First of two volumes. Principally covers the war itself - preparations, battles, individual experiences, some historical assessments, but is extremely cursory on the geopolitics and has nothing to say about what the British Government is thinking, and very little on Washington. War may be politic...
A suprisingly good read. I picked up this book for the chapter on Lady Jane Franklin (after having just finished the fictional account of her husband's lost voyage in The Terror A Novel by Dan Simmons). While I enjoyed getting the actual facts of John Franklin's tribulations searching for her h...
In many ways, Niagara Falls is a tourist trap.And yet.There is something primal about the falls. If you go to the Grand Canyon or Monument Valley, you see the beauty of nature. If you go up the Hudson River Valley, you learn why there was a Hudson River School and you realize that the East Coas...
As the five stars indicate, I thought "Klondike" was amazing. Author and journalist Pierre Berton has written an truly enjoyable book about a one-of-a-kind event in Canadian/U.S. history. He spent a good portion of his life living in the area, thinking about the narrative, researching, interviewi...
