Tag Archives: espionage and commandos

Hitler’s Peace

Posted on November 6, 2013 by smellincoffee

Hitler’s Peace© 2006 Phillip Kerr464 pages Willard Mayer has the strangest luck. How many people get to dine with FDR, talk about the worries of life with Winston Churchill, annoy Joseph Stalin, and shake hands with Adolf Hitler? And this … Continue reading →

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Field Grey

Posted on September 29, 2013 by smellincoffee

Field Grey© 2011 Phillip Kerr384 pages Bernie Gunther survived Hitler’s Germany and a Soviet prison camp, so when he’s forcefully detained by the American  Navy on the open seas and interrogated, he’s not too much impressed by their attempt at … Continue reading →

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The Bloody Ground

Posted on February 12, 2013 by smellincoffee

The Bloody Ground© 2001 Bernard Cornwell398 pages In the fall of 1862, Robert E. Lee took the initiative after a string of triumphs over the bungling Union army and launched an attack into the north, aiming to bloody the Federal army’s nose … Continue reading →

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Copperhead

Posted on January 21, 2013 by smellincoffee

Copperhead: Ball’s Bluff, 1862© 1993 Bernard Cornwell417 pages Nathaniel Starbuck is a man with a mighty grumpy enemy.  Wealthy Virginian planter Washington Falcouner rescued Starbuck from a mob, asking him for his service in arms alongside his son, Adam, in … Continue reading →

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The Good German

Posted on October 7, 2011 by smellincoffee

The Good German© 2001 Joseph Kanon512 pages Berlin, summer 1945. The heart of the most infamous empire in history lies in ruins, battered by bombs and ravaged block by block by Russian artillery.  Its contents sacked and its people abused … Continue reading →

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The Union Club Mysteries

Posted on October 7, 2011 by smellincoffee

The Union Club Mysteries© 1987 Isaac Asimov210 pages Evening falls in New York City, and inside the aristocratic Union Club, four gentlemen sit ensconced in their usual chairs in the club library. Three talk softly among themselves while a fourth … Continue reading →

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Sharpe’s Prey

Posted on July 2, 2011 by smellincoffee

Sharpe’s Prey: Denmark 1807© 2001 Bernard Cornwell288 pages Richard Sharpe has fallen from grace — or rather, the Lady Grace, his love, has fallen from him, perished in childbirth along with his child.  His Indian fortune has been legally stolen … Continue reading →

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Sharpe’s Tiger

Posted on May 21, 2011 by smellincoffee

Sharpe’s Tiger© 1997 Bernard Cornwell385 pages Until the birth of modern India in 1947, there existed  for many centuries upon the southern tip of the Indian peninsula a kingdom known as Mysore. In the year 1799, the British Empire — … Continue reading →

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The Forgotten 500

Posted on March 18, 2011 by smellincoffee

The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II© 2007 Gregory A. Freeman313 pages Throughout the Second World War, Great Britain and the United States engaged in a … Continue reading →

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