SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM — T. E. Lawrence—Doubleday, Doran ($5). While it cut short the career of one of the most cryptic of modern public figures the death of Colonel T. E. Lawrence also ...

There is order in Belele and the surrounding desert ... book. Africa Lost. This is a bitter story, bitterly told. Author Griffin, who was an officer in the British colonial army in Africa in World ...

Two years ago, Joanne presented her civil war novel, “The Girl in the Butternut Dress,” at our Friends of the Desert Hot Springs Library Author Series. At the time, her second book, “Random ...

Drawing on material from her book “The Three-Cornered War,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history in 2021, Nelson will describe four phases of warfare in the Southwest ...

The test of many books of military history for me is whether or not they inspire me to break out and play wargames on the subject. Reading this current book restoked all those old desert-war emotions ...

A great part of our knowledge of the American West comes entangled in images of stylized fantasy: Hopalong Cassidy riding off into the desert sunset ... always thoughtful book "The Void, the ...