The Splendid And The Vile follows Prime Minister Winston Churchill in his first year in power as he worked tirelessly to fend off the invading forces of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany during the Second World War. Given this is an Erik Larson book, you can guarantee it is exhaustive in its research. Having tackled a…
In 1915, the Great War was in full swing and the luxury ocean liner Lusitania was set to sail from the U.S. to the U.K. Despite Germany declaring the seas surrounding Britain to be a war zone, passengers and crewmen alike were strangely at ease. Lusitania’s captain, William Thomas Turner, placed a great deal of…
So, there’s this scene in David Fincher’s Zodiac in which Jake Gyllenhaal’s character, Robert Graysmith, visits the home of someone he believes to be the famed Zodiac killer. As Graysmith ventures down in the suspect’s basement, there’s this sense of dread that’s instilled in the viewer as they wonder if Graysmith will make it out…
I’ve said this before, while its important that we learn about this material in school, we’re being fed information at a time when we just don’t care. I was in class in high school when we were introduced to some of the harsher subject matter of the second World War.. but I just didn’t care.…
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