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The Amateur Marriage: A Novelby Anne TylerISBN 0345470613 (0-345-47061-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Amateur Marriage: A Novel'Book summary:Anne Tyler's The Amateur Marriage is not so much a novel as a really long argument. Michael is a good boy from a Polish neighborhood in Baltimore; Pauline is a harum-scarum, bright-cheeked girl who blows into Michael's family's grocery store at the outset of World War II. She appears with a bloodied brow, supported by a gaggle of girlfriends. Michael patches her up, and neither of them are ever the same. Well, not the same as they were before, but pretty much the same as everyone else. After the war, they live over the shop with Michael's mother till they've saved enough to move to the suburbs. There they remain with their three children, until the onset of the sixties, when their eldest daughter runs away to San Francisco. Their marriage survives for a while, finally crumbling in the seventies. If this all sounds a tad generic, Tyler's case isn't helped by the characteristics she's given the two spouses. Him: repressed, censorious, quiet. Her: voluble, emotional, romantic. Mars, meet Venus. What marks this couple, though, and what makes them come alive, is their bitter, unproductive, tooth-and-nail fighting. Tyler is exploring the way that ordinary-seeming, prosperous people can survive in emotional poverty for years on end. She gets just right the tricks Michael and Pauline play on themselves in order to stay together: "How many times," Pauline asks herself, "when she was weary of dealing with Michael, had she forced herself to recall the way he'd looked that first day? The slant of his fine cheekbones, the firming of his lips as he pressed the adhesive tape in place on her forehead." Only in antogonism do Michael and Pauline find a way to express themselves. --Claire Dederer [via]
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The Amber Roomby Steve BerryISBN 0345460049 (0-345-46004-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Amber Room : A Novel'Book summary:The Amber Room is one of the greatest treasures ever made by man: an entire room forged of exquisite amber, from its four massive walls to its finely crafted furniture. But it is also the subject of one of historys most intriguing mysteries. Originally commissioned in 1701 by Frederick I of Prussia, the Room was later perfected Tsarskoe Selo, the Russian imperial city. In 1941, German troops invaded the Soviet Union, looting everything in their wake and seizing the Amber Room. When the Allies began the bombing of Germany in August 1944, the Room was hidden. And despite the best efforts of treasure hunters and art collectors from around the world, it has never been seen again.
Now, two powerful men have set their best operatives loose in pursuit, and the hunt has begun once more. . . .
Life is good for Atlanta judge Rachel Cutler. She loves her job, loves her kids, and remains civil to her ex-husband, Paul. But everything changes when her father, a man who survived the horrors of World War II, dies under strange circumstancesand leaves behind clues to a secret he kept his entire life . . . a secret about something called the Amber Room.
Desperate to know the truth about her fathers suspicious dealings, Rachel takes off for Germany, with Paul close behind. Shortly after arriving, they find themselves involved with a cast of shadowy characters who all claim to share their quest. But as they learn more about the history of the treasure they seek, Rachel and Paul realize theyre in way over their heads. Locked in a treacherous game with ruthless professional killers and embroiled in a treasure hunt of epic proportions, Rachel and Paul suddenly find themselves on a collision course with the forces of power, evil, and history itself.
A brilliant adventure and a scintillating tale of intrigue, deception, art, and murder, The Amber Room is a classic tale of suspenseand the debut of a strong new voice in the world of the international thriller. [via] 
American Empire : Blood and Ironby Harry TurtledoveISBN 034540565X (0-345-40565-X)
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American Fleet and Escort Destroyersby H.T. LentonISBN 0356030059 (0-356-03005-9)
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The American Magic: Codes, Ciphers and the Defeat of Japanby Ronald LewinISBN 0374104174 (0-374-10417-4)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American Peopleby Helen ZiaISBN 0374147744 (0-374-14774-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People'Book summary:This groundbreaking book is about the transformation of Asian Americans from a few small, disconnected, and largely invisible ethnic groups into a self-identified racial group that is influencing every aspect of American society. It explores the junctures that shocked Asian Americans into motion and shaped a new consciousness, including the murder of Vincent Chin, a Chinese American, by two white autoworkers who believed he was Japanese; the apartheid-like working conditions of Filipinos in the Alaska salmon canneries; the boycott of Korean American greengrocers in Brooklyn; the L.A. riots; and the casting of non-Asians in the Broadway musical Miss Saigon. The book also examines the rampant stereotyping of Asian Americans, which has an impact on key issues concerning all Americans, from affirmative action and campaign finance to popular culture and national security.
