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The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials: A Personal Memoirby Telford TaylorISBN 0394583558 (0-394-58355-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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And Quiet Flows the Donby Mikhail Aleksandrovich SholokhovISBN 0394703308 (0-394-70330-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Andorraby Max Frisch, Michael BullockISBN 0413305104 (0-413-30510-4)
Softcover, Methuen Publishing Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Andorra'Book summary:Reissue of this Methuen classic to tie in with a major new production[via]The republic of Andorra is invaded by totalitarian forces. The populace capitulates to the anti-Semitism of the aggressor and betrays Andri, the foundling son of the local schoolmaster. But Andri it seems, is not a Jew at all.
Andorra explores the mechanism of racism with the story of a non-Jew brought up as a Jew, who falls victim to anti-Semitic hostility.
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Anne Frank and Meby Cherie Bennett, Jeff GottesfeldISBN 0399233296 (0-399-23329-6)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne Frank and Me'Book summary:The successful play is now a gripping novel.
Knocked unconscious after explosions ring out during a field trip to an Anne Frank exhibit, boy-crazy Nicole Burns wakes to find herself living a parallel life as a Jew in 1942 Paris. This Nicole is dating the boy of her present-day dreams, but living under the Nazis gradually becomes a nightmare. Her family survives the Nazi occupation with the help of friends, but when her father is exposed as a resistant, their fate takes a dire turn.
The shifts in Nicole's lives -- from a carefree, sophisticated Parisian girl to a wretch riding in a cattle car with Anne Frank; from a modern girl focused only on the drama of her high school life to a thoughtful observer of the potential of everyday injustices -- will engage teens and change their views of history found in books and the history we're making today.
Called "eloquent and poignant" by the New York Times and performed to wide acclaim across the country, the play has touched thousands. As a novel, it is sure to grow in popularity. [via]
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Assignment in Brittanyby Helen MacInnesISBN 0449210650 (0-449-21065-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Battlegroundby W. E. B. GriffinISBN 0399135502 (0-399-13550-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Berkutby Joseph HeywoodISBN 0440202116 (0-440-20211-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Best American Short Stories, 1999by Amy Tan, Katrina KenisonISBN 039592684X (0-395-92684-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Short Stories, 1999'Book summary:A great story gets its hooks into you right from the start; you know you're in the hands of a good writer when the very first sentence transports you wholly into another world. "Mother preferred Zulu servants." "It must be, Ruth thought, that she was going to die in the spring." "Who would have thought that a war of such proportions would bother to turn in its fury against the fools of Chelm?"
The 21 fictions featured in The Best American Short Stories 1999 have very little in common--but whether they're about ranchers or commuters, romantic seekers or New Age pilgrims, what they do share is a sense of urgency. In each of them, there's a kind of voice that announces its need to be heard. "I'm not a bad guy," pleads the narrator of "The Sun, the Moon, the Stars," and even though he cheats on his girlfriend, by the end of Junot Díaz's story you might be tempted to agree anyway. (Especially considering the charming way he turns Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener into a verb--as in, "A lot of the time she Bartlebys me, says, 'No, I'd rather not.'") "Real Estate," by that master of bittersweet comedy Lorrie Moore, starts by repeating "Ha! Ha! Ha!" for two solid pages but becomes a rueful take on marriage, house-hunting, and even death: "The body, hauling sadnesses, pursued the soul, hobbled after. The body was like a sweet dim dog trotting lamely toward the gate as you tried slowly to drive off, out the long driveway. Take me, take me too, barked the dog."
