by Susan Lovell | Jul 15, 2019 | Meanderings
August 1940. The Blitzkrieg—lightning war—has stormed across Europe since September 1939 raising the Nazi flag over every country from Poland through Europe, and, finally, France. Now Hitler turns his attention to the last holdout, the island of Great Britain. The...
by Susan Lovell | Jul 1, 2019 | Meanderings
How’s this for an implausible love story. A 31-year New York woman writer is married to the love of her life, a WW II veteran trying to drown his war trauma with liquor. While he’s out on a binge one night, she’s home with their two young sons in terror that this time...
by Susan Lovell | Jun 17, 2019 | Meanderings
While this year June 28 news will be all about the two previous days of Presidential debates, one hundred years ago on June 28, 1919, a document was finished that would lead to the deaths of millions. And the signing date was deliberately chosen because of two murders...
by Susan Lovell | Jun 12, 2019 | Meanderings
The title of Tara Westover’s bestselling autobiography is, well, boring. Then you read it and realize why Educatedhas to be the title. And putting the Oklahoma bomber McVeigh and the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski next to Tara Westover’s title begins to explain her father’s...
by Susan Lovell | May 29, 2019 | Meanderings
In the grim early days of World War II when their big brothers and dads and uncles were off fighting, the children of Greenville, Michigan, wanted to help. When their town’s Gibson Refrigerator Company got an unexpected government contract, the kids knew what to do....
by Susan Lovell | May 20, 2019 | Meanderings
Who is old enough to still visualize Americans in white blindfolds being dragged out of our Embassy in Iran November 4, 1979? Or call up the images of those 56 Americans with diplomatic immunity being paraded blindfolded through the jeering Tehran crowds by the newly...
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