BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers the journal of Midshipman John Hashim, edited by Brian Lavery, providing a glimpse into the wartime life of a junior officer.

336 pages Capt Andrew Welch The first thing that I noticed about this book was how heavy it was. The […]

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers the memoirs of a Vietnam War veteran turned entrepreneur, Bob Parsons, who founded the web hosting company GoDaddy, and battling PTSD.

320 pages Alice Watts If you don’t understand Bob Parsons’s childhood and Vietnam experience, you can’t understand him. In Fire […]

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers the memoirs of a Royal Navy  rating’s experience of the Second World War at sea in Europe and the Indo-Pacific.

240 pages Capt Andrew Welch This is (yet) another of those WWII wartime personal sagas. John Marsden has taken Joseph, […]

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers a powerful memoir of a German and Polish Jewish families’ story of survival in the face of Nazi persecution in the run-up to and during the Second World War.

496 pages Tearless This is both a tough read and an easy read: tough because of the accounts and easy […]

BRE. The latest book review is now available. It considers a memoir of a Seaman Gunner, who served on a  Royal Navy destroyer in the Second World War.