Other standouts in this collection include Alice Munro's "Save the Reaper," a kind of "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" where no one is killed or saved; Rick Bass's haunting evocation of winter in the north country, "The Hermit's Story"; and Tim Gautreax's "The Piano Tuner," about a manic-depressive Creole princess playing cocktail piano in a motel lounge. (This is one tale that truly does end with a bang, not a whimper.) Taken together, they are ample evidence that the American short story is alive, well, and eminently able to--in the words of guest editor Amy Tan--"help us live interesting lives." --Chloe Byrne [via]
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Blossoms in the Wind: Human Legacies of the Kamikazeby M. G. SheftallISBN 0451218523 (0-451-21852-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Bluebeardby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0440201969 (0-440-20196-9)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bluebeard'Book summary:Broad humor and bitter irony collide in Vonnegut's fictional biography of aging artist Rabo Karabekian--first introduced in Breakfast of Champions--who wants only to be left alone at his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked in his potato barn. "A joyous, soaring fiction."--Atlanta Journal and Constitution. Reissue. [via]
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Bread and Wineby Ignazio SiloneISBN 0451525000 (0-451-52500-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Brideshead Revisitedby Evelyn WaughISBN 0412501007 (0-412-50100-7)
Hardcover, Chapman & Hall
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Bridge at Andauby James A. MichenerISBN 0449210502 (0-449-21050-2)
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Ceremonyby Leslie Marmon SilkoISBN 0451138929 (0-451-13892-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ceremony'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A Navajo family on a New Mexico reservation struggles to survive in a world no longer theirs in the years just before and after World War II. [via]
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Churchill: A Lifeby Martin GilbertISBN 0434291838 (0-434-29183-8)
Hardcover, Heinemann
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Counterattackby W. E. B. GriffinISBN 039913493X (0-399-13493-X)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Days of Infamyby Harry TurtledoveISBN 0451460561 (0-451-46056-1)
Softcover, Roc
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Don't You Know There's a War onby LingemanISBN 0399503595 (0-399-50359-5)
Softcover, Book World Promotions
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The Dreamthief's Daughterby Michael MoorcockISBN 0446526185 (0-446-52618-5)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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The Dreamthief's Daughter: A Tale of the Albinoby Michael MoorcockISBN 0446611204 (0-446-61120-4)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dreamthief's Daughter: A Tale of the Albino'Book summary:In the elaborate fictional cosmos Michael Moorcock has created, Elric and the various vonBeks are all aspects of the Eternal Champion who fights for the Balance, preventing both Law and Chaos from dominating the universe and trapping it in either barren sterility or pointless fecundity. Elric, the albino sorcerer and last prince of the inhuman empire of Melnibone, was the creation of Moorcock's adventurous pot-boiling inventive youth, just as the vonBek family featured in the heroic fantasies of his more thoughtful middle-life.
In The Dreamthief's Daughter, he brings together Elric and Ulric vonBek, last scion of the family, and we finally learn the sin for which the perpetual villain Gaynor the Damned was doomed: Nazi occultists are searching for the Grail and the Black Sword and must be prevented from attaining them. Ulric seeks allies wherever he can find them, including Oona, who wanders through dream realities and with whom he falls in love. This is fast-moving phantasmagorical stuff with ambiguously virtuous heroes and baddies whose villainy and charm is total. Moorcock's immensely powerful visual imagination and sense of the innate drama of crucial scenes make this a breathtaking read. --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Dust on the Seaby Edward Latimer BeachISBN 0440121892 (0-440-12189-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Escape from Colditz: The Two Classic Escape Stories The Colditz Story, and Men of Colditzby P. R. Reid, John F. WattonISBN 0397009429 (0-397-00942-9)
Hardcover, Lippincott
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Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima: History Writing and the Second World War 1945-1990by Richard J.B. BosworthISBN 041510923X (0-415-10923-X)
Softcover, Routledge
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Eyes of the Emperorby Graham SalisburyISBN 0440229561 (0-440-22956-1)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Famous Last Wordsby Timothy FindleyISBN 0440325439 (0-440-32543-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Flying Tigersby J. TolandISBN 0440926211 (0-440-92621-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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For Freedomby Kimberly Brubaker BradleyISBN 0440418313 (0-440-41831-3)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Fragments of Isabell: A Memoir of Auschwitzby Isabella LeitnerISBN 044032453X (0-440-32453-X)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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A Gathering of Spiesby John AltmanISBN 0399146415 (0-399-14641-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Gnomewrench in the Dwarfworksby Nick O'DonohoeISBN 0441006337 (0-441-00633-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Hiding to Surviveby Maxine B. RosenbergISBN 0395900204 (0-395-90020-4)
Softcover, Clarion Books
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I Am Rosemarieby Marietta D. MoskinISBN 0440940664 (0-440-94066-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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I Was a Strangerby John HackettISBN 0425120953 (0-425-12095-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Inside the Gestapo: A Jewish Woman's Secret Warby Helene MoszkiewiezISBN 0440141125 (0-440-14112-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Intrepid's Last Caseby William StevensonISBN 0395534801 (0-395-53480-1)
Hardcover, Villard Books
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Iwo Jima: Legacy of Valorby Bill D. RossISBN 0394742885 (0-394-74288-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Joy Luck Clubby Amy TanISBN 0399134204 (0-399-13420-4)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Joy Luck Club'Book summary:Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. "To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable." Forty years later the stories and history continue.
