Book Review:The Battle of the Crater: A Novel by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen

When I was in graduate school, I told a particular professor that I was reading one of Newt Gingrich's alternate historical fictions.  What proceeded was a 15 minute lecture on Newt Gingrich's politics and another 10 on how historic fiction is bad for history.  Some of you might tune out or turn off if you see the name Gingrich anywhere near history, or historic fiction but you are missing out. Sure, Gingrich's books (or any historic fiction for that matter) you are not going to find heavy hitting, new research, but you will find something that is engaging and imaginative. Forget not the fact that Gingrich has a Ph.D in European History. Only a few of us can say that, right??