The Hooligan Navy of WWII
Posted on July 16, 2020 3:51 pm Leave your thoughtsby P. T. Deutermann
P. T. Deutermann, former Navy Commodore and author of The Hooligans, discusses the non-regulation and wholly unorthodox ‘Hooligan’ Navy of WWII.
Tag Archive: Historical Fiction
Therese Anne Fowler’s A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts
Posted on November 15, 2018 10:43 am Leave your thoughtsby Therese Anne Fowler
Alva Smith, her southern family destitute after the Civil War, married into one of America’s great Gilded Age dynasties: the newly wealthy but socially shunned Vanderbilts. Ignored by New York’s old-money circles and determined to win … Read the article
Historical Fiction: Alice McDermott’s The Ninth Hour
Posted on September 10, 2018 5:08 pm Leave your thoughtsby Alice McDermott
On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove―to the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his pregnant wife―“that the hours of … Read the article
The History Behind the Mystery: The Devil’s Half Mile
Posted on June 11, 2018 3:28 pm Leave your thoughtsby Paddy Hirsch
Journey back to New York City in the days in which our nation was a young country, still finding its way—before The Alienist, before Gangs of New York… where the Wall Street as we know it was … Read the article
The History Behind the Mystery: Death in St. Petersburg
Posted on October 10, 2017 11:52 am Leave your thoughtsby Tasha Alexander
While the principal characters in Death in St. Petersburg are fictional, there are a handful in supporting roles (beyond Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra) who were real.
Kristin Hannah: A Look at Women in War
Posted on February 3, 2015 7:29 pm 1 CommentThe History Reader
In her newest novel The Nightingale, Historical Fiction novelist and New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah offers a look at the heroism and personal sacrifice that women make during wartime.
Military History in Empire
Posted on November 24, 2010 5:32 pm Leave your thoughtsBy Steven Saylor
My previous novel Roma followed the fortunes of a single family through the first thousand years of the city’s existence, from its beginnings as an Iron Age trading post to its domination of the Mediterranean world and … Read the article