Helen Zia, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, was born in 1952, when there were only 150,000 Chinese Americans in the entire country, and she writes as a personal witness to the dramatic changes involving Asian Americans. [via]
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Axis Pistols, Rifles, and Grenadesby Peter Chamberlain, Terry GanderISBN 035401031X (0-354-01031-X)
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Babi Yarby A. AnatoliiISBN 0374107610 (0-374-10761-0)
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Battle for Berlinby Earl ZiemkeISBN 0345258894 (0-345-25889-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Battle for Berlin'Book summary:*****A prudent German government would have used the pause at the end of summer 1944 to seek an armistice and so escape the final wave of destruction. The Allies more than half expected even Hitler's government to do that. They were mistaken. The result was the battle for Berlin - one of the greatest, grimmest, and most consequential operations of the war.*****. [via]
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The Battle of the Bulgeby Robert MerriamISBN 0345329465 (0-345-32946-5)
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Beda Fommby Kenneth MacKseyISBN 0345024346 (0-345-02434-6)
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Beyond Nab Endby William WoodruffISBN 0349116229 (0-349-11622-9)
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The Blitzby Constantine Fitzgibbon, Henry MooreISBN 0356033406 (0-356-03340-6)
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Bomber Offensiveby FranklanISBN 0345279034 (0-345-27903-4)
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British Battleships and Aircraft Carriersby H.T. LentonISBN 0356038696 (0-356-03869-6)
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British Cruisersby H.T. LentonISBN 0356041387 (0-356-04138-7)
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The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War IIby Donovan WebsterISBN 0374117403 (0-374-11740-3)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Chequer Boardby Nevil ShuteISBN 034532174X (0-345-32174-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Chequer Board'Book summary:A young man with a chequered past, has been told he has just one year to live. He decides to use his time in search of three very different men he met briefly during the war: a snobbish British pilot, a young corporal accused of murder, and a GI accused of attempted rape. He learns about forgiveness, tolerance and second chances. [via]
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China Lakeby Anthony HydeISBN 0345376951 (0-345-37695-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'China Lake'Book summary:"One of the brightest, freshest new voices to appear in the international thriller business in a long time."
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Jack Tannis ended his day like any other. Then the phone rang. The caller, who would not give his name, teased him with another: David Harper.
Suddenly, Tannis was thrust back to his days as security director at China Lake, the U.S. Naval Weapons Center. In 1961, duplicates of the first heat-seeking air-to-air missile, the Sidewinder, began appearing on Soviet MiG fighters. British scientist David Harper was accused of revealing its design to the Russians. Jack Tannis cleared his name. The case was never solved.
With dizzying speed the past comes back to life...a body found in the night desert...a special navy team rushed in to investigte the murder...a beautiful woman's mysterious outpost in the desert...and David Harper, the key to everything, joining Tannis to ferret out the force behind the secret that started it all.... [via]More editions of China Lake:
Chindits--Long Range Penetrationby Michael CalvertISBN 0345235029 (0-345-23502-9)
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Cider House Rulesby John IrvingISBN 0345387651 (0-345-38765-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cider House Rules'Book summary:First published in 1985, The Cider House Rules is set in rural Maine in the first half of the twentieth century. The novel tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch-saint and obstetrician, founder and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Cloud's, ether addict and abortionist. This is also the story of Dr. Larch's favorite orphan, Homer Wells, who is never adopted. [via]
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Colonizationby Harry TurtledoveISBN 0345430220 (0-345-43022-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Colonization'Book summary:Harry Turtledove pays tribute to pulp science fiction, combining a favorite plot--invasion by technologically superior aliens--with an alternate history of WWII and its aftermath. His Worldwar Series began the story when a fleet of lizard-like aliens arrived to conquer Earth in May 1942. It ended in 1945 with a negotiated peace between the Race, the nuclear powers (the Reich, the USSR, and the USA), and the much-weakened Britain and Japan.
Colonization: Second Contact continues the saga, but you need not read the previous series to enjoy it. When the colonists arrive in 1962, they're unprepared for a half-conquered world. After several of their ships are destroyed by a nuclear missile of mysterious origin, they accuse the conquest forces of incompetence. Muslims in the conquered Middle East are staging an Intifada, the Chinese Communists continue guerrilla warfare against the invaders, and everyone's smuggling ginger, which is powerfully addictive among the Race and has unanticipated effects on the female colonists.
Turtledove's cast of characters includes sharply drawn alien soldiers and civilians as well as a mix of convincing historical and fictional humans from all over the world. He covers all the sixties issues: generational conflict, the drug culture, racial inequality, the threat of atomic apocalypse, and the frustration of soldiers in an unwinnable war. If you enjoy alternate history and old B movies, this book's for you. --Nona Vero [via]
Commandos and Rangers of World War IIby James D. LaddISBN 0356084329 (0-356-08432-9)
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Dante's Equationby Jane JensenISBN 0345430379 (0-345-43037-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dante's Equation'Book summary:Powerful . . . A combustible mixture of science and mysticism, a high-altitude
thriller fizzing with intrigue. JOHN CASE, Author of The Eighth Day
In a breathless thriller that explores the relationship between science and the divine, good and evil, space and time, Jane Jensen takes us from the world we know into a reality we could only scarcely imagine. Until now.
Rabbi Aharon Handalmans expertise with Torah coderearranging words and letters in the Biblehas uncovered a mans name. Who is Yosef Kobinski, and why did God hide his name in His sacred text? To find the answers, Aharon begins an investigation, and discovers that Kobinski, a Polish rabbi, was not only a mystic but also a brilliant physicist who authored what may be the most important lost work in human history.
In Seattle, Jill Talcotts work with energy wave equations is being linked to Yosef Kobinski, now deceased, who claimed nearly fifty years ago that he discovered an actual physical law of good and evil. But when Jills lab explodes, she is forced to flee for her life, realizing that her cutting-edge research is far more dangerous than she ever has imagined. And that powerful people have a stake in what she may have uncovered.
