May.16.2008
by Chet
Killing Rommel
by Steven Pressfield
New York: Doubleday, 2008
295 pp.
DNI Review by Chet Richards,
Editor
16 May 2008
Reviewing fiction is always a challenge because you can’t pillar the author for failing to establish a thesis. Although you can criticize such things as character development, or loose threads in the plot lines, or even an annoying style, ultimately either [...]
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May.08.2008
by Chet
Reviews in progress
A couple in the pipeline:
First, Steven Pressfield has a new historical novel out about special ops in North Africa. The author of Gates of Fire, about Thermopylae, and The Virtues of War, on Alexander, leaps two millenia ahead to take on Rommel, or more accurately, the folks who took on Rommel in 1942 [...]
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Apr.30.2008
by Chet
The Art of War, trans. Thomas Huynh
The Art of War - Spirituality for Conflict
Sun Tzu’s Art of War,
Translated by Thomas Huynh and the Editors at Sonshi.com
Annotations by Thomas Huynh
Foreword by Marc Benioff
Preface by Thomas Cleary
(Woodstock, VT: Skylight Illuminations) 210 pp.
DNI Review by Chet Richards, editor
April 30, 2008
Filed in Boyd and Military Strategy, DNI Reviews | 7 responses so far