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The Age of Reasonby Jean Paul SartreISBN 0394718380 (0-394-71838-0)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Ake: The Years of Childhoodby Wole SoyinkaISBN 0394722191 (0-394-72219-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Albert Speer : His Battle with Truthby Gitta SerenyISBN 0394529154 (0-394-52915-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Albert Speer : His Battle with Truth'Book summary:Gitta Sereny's biography meticulously re-creates for the reader the professional, emotional, and psychological life of Albert Speer, Hitler's architect and later his Minister of Armaments. Throughout the 12-year history of the Third Reich, Speer remained one of Hitler's most trusted confidants and one of the most powerful political leaders of the Nazi party. Researched and written over an eight year period, Albert Speer weaves together information from innumerable personal interviews with Speer, his family, close friends, and professional colleagues, the author's own solid grasp of German history, and critical readings of Speer's own writings, including various drafts of his memoirs, Inside the Third Reich, first published in 1969.
Throughout, Sereny consciously avoids the pitfall of many Speer biographers, who seek to either blame or exculpate Speer for the Nazi's atrocities. Instead, she succeeds in helping the reader understand a "morally extinguished" man and place into context "all the crimes against humanity which Hitler initiated, which continue to threaten us today, and of which Speer, who was in many ways a man of excellence, sadly enough made himself a part." Well over 700 pages, Albert Speer is not a quick read, but superbly written and meticulously researched, it is a pleasure to read, providing unprecedented insight into one of the most complex figures in modern German history. --Bertina Loeffler [via]
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The Americans: The Democratic Experienceby Daniel J. BoorstinISBN 0394710118 (0-394-71011-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Americans: The Democratic Experience'Book summary:Daniel J. Boorstin describes a post-Civil War America united not by ideological conviction or religious faith but by common participation in ordinary living: "A new civilization found new ways of holding men together--less and less by creed or belief, by tradition or by place, more and more by common effort and common experience, by the apparatus of daily life, by their ways of thinking about themselves." This is not a familiar litany of names, dates, and places, but an anecdotal account that rises far above impressionism and paints a compelling portrait of the United States as it climbed to new heights. Sheer reading pleasure for lovers of history, this fittingly ambitious conclusion to the Americans trilogy won the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1973. --John J. Miller [via]
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The Americans Vol. 3: The Democratic Experienceby Daniel J. BoorstinISBN 0394487249 (0-394-48724-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Any Old Ironby Anthony BurgessISBN 0394574842 (0-394-57484-2)
Hardcover, Daedalus Books
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The Assaultby Harry Mulisch, Claire WhiteISBN 0394744209 (0-394-74420-9)
Softcover, Pantheon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Assault'Book summary:A novel that probes moral devastation following a Nazi retaliation in a Dutch town. The Assault has been translated and published to great critical acclaim throughout Europe and in the United States.
It is the winter of 1945, the last dark days of the ware in occupied Holland. A Nazi collaborator, infamous for his cruelty, is assassinated as he rides on his bicycle. The Germans retaliate by slaughtering an innocent family: only the youngest son, twelve-year-old Anton, survives.
