Francis P. Sempa

Author Archive

  • May 31, 2023
    o the End of the Earth is military historian John McManus’ third and final volume of his history of the U.S. Army’s part in the Pacific War in World War II. From the...
  • May 10, 2023
    Winston Churchill memorably reflected on the moment he assumed office as British Prime Minister on May 10, 1940. â??I felt,â? he wrote, â??as if I were walking with Destiny, and...
  • Apr 26, 2023
    British historian and journalist Alexander Larman describes his new book The Windsors at War as “a story about a squabbling and dysfunctional family being tested to the limits...
  • Apr 13, 2023
    “The genius of Bruce Chadwick’s oral history of the road to Ft. Sumter is that it reveals the emotions, the uncertainties, the fears, the rumors, the excitement, the...
  • Apr 10, 2023
    There has been a spate of books published during the last few years about the life and career of General Douglas MacArthur. The latest to appear, H. W. Brands’ The General vs....
  • Feb 10, 2023
    Scholars and writers who challenge conventional accounts of history are often courageous and invaluable seekers of truth. They don’t always find the whole truth, but their work...
  • Feb 6, 2023
    Jan. 27 marked the 50th anniversary of the Paris Peace Accords negotiated by Henry Kissinger and North Vietnam’s Le Duc Tho. The agreement did not end the war; it was...
  • Jan 3, 2023
    The “Slaughter Pen” and “Hell’s Half Acre” are just two of the locations on the Stones River battlefield in central Tennessee near the town of...