Now Jill, her research partner, and a writer fascinated by Kobinski are about to meet Handalman in Polandall four desperate to solve the astonishing riddle. Searching through the past, they trace Kobinski to a clearing in the woods near Auschwitz. And in that clearing they come face-to-face with the inexplicable: that Kobinski, drawing on his own alchemy of science and the Kabbalah, made himself vanish from the death camp in a blaze of fire. Now, with intelligence agents hot on their trail, the investigators have no choice. They must follow Kobinski to wherever he may have gone. . . .
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The Defiant Heroby Suzanne BrockmannISBN 0345463404 (0-345-46340-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Defiant Hero'Book summary:In The Unsung Hero, award-winning author Suzanne Brockmann dazzled readers with her remarkable cast of tough and tender U.S. Navy SEALs. Now her daring men in uniform return for THE DEFIANT HEROa thrilling novel of steadfast courage, intimate passions, and the profound risks that are taken in the name of love. . . .
"The United States refuses to negotiate with terrorists." Meg Moore remembered the warning from her job as a translator in a European embassy. Those same words will spell out a death sentence for her daughter and grandmother who have been kidnapped by a lethal group called the Extremists. Meg will do anything to meet their unspeakable demands; anythingeven killto save her child.
When Navy SEAL Lieutenant, junior grade, John Nilsson is summoned to Washington, D.C., by the FBI to help negotiate a hostage situation, the last person he expects to see holding a foreign ambassador at gunpoint is Meg. He hasn't seen her in years, but he's never forgotten how it feels to hold her in his arms. John could lose his career if he helps her escape. She will lose her life if he doesn't. . . . [via]More editions of The Defiant Hero:
Defying Hitler: A Memoirby Sebastian Haffner, Oliver PretzelISBN 0374161577 (0-374-16157-7)
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Designated Targetsby John BirminghamISBN 0345457145 (0-345-45714-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Designated Targets'Book summary:Its World War II and the A-bomb is here to stay.
The only question: Whos going to drop it first?
The Battle of Midway takes on a whole new dimension with the sudden appearance of a U.S.-led naval task force from the twenty-first century, the result of a botched military experiment. State-of-the-art warships are scattered across the Pacific, armed to the teeth with the latest instruments of mass destruction.
Nuclear warheads, rocket-propelled grenades, AK-47s, computer-guided missilesall bets are off as the major powers of 1942 scramble to be the first to wield the weapons of tomorrow against their enemies. The whole world now knows of the Allied victory in 1945, and the collapse of communism decades later. But that was the first time around.
With the benefit of their newly acquired knowledge, Stalin and Hitler rapidly change strategies. A Russian-German ceasefire leaves the Führer free to bring the full weight of his vaunted Nazi war machine down on England, while in the Pacific, Japan launches an invasion of Australia, and Admiral Yamamoto schemes to seize an even greater prize . . . Hawaii.
Even in the United States the newcomers from the future are greeted with a combination of enthusiasm and fear. Suspicion leads to hatred and erupts into violence.
Suddenly its a whole new war, with high-tech, high-stakes international manipulations from Tokyo to D.C. to the Kremlin. As the world trembles on the brink of annihilation, Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Hitler, and Tojo confront extreme choices and a future rife with possibilitiesall of them apocalyptic. [via] 
Destruction of Dresdenby David IrvingISBN 0345230329 (0-345-23032-9)
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The Devil's Dreamby Lee SmithISBN 0345382919 (0-345-38291-9)
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Moses Bailey, a preacher's son, forbade his fiddle-loving wife Kate Malone to play. But while he was gone on his travels, looking for God, Kate couldn't help herself, and began fiddling for her three children. For the love of music, Kate is willing to defy anyone who tries to stop her. From generation to generation, the gift and love of music cannot be stopped, and no Malone is immune from its spell. [via]More editions of The Devil's Dream:
The Enemy Is Listeningby Aileen ClaytonISBN 0345302508 (0-345-30250-8)
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The Englishman's Daughterby Ben MacIntyreISBN 0374129851 (0-374-12985-1)
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Famous Bombers of the Second World Warby William GreenISBN 0356083330 (0-356-08333-0)
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Fighterby Len DeightonISBN 0345298217 (0-345-29821-7)
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Fighter Squadrons of the RAF and Their Aircraftby John D. R. RawlingsISBN 035401028X (0-354-01028-X)
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Fork-Tailed Devil: The P-38by Martin CaidinISBN 0345312929 (0-345-31292-9)
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Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill : A Brief Account of a Long Lifeby Gretchen Craft RubinISBN 0345450477 (0-345-45047-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill : A Brief Account of a Long Life'Book summary:Warrior and writer, genius and crank, rider in the British cavalrys last great charge and inventor of the tankWinston Churchill led Britain to fight alone against Nazi Germany in the fateful year of 1940 and set the standard for leading a democracy at war.
Like no other portrait of its famous subject, Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill is a dazzling display of facts more improbable than fiction, and an investigation of the contradictions and complexities that haunt biography. Gretchen Craft Rubin gives readers, in a single volume, the kind of rounded view usually gained only by reading dozens of conventional biographies.
With penetrating insight and vivid anecdotes, Rubin makes Churchill accessible and meaningful to twenty-first-century readers with forty contrasting views of the man: he was an alcoholic, he was not; he was an anachronism, he was a visionary; he was a racist, he was a humanitarian; he was the most quotable man in the history of the English language, he was a bore.
In crisp, energetic language, Rubin creates a new form for presenting a great figure of historyand brings to full realization the depiction of a man too fabulous for any novelist to construct, too complicated for even the longest narrative to describe, and too valuable ever to be forgotten.