The Assault traces the complex repercussions of this nightmarish event on Anton's life. Determined not to forget, he opts for a carefully normal existencea prudent marriage, a successful career, and colorless passivity. But the past keeps breaking through, in relentless memories and in chance encounters with the other actors in the drama, until Anton finally learns what really happened that night in 1945, and why. [via] 
Becoming Visible: Women in European Historyby Claudia Koonz, Renate Bridenthal, Susan StuardISBN 0395419506 (0-395-41950-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Becoming Visible: Women in European Historyby Renate Bridenthal, Merry E. Wiesner, Susan Mosher StuardISBN 0395796253 (0-395-79625-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Belarus Secret: The Nazi Connection in Americaby John Loftus, Nathan MillerISBN 0394522923 (0-394-52292-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Belarus Secret: The Nazi Connection in America'Book summary:Claims that hundreds of Nazi collaborators were illegally smuggled into the United States after World War II with the knowledge and assistance of the CIA and FBI Amazon.com description: Product Description: This is the first book to reveal how after World War II the United States government illegally permitted the entry into America of Nazis from Eastern Europe, especially from Byelorussia, a region of the Soviet Union occupied by the Germans. Unknown to Congress and the public, a secret section of the State Department began in 1948 to hire members of the puppet wartime government of Byelorussia. Some of them had brutally massacred Jews and later served with the German army defending the Reich against American troops. The State Department section recruited them for guerrilla warfare inside the Soviet bloc, but when those operations collapsed, the collaborationists were brought into the United States and allowed to settle here.... In addition, The Belarus Secret reveals how, as recently as 1978, government departments were lying to Congress about the existence of incriminating files; how intelligence agencies refused to share vital information about the Byelorussian Nazis; how the RBI recruited them to keep informed of operations at the CIA and State Department; the names of the American government officials who approved the programs; how and why the cover-up continues even now. Loftus also discloses that similar smuggling networks exist today which permit war criminals from other parts of the world to find sanctuary in America [via]
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The Bunker: The History of the Reich Chancellery Groupby James P. O'DonnellISBN 0395257190 (0-395-25719-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bunker: The History of the Reich Chancellery Group'Book summary:Here is an unforgettable, graphic account of the final days in the Führer's headquarters, deep under the shattered city of Berlin as World War II in Europe drew to a close. From James P. O'Donnell's interviews with fifty eyewitnesses to the madness and carnageeveryone from Albert Speer to generals, staff officers, doctors, Hitler's personal pilot, telephone operators, and secretariesemerges an account that historian Theodore H. White has hailed as "superb . . . quite simply the most accurate and terrifying account of the nightmare and its end I have ever read."[via]More editions of The Bunker: The History of the Reich Chancellery Group:
The Castle in the Forest: A Novelby Norman MailerISBN 0394536495 (0-394-53649-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Caucasian Chalk Circleby Bertolt BrechtISBN 039462372X (0-394-62372-X)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Chosenby Chaim PotokISBN 0395881455 (0-395-88145-5)
Hardcover, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Chosen'Book summary:The Chosen by Chaim Potok. Related readings include: Somewhere a Master by Elie Wiesel; In My Father's Court by Issac B. Singer; I Never Saw a Moor by Emily Dickinson; The Three Hermits by Leo Tolstoy; The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday; Fifth Chinese Daughter by Jade Snow Wong; and New African by Andrea Lee. [via]
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The Commandos of World War IIby Hodding CarterISBN 0394847350 (0-394-84735-0)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Davita's Harpby Chaim PotokISBN 0394542908 (0-394-54290-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Davita's Harp'Book summary:For Davita Chandal, growing up in the New York of the 1930s and '40s is an experience of joy and sadness. Her loving parents, both fervent radicals, fill her with the fiercely bright hope of a new and better world. But as the deprivations of war and depression take a ruthless toll, Davita unexpectedly turns to the Jewish faith that her mother had long ago abandoned, finding there both a solace for her questioning inner pain and a test of her budding spirit of independence.
