A Passionate Girl
A Passionate Girl
Thomas Fleming
Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, 2004, 416 pp.
ISBN: 0-765-30644-1
On May Eve 1865 young Michael Fitzmaurice, fleeing from the police with his Irish American companion, Dan McCaffrey, arrives at the family home in rural county Limerick, Ireland. Michael, against his father's wishes, had joined the outlawed Fenians and Dan, a major in the Fenian army in America, had come to Ireland to help organize an uprising. Betr... The Illusion of Victory – America in World War I
The Illusion of Victory – America in World War I
Thomas Fleming
Basic Books, a member of the Pereus Books Group, 2003, 490 pp
ISBN: 0-465-02467-X
This is a hard hitting, revisionist look at the Presidency of Woodrow Wilson and America's role in World War I. For most Americans today World War I, which ended almost eighty years ago, is a part of history that occurred before they or their parents were born. The sinking of the Lusitania, the Zimmer...