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The French Navy: [in 2 Vols]by Henri Le MassonISBN 0356023842 (0-356-02384-2)
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German Aircraft of the Second World Warby Smith, Antony L. KayISBN 0370000242 (0-370-00024-2)
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German Armourby Douglas OrgillISBN 0345241533 (0-345-24153-3)
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The German Army, 1933-1945: Its Political and Military Failureby Matthew CooperISBN 0354010573 (0-354-01057-3)
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The German Jets in Combatby Alfred Price, Jeffrey L. EthellISBN 0354012525 (0-354-01252-5)
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German Uniforms of World War 2by Andrew MolloISBN 0356082288 (0-356-08228-8)
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Gone Too Farby Suzanne BrockmannISBN 0345456939 (0-345-45693-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gone Too Far'Book summary:In her sizzling, award-winning novels of suspense, bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann delves into the adrenaline-rushed world of counter terrorismand taps into the real passions of its brave men and women. Now in her widely anticipated hardcover debut, she spins a story of action, intrigue, and romance, as a U.S. Navy SEAL and an FBI agent race to unravel a mysterywhile confronting their own unresolved feelings for each other. . . .
In his career as one of Americas elite warriors, Lt. Sam Starrett can do no wrong. In his private life, Samthe king of one night standshas done little right. Now, hes waiting for a divorce and determined to stay active in his young daughters life. But when Sam shows up at the door of his ex-wifes home in Sarasota, Florida, he makes a grisly discovery. His daughter is gone and the body of a woman lies brutally murdered on the floor.
FBI agent Alyssa Lockes relationship with Sam has been overwhelmingly intense and nearly catastrophic, yet it refuses to end. The last time she saw Sam was six months earlier, when they worked together to stop terrorists from assassinating the U.S. President. Much to her dismay, Alyssa is assigned to lead the murder investigation and once again the two are face to face. When explosive information surfaces linking Sam to the still unsolved assassination plot, the stakes are raised. With her reputation hanging in the balance, and her loyalties in question, Alyssa is faced with an impossible dilemma:arrest a man she believes to be innocent, or risk her career.
While Alyssa tries to fight their intense attraction, Sam is determined to heat things up between them once again. And the complex case pushes them both to the wrong side of the lawand on the run to discover the truth. As more agents step into the chase, and with Sams daughter still unaccounted for, neither Alyssa nor Sam can predict just how deadly hot this situation is about to become. . . .
A thrilling novel that ranges back into the days of World War II, into friendships, families, liaisons, betrayals, and the code of honor that binds the U.S. Navy SEALs, Gone Too Far is an electrifying experience in suspenseand a brilliant tale of lives lived on the edge.
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The Great Warby Harry TurtledoveISBN 0345405609 (0-345-40560-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great War'Book summary:Harry Turtledove's second multivolume saga of 20th-century "alternative history," How Few Remain, takes place in a world in which the Confederate States win the Civil War and in 1914, allied with England and France, go to war against the United States once more. All the horrors of World War I, such as trench warfare and mustard gas, are present, only this time they're situated in a North American theater of operations where the U.S. fights enemies on both its northern and southern borders while Confederate blacks, studying up on left-wing radicals Karl Marx and Abe Lincoln, prepare for the revolution. As in Turtledove's earlier Worldwar series, the majority of attention is paid to an assortment of people at the battlefields and home fronts, their stories unfolding in gradual increments that, at least so far, only intermittently connect with each other. And there's not as much in the way of "real" historical figures popping up in this first volume of The Great War series, save for cameo appearances by U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt, Confederate president Woodrow Wilson, an aging General Custer, and a handful of others. It remains to be seen whether future entries in the series will feature such obvious candidates for inclusion as the young Ernest Hemingway, and how they'll appear in this strange new world. --Ron Hogan [via]
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The Guns of Augustby Barbara W. TuchmanISBN 034538623X (0-345-38623-X)
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A History in Fragments: Europe in the Twentieth Centuryby Richard VinenISBN 034911269X (0-349-11269-X)
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Hitler's Naval Warby Hans Dieter BerenbrokISBN 0356045080 (0-356-04508-0)
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Hot Targetby Suzanne BrockmannISBN 0345456955 (0-345-45695-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hot Target'Book summary:New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann knows exactly what makes hearts race and pulses pound: peril and passion. No one succeeds more brilliantly at blending these exhilarating elements in breathtaking novels of men and women forced to grapple with the deepest emotions and the highest risks. And theres no better proof than her new novel of suspense: Hot Target aims to thrill on every level.
Like most men of action, Navy SEAL Chief Cosmo Richter never learned how to take a vacation. So when he finds himself facing a months leave, he offers his services to Troubleshooters Incorporated. Founded by a former SEAL, the private-sector security firm is a major player in the ongoing war against terrorism, known for carrying out covert missions too volatile for official U.S. military action. But the first case Richter takes on is anything but under the radar.
High-profile maverick movie producer Jane Mercedes Chadwick hasnt quite completed her newest film, but shes already courting controversy. The World War II epic frankly portrays the homosexuality of a real-life heroand the storm of advance media buzz surrounding it has drawn the fury of extremist groups. But despite a relentless campaign of angry E-mails, phone calls, and smear tactics, Chadwick wont be pressured into abandoning the project. Then the harassment turns to death threats.