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Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discoveryby Russell FreedmanISBN 0395845203 (0-395-84520-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Enormous Roomby e e cummingsISBN 039460427X (0-394-60427-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Ernie's War: The Best of Ernie Pyle's World War II Dispatchesby David Nichols, Studs TerkelISBN 0394549236 (0-394-54923-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Face of the Third Reich: Portraits of the Nazi Leadershipby Joachim C. Fest, Michael BullockISBN 0394734076 (0-394-73407-6)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Face of the Third Reich: Portraits of the Nazi Leadership'Book summary:[via]In fifteen incisive profiles, Joachim Fest, one of the greatest authorities on the Third Reich, offers a compelling and definitive examination of the lives of the most infamous Nazi leaders: the dark powers behind Hitler's throne. They include Hermann Goering: Hitler's designated successor and issuer of orders for the Final Solution; Joseph Goebbels: Reichsminister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda and the Kristallnacht mastermind; Heinrich Himmler: Reichsführer of the SS, responsible for the deaths of more than six million Jews; Martin Bormann: Hitler's private secretary, who wielded power by controlling access to the Führer; Rudolph Hess: Deputy of the Nazi Party who was tried at Nuremberg and controversially imprisoned for life; Albert Speer: "the Nazi who said sorry"; and of course, Hitler himself.More editions of The Face of the Third Reich: Portraits of the Nazi Leadership:
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George Kennan Memoirs 1925-1950by George F. KennanISBN 0394716248 (0-394-71624-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The German Wars, 1914-1945by Donald James GoodspeedISBN 0395257131 (0-395-25713-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Good Nazi: The Life and Lies of Albert Speerby Albert Speer, Dan Van Der VatISBN 039565243X (0-395-65243-X)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Good Nazi: The Life and Lies of Albert Speer'Book summary:This is the real story of Albert Speer, manipulator of history and architect of his own legend. On the stand at the Nuremberg war-crimes trials, Albert Speer was alone among the accused in showing anything like remorse: he denied any direct knowledge of Hitler's Final Solution yet accepted his share of the guilt as an unwitting collaborator. But was he really what he claimed to be? In this hard-hitting biography, Dan van der Vat reveals Speer as a sham and an opportunist, a "good Nazi" of another sort: a dedicated party servant who, promoted from his role as Hitler's architect to minister of wartime production, also became the Nazis' principal exploiter of forced labor. The first biography to be written free of Speer's personal influence, this is the fullest, most incriminating portrait yet of a ruthless, masterly actor who deceived the world in the role of a lifetime. A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Best Book of the Year![via]More editions of The Good Nazi: The Life and Lies of Albert Speer:
The Good Nazi: The Life and Lies of Albert Speerby Dan Van Der VatISBN 0395924944 (0-395-92494-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Grandfather's Journeyby Allen SayISBN 0395570352 (0-395-57035-2)
Hardcover, Walter Lorraine
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Guadalcanal Diaryby Richard TregaskisISBN 0394862686 (0-394-86268-6)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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I Married a Communistby Philip RothISBN 0395933463 (0-395-93346-3)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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Imperial Horse : Saga Lipizby Hans-Heinrich IsenbartISBN 0394549651 (0-394-54965-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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In the Time of the Americans: FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur - The Generation That Changed America's Role in the Worldby David FromkinISBN 0394589017 (0-394-58901-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscienceby Gitta SerenyISBN 0394710355 (0-394-71035-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Island on Bird Streetby Uri OrlevISBN 0395616239 (0-395-61623-9)
Softcover, Walter Lorraine
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James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Ageby James HershbergISBN 0394579666 (0-394-57966-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Jew as Pariah: Jewish Identity and Politics in the Modern Ageby Hannah Arendt, Ron H. FeldmanISBN 0394501608 (0-394-50160-8)
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John F. Kennedy and Pt-109by Richard TregaskisISBN 0394903994 (0-394-90399-4)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Letters to Freya, 1939-1945by Helmuth J. Von MoltkeISBN 0394579232 (0-394-57923-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Major Problems in American Foreign Relations: Since 1914 Documents and Essaysby Thomas G. Paterson, Dennis MerrillISBN 0395938856 (0-395-93885-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Man from the Other Sideby Uri OrlevISBN 0395538084 (0-395-53808-4)
Hardcover, Walter Lorraine
