem Hellfighters”
Book Review: The Truth About Lies
By turns fascinating and depressing, Aja Raden’s book explores lies and subterfuge from biological to sociological. Animals survive because they camouflage themselves as other things and humans… Read more “Book Review: The Truth About Lies”
Book Review: A Very Dangerous Woman
“It was no doubt easier to believe in the ultimate rightness of the cause when one was no longer likely to be its next victim.” It… Read more “Book Review: A Very Dangerous Woman”
Book Review: Ace of Spies
Sometime around 1990 or so, my local PBS channel played the 1983 British mini-series ‘Reilly: Ace of Spies.’ I was absolutely captivated. Sam Neill was awesome. The… Read more “Book Review: Ace of Spies”
Tabletop RPG Review: The Tribunals of Hermes: Iberia
If I ever get around to running a game of Ars Magica, my plan is to set the game in Mythic Iberia. I figured, I’d better give… Read more “Tabletop RPG Review: The Tribunals of Hermes: Iberia”
Book Review: The Lives of Dillon Ripley
There’s rich, and then there’s inherited wealth rich. Truly wealthy people don’t live like the rest of us, their world isn’t like ours. Dillon Ripley was born… Read more “Book Review: The Lives of Dillon Ripley”
Tabletop RPG Review: Ars Magica Fifth Edition
I’m going to have to try to keep myself somewhat on track for this review, as I could go on and on about this game, spiraling down… Read more “Tabletop RPG Review: Ars Magica Fifth Edition”
Matthew J. Constantine 