While the FBI appears on the scene, nervous Hollywood associates call in Troubleshooters, and now Chadwick has an army of round-the-clock bodyguards, whether she likes it or not. And she definitely doesnt. But her stubbornness doesnt make FBI agent Jules Cassidys job any easier. The fiercely independent filmmaker presents yet another emotional obstacle that Cassidy doesnt needhes already in the midst of a personal tug-of-war with his ex-lover, while fighting a growing attraction to Chadwicks brother.
Determined to succeedand surviveon her own terms, Chadwick will face off with enemies and allies alike. But she doesnt count on the bond she forms with the quiet, capable Cosmo Richter. Yet even as their feelings bring them closer, the noose of deadly terror all around them draws tighter. And when all hell erupts, desire and desperate choices will collide on a killing ground that may trap them both in the crossfire. [via] 
Hunting Warbirds : The Obsessive Quest for the Lost Aircraft of World War IIby Carl HoffmanISBN 0345436180 (0-345-43618-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Infantry Aces : The German Wehrmacht in World War IIby Franz KurowskiISBN 0345451945 (0-345-45194-5)
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Infantry, Mountain, and Airborne Gunsby Peter Chamberlain, Terry GanderISBN 0356082253 (0-356-08225-3)
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Into the Nightby Suzanne BrockmannISBN 0345458850 (0-345-45885-0)
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The Invention That Changed the World: The Story of Radar from War to Peaceby Robert BuderiISBN 0349110689 (0-349-11068-9)
Hardcover, Abacus
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Japan's Longest Dayby Pacific War Research Society Pacific War Research Society StaffISBN 0345309316 (0-345-30931-6)
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Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work By The Legendary New Yorker Writerby A. J. Liebling, David RemnickISBN 0374104433 (0-374-10443-3)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Born a hundred years ago, Abbott Joseph "Joe" Liebling was the first of the great New Yorker writers, a colorful and tireless figure who helped set the magazine's urbane style. Today, he is best known as a celebrant of the "sweet science" of boxing or as a "feeder" who ravishes the reader with his descriptions of food and wine. But as David Remnick, a Liebling devotee, suggests in his fond and insightful introduction, Liebling was a writer bounded only by his intelligence, taste, and ardor for life. Like his nemesis William Randolph Hearst, he changed the rules of modern journalism, banishing the distinctions between reporting and storytelling, between news and art. Whatever his role, Liebling is a most companionable figure, and to read the pieces in this grand and generous book is to be swept along on a thrilling adventure in a world of confidence men, rogues, press barons and political cronies, with an inimitable writer as one's guide.More editions of Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work By The Legendary New Yorker Writer:
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The Kindness of Womenby J.G. BallardISBN 0374181101 (0-374-18110-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kindness of Women'Book summary:[via]In this sequel to his award-winning Empire of the Sun, young James returns to England at the end of World War II. He stumbles through medical study at Cambridge, trains briefly as an RAF pilot in Canada, and marries. When his wife dies suddenly, Jim is thrust into the violence and sexual promiscuity of the sixties. Penetrating and wise, J. G. Ballard's biting social commentary and pushing of boundaries make this semi-autobiographical novel a small classic.More editions of The Kindness of Women:
Light and Medium Field Artilleryby Peter Chamberlain, Terry GanderISBN 0356082156 (0-356-08215-6)
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The Magicians of Nightby Barbara HamblyISBN 0345362594 (0-345-36259-4)
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Mendelssohn Is on the Roofby Jiri Weil, Marie WinnISBN 0374208107 (0-374-20810-7)
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Milwaukeeby Bernice RubensISBN 0349113726 (0-349-11372-6)
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Night Fighterby C. F. Rawnsley, Robert WrightISBN 034531025X (0-345-31025-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Night Fighter'Book summary:Once the day fighters had saved Britain from invasion, it fell to the night fighters to save her cities from destruction. At the beginning, interception by night proved virtually impossible, particularly, as the German bombers carried out their raids in cloudy weather. Soon, however, the navigator was presented with a mysterious little black box, which turned out to be the parent of airborne radar and the key to aerial tactics. This made a major contribution to the war in the skies, first protecting the British cities from the incessant raids of 1940 and later enabling the bombers to carry out their vital operations over Germany. 'Jimmy' Rawnsley, crewed with gunner 'Cats-eyes' Cunningham were among the first to use this new technology when it was introduced to the Blenheim they were flying and went on to become one of the RAF's leading night fighter crews, destroying over 20 enemy aircraft.[via]More editions of Night Fighter:
Nim and the War Effortby Milly Lee, Yangsook ChoiISBN 0374222622 (0-374-22262-2)
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No Man's Landby John TolandISBN 0345335775 (0-345-33577-5)
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Old Men at Midnightby Chaim PotokISBN 0345439988 (0-345-43998-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Old Men at Midnight'Book summary:From the celebrated author of The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev, a trilogy of related novellas about a woman whose life touches three very different menstories that encompass some of the profoundest themes of the twentieth century.
Ilana Davita Dinn is the listener to whom three men relate their lives.
As a young girl, she offers English lessons to a teenage survivor of the camps. In The Ark Builder, he shares with her the story of his friendship with a proud old builder of synagogue arks, and what happened when the German army invaded their Polish town.
