In 1942, an Allied victory was far from certain. Britain was barely holding its own after a battering in the Blitz and America was only just agreeing to enter the war. Using recently declassified files, diaries, interviews and more, Sarah Rose tells the stories of a handful of unlikely spies who paved the way for the Allied invasion.
These books have fewer than 2000 ratings on Goodreads, meaning they are, well, underrated. Here are ten that fall into this category that I’ve really enjoyed. Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris An absolutely stunning and amazing book. There were many overnight hours spent with a little light, awake and reading. Hustvedt demonstrates such thorough…
After a lovely stop for lunch at Canonsgate Arms, we walked (trekked, as it turned out) to the Royal Botanical Gardens. The walk was through a very cool part of town. When we reached the gardens themselves, I asked a very helpful man named Neil if there was anything in particular I should see regarding…
I was a bit late to the Armchair BEA train, so I was not assigned an interview to do. I can, however, direct you to two interviews I have done in the not-so-distant past. My interview with Sarah Rose, author of For All the Tea in China. It’s an amazing book on a long-lost history…
My interview with Sarah Rose, author of FOR ALL THE TEA IN CHINA appears in this week’s Connect Savannah. Many thanks to Sarah Rose for her willingness to speak with me, and to editor Jim Morekis for including this and many articles on books and literature in his publication. And thanks to all those at…