4) The Second World War Volume 4: The Hinge of Fate by Winston Churchill the fourth book of Churchill’s WWII series focuses on how the allies gradually began to turn the tide against Germany and Japan after repeated defeats in the early years of the war and how afterwards the allies would have the Germans and Japanese on the back foot.
5) The Way Back by Erich Maria Remarque the sequel to All Quiet on the Western Front that deals with the returned soldiers from the western front. Too often we focus on the physical scars seen on veterans, but it is the mental scars that we don’t see that is not much emphasised. The road back to normalcy in a much changed world is far more difficult than anyone could have ever imagined.
6) Joe Biden by Evan Osnos I finished this just as Biden begins his term as America’s 46th president. This is more a profile of the man himself and also deals with the campaign last year. I won’t get into the contentious side of politics and in fact I take the view that all politicians are as bad as each other, but I did enjoy this.
7) Not Quite the Diplomat by Chris Patten Chris Patten is perhaps best known as Hong Kong’s last British governor who would oversee the last years of the island’s time as a British colony and also negotiate Hong Kong’s return to China in 1997 the ceremony of which I remember watching on TV. This book though isn’t about that period of time although he does reference it. Part memoir and part analysis into the complicated world of international diplomacy this book is both full of humour and intelligence.
8) Poems by Wilfred Owen I’m not a fan of poetry in general, but Owen’s prose is amongst my favourites. As a military history fan I enjoy that Owen invokes with his words the horrors of life in the trenches.
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