The Hitler I Knew was written by Otto Dietrich, Hitler’s Reich Press Chief (1937-1945), is a very interesting read. Dietrich began writing the book five months after Hitler’s death in 1945, but the book didn’t get published until 1955, three years after Dietrich’s death. The book is interesting in that…

I expected Created to be God’s Friend by Henry T. Blackably to be an easy read full of great insights. I read his book Experiencing God (and worked my way through the study guide) and loved it. This book, however, is well… not so great. Blackaby was an English major…

After a couple of “heavy” books that took more time to get through than I planned, I switched to something much lighter: Frank Peretti’s Monster. This is only the second book by Peretti that I’ve ever read. He spoke at our church a few years ago, doing a comedic sketch…

Hitler: A Biography by Ian Kershaw has been a very long read, but it has shown sides of the dictator that I never knew: his indecisiveness, how he gained power, his hypochondria, etc. The book chronicles Hitler’s entire life even up to and after his suicide. There are parts that…

I’m up to the year 1944 in Ian Kershaw’s biography about Adolf Hitler. Hitler is at odds with all of his military generals, overruling their decisions, objecting their suggestions and firing those who are pessimists about the state of the war. His megalomania is more apparent here than anywhere else.…