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Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnsonby Robert A. CaroISBN 0394720954 (0-394-72095-4)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson'Book summary:Robert Caro's Master of the Senate examines in meticulous detail Lyndon Johnson's career in that body, from his arrival in 1950 (after 12 years in the House of Representatives) until his election as JFK's vice president in 1960. This, the third of a projected four-volume series, studies not only the pragmatic, ruthless, ambitious Johnson, who wielded influence with both consummate skill and "raw, elemental brutality," but also the Senate itself, which Caro describes (pre-1957) as a "cruel joke" and an "impregnable stronghold" against social change. The milestone of Johnson's Senate years was the 1957 Civil Rights Act, whose passage he single-handedly engineered. As important as the bill was--both in and of itself and as a precursor to wider-reaching civil rights legislation--it was only close to Johnson's Southern "anti-civil rights" heart as a means to his dream: the presidency. Caro writes that not only does power corrupt, it "reveals," and that's exactly what this massive, scrupulously researched book does. A model of social, psychological, and political insight, it is not just masterful; it is a masterpiece. --H. O'Billovich [via]
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Means of Ascentby Robert A. CaroISBN 0394528352 (0-394-52835-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Means of Ascent'Book summary:The second installment in a projected four-volume biography of LBJ that opened with The Path to Power, Means of Ascent shines a harsh light on the early political years of one of America's most paradoxical presidents. The man who would later ram civil rights legislation through a reluctant Congress, and then be brought down by Vietnam, came out of a political swamp--Caro gives a graphic picture of the Texas democratic political machine at its most corrupt. The climax of the book is LBJ's election to the Senate in 1948, an election he won by 87 dubious votes out of almost a million. That vote arguably changed history. This book won the 1990 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. [via]
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Mountbattenby Richard Alexander HoughISBN 039451162X (0-394-51162-X)
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Mussolini : A Biographyby Denis M. SmithISBN 0394716582 (0-394-71658-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mussolini : A Biography'Book summary:fresh and convincing as the leading historian of modern italy in the english speaking world the autor is uniquely qualified for his task while his book may not be psychohistory in the strict sense of the term there hovers in the background of his account the sort of informed professional understanding that has inspired the best work in that centre. [via]
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Mussolini: A Biographyby Dennis MacK SmithISBN 0394506944 (0-394-50694-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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My Father's Son: Memories of War and Peaceby Farley MowatISBN 0395650291 (0-395-65029-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Father's Son: Memories of War and Peace'Book summary:Canada's best-known storyteller, the famed author of And No Birds Sang, Never Cry Wolf, and A Whale for the Killing has at long last given readers a book about the most powerful influence on his life: his father. Here is Mowat's memoirs of his service in World War II, his letters to and from his father, and his bizarre tale of steering German war materials back home to Canada. Photographs. [via]
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A New Coat for Annaby Harriet ZiefertISBN 0394898613 (0-394-89861-3)
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The Night of the Generalsby Hans Hellmut KirstISBN 0394727525 (0-394-72752-5)
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On the Wings of Peaceby Sheila HamanakaISBN 0395726190 (0-395-72619-0)
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Paper Walls : America and the Refugee Crisis, 1938 to 1941by David S. WymanISBN 0394736591 (0-394-73659-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Patton Papers: 1940-1945by Martin BlumensonISBN 0395184983 (0-395-18498-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Patton Papers: 1940-1945'Book summary:One of World War II's most brilliant and controversial generals, George S. Patton (1885-1945) fought in North Africa and Sicily, as commander of the Third Army, spearheaded the Allies' spectacular 1944-1945 sweep through France, Belgium, and Germany. Martin Blumenson is the only historian to enjoy unlimited access to the vast Patton papers. his many books include Masters of the Art of Command (available from Da Capo Press) and Patton: The Man Behind the Legend.[via]More editions of Patton Papers: 1940-1945:
Piece of Cakeby Derek RobinsonISBN 0394532929 (0-394-53292-9)
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Polandby James A. MichenerISBN 0394531892 (0-394-53189-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Powers That Beby David HalberstamISBN 0394503813 (0-394-50381-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Promises to Keep: The United States Since World War 2by Paul S. Boyer, Robert GriffithISBN 0395981301 (0-395-98130-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Promises to Keep the United States Since World War II: The United States Since World War IIby Paul S. BoyerISBN 0395903866 (0-395-90386-6)
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Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climateby Nancy MitfordISBN 0394708172 (0-394-70817-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate'Book summary:Few aristocratic English families of the 20th century have enjoyed quite the delicious notoriety that the Mitford sisters courted in the years bracketed by two world wars. For a start, two of the girls, Unity and Diana, were Fascists (the former was a friend of Hitler and Goebbels, and the latter married Sir Oswald Mosley, founder of the British Union of Fascists). Two others took the writing route: Jessica ran away from home and became a famous muckraking journalist, and Nancy composed maliciously witty--and transparently autobiographical--novels as well as several biographies. The Pursuit of Love (1945), her greatest fictional success, and its companion, Love in a Cold Climate (1949), keep closely to the spirit (and details) of their youthful amusements and more grown-up adventures.
