Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

Tim Rayborn, Beethoven’s Skull: weird stories form classical music….

Nate Jones, Able Archer 83, when NATO almost scared the politburo into World War III.

Levinson, An Extraordinary Time: the end of the 30 glorious…

Jeremy Thorpe and the most bizarre of bizarre British scandals: ‘vote Liberal or we’ll shoot your dog etc’ John Preston, A Very English Scandal

Joyce Meader, Knitskrieg Outside my comfort zone here but honestly the title….

John R. Bruning, Indestructible Taking war back to Japan…  

Ben Montgomery, The Leper Spy BM continues with his excellent WW2 monographs…

Anne Sebba, Les Parisiennes Been reading up on liberation Paris, this is the natural complement…

Stanley Nelson, Devil’s Walking Racial murders in the deep south…

Paul Rahe, The Spartan Regime The craziest society before North Korea…

Whalen, Messing and Mladinich, Undisclosed Files of the Police The cover won me on this one…

Robert Forczyk, We March Against England Anything about Operation Sea Lion grabs me…

J. M. Adovasio and David Pedler, Strangers in a New Land The happy miles, the parts of America that had not yet then seen a human face….

Andrew Paciorek, Strange Lands OK not a new history book, but one that has just swum onto my radar. Heard good things and love the art samples…

Gerhard P. Gross, The Myth and Reality of German Warfare The Wehrmacht in action and inaction…