Sports biography at its best. Rich in period detail, anecdote, and fresh perspective, Strong Boy paints both the good and the bad sides of success, as America's growing celebrity culture turned a simple Irish American gladiator into a national, in… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image
Packed with fascinating personal perspective and testimony, Michael Takiffs A Complicated Man wholly justifies its title. The book is far more than a kaleidoscopic… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image
“(Of his first wife, Ekatarina, who had died of tuberculosis in 1907, a year after their marriage, Stalin had reportedly said: “With her died… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image
“More troubling still had been the sickening revelation, in April 1943, that more than twenty thousand Polish officers, police officers, and members of the intelligentsia had, on Stalin’s orders, been murdered in cold blood by Soviet occupation forces in 1940, during the time of the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact. That disclosure — the decomposing Polish bodies unearthed by the Germans in… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share
“Bearing a banner of American democracy, the United States was, in other words, on the move — producing planes, tanks, and matériel on a… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Secretary Hull was even more skeptical of de Gaulle than the President. He was equally opposed to the restoration of France’s colonial empire in… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image
Sports biography at its best. Rich in period detail, anecdote, and fresh perspective, Strong Boy paints both the good and the bad sides of… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image
“The House of Savoy never finished a war on the same side it started, unless the war lasted long enough to change sides twice,”… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image
“It had been Theodore Roosevelt’s dictum — using a supposed West African proverb — that a successful leader should “speak softly and carry a… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Picasso (full name Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Clito Ruiz y Picasso)” — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image
“The President had been told, in December 1942, that almost two million Jews had in all probability already been “liquidated” by Hitler’s SS troops.12… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image
“In his diary Bill Hassett recorded the sight of the venerable little Englishman standing at the top, “at just a sufficient height to accentuate… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image
“the combined heavy bombers of the RAF and USAAF attacking from airfields in Britain the northern German city of Hamburg — Operation Gomorrah. Employing… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image
