Killing Jesus is a history book that details Roman and Israel history of the time—around 44 BC to 30 AD. It is not a religious book. Of particular interest is the insight into the Roman revolution where Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon with his army, overthrows the republican Senate, and assume dictatorial power. After Caesar […]
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International Brigades in Spain 1936-39 by Ken Bradley: A Book Review
The clue to the authors political bent is in his Dedication: “To the volunteers of the international brigades who gave all they had to oppose international fascism and to preserve a free Spain.” (My emphasis on “free.”) Republican Spain (again another euphemism) was anything but free or a republic. In 1936, when the Spanish Revolution […]
The Last Prophecy, Jon Land Book Review
I’ve seen this book many times past. Not exactly this one book but other books, films, and tales with the same basic plot: intrepid adventurers discover an ancient and secret writing or glyph well hidden in some exotic/dangerous/gruesome local. Only some obscure university professor/retired cryptographer/computer geek can decode this mysterious writing. Meantime, eeevil (keep “eeevil”) […]
Book Review: Engineers of Victory: The Problelm Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War
Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War Paul Kennedy, Random House, New York, 2013, 438 pp., with maps and Tables, photographs, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Kenny posits that there were five key tactics to the Allied victory in World War II. How to […]
Meet Author, S. Martin Shelton
Thank you to Central Texas Authors for posting my guest blog. What compelled you to pen St. Catherine’s Crown, a historical novel about the Russian Revolution? I chose to write about the Russian Revolution—the overthrow of the monarchy and installation of an atheistic Communist regime—to refresh our minds of its monumental impact on world events for […]
What compelled me to pen this historical novel, St. Catherine’s Crown, about the Russian Revolution?
I chose to write about the Russian Revolution—the overthrow of the monarchy and installation of an atheistic Communist regime—to refresh our minds of its monumental impact on world events for seventy years. The Bolshevik’s leaders—Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Felix Dzerzhinsky head of the Soviet secret police, for examples—exercised their unmitigated evil and bilious […]