Archive for August, 2008
The Fifteen Weeks, by Joseph M. Jones
Posted by labeau on August 22nd, 2008 filed in books
The Fifteen Weeks (February 21-June 5, 1947), by Joseph M. Jones
Published in 1955
A behind-the-scenes account of the Truman’s decision to take up the mantle of world leadership from the crumbling British Empire in the face of Stalin’s moves to turn Greece, Turkey and Iran into Soviet satellites, and how the main administration players, Dean Acheson [...]
The Gallery, by John Horne Burns
Posted by labeau on August 12th, 2008 filed in books
The Gallery by John Horne Burns
Originally published in 1947
One of the pleasures in searching through the book reviews of the late 1940s is finding a book such as this: a war novel—one highly lauded in its own time, barely mentioned in succeeding years, and the subject of revival attempts—which still stands up, and in [...]