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Joe Kennedy: A Complex and Shocking Ambassador
by Susan Ronald To say that there were more than a few things I found shocking when writing about Joe Kennedy is a massive understatement. Of course, I knew about his womanizing...
Dominus: New Excerpt
Spanning 160 years and seven generations, teeming with some of ancient Rome’s most vivid figures, Steven Saylor’s novel Dominus brings to vivid life some of the most tumultuous...
Blitzed Hitler: Revealing Nazis rampant drug abuse and its impacts on World War II
To many of you, this might come as a surprise that Hitler was a drug addict. Indeed, no sane man could have substituted Hitler! Recent studies on Nazi Germany have revealed that...
Elizabeth Bentley: The True Story That Inspired a Novel
by Karin Tanabe When I decided that I wanted to write about a woman in the 1950s, who was struggling with motherhood against the backdrop of the Cold War, the idea of her being a...
A Woman of Intelligence: Featured Excerpt
Karin Tanabe’s A Woman of Intelligence is an exhilarating novel of post-war New York City, and one remarkable woman’s journey from the United Nations, to the cloistered drawing...
The Forgotten Hero of the Cold War
by Giles Milton The greatest heroes of the Second World War are rightly celebrated for their acts of extraordinary daring on the battlefields of Nazi-occupied Europe. Rather less...
USS Franklin: Attack, Survival, and Triumph
by P. T. Deutermann My novel, Trial by Fire, is based on the true story of the aircraft carrier USS Ben Franklin (CV-13) and the brave sailors who were able to save their ship...