Tag: True story

• Review of “Ghost Soldiers”

  Bataan Death March, Memorial Day, True story, WWII

  Have you ever read a story that was just incredibly inspiring but also incredibly heartbreaking and sad at the same time? Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides was just that as it tells the true story of the army rangers that were sent to rescue the soldiers in Cabanatuan camp in the Philippines during WWII. These…

• Review of “Flags of Our Fathers”

  Iwo Jima, Marines, Memorial Day, True story, WWII

  Here in the U.S. today happens to be Memorial Day so I thought I would show my support by posting a review of an appropriate book. After much contemplation I ended up reading Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley. This book tells the story of the raising of the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima…

• Review of “Give Her Credit”

  True story, Women’s History Month, Women’s Rights

  I recently received an interesting book as part of my amazon Prime first reads. It was Give Her Credit by Grace L. Williams, a book that tells the true story of a group of women that came together with the brilliant idea to open a bank aimed to serve the minority populations that were typically…