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Seth Masket is professor of political science and director of the Center on American Politics at the University of Denver and the author of three books. Join us on Thursday, April 15. Register at www.columbiabasinbadgers.com ... See MoreSee Less

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2 months ago

The weather's getting better, but there's still time for a good book. ... See MoreSee Less

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2 months ago

Here's another recent read. . .Greyhound By C. S. ForesterThough promoted as 'Greyhound' on account of the film title, this is in fact Forester's 'The Good Shepherd' - a title actually a lot more descriptive of the tenor of the novel.Although I was a devoted reader of Forester's Hornblower novels in my teens and read most of his other books, including The Gun, Rifleman Dodd and The African Queen when they came out in movies, I somehow missed The Good Shepherd. When I saw that the Greyhound movie had come out, I watched it and then bought and read the book. I don’t believe I have ever read a book of fiction that kept me so riveted as this one. Forester was good at writing Napoleonic naval history, but even better at writing about WWII with which he was much more familiar, having served as a part of the secret British mission led by William Stevenson (Intrepid) to help generate American support for Great Britain during the war. ... See MoreSee Less

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2 months ago

Over the next few days I'm going to be posting reviews of books I've enjoy in the last several months of lockdown. I hope you find them enjoyable and interesting..Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse: 1935-1943 By John GoochThis new book describes the brief rise and triumph of the Fascists, followed by the disastrous fall of the Italian military campaign. I was particularly interested in reading this book because I have recently written about the presence and work of the Italian prisoners at Big Pasco during the war. This book goes a long way toward explaining why they were there!While staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the summer of 1940. At that moment, with the wholly unexpected and sudden collapse of the French and British armies, Mussolini declared war on the Allies in the hope of making territorial gains in southern France and Africa. This decision proved a horrifying miscalculation, dooming Italy to its own prolonged and unwinnable war, immense casualties, and an Allied invasion in 1943. ... See MoreSee Less

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3 months ago

I became interested in this as a result of my recent research and writing about the Italian prisoners at Pasco during the war. ... See MoreSee Less

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