A look back on How to Lose World War II By: Bill Fawcett

Well so a while ago (I mean a while) I happened to get my hands on the book "How to Lose World War II.  At the time I was more than a little bit interested in WWII and would read basically anything that I found on the subject.  Well I found this book and let me tell you up front, if history is not your thing or you do not enjoy the subject, well you should probably stay away from the book.  Otherwise I would highly recommend the book. 

One of the things that a really liked about the book was the way that the author would have a chapter for every problem and when a new problem the author would go through and systematically bring each sides blunders in a way that they all complimented each other bringing to light the fact that a lot of WWII was just a giant mess (that tends to happen when there is violence involved in anything).  I found the way that the author would use a combination of fact and opinion to keep the book going with a good place and make as it would seem the pieces of the puzzle fall into place.

The book provides a good amount of information is not commonly known which makes the book a bit more interesting and allows for the reader to perhaps, learn something that they did not already know (from experience textbooks tend to repeat each other because, well history doesn't change in case you haven't noticed)

But anyway i found the book to be and entertaining book and would like to let you all know about it because i feel far less people are looking at the past and looking at the future instead.  This can be a problem because "Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it." (George Santayana).

In Her Name: Final Battle By: Michal Hicks Review

After reading the book "In Her Name: Final Battle" I have a somewhat unequal feelings of happiness and a feeling of emptiness that have come about because I just finished (as in a few weeks ago) probably what is my favorite  book series of all time.  I'm happy because it had a good(ish) ending in my opinion and a lot of the book ended up playing out well and there was always a new twist or turn that encouraged me to keep reading along. The story of the book stays very consistent with the other books. Which in my opinion makes the overall story quite a bit better because it keeps certain constants or anchor points throughout the book that help keep the reader in touch with the story and help them not get lost throughout the wonderfully crafted plot.

As last time I would like to say that I would recommend this book a great deal to anyone. I feel as if this series is not very well known and it saddens me that so few people know about these wonderful books and the great author.  Michal Hicks does a very good job of keeping his stories fresh and interesting and he always knows when to throw a wrench into the works of the story line to give the reader something new to think about.

Also as with my last reviews of the previous books "Empire" and "Confederacy". I would like to mention that at times there are some rather mature sections to the book and would recommend that you think about these facts before just going and reading the book.