As a graduate student, she finds herself escorting a guest lecturer from the Soviet Union, and in The War Doctor, her sympathy moves him to put his painful past to paper recounting his experiences as a Soviet NKVD agent who was saved by an idealistic doctor during the Russian civil war, only to encounter him again during the terrifying period of the Kremlin doctors plot.
And, finally, we meet her in The Trope Teacher, in which a distinguished professor of military history, trying to write his memoirs, is distracted by his wifes illness and by the arrival next door of a new neighbor, the famous writer I. D. (Ilana Davita) Chandal.
Poignant and profound, Chaim Potoks newest fiction is a major addition to his remarkableand remarkably lovedbody of work.
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Out of Controlby Suzanne BrockmannISBN 0345486404 (0-345-48640-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Out of Control'Book summary:Bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann knows how to push the limits of romantic suspense to new, breathtaking heights. Potent, gripping, and explosive, OUT OF CONTROL is a roller coaster ride of a novel as a single act of loyalty becomes a desperate struggle for survival. . . .
Savannah von Hopf has no choice. To save her uncles life, she goes in search of Ken WildCard Karmody, a guy she barely knew in college who is now a military operative. She must convince him to help her deliver a cache of ransom money into the hands of terrorists halfway around the world. What she doesnt expect is to end up in WildCards arms before she can even ask for his help.
WildCard has always had a soft spot for beautiful women. But when he discovers Savannahs hidden agenda, he is determined to end the affair. But Savannah is bound for Indonesia with or without his protection, and he cant just walk away. When her plan goes horribly wrong, they are trapped in the forsaken jungle of a hostile country, stalked by a lethal enemy. As time is running out, they scramble to escape, risking their lives to stop a nightmare from spinning even further out of control. . . . [via]More editions of Out of Control:
Over the Edgeby Suzanne BrockmannISBN 0345486412 (0-345-48641-2)
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Rainbow Abyssby Barbara HamblyISBN 0345371011 (0-345-37101-1)
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Return Engagementby Harry TurtledoveISBN 0345457234 (0-345-45723-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Return Engagement'Book summary:Harry Turtledoves remarkable alternative history novels brilliantly remind us of how fragile the thread of time can be, and offer us a world of what if. Drawing on a magnificent cast of characters that includes soldiers, generals, lovers, spies, and demagogues, Turtledove returns to an epic tale that only he could tellthe story of a North American continent, separated into two bitterly opposed nations, that stands on the verge of exploding once again.
In 1914 they called it The Great War, and few could imagine anything worse. For nearly three decades a peace forged in blood and fatigue has held sway in North America. Now, Japan dominates the Pacific, the Russian Tsar rules Alaska, and England, under Winston Churchill, chafes for a return to its former glory. But behind the façade of world order, America is a bomb waiting to go off. Jake Featherston, the megalomaniacal leader of the Confederate States of America, is just the man to light the fuse.
In the White House in Philadelphia, Socialist President Al Smith is a living symbol of hope for a nation that has been through the fires of war and the flood tides of depression. In the South, Featherston and his ruling Freedom Party have put down a Negro rebellion with a bloody fist and have interned them in concentration camps. Now they are determined to crush their Northern neighbor at any cost.
Featherstons planes attack Philadelphia without warning. The U.S.A. lashes back blindly at Charleston. And a terrible second coming is at hand. When the CSA blitzkrieg is launched, the U.S.A. is caught flat-footed. Before long, the gray Army reaches Lake Erie. But in its wake the war machine is spinning a vortex of destruction, betrayal, and fury that no one, not even Jake Featherston himself, can control.
Now, President Smith faces a Herculean task, while an obscure assistant secretary of war named Roosevelt rises in his ranks. For the U.S.A., the darkest days still lay ahead. Across the globe, a new era of war has just begun. And in the hands of the incomparable Harry Turtledove, readers are treated to a masterful vision of what might have been. An enduring portrait of history, nations, and human nature in its many manifestations, Return Engagement is a monumental journey into the second half of the twentieth century. [via]More editions of Return Engagement:
Roads Not Takenby Gardner Dozois, Stanley SchmidtISBN 0345421949 (0-345-42194-9)
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The Secret Servantby Gavin LyallISBN 0345338235 (0-345-33823-5)
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Settling Accounts: Return Engagementby Harry TurtledoveISBN 0345464052 (0-345-46405-2)
Softcover, Del Rey
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In 1914 they called it The Great War, and few could imagine anything worse. For nearly three decades a peace forged in blood and fatigue has held sway in North America. Now, Japan dominates the Pacific, the Russian Tsar rules Alaska, and England, under Winston Churchill, chafes for a return to its former glory. But behind the façade of world order, America is a bomb waiting to go off. Jake Featherston, the megalomaniacal leader of the Confederate States of America, is just the man to light the fuse.
In the White House in Philadelphia, Socialist President Al Smith is a living symbol of hope for a nation that has been through the fires of war and the flood tides of depression. In the South, Featherston and his ruling Freedom Party have put down a Negro rebellion with a bloody fist and have interned them in concentration camps. Now they are determined to crush their Northern neighbor at any cost.
Featherstons planes attack Philadelphia without warning. The U.S.A. lashes back blindly at Charleston. And a terrible second coming is at hand. When the CSA blitzkrieg is launched, the U.S.A. is caught flat-footed. Before long, the gray Army reaches Lake Erie. But in its wake the war machine is spinning a vortex of destruction, betrayal, and fury that no one, not even Jake Featherston himself, can control.
