~ Book Reviews ~
Gladiators In Print — A Bibliography Of Contemporary Print Resources
What 300 Meatheads Did For Us — Paul Cartledge On Thermopylae
The Blonde Huns — The Desert Of Wheat By Zane Grey
The Language Of Empire — The Professor And The Madman By Simon Winchester
Sorrow-of-the-People — The War That Killed Achilles By Caroline Alexander
Sinking The Atlantis Myth — Lost Continents By L.Sprague De Camp
The Slaves That Conquered A World — Nelson's Trafalgar By Roy Adkins: Stillbirth Of A Nation: End Notes
The Richard Bustillo Biography — Book Review
A Sci-fi Classic From 1971 — To Our Scattered Bodies Go By Philip Jose Farmer
Surviving Bad Parents With Grace — The Glass Castle By Jeanette Walls
A Hungarian, A Texan, And Alexander The Great? — Swords Of The Hills By Robert E. Howard
Someone Has Got Our Horses — Research Reflections & Book Review
The Spawn Of Big-Headed Yakub — Research Notes & Book Review
Frankenstein — Book Review
Slavery In Maryland, 1838 — Frederick Douglas, An American Slave, Appendix 10
A Question Of Mind — The Terminal Experiment By Robert J. Sawyer
Fiction Reviews — Blurbs From Readers
85 Reasons For Being A Pacifist — Book Reviews
Anthropologist Jorja Leap On LA Gangs — Book Review
Dag Hammarskjold: A Letter To The World — Book Review
Gavin Menzies The Year China Discovered America — Book Review
Montserrat Fontes: Dreams Of The Centaur — Book Review
Near Future Hard Sci-Fi With Ben Bova — Book Review
Seriously, Another Apocalypse? — Marketing Doom: A Ph. D. On The Hysteria Prowl
Surviving On The Streets: A Loompanics Classic — Book Review
The Ugly Little Boy: By Asimov & Silverberg — Book Review
Captain John Godfrey On Self-Defense — Book Review
Dictatress Of The World — Studying Imperial Hubris With Michael Scheuer
Blood & Thunder — Mark Finn On Robert E. Howard
The Granddaddy Of Inquiry — Book Review
The First Lady Of History: Barbara W. Tuchman — A Literary Reminder
Professor Of The Primitive: Brian M. Fagan — Book Reviews
J. Christoph Amberger On The Sword — The Best Book Yet On Western Martial Arts
Into The Mind's Eye Of Mythic Hellas — Gene Wolfe's Novels Of Ancient Greece
Last Of The Breed: Louis L'Amour — Book Review
The Boxing Bookshelf #1 — Jake Shannon's Rare Boxing Compilation
Survivor Guilt — Of The Literary Kind
John Warry & Jeff Burn On Ancient Combat — The Indispensable Sourcebook On Greco-Roman Warfare
Slovomir Rawicz, The Long Walk — The True Story Of A Trek To Freedom
Alice B. Sheldon — The Woman Who Was James Tiptree, Junior
400 Years Of Insanity — Paul Kirchner: Dueling With The Sword And Pistol
The Sale Of Pricilla Loosefoot — Half Broke Horses: A Biographical Novel By Jeannette Walls, 2016 Update For America In Chains
Arthur C. Clarke: Tales From Planet Earth — Belated Book Review
The Sleaziest Shipwreck — The Wreck Of The Medusa By Jonathan Miles
The Last Headbangers By Kevin Cook — The Insane Evolution Of America's Football Craze
The Classic Shipwreck — Caliban's Shore By Stephen Taylor
At The War Geek Round Table — Refighting The Pacific War With Jim Bresnahan
The Dead White Dude Who Saved My Mind — J. B. Bury At The Turn Of Two Lost Centuries
A Brief Definition Of American Royalty — Bank Of America: Too Crooked To Fail By Matt Taibbi
The Boxing Bookshelf #2 — Billy Edwards' Art Of Boxing
Stranger Than Fiction, Bloodier Than D-Day — Conquistador By Buddy Levy
The Martial Arts Of Renaissance Europe — The Book By Sydney Anglo
Nobody Else Can Save You — On The Highway To Hell With An Invisible Urban Evangelist
Uncle Sam As A Redneck — The Story Of Our Army: WWII Children's Propaganda
The Man Who Ate Captain Cook's Big Toe — Typee: By Herman Melville
Stairway Of Integrity — Up From Slavery By Booker T. Washington: Appendix 11
2,500 Years Of Murderous Masterminds — Ancient World Commanders By Angus Konstam
