What do you think when you imagine Hawaii? Most of us envision heaven of shores of volcanic sand, stunning mountainscapes of the forest, and softly swinging palm trees. These are the sights that have...
Category: History
The Lincoln Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer [Book Summary – Review]
The United States was afflicted at the beginning of 1861 by discord, hostility, and uncertainty. Northern states, such as Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, and Southern states, such as Georgia and...
The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson [Book Summary – Review]
Winston Churchill became the authority during the most pivotal period in Britain’s history. Germany was rising under Hitler’s rule, alarming Europe as a whole. The Nazis were employing the...
The Sleepwalkers by Christopher Clark [Book Summary – Review]
2014 marks the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. Yet, a hundred years after, do we really comprehend how this Great War began? As you will read in this overview, the...
The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson [Book Summary – Review]
Life is evolving constantly every other day and it is possible through a process called natural selection, according to a discovery by Charles Darwin. The most suitable ways of life for their...
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn [Book Summary – Review]
The Gulag Archipelago of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has an interesting place in the history of literature. While viewed as a vitally significant document of the terrible acts perpetrated by the...