When the Goths sacked Rome in A.D. 410, it marked the end of the Western Roman Empire and the beginning of what became known as the Dark Ages. There are countless books on the subject, or rather subjects, but Raffaele D’Amato and Andrea Salimbeti have taken a different and more specific route on the subjects….
Book Review: ‘Post-Roman Kingdoms: ‘Dark Ages’ Gaul & Britain, AD 450-800’
Laura E. Richards’s ‘The Golden Windows’: Finding What’s Truly Important
When we journey out to discover something, we do not always find what we wish or think we need. When the little boy in Laura E. Richards’s short story “The Golden Windows” sets out to find gold and diamonds, he learns that one’s perspective and wonder for life is what is true and worthy. The…
Book Review: ‘The Noise of Typewriters: Remembering Journalism’
“The Noise of Typewriters” is part memoir of Lance Morrow, quasi-biography of Time magazine co-founder Henry Luce, and semi-eulogy for the journalism industry. It is inundated with nostalgia and emanates a sense of sorrow for what he calls the long past “Golden Age” of journalism and those who made it golden. Morrow is most known…
Book Review: ‘Stalingrad Airlift 1942–43: The Luftwaffe’s Broken Promise to Sixth Army’
Operation Barbarossa, which launched the German invasion into the Soviet Union during World War II, proved to be one of the pivotal mistakes that led to Nazi Germany’s ultimate defeat. The Germans had launched their invasion in the summer of 1941, and by the winter of that year it had become clear how colossal of…
Epoch Booklist: Recommended Reading for Jan. 27–Feb. 2
This week, we feature a children’s adventure about a battle against an evil rat and an inspiring play about Romans taking on power-hungry Caesar. Fiction A Navy SEAL’s Revenge ‘The Terminal List’ By Jack Carr This novel launched the story of a more lethal type of Jack Ryan character. Navy SEAL James Reece discovers the…
Book Review: ‘Defeating Big Government Socialism: Saving America’s Future’
Some of my previous book reviews have included Peter Schweizer’s “Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win,” Alex Joske’s “Spies and Lies: How China’s Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World,” Peter Hegseth’s “Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation,” and Dr. Ben Carson’s “Created Equal: The Painful Past, Confusing Present,…
The Incidental Agent: How Former Gossip Columnist Doug Dechert Became a Can’t-Miss Literary Agent
Doug Dechert is a force of nature. His personality is as loud and bombastic as his blazers. After spending a decade writing for the famed Page Six gossip column of the New York Post, along with other publications such as the Daily Mail, the Star, and the National Enquirer, his personality and devil-may-care attitude are…
Character Over Appearance: Rex Ellington Beach’s Short Story, ‘The Shyness of Shorty’
In his short story, “The Shyness of Shorty,” Rex Ellingwood Beach proves that we must not be fooled by appearances. Beach tells of a dwarf, Shorty, who is continually mocked and judged by his peers for his appearance. Shorty lives in the Old West. He is small in height with a large head and midsection,…
Book Review: ‘Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller’
Buckminster Fuller was a brilliant man; there seems to be no doubt about it. In Alec Nevala-Lee’s new biography of the inventor/architect/designer, Fuller is presented as a man who was known by many in the highest circles nationally and internationally as one of the 20th century’s most brilliant people. But the book calls into question…
‘The Paris Library: A Novel’: An American Library in Paris Filled With Heroes
In “The Paris Library,” Janet Skeslien Charles gives us Odile Souchet, a young French woman who in the winter of 1939 follows her love of literature straight into a position at the American Library in Paris. Throughout the rest of the novel, we meet the rest of the library staff, the eccentric patrons, and the…
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