An Ocean Of Lost Worlds — The Discovery Of Mankind By David Abulafia
On Safari With A Boy Named Ford — Voodoo Fire In Haiti By Richard A. Loederer
Thirsty Work — Machete Season By Jean Hatzfeld
Into The Mountains Of Madness — Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton By Edward Rice
The Original Rock Stars — The First Poets By Michael Schmidt
Our Pound Of Flesh — Confessions Of An Economic Hit Man By John Perkins
The Man Who Hated Jack Johnson — Gentleman Jim Corbett By Patrick Myler
'Reading Transports Me' — The Guards, A Novel By Ken Bruen
'When God Died He Left Madonna In Charge' — No Man's Land By Jack Donovan
'The Raw Wet Sound Of Splintering Bone' — Tau 4 By V. J. Waks
My Darling Donkey Boy — Our Little Egyptian Cousin By Blanche McManus
Who's For Dinner? — Flesh And Blood By Reay Tannahill
American Prophet — The Iron Heel By Jack London
The Boxing Book Shelf #3 — Baltimore's Boxing Legacy By Thomas Scharf
Fear, Horror, Hate & Guilt — On Killing By Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman
On The Ocean — The Extraordinary Voyage Of Pytheas The Greek By Barry Cunliffe
Despite A World Of Ironic-detachment — Leonardo By Serge Bramly & The World Of Leonardo By Robert Wallace
Knowing Their Place: A Honcho On Their Bent Back — Born In Blood And Fire By John Charles Chasteen: Appendix 12
...And Something Else — Hunger By V. J. Waks
Worse Than You Can Imagine — No Fear? By J. T. C.
As The Shadows Close In — Black Ajax By George MacDonald Fraser
Overflowing The Cup Of Wrath — The Rising Tide Of Color By Lothrop Stoddard
The Key Of Heaven And Hell — The Book Of The Sword By Richard F. Burton
Looking Glass By VJ Waks — ComicCon Chicago: 8/8-11/2013 & GENCON INDY: 8/15-19/2013
Beyond The Garden Of Ishtar — Gilgamesh: A New English Version By Stephen Mitchell, For The Man Wary Of Emasculation
The Smiling Face Of The Fist Of Power — The Handbook Of Human Ownership: A Manual For New Tax Farmers By Stefan Molyneux
Demonic Ted Nugent Meth-heads With Guns — Crossed By Garth Ennis And Jacen Burrows
Tattoo Rick The Novelist — The Plates By Rick Catalano
A Conspiracy Of Kind — An Author-to-Author Discussion With VJ Waks
The Sarissa's Song — The Virtues Of War By Steven Pressfield
Man Is Born Unto Trouble — Bad Bob! By J.T.C.
A Road With No Signposts — Solomon Kane: The Castle Of The Devil By Scott Allie
From The Pit — Solomon Kane: Death's Black Riders By Scott Allie
Thrown To The Dogs — Hernando De Soto By David Ewing Duncan
Captains Among The Ghosts — Translations From The Chinese By Arthur Waley
White Coral Eyes — If They Could Only Talk By Hannah Bloch
Once That Minimum Is Achieved — 1984: A Novel By George Orwell
A Nefarious Rabbit Named Joey — Buzz Bunny Reader Feedback From Akira
Blood And Salt — When Asia Was The World By Stewart Gordon
'You Think Men Are Mean, Just Wait!' — Akira On Organa And The Author's Writing Essays
The Individual School Of Two Swords — The Book Of Five Spheres By Miyamoto Musashi
Against The Green Book — The Abolition Of Man By C.S. Lewis
Against The Tribe — An Untitled Story By Robert E. Howard
The Lady And The Grunt — Her's & His' Reviews With VJ Waks
'On A Placid Island Of Ignorance' — The Call Of Cthulhu By H.P. Lovecraft
The Devil Dresses Like A Fried Chicken Salesman — Wassup? & It's A Deal By J.T.C.
Surfing The Apocalypse In A Wheelchair — Miracles For The Damned By Simon Clark
Beyond The Thieves Pole — The Weight Of The Dead By Brian Hodge
From A Prodigious Coach Driven By Hunger — Looking Back By Edward Bellamy
Under Nine Gods — Lays Of Ancient Rome By T. B. Macaulay
Amid Hymns Of Hate — The Renaissance By Will Durant
Where Could They Go? — Conan: Queen Of The Black Coast From Dark Horse
Where Has The Reader Gone? — Results Of An Interview With A Maryland Librarian
Keep On Truckin’ — The Sissy, Last Rites, Why Should I? And Room 301 By J.T.C.!
