Road to Surrender by Evan Thomas

Post category:Blue Panther Liberty One Reviews
Reading time:6 mins read

Click here to get Road to Surrender on Amazon This book focuses tightly on a handful of politicians and senior military officers involved in America's decision to bomb Japan, as well as Japan's surrender in World War II. I scanned from about chapter 5, so this is not a review, but I'd suggest the audiobook if it grabs you. On the eve of the new film Oppenheimer and Biden's moral outrage at Russia's nuclear sabre-rattling over Ukraine, this book reveals the uncomfortable reality of America's atomic bombing in 1945. Japan's fanatical war-mongering elites incited and marched their country to its…

Review of Atonement by Ian McEwan

Post category:Blue Panther Liberty One Reviews
Reading time:8 mins read

Click here to get the Atonement book on Amazon Click here to get the Atonement movie on Amazon The last week of May / start of June marks an anniversary of the evacuation of Britain’s Expeditionary Force from the shores of Dunkirk in World War 2. Atonement is a movie and a novel set at the time. I saw it several years ago and read the novel recently to look at adaptation. Chances are you’ve seen or heard of it, especially with an all star cast on screen. Atonement is a tragic romance set in South East England…

April Update – BookBub

Post category:Blue Panther Liberty One
Reading time:3 mins read

Subscribe at bobbymehdwan.com to get these updates in your inbox. Is time speeding up or is it just me? It seems like one minute I'm getting up and the next it's dinnertime. Anyway, I lost track of time, and luckily the historical fiction event I mentioned in the last newsletter has already arrived. 😀 BookBubs and BookSweeps Blue Panther is coming out soon, so I'm building my audience on BookBub. It's one of the largest communities of readers out there looking for great new books and authors. You can follow me on BookBub and discover new reads too. Even better, the folks at BookSweeps…

April Update – Blue Panther

Post category:Blue Panther Liberty One
Reading time:11 mins read

Subscribe at bobbymehdwan.com to get these updates in your inbox. We just had a couple of sunny days and the lawnmowers are buzzing again so spring must have sprung. 🌿 Blue Panther The new book’s being readied for a summer release after an intense February of writing and final editing in March. It’s a terrific prequel to Liberty One, which I first drafted at the same time. Stay tuned here for the best launch offers, but here’s a tantalising reveal: In the meantime, please reply if you’d like to proof read the new book and pen an Amazon review. It’s shorter than Liberty One but…

Review of Checkmate in Berlin by Giles Milton

Post category:Blue Panther Liberty One Reviews
Reading time:9 mins read

Checkmate in Berlin is a narrative non-fiction book detailing the fate of Berlin following the Allied and Soviet conquest of Nazi Germany in 1945. It begins with the city’s apocalyptic fall and ends with the lifting of the Soviet blockade which surrounded its western sectors in 1949. An epilogue notes the formation of NATO and the UN. Though he died just days before the conquest, America’s Roosevelt supplied much of the materiel (weapons and supplies) for Russia’s campaign against Hitler as well as most of the European and all of the Pacific firepower. It was his dream to set up the UN to…