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In the first half of the 20th century Shanghai was one of the grand destinations for luxury travelers. Of course, in those days before inter

Jody Ferguson's novel, Above the Water, in Top 10 Amazon Hot New Releases for Historical Russian Fiction

This November 11 marks Veterans Day, a celebration of the men and women who have served and are currently serving. The day marks the armisti

Andalusia is one of my favorite places in all of the world. From the sun-splashed sea to the dramatic, barren mountains, the region...

Above the Water is now available for purchase!

I visited Shanghai for the first time in May 1992, as China was emerging from the onslaught of international opprobrium...

When did World War II begin? Join me for Headliners At Home with Austin's Headliners Club

In his history The Last Kings of Shanghai, Jonathan Kaufman, a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter from The Boston Globe recounts the story

James Carter, an historian at St. Joseph’s University, takes us into the horse racing world of antebellum Shanghai...

I wrote recently in my novel Above the Water, "the most dangerous times during a war are at the end. That is when the discipline that has...

In his book Priscilla, The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France the English novelist Nicholas Shakespeare...

Paul French, whose first book Midnight in Peking became a New York Times bestseller, explores a topic dear to me in his latest book...

Stephen Harrigan's novel Remember Ben Clayton is a beautiful tale of family, war, art and perseverance.

Imperial Twilight dissects the causes of the First Opium War between Great Britain and the Qing Dynasty in China in the 1840s.

Mark Obmascik relates a beautiful wartime tale in his book The Storm On Our Shores.

Fitzroy Maclean was an adventurer, a gentleman, a scholar, a diplomat, a warrior, and a hero.

In his autobiographical novel Empire of the Sun J.G. Ballard tells us how he survived his adolescent years alone in an internment camp...

A New Chapter Begins

I recently re-read the novel The Wild Palms by William Faulkner, which he published in 1939.

Reading great novels teaches us so much about humans, with all of the accompanying beauty and warts. History books do the same...