Book Review: Repentance and Repair by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
A group of us at All Saints, Collingwood, recently completed a study of this book and I compiled a summary of it for our parish newsletter, passed on in […]
Books on the Go: The Fighting Padre, the Great War Letters of Pat Leonard
I made the mistake of browsing the excellent Pen and Sword website recently and in due course three books arrived in the post (trans-Atlantic mail has improved remarkably since the start of Covid) […]
Book Review: Percy, a Story of 1918
Percy: A Story of 1918, by Peter Doyle with illustrations by Tim Godden. London: Unicorn Publishing Group, 2018. ISBN: 978-1-911604-81-5 Percy is a collaboration between a distinguished British historian of […]
Book Review: Adam Montgomery, The Invisible Injured: Psychological Trauma in the Canadian Military From the First World War to Afghanistan
Here is a link to my review of the subject book, which appeared on The Strategy Bridge (TSB) this week. For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, […]
Book Review, Bomber Country: The Poetry of a Lost Pilot’s War by Daniel Swift
I bought and read this book, then reviewed it, thinking i was a new publication. 2010 isn’t exactly new, but it’s a terrific book and well worth your time. […]
Book Review: The Vimy Trap (2016) by Ian McKay and Jamie Swift
Hello! I am trying to get this blog back into service as part of my ongoing professional military development. This is a book review that I submitted to the Canadian […]
Book review: Hugh Sebag-Montefiore, Somme: Into The Breach
A small addition to my modest resume of military writing. This book review on a 2016 book on the First World War’s Battle of the Somme was published yesterday in […]
The Interrogator’s Confession: A Book Review of Consequence: A Memoir by Eric Fair
Consequence: A Memoir is the confession of a good man who became complicit in evil. Eric Fair, an American and a Christian with a strong sense of vocation to God […]
Book Review: David Finkel, Thank You For Your Service
David Finkel, Thank You For Your Service. Toronto: Bond Street Books, 2013. I am slowly working my way through a stack of books about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan […]
Book Review: Annie Jacobsen’s The Pentagon’s Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA
The Pentagon’s Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America’s Top Secret Military Research Agency (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2015). Annie Jacobsen Since 1958, DARPA, the […]