Seen through the adoring eyes of Fanny Logan, the self-effacing cousin who records their shenanigans with a wicked sincerity, the Radletts of Alconleigh shine with Gloucestershire glamour: apoplectic Uncle Matthew; Lord Alconleigh (modeled to a fine nuance after Mitford's father, Lord Redesdale, who like Uncle Matthew used to hunt his children with bloodhounds); his kind, rather vague wife, Aunt Sadie; as well as Fanny's favorite cousin Linda and the other six Radlett children. The Radlett daughters and Fanny wait impatiently for life to become interesting. Because of their station, however, nothing but marriage is expected of them, so they hurl themselves at love like crusaders, with varied and always fascinating results. At one point Fanny recounts:
A few minutes only after Linda had left me to go back to London, Christian and the comrades, I had another caller. This time it was Lord Merlin...."This is a bad business," he said, abruptly, and without preamble, though I had not seen him for several years. "I'm just back from Rome, and what do I find--Linda and Christian Talbot. It's an extraordinary thing that I can't ever leave England without Linda getting herself mixed up with some thoroughly undesirable character. This is a disaster--how far has it gone? Can nothing be done?"
The Pursuit of Love follows the romantic fortunes of Linda Radlett, while Love in a Cold Climate ventures further afield with the story of Polly Hampton's shocking love affair and its unexpectedly funny aftermath. Fanny's inexhaustible narration is a pleasant buffer for Mitford's deft teasing, which dances along just this side of mockery. The author of U and Non-U, a famous tongue-in-cheek treatise on the shibboleths of upper-class mores, Mitford often leaves the reader wondering just where she stands in the class wars, and much of her humor arises in the fine distinctions of aristocratic manners and speech. Still, there's an inimitable tart sweetness to these stories of true love and its pallid imitators, making them perfect snapshots of a vanished world. --Barrie Trinkle [via]More editions of Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate:
Robert Capa: A Biographyby Richard WhelanISBN 0394524888 (0-394-52488-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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See Naples: A Memoir A Peter Davison Bookby Douglas AllanbrookISBN 0395745853 (0-395-74585-3)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Shoah : An Oral History of the Holocaustby Claude Lanzmann, Simone de Beauvoir, Elie WieselISBN 0394743296 (0-394-74329-6)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Sinking of the Bismarckby William ShirerISBN 0394805518 (0-394-80551-8)
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So Far from the Seaby Eve Bunting, Chris K. SoentpietISBN 0395720958 (0-395-72095-8)
Hardcover, Clarion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'So Far from the Sea'Book summary:Laura Iwasaki and her family are paying what may be their last visit to Laura's grandfather's grave. The grave is at Manzanar, where thousands of Americans of Japanese heritage were interned during World War II. Among those rounded up and taken to the internment camp were Laura's father, then a small boy, and his parents. Now Laura says goodbye to Grandfather in her own special way, with a gesture that crosses generational lines and bears witness to the patriotism that survived a shameful episode in America's history. Eve Bunting's poignant text and Chris K. Soentpiet's detailed, evocative paintings make the story of this family's visit to Manzanar, and of the memories stirred by the experience, one that will linger in readers' minds and hearts. Afterword.[via]More editions of So Far from the Sea:
A Soldier's Legacyby Heinrich Böll, Leila VennewitzISBN 0394536037 (0-394-53603-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Soldiers of the Sun : The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Armyby Meirion Harries, Susie HarriesISBN 0394569350 (0-394-56935-0)
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The Sorrow of Belgiumby Hugo ClausISBN 0394562631 (0-394-56263-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Spy Wore Red: My Adventures As an Undercover Agent in World War IIby Countess of Romanones AlineISBN 0394556658 (0-394-55665-8)
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The Stroop Report: The Jewish Quarter of Warsaw Is No More!by Andrzej Wirth, Sybil MiltonISBN 0394738179 (0-394-73817-9)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Stroop Report: The Jewish Quarter of Warsaw Is No More!by Juergen StroopISBN 0394504437 (0-394-50443-7)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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A Tale of Time Cityby Diana Wynne JonesISBN 0394820304 (0-394-82030-4)
