Bryson’s book A Short History of Nearly Everything is an great read for people who are interested in Science. It describes in easy to understand terms what the current thinking is in the various sciences including Biology, Geology, Astronomy, Physics, and Chemistry. It reads differently from your science text book in a number of ways. ...

I just finished reading the book “The Ten Thousand ” by Michael Curtis Ford. If you enjoyed Gates of Fire which I previously reviewed , you will enjoy this book. It is set in ancient Greece at the close of Athens golden age. It is based on the true story of Xenophon, an Athenian, student ...

I got hooked on the Horatio Hornblower series after watching the wonderful movies on the books done by A&E. A wonderful series of books about the exploits of a mythical English sea captain in the time of Napoleon. If you liked Master and Commander , you will love Horatio Hornblower.

This book provides a wonderfully engaging retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae between ancient Greece and the invading Persians. Go back to the days of Greek city states and the last stand of the Spartan King as a small army of 300 Spartan Hoplites and their allies hold up the advance of 100,000 Persians for ...

It is only coincidental that I was reading this book during the point last year when we took in a Turkish exchange student to live with us. We had been talking about a trip to Greece and I was interested in the more recent history of the region. In general, I found this book to ...

A novel about code breaking should have an obscure name like Cryptonomicon. The novel skips back and forth between adventures and misadventures of code breakers in WWII and their decedents today. The WWII section has some fantastic yarns about and the lengths they will go to make the enemy believe that their codes have not ...