With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery. [via]
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Kensuke's Kingdomby Michael MorpurgoISBN 0439591813 (0-439-59181-3)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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The Last Days of Pattonby Ladislas FaragoISBN 0425098818 (0-425-09881-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Longest Night: The Bombing Of London On May 10, 1941by Gavin MortimerISBN 0425205576 (0-425-20557-6)
Hardcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Lydia : Queen of Palestineby Uri Orlev, Hillel HalkinISBN 0395656605 (0-395-65660-5)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle: Memoir of a Wwii Bomber Pilotby Robert Morgan, Ron PowersISBN 0451205944 (0-451-20594-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Master Sniperby Stephen HunterISBN 0440221870 (0-440-22187-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Master Sniper'Book summary:With a snipers rifle he has calmly executed hundreds of enemy soldiers in a single battle, and gunned down thousands of innocent civilians in a single day, waiting patiently for the barrel of his gun to cool before resuming his craft& It is the spring of 1945. And Repp, the master sniper, is about to carry out his final mission even as Germanys enemies overrun it, even while a tired, disorganized team of American and British agents tries everything in its power to stop him. Because for Repp, this is the job at which he cannot fail. For this time, he possesses the ultimate killing tool. And with it, he will commit the ultimate crime& Mesmerizing suspense, Kirkus Reviews Hunter is a deft craftsman with a sure sense of pace and scene. He also knows about irony and sprinkles just a bit over every corpse. The Washington Post Stephen Hunter is the best writer of straight-out thrillers working today. Rocky Mountain News [via]
The Mighty Eighth: The Air War in Europe As Told by the Men Who Fought Itby Gerald AstorISBN 0440226481 (0-440-22648-1)
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Miss Seeton's Finest Hourby Hamilton CraneISBN 0425170268 (0-425-17026-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Munich: The Price of Peaceby Telford TaylorISBN 0394744829 (0-394-74482-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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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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A New Coat for Annaby Harriet ZiefertISBN 0394898613 (0-394-89861-3)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A New Coat for Anna'Book summary:Illus. in full color. "A fresh and moving story of a mother's dedication to acquire a coat for her daughter in post-World War II hard times. Anna's mother decides to trade the few valuables she has left for wool and for the services of a spinner, a weaver, and a tailor. Lobel's pictures do a tremendous job of evoking the period. Insightful and informative, this may make children consider how precious the ordinary can become in times of turmoil."--(starred) Booklist. [via]
The Night of the Generalsby Hans Hellmut KirstISBN 0394727525 (0-394-72752-5)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Night Skyby Clare FrancisISBN 0446325503 (0-446-32550-3)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovichby Ralph Parker, Alexander SolzhenitsynISBN 0451523105 (0-451-52310-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich'Book summary:A graphic picture of life in a Stalinist work camp. [via]
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Partisansby Alistair MacLeanISBN 0449203425 (0-449-20342-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Partisans'Book summary:In wartime, people are either friends or enemies. In wartime, friends are friends and enemies die. PARTISANS While Tito's rebel forces resist occupation, the Germans infiltrate and plan their destruction. PARTISANS Three Yugoslavs set out from Rome to relay the German battle plan - but their loyalties lie elsewhere. PARTISANS A dangerous journey with dangerous companions -where no one is who they seem -where the three find intrigue and betrayal around every corner... [via]
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Red Storm on the Reich: The Soviet March on Germany 1945by Christopher DuffyISBN 0415035899 (0-415-03589-9)
Hardcover, Taylor & Francis Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Red Storm on the Reich : The Soviet March on Germany, 1945'Book summary:The Eastern Front witnessed the critical battles between the German and Russian armies which won and lost the Second World War. In Red Storm on the Reich, Christopher Duffy uncovers a military campaign of unprecedented scale and ferocity during which thirty million lives were lost - a deadly harvest in which the slaughter and suffering of German civilians reached unfathomable dimensions.
