ROME!

By Leslie Pratch I don’t know if this entry belongs under “History” or “Art” so I am classifying it under both categories. I recently saw ROME, the HBO miniseries, sent to me by a dear friend. He warned me that “it sometimes plays a little bit fast and loose with history”—but it’s wonderful nonetheless. He [...]

H.M.S. Unseen By Patrick Robinson:BooK Review

Posted by Leslie Pratch; written by Mark Johnson Patrick Robinson is becoming a star in the military thriller arena, enough so that one newspaper (OK, so it was the Florida Times-Union) said he is “quickly replacing Tom Clancy as the preeminent writer of modern naval fiction.” “H.M.S. Unseen” is his third submarine-based novel, following the [...]