Now, President Smith faces a Herculean task, while an obscure assistant secretary of war named Roosevelt rises in his ranks. For the U.S.A., the darkest days still lay ahead. Across the globe, a new era of war has just begun. And in the hands of the incomparable Harry Turtledove, readers are treated to a masterful vision of what might have been. An enduring portrait of history, nations, and human nature in its many manifestations, Return Engagement is a monumental journey into the second half of the twentieth century.
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Settling Accounts#2 : Drive to the Eastby Harry TurtledoveISBN 0345457242 (0-345-45724-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Settling Accounts#2 : Drive to the East'Book summary:Harry Turtledovethe master of alternate historyhas recast the tumultuous twentieth century and created an epic that is powerful, bold, and as convincing as it is provocative. In Drive to the East he continues his saga of warfare that has divided a nation and now threatens the entire world.
In 1914, the First World War ignited a brutal conflict in North America, with the United States finally defeating the Confederate States. In 1917, The Great War ended and an era of simmering hatred began, fueled by the despotism of a few and the sacrifice of many. Now its 1942. The USA and CSA are locked in a tangle of jagged, blood-soaked battle lines, modern weaponry, desperate strategies, and the kind of violence that only the damned could conjure upfor their enemies and themselves.
In Richmond, Confederate president and dictator Jake Featherston is shocked by what his own aircraft have done in Philadelphiakilling U.S. president Al Smith in a barrage of bombs. Featherston presses ahead with a secret plan carried out on the dusty plains of Texas, where a so-called detention camp hides a far more evil purpose.
As the untested U.S. vice president takes over for Smith, the United States face a furious thrust by the Confederate army, pressing inexorably into Pennsylvania. But with the industrial heartland under siege, Canada in revolt, and U.S. naval ships fighting against the Japanese in the Sandwich Islands, the most dangerous place in the world may be overlooked. [via]More editions of Settling Accounts#2 : Drive to the East:
A Severed Waspby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0374261318 (0-374-26131-8)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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A Sound Like Thunder: A Novelby Sonny BrewerISBN 0345476336 (0-345-47633-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Sound Like Thunder: A Novel'Book summary:Approaching eighty, Rove MacNee sets out to write the story of his youth I will be forgiven, I m sure, if I don t remember things with stunning clarity. What memories clearly remain resonate within him like rolling thunder and shower down like rain in Sonny Brewer s superb and richly rewarding new novel of fathers and sons, family and betrayal.
Set in the small gulf town of Fairhope, Alabama, this lyrical coming-of-age tale begins in the winter of 1941. Named for his father s drowned Labrador retriever, Rove is a strong-shouldered and self-reliant sixteen-year-old, an uneven match for his volatile father, Captain Dominus MacNee. Though he sometimes wishes the whiskey-soaked man would be lost at sea, Rove himself is in danger of sinking in the troubled waters of his home life.
Navigating between memoir and memory, past and present, Rove reflects upon the people and pursuits that have influenced his life: his passion for fishing, where the toss of the net is more thrilling than the catch in the bucket; his much-loved grandmother, who gives him a copy of Huckleberry Finn, saying, Boys sometimes run away, you know ; and Anna Pearl Anderson, the prettiest girl on the Eastern shore, who ignites in Rove the first flickers of romance. Yet his greatest treasure, perhaps, is his twenty-five-foot sloop, the Sea Bird. Given to him as a gift, the Sea Bird brings with it both the possibility of salvation and the threat of disaster. As Rove dreams of escaping his tumultuous surroundings, it becomes apparent that he can never truly shake the hold of his seaside home unless he confronts, head on, a startling truth.
Returning to the setting of his much-lauded debut novel, The Poet of Tolstoy Park, Sonny Brewer, once again, gives a skillful performance in the Southern storytelling tradition. A Sound Like Thunder is a magnificently crafted tale of a man revisiting the crossroads of his life, connecting the fragmented keepsakes in his heart and mind, and reemerging with a clear understanding of his defining moment. [via]More editions of A Sound Like Thunder: A Novel:
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Spitfireby John VaderISBN 0345278968 (0-345-27896-8)
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Standing in the Rainbowby Fannie FlaggISBN 0345452887 (0-345-45288-7)
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Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, whose daily radio broadcasts keep us delightfully informed on all the local news, we also meet Bobby, her ten-year-old son, destined to live a thousand lives, most of them in his imagination; Norma and Macky Warren and their ninety-eight-year-old Aunt Elner; the oddly sexy and charismatic Hamm Sparks, who starts off in life as a tractor salesman and ends up selling himself to the whole state and almost the entire country; and the two women who love him as differently as night and day. Then there is Tot Whooten, the beautician whose luck is as bad as her hairdressing skills; Beatrice Woods, the Little Blind Songbird; Cecil Figgs, the Funeral King; and the fabulous Minnie Oatman, lead vocalist of the Oatman Family Gospel Singers.
The time is 1946 until the present. The town is Elmwood Springs, Missouri, right in the middle of the country, in the midst of the mostly joyous transition from war to peace, aiming toward a dizzyingly bright future.
Once again, Fannie Flagg gives us a story of richly human characters, the saving graces of the once-maligned middle classes and small-town life, and the daily contest between laughter and tears. Fannie truly writes from the heartland, and her storytelling is, to quote Time, "utterly irresistible."