By quoting extensively from the memoirs of Soviet and German commanders and the diaries of infantrymen, Red Storm on the Reich brings to life not only the Russian military assault on the lands of Germany, but also the human drama behind what can only be called epic seiges of the fortress cities of Danzig, Kolberg and Breslau.
Christopher Duffy's gripping narrative of this unexplored offensive and the psyches behind it makes for essential reading for all those interested in the Second World War and European history. [via]More editions of Red Storm on the Reich: The Soviet March on Germany 1945:
Retreat, Hell!by W. E. B. GriffinISBN 0399150811 (0-399-15081-1)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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The Runnerby Christopher ReichISBN 0440234689 (0-440-23468-9)
Softcover, Dell Island Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Runner'Book summary:Set against the backdrop of post-World War II Germany, The Runner is the story of Devlin Judge, an ex-New York City detective turned lawyer on the hunt for Nazi SS soldier Erich Seyss, recently escaped from an American POW camp. Seyss, a former Olympic track star known as "The White Lion," is responsible for myriad heinous war crimes, including the murder of a platoon of unarmed American prisoners--one of whom was Judge's own brother. Initially a member of the International Legal Tribunal, set to try former Nazis for crimes against humanity, Judge begs for the opportunity to track Seyss down. With only a week in which to do so, his hunt for the cold-blooded killer leads Judge to a race not only for his own life but for the future of Europe itself. Judge is pursuing a killer, but he is also chasing the ghosts of guilt, having decided not to enlist in the hopes of advancing his legal career: "Erich Seyss was his confession and his penance, his expiation and absolution, all tucked into a black-and-silver uniform with a death's-head embroidered on its collar and his brother's blood on its cuff."
The Runner lacks the crackling tension of Numbered Account, Christopher Reich's first novel. Even the moments of crucial conflict, or of bloody disaster, seem wan and pallid. The novel is, paradoxically, handicapped by Reich's respect for historical detail: his interest in presenting the grim realities of postwar existence leads him into extensive descriptions of place and time that fail to merge with the story he spins. These "set pieces" stand awkwardly apart, like dour history professors coaxed into supervising the machinations of rambunctious students. Reich's general fidelity to detail also means that the moments in which he temporarily throws accuracy to the wind are painfully apparent: how on earth would Judge, a well-fed and well-dressed American, manage to look as if he belonged in a German work-group detail? And when would any three-star general ever tolerate the gum-cracking insouciance of Judge's driver Darren Honey, a sergeant with no regard for military hierarchy? Oddly enough, the authorial liberties Reich takes with General George Patton, saddling him with a megalomaniac's hatred of the Russians and a schemer's plot to redraw the boundaries of postwar Europe, are largely successful and add a welcome note of barely contained evil.
The Runner works best as a moving meditation on personal and social disjunction: Judge, Seyss, Patton, and the rest are desperately engaged in deciphering the proper place for prewar rules in the postwar chaos--and in confronting the uneasy suspicion that perhaps, after all, there is no place for them or for their beliefs. Judge must move past his easy assumption that the Allied victory was not "just a symbol of superior might but of superior morality": "Overnight, he'd become the hunted, not the hunter.... At some point during the last twenty-four hours, he'd crossed over an interior median into unknown waters. He'd abandoned the rigid structure of his previous life, renounced his worship of authority, and forsworn his devotion to rules and regulation. He'd tossed Hoyle to the wind, and he didn't care." --Kelly Flynn [via]
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Saints and Villainsby Denise GiardinaISBN 0449004279 (0-449-00427-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Saving Private Ryanby Max Allan CollinsISBN 0451197275 (0-451-19727-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Saving Private Ryan'Book summary:June 6, 1944. Military forces converge on the beaches of Normandy for one of the most decisive battles of World War II. America would call it a victory. History would call it D-Day. But for Captain John Miler and his squad of young soldiers, this fateful day would become something much more. Washington has sent them on a personal mission to save one life. One paratrooper missing in action. One soldier who has already lost three brothers in the war. Captain Miller and his men quickly realize this is not a simple rescue operation. It is a test of their honor and their duty. Their sole obsession - and their last hope for redemption. In a war of devastating proportions, saving one life could make all the difference in the world Other books about World War II [via]
