Jody FergusonPriscilla - Book ReviewIn his book Priscilla, The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France the English novelist Nicholas Shakespeare...
Jody FergusonCity of Devils - Book ReviewPaul French, whose first book Midnight in Peking became a New York Times bestseller, explores a topic dear to me in his latest book...
Jody FergusonOkinawaSeventy-five years ago today on June 23, 1945, U.S. Marine and Army forces captured Okinawa.
Jody FergusonEmpire of the Sun - Book ReviewIn his autobiographical novel Empire of the Sun J.G. Ballard tells us how he survived his adolescent years alone in an internment camp...
Jody FergusonBeautiful BorneoPeople often ask me, “What’s the most interesting/fun/charming/recommended country you have visited?”
Jody FergusonIn Defense of the Republic My father’s mother was a Linscott. Her family came to the New World and settled in Maine in the 1600s.
Jody FergusonWild Palms - Book ReviewI recently re-read the novel The Wild Palms by William Faulkner, which he published in 1939.
Jody FergusonWhy Historical Fiction?Reading great novels teaches us so much about humans, with all of the accompanying beauty and warts. History books do the same...
Jody FergusonThe Opium War - Book ReviewIn her book The Opium Wars British academic Julia Lovell describes both the historical and the contemporary Chinese distrust of the West...
Jody FergusonJapan at WarLast week The New York Times ran a series of articles on the 75th anniversary of the U.S. firebombing raid of Tokyo...