Mike Rapport

Jun 27, 2024 | airmail.news | Jim Kelly |Thomas Ricks |Mike Rapport

Everyone Knows But You: A Tale of Murder on the Maine Coast by Thomas E. Ricks The author is a first-rate military historian (his best-known book is Fiasco, a history of the early days of the Iraq War), and his first crime novel reflects the skills of a terrific storyteller with a keen eye for both character and plot.

Jun 1, 2024 | literaryreview.co.uk | Mike Rapport |Maurice Samuels

Few places and periods in history conjure up such powerful images as Belle Epoque Paris: the cabarets of Montmartre, the glamour of the Grands Boulevards, the glories of Impressionism and Art Nouveau. Understandably, the era is often viewed through a haze of nostalgia, across the chasm of the First World War. Yet, as Mike Rapport makes clear in his splendid new book, the Belle Epoque was also a time of instability, upheaval and bitter division, in Paris and throughout France.