Reviews

Netflix’s “The Fall”, Makes Great TV Watching

January 7, 2014 by Tony Posted in Reviews 1 Comment

    I just finished watching the first season of a great BBC TV series on Netflix…and its available  streaming! The Fall, created by Allan Cubitt and directed by Jakob Vertruggen is a captivating crime drama (and honest, I usually don’t like crime dramas). The main character, Detective Superintendent Stella…

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Review of “Embers of War” by Fredrik Logevall

January 4, 2014 by DickH Posted in Reviews 2 Comments

I just finished reading Frederik Logevall’s Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam which won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2012. A professor of history at Cornell, Logevall uses recently released diplomatic archives from several countries to paint a comprehensive portrait of…

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