What to dig into history? Give these books and book reviews a read……
– The True Story of How America Got Its Name by Rodney Broome
– Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy by John R. Hale
– A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Bird
Praising John Adams and America: A Vision for the Present
– John Adams by David McCullough
– The Romans and their Empire, Book 2, “Cambridge Introduction to the History of Mankind” edited by Trevor Cairns
Eating Up World War II and WWII: Fed Up on Feeble Rations
– Victory Cookbook: Nostalgic Food and Facts From 1940-1954 by Marguerite Patten OBE
Book Review: “The Silver Branch”
– The Silver Branch by Rosemary Sutcliff
– The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan, 2004
The Best Book of Biographies: Great Lives, Great Deeds
– Great Lives, Great Deeds by Reader’s Digest Association, various authors
Good Taste Doesn’t Have to Remain Dead: Book Review – ‘The Lost Art of Dress’
– The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish by Linda Przybyszewski, 2014
– How to Grow Fruits and Vegetables by the Organic Method edited by J.I. Rodale, 1961, and The Victory Garden Manual by James H. Burdett, 1943
