Kamis, 14 September 2017

WWII Book Review: Beautiful Assassin

Beautiful Assassin  By Michael White. 480 pp. Harper Perennial, 2011. $15.99.  Snipers are inherently romantic figures. They reduce war to its elemental essentials: fighter, weapon, cunning, target. Make the sniper a gorgeous, deadly, and self-possessed Russian woman who notches more than 300 German confirmed kills during the fierce battle for Sevastopol, becomes an outsized Soviet …

The post WWII Book Review: Beautiful Assassin appeared first on HistoryNet.



Related Posts:

  • Cold War in CorfuWas a British Royal Navy flotilla making an ‘innocent passage’ or provoking a paranoid Albanian dictator in late October 1946. The waters of the world are perhaps its greatest muse… Read More
  • Wallowing in Courage: 6th U.S. Cavalry6th U.S. Cavalry Medals of Honor Washita River, Texas September 12, 1874 During the Red River War, Colonel Nelson A. Miles, commanding a U.S. Army column against renegade Indians i… Read More
  • Dodging a BulletThe Indian Rebellion of 1857 was doomed to fail, but the religious and cultural tensions it inflamed would ultimately topple the British raj. On May 9, 1857, some 4,000 British sol… Read More
  • What We Learned from Coral Sea, 1942Following their Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese military forces swept through the western Pacific at a shocking pace. Their strategic objective was to control the re… Read More
  • Last Stand at ElyAfter the 1066 Norman conquest an alliance of English rebels held out on the swamp-ringed isle of Ely— but William would not be denied. On Oct. 14, 1066, the Norman- French army de… Read More

0 komentar:

Posting Komentar