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Street Boysby Lorenzo CarcaterraISBN 0345410998 (0-345-41099-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Street Boys'Book summary:Naples, Italy, during four fateful days in the fall of 1943. The only people left in the shattered, bombed-out city are the lost, abandoned children whose only goal is to survive another day. None could imagine that they would become fearless fighters and the unlikeliest heroes of World War II. They are the warriors immortalized in Street Boys, Lorenzo Carcaterras exhilarating new novel, a book that exceeds even his bestselling Sleepers as a riveting reading experience.
Its late September. The war in Europe is almost won. Italy is leaderless, Mussolini already arrested by anti-Fascists. The German army has evacuated the city of Naples. Adults, even entire families, have been marched off to work camps or simply sent off to their deaths. Now, the German army is moving toward Naples to finish the job. Their chilling instructions are: If the city cant belong to Hitler, it will belong to no one.
No one but children. Children who have been orphaned or hidden by parents in a last, defiant gesture against the Nazis. Children, some as young as ten years old, armed with just a handful of guns, unexploded bombs, and their own ingenuity. Children who are determined to take on the advancing enemy and save the cityor die trying.
There is Vincenzo Soldari, a sixteen-year-old history buff who is determined to make history by leading others with courage and self-confidence; Carlo Maldini, a middle-aged drunkard desperate to redeem himself by adding his experience to the raw exuberance of the young fighters; Nunzia Maldini, his nineteen-year-old daughter, who helps her father regain his self-respect and loses her heart to an American G.I.; Corporal Steve Connors, a soldier sent out on reconnaissance, then cut off from his comradeswith no choice but to aid the street boys; Colonel Rudolph Van Klaus, the proud Nazi commander shamed by his own sadistic mission; and, of course, the dozens of young boys who use their few skills and great heart to try to save their city, their country, and themselves.
In its compassionate portrait of the rootless young, and its pitiless portrayal of the violence that is at once their world and their way out, Street Boys continues and deepens Lorenzo Carcaterras trademark themes. In its awesome scope and pure page-turning excitement, it stands as a stirring tribute to the underdog in us alland as a singular addition to the novels about World War II. [via]-
The Sweetheart Seasonby Karen Joy FowlerISBN 0345416422 (0-345-41642-2)
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To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essaysby Czeslaw Milosz, Bogdana Carpenter, Madeline G. LevineISBN 0374258902 (0-374-25890-2)
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To Begin Where I Am brings together a rich sampling of poet Czeslaw Milosz's prose writings. Spanning more than a half century, from an impassioned essay on human nature, wartime atrocities, and their challenge to ethical beliefs, written in 1942 in the form of a letter to his friend Jerzy Andrzejewski, to brief biographical sketches and poetic prose pieces from the late 1990s, this volume presents Milosz the prose writer in all his multiple, beguiling guises. The incisive, sardonic analyst of the seductive power of communism is also the author of tender, elegiac portraits of friends famous and obscure; the witty commentator on Polish complexes writes lyrically of the California landscape. Two great themes predominate in these essays, several of which have never appeared before in English: Milosz's personal struggle to sustain his religious faith, and his unswerving allegiance to a poetry that is "on the side of man."More editions of To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays:
Under the Sign of Saturnby Susan SontagISBN 0374280762 (0-374-28076-2)
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The Unsung Heroby Suzanne BrockmannISBN 0345463390 (0-345-46339-0)
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The Victorious Oppositionby Harry TurtledoveISBN 0345405668 (0-345-40566-8)
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Waffen SSby John KeeganISBN 0345326415 (0-345-32641-5)
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Wartideby John BarnesISBN 0373636040 (0-373-63604-0)
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When the Odds Were Even: The Vosges Mountains Campaign, October 1944-January 1945by Keith BonnISBN 0345476115 (0-345-47611-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'When the Odds Were Even: The Vosges Mountains Campaign, October 1944-January 1945'Book summary:In three months of savage fighting, the U.S. Seventh Army did what no army in the history of modern warfare had ever done beforeconquer an enemy defending the Vosges Mountains.
With the toughest terrain on the Western Front, the Vosges mountain range was seemingly an impregnable fortress, manned by German troops determined to hold the last barrier between the Allies and the Rhine. Yet despite nearly constant rain, snow, ice, and mud, soldiers of the U.S. Seventh Army tore through thousands of pillboxes, acres of barbed wire, hundreds of roadblocks, and miles of other enemy obstacles, ripping the tenacious German defenders out of their fortifications in fierce fightingand then held on to their gains by crushing Operation Nordwind, the German offensive launched in a hail of steel at an hour before midnight on the last New Years Eve of the war.
Keith Bonns fascinating study of this little-known World War II campaign offers a rare opportunity to compare German and American fighting formations in a situation where both sides were fairly evenly matched in numbers of troops, weapons, supplies, and support. This gripping battle-by-battle account shatters the myth that German formations were, division for division, superior to their American counterparts. [via]More editions of When the Odds Were Even: The Vosges Mountains Campaign, October 1944-January 1945:
Winter: A Berlin Family 1899-1945by Len DeightonISBN 0345359313 (0-345-35931-3)
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The Winter War:Russia against Finland: Russia against Finlandby Richard W. CondonISBN 0345028902 (0-345-02890-2)
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