Beginning with a Foreword by the director of the Anti-Defamation League, this is an intense piece of work. Abrashe Szabrinski left four manuscripts behind when he passed, translated from the original Yiddish. One was a memoir type of manuscript while the others were shorter recollections....

We Were Soldiers Too: A Historical Look at Germany During the Cold War From the US Soldiers Who Served There (Volume 2) by Bob Kern shows a part of the Cold War that many people know nothing about. The entire world was watching the conflict...

Whatever Happened to the Quiz Kids? by Ruth Duskin Feldman traces the path followed by the famous Quiz Kids, the protagonists of the popular radio program of the 1940s, the ones who always answered the impossible. A Quiz Kid herself, this book chronicles how she...

We Wait You is a true-to-life story by Taryn Hutchison about her work as a Christian missionary in the war-torn climate of Europe in 1990. Covering many countries which lived under the stringent Communist control of Cold War Russia, the author describes not only her...

Gerard LaSalle’s Widow Walk is a brave account of history, shared mainly from a woman’s perspective as her husband is killed by savages, and her son is taken by the savages to be traded as a slave. The woman, Emmy, is married to an aborigine...

War Babies by Richard Pells covers well-trodden territory, but does so with a difference. America and the world went through a transformative period in the 1960s and 1970s. The history of this time has been written about extensively, but most of it has been told...

Who Nuked the Duke: Atomic Testing and the Fallout Behind RKO's John Wayne Epic The Conqueror by John William Law is a story that spans over 30 years. The cold war dawned and took hold in the 1950s and the US government worked on the...

Edna Spencer tells of her family's relocation from Oakridge, Tennessee, to Worcester, Massachusetts, when, in 1933, the Tennessee Valley Authority took over the land where her family and other black families had made their homes for years. She tells honestly of the effects of segregation....

"Winston and Salem Tales of Murder, Mystery and Mayhem" by Jennifer Bean Bower is quite a fascinating book. The author who is an associate curator of the photographic collections at the Old Salem Museums and Gardens, has provided some excellent photographs throughout the book dealing...

Bishop Stephen White was called to write a history of the Mormon Church in Kentucky. After much research (assisted by his wife Susan) and head scratching on how to accomplish such a daunting task, he chose the perfect style. White offers readers not a reference...