Books by James R. Benn
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review 1: I was worried about reading this because it has a plot that deals with racism during the war. Racism is ugly and I was worried I'd read something that would put me in a fetal position for days. However, James Benn is really good so I decided to trust his abilities, having read ...
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review 1: Starts out with Billy suffering from amnesia and engaging in front line combat with Tiger tanks. We soon are on a quest to find out what he was doing and it's non-stop action as Billy is not only fighting the Germans but the Mafia in US uniforms as well as in the general populati...
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review 1: This is a fun mysetry series. The protagonist is an Irish police officer from Boston, shipped to Europe for WWII. The twist is that he is a nephew of Mamie Eisnhower who has convinced her husband to put Billy on his staff where Billy will be safe from the fighting. Although Bi...
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review 1: I think my friend friend Jessica Smith recommended this series. Reminded me of the TV series Foyle's War. Picked up this book because it was about WWII and Polish exiles in London. A mystery read with a historical setting: WWII and Britain and Poland (specifically, the Katyn m...
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review 1: Another thrilling adventure, this time behind the lines in Italy. Billy discovers that his younger brother has been shipped to Italy, and he watches for him as he tries to solve the mystery of who is bumping off members of the 3rd Division and leaving playing cards on their bodi...
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review 1: A cracking good yarn and a pretty good murder mystery, set mostly in the Vatican during the last year of WWII, as the Allies were about to start moving up the peninsula. The author apparently specializes in accurate accounts of the war, and he certainly raised matters with an air...
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review 1: I am reading this series in order. Yeh Billy has been promoted, he is off to share some time with his beloved, a charming English girl, which he has neglected to inform his family about, because the family is Irish Green. He can not bring himself to tell his family he is in lov...