Blossoms and Bayonets is about the Japanese occupation of Korea during World War Two. Korea was the first nation to fall victim to Japan’s imperial ambitions; the Japanese seized control of the country in 1910. The Japanese attempted to assimilate the Koreans to their culture, staffing the schools with Japanese sensei , indoctrinating Korean children […]
Book Review: Eyes Behind Belligerence by K.P. Kollenborn
October 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Eyes Behind Belligerence, by K.P. Kollenborn is a rich and fascinating fictional account of the experience of Japanese Americans in the internment camps during World War Two. Kollenborn follows two main characters and their families throughout the war and its aftermath. At the start of the war, Jim Yoshimura and Russell Hamaguchi (AKA Goro) are […]
My new book, Sempronia the Sister of the Gracchi is Now Available on Amazon
October 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
My second book, Sempronia, the Sister of the Gracchi, has just been published by Create Space. This is a short work which tells the story of Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus, Roman reformers of the second century B.C., through the eyes of their sister Sempronia. Sempronia is described by ancient historians as “unlovely, unloving, and unloved.” […]
Colossus: Stone and Steel by David Blixt
October 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Yis’gadal, v’yit’kadash sh’mei raba. . . . May his great name grow exalted and sanctified. . . The Jewish mourner’s Kaddish, spoken in every Jewish prayer service. Unlike other prayers which are in Hebrew, the mourner’s Kaddish is in Aramaic, the language spoken in Judea at the time of the Roman conquest. I always assumed […]
Book Review: My Half of the Sky by Jana Mc Burney-Lin
September 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
China at the turn of the twenty-first century is a rapidly evolving society. The older people had lived through violent revolution, a period of starvation in the early 1960s and the chaotic and violent cultural revolution of the late sixties and early seventies. Jana McBurney-Lin’s heroine, Li Hui experienced none of that. Born in […]
Book Review: A Tainted Dawn by Barbara Peacock
September 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment
At the beginning of the first chapter of her book, A Tainted Dawn, Barbara Peacock quotes Wordsworth: “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive. But to be young was very heaven!” The final quarter of the 18th century was time of immense change and progress in western civilization. There were two momentous political […]
The Romans and the Celts: Part One. The Battle of Allia
September 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The Celts, whom the Greeks called Keltoi or Galatae, and the Romans called Celti or Galli were widespread in Europe during the time of the rise of the Roman empire. The Romans called what is now France Gallia, but the Gaelic speaking people also inhabited the British Isles, Northern Italy, parts of central and eastern […]
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