Wars and Warriors: Joan of Arc review, or "How the French beat up the ...
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Just incase you never took basic European history, allow me to summarize the concept of Joan of Arc: Frenchmen kill lots of Englishmen in order to liberate their country, led by Joan of Arc, a French born ...
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Historical fiction is a difficult genre to get right. Neglect research and facts at your peril, because someone is sure to accuse you of dilettantism.
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RISING '44: The Battle for Warsaw. By Norman Davies. Viking. 752 pages. $32.95. War is hell; that much we know.
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Amazing, but even in this time of goodwill and cheer, some folks are always looking for a fight. A recent exchange with a regular reader got me thinking how divisive things can get.
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Arts & entertainment: The National Theatre's new star director, Marianne Elliott, is staging Shaw's Saint Joan. But can an 80-year-old play about a medieval warrior still speak to us, asks Lyn Gardner.
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From Narnia to a Space Odyssey is a collection of the infrequent correspondence between noted authors Arthur C. Clarke and C.S. Lewis. I didn't even know they had corresponded, so I picked the book up from a bargain shelf for $4, and it turned out to be a fairly interesting if not particularly substantial bit of history, focusing mainly on their disagreements over space travel, and mainly initiated and driven by Clarke's attempts to engage Lewis in debate on the matter.
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"The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800" (Harper Collins, 659 pages, $29.95), by Jay Winik: A revolt in an undeveloped colony on the fringe of civilization, led by a big landowner and slaveholder with little education or military experience, brought to success by help from France in its feud with the British colonizers.
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There have been two Medals of Honor awarded since the Iraq war began. What gives? An incensed Vietnam vet blasts the Pentagon's track record of commending its bravest warriors.
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Tycho: It's available almost everywhere, actually, but we have it on our own store now if you do not already posess it. I've seen a few out there in The Retail Book Fortresses, so should you desire a copy of Epic Legends Of The Magic Sword Kings, the process will be very straightforward. I think it turned out really well, but I wrote all of it, and I get paid when you buy it. So I might not be the person to ask.  Trivia: The third book is called The Warsun Prophecies, which we already announced. The fourth book is called "Birds Are Weird."(CW)TB
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The French are arrogant, rude and surly to foreign visitors. For once - quelle surprise! - the thought comes not from an embittered tourist but the leading French politician behind a damning report on how the ...
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It has long been a matter of contention: Was the Aztec and Mayan practice of human sacrifice as widespread and horrifying as the history books say? Or did the Spanish conquerors overstate it to make the Indians look primitive? In recent years archaeologists have been uncovering mounting physical evidence that corroborates the Spanish accounts in substance, if not number.
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Feminism breaches walls of the fortress after over 500 years
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A close-up chronicle of the most sustained period of street-to-street fighting that the U.S. has encountered since Vietnam.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina's tradition of cultural coexistence - particularly impressive when set against centuries of nearly continuous internecine warfare in Western Europe - offers a compelling lesson for the ...
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As I write this article a war is going on on the battlefield of the browsers (programs for surfing the internet such as Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox).
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American novelist Jonathan Littell, whose award-winning, 900-page World War II opus is written in French, has been granted French nationality.Comment
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Riding on the coat-tails of an earlier article about emigrating to other countries, I present to you a small summary of my experience rapidly learning French to pass a standardized test for Canadian immigration. Since I live in the middle of the US, far removed from anything resembling a Francophone environment, I had to resort to various online and offline resources to accomplish my goal, managing to learn enough to score as "advanced" in several categories in just 10 months. Even if you don't wish to emigrate, this article may be useful, as I go into full detail describing the techniques and methods I used. Or, at the very least, read and be amused.