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The Temple of Dawnby Yukio MishimaISBN 0394466144 (0-394-46614-4)
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Tennozan: The Battle of Okinawa and the Atomic Bombby George FeiferISBN 0395700663 (0-395-70066-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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Things Invisible to Seeby Nancy WillardISBN 0394540581 (0-394-54058-1)
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To the White Seaby James DickeyISBN 0395475651 (0-395-47565-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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Troubled Sleepby Jean Paul SartreISBN 0394718402 (0-394-71840-2)
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Under the Sign of Saturnby Susan SontagISBN 0394747429 (0-394-74742-9)
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Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World War Ii, and the Heart of Our Centuryby Modris EksteinsISBN 0395937477 (0-395-93747-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Wallby John Richard HerseyISBN 0394756967 (0-394-75696-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wall'Book summary:Riveting and compelling, The Wall tells the inspiring story of forty men and women who escape the dehumanizing horror of the Warsaw ghetto. John Hersey's novel documents the Warsaw ghetto both as an emblem of Nazi persecution and as a personal confrontation with torture, starvation, humiliation, and cruelty -- a gripping and visceral story, impossible to put down. [via]
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The Wall Jumperby Peter SchneiderISBN 0394529286 (0-394-52928-6)
Hardcover, Daedalus Books
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The Wall Jumper : A Berlin Storyby Peter A. Schneider, Leigh HafreyISBN 0394728823 (0-394-72882-3)
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The War : A Memoirby Marguerite Duras, Barbara BrayISBN 039475039X (0-394-75039-X)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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War As I Knew Itby George S. Patton, Paul D. HarkinsISBN 0395735297 (0-395-73529-7)
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While England Sleepsby David LeavittISBN 0395752868 (0-395-75286-8)
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Winston s Churchill: Finest Hour, 1939-1941by Martin GilbertISBN 0395344026 (0-395-34402-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Winston S. Churchill: Road to Victory, 1941-1945by Randolph S. ChurchillISBN 0395378591 (0-395-37859-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Winter: A Berlin Family 1899-1945by Len DeightonISBN 039455177X (0-394-55177-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and the Origins of the Arms Raceby Martin J. SherwinISBN 039475204X (0-394-75204-X)
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A World Destroyed: The Atomic Bomb and the Grand Allianceby Martin J. SherwinISBN 0394497945 (0-394-49794-5)
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The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Powerby Robert CaroISBN 0394499735 (0-394-49973-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power'Book summary:The profound understanding of the uses and abuses of power Robert Caro displayed in his 1974 biography of Robert Moses, The Power Broker, is a scathing achievement the author surpassed with panache in this, his second book. Caro's dogged research and refusal to accept received wisdom results in an eye-opening portrait that unforgettably captures the titanic personality of Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973). Though stronger on Johnson's duplicity and naked self-promotion than his intelligence and charm, Caro nails it all. He chronicles the evolution of an attention-demanding youth from the Texas hill country into a seasoned congressman who would abandon his ardent espousal of the New Deal as soon as it ceased to be expedient. The dirty details begin with college elections that earn young Lyndon a reputation as a crook and a liar; Caro goes on to unravel financial shenanigans of impressive ingenuity. Johnson's consuming desire to get ahead and his political genius "unencumbered by philosophy or ideology" are staggering. The White House, Great Society, and Vietnam lie ahead when the main narrative closes in 1941, but the roots of Johnson's future achievements and tragic failures are laid bare. This biography may well stand as the best book written in the second half of the 20th century about personal ambition inextricably linked with historic change. --Wendy Smith [via]
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The War : A Memoirby Marguerite Duras, Barbara BrayISBN 0394552369 (0-394-55236-9)
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