A Letter From Planet Estrogen — James Is Judged By A Female Reader
We Live In The Future — Viking: The Long Cold Fire By Ivan Brandon & Nic Klein
Strawberries Four Times Bigger And Better — Savage Kingdom By Benjamin Woolley:Appendix 13
That Gaijin Mojo — Shinku By Ron Marz And Lee Moder
‘Drums, Cannon And Human Misery’ — Napoleoon Bonaparte By Alan Schom
‘Society As Mutual Masturbation' — The Policeman Is Your Friend And Other Lies By Ned Beaumont
'Down The Grim And Bloody Eons' — The Shadow Kingdom By Robert E. Howard
‘The First Sketch Of The Real God’ — That Hideous Strength By C. S. Lewis
Without A Shudder Of Horror — The Revolt Of The Masses By Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Gender In Fiction With V.J. Waks — 'His Take, Her Take' Book Review Ground Rules
‘Kisses For Us All’ — His Take, Her Take: Bram Stoker’s Dracula With V. J. Waks
The Little King And The Old Worm — Pax Romana By Jonathan Hickman
The Hand Of The Voice — The Nightly News By Jonathan Hickman
Glut Mad Fangs — In The Forest Of Villefere, A Song Of The Werewolf Folk And Wolfshead By Robert E. Howard
Is That A Horizon? — Pride Of Baghdad By Brian K. Vaughan And Niko Henrichon
He Said Coldly — Solomon Kane: Red Shadows By Bruce Jones
From Otzi To Industrial American Zen — The Book Of Swords By Hank Reinhardt
Conan’s Dance Card — A Survey Of The Fictional Barbarian’s Leading Ladies
The Last Of The Magicians — Archimedes To Hawking By Clifford A. Pickover
Incubus Of A Six-year-old President — Hardcore History: The American Peril By Dan Carlin
The Will Of Heaven — The Wrath Of The Khans By Dan Carlin
When The Great Horn Boomed — The Proud Tower: The Patricians By Barbara Tuchman
NOV/04/13
‘A Temporary Place’ — Red Gold: The Conquest Of The Brazilian Indians, 1500-1760, By John Hemming
NOV/05/13
Out Of The Ark — The Slugger And Something In Common? By J.T.C.
NOV/05/13
Irresponsible Pictures — Lone Wolf And Cub #3 By Kazuo Koike And Goseki Kojima
NOV/05/13
Among The Three Wise Men — The History Of Grandmasters & Masters Of The Martial Art In Baltimore Maryland By Rodney L. Eggleston
NOV/06/13
‘The Secret Cause Of All Suffering’ — The Power Of Myth By Joseph Campbell, With Bill Moyers
NOV/06/13
The Best Books Are Free — The Gutenberg Project
NOV/06/13
With Somber Fire — His Take, Her Take: Queen Of The Black Coast By Robert E. Howard
NOV/08/13
‘With The Mystery And Menace Of Fog’ — A Blueprint For Armageddon By Dan Carlin
NOV/12/13
God With A Gun — Thor’s Angels By Dan Carlin
NOV/19/13
A Crack-head Cat & Psychodelic Lollypop — My Best Friend By J.T.C.
NOV/19/13
The Most Beautiful Book I Own — Mystic Warriors Of The Plains By Thomas E. Mails
NOV/20/13
‘Dead Houses’ And ‘Sacred Things’ — Fools, Martyrs, Traitors By Lacey Baldwin Smith
NOV/20/13
‘Another Mask On The Wall’ — Death Throws Of The [Roman] Republic: Part One By Dan Carlin On Hardcore History
NOV/25/13
PIG — The Politically Incorrect Guide To The Civil War By H.W. Crocker III
DEC/02/13
Where The Hell Is Charles Bronson? — A Female Reader Critique’s When You’re Food
DEC/02/13
Golden Eyes — Hammerspace By V.J. Waks
DEC/06/13
The Meaning Of The Purple Smoke — The Beast That Shouted Love At The Heart Of The World By Harlan Ellison
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Four Short Novels with Law Enforcement Themes: Ghost Snatcher, The Last Good Cop, Wake Christopher aka Whack the Blue, and Writ Hate
 
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