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The Secret War Against Hitlerby William CaseyISBN 0425116158 (0-425-11615-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Secret War in Shanghai: An Untold Story of Espionage, Intrigue, and Treason in World War IIby Bernard WassersteinISBN 0395985374 (0-395-98537-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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The Secret War Report of the OSSby Anthony Cave BrownISBN 0425032531 (0-425-03253-1)
Hardcover, Berkeley Pub Corp
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Shebaby Jack HigginsISBN 0425146707 (0-425-14670-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Ship of Foolsby Katherine Anne PorterISBN 0451092724 (0-451-09272-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ship of Fools'Book summary:The story takes place in the summer of 1931, on board a cruise ship bound for Germany. Passengers include a Spanish noblewoman, a drunken German lawyer, an American divorcee, a pair of Mexican Catholic priests. This ship of fools is a crucible of intense experience, out of which everyone emerges forever changed. Rich in incident, passion, and treachery, the novel explores themes of nationalism, cultural and ethnic pride, and basic human frailty that are as relevant today as they were when the book was first published in 1962. [via]
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Sinking of the Bismarckby William ShirerISBN 0394805518 (0-394-80551-8)
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A Small Death in Lisbonby Robert WilsonISBN 0425184234 (0-425-18423-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Spying on Miss Mullerby Eve BuntingISBN 0449704556 (0-449-70455-6)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Spying on Miss Muller'Book summary:Before World War II began, Jessie Drumm and her friends at Alveara boarding school in Belfast liked their German teacher, Miss Muller. But after Jessie sees the teacher climbing to the roof at night, she and the others wonder if Miss Muller is a secret agent, signaling the enemy. Hoping to prove her favorite teacher's innocence, Jessie agrees to help spy on her. The escalating war, Jessie's family problems, a first romance, and the revelation of Miss Muller's real purpose intertwine in this suspenseful, sensitively written novel. Eve Bunting combines her own youthful experiences with a keen sense of the intense, sometimes painful process of growing up during wartime.[via]More editions of Spying on Miss Muller:
Starring Sally J. Freedman As Herselfby Judy BlumeISBN 0440482534 (0-440-48253-4)
Softcover, Yearling Books
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The Story of D-Day: June 6, 1944by Bliven, Bruce, Jr.ISBN 0394848861 (0-394-84886-1)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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Straight into Darknessby Faye KellermanISBN 0446611506 (0-446-61150-6)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Straight into Darkness'Book summary:New York Times bestselling author Kellerman traveled to Germany for the meticulous research conducted for this new novel that takes readers on an edge-of-your-seat journey to 1920s Munich: a city stalked by a ruthless killer. [via]
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Summer of '42by Herman RaucherISBN 0440183480 (0-440-18348-0)
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Survivors: True Stories Of Children In The Holocaustby Allan Zullo, Mara BovsunISBN 0439669960 (0-439-66996-0)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Survivors: True Stories Of Children In The Holocaust'Book summary:Gripping and inspiring, these true stories of bravery, terror, and hope chronicle nine different children's experiences during the Holocaust.[via]
These are the true-life accounts of nine Jewish boys and girls whose lives spiraled into danger and fear as the Holocaust overtook Europe. In a time of great horror, these children each found a way to make it through the nightmare of war. Some made daring escapes into the unknown, others disguised their true identities, and many witnessed unimaginable horrors. But what they all shared was the unshakable belief in-- and hope for-- survival.
Their legacy of courage in the face of hatred will move you, captivate you, and, ultimately, inspire you.More editions of Survivors: True Stories Of Children In The Holocaust:
Tales of the South Pacificby James A. MichenerISBN 0449206521 (0-449-20652-1)
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Theory and Practice of Hellby Eugene KoganISBN 0425077616 (0-425-07761-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Torpedo Junction: U-Boat War Off America's East Coast 1942by Homer H. HickamISBN 0440210275 (0-440-21027-5)
Softcover, Dell Pub Co
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True Stories of the Second World Warby Paul DowswellISBN 0439791278 (0-439-79127-8)
Softcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'True Stories of the Second World War'Book summary:True Stories of the Second World War is a collection of short stories about some of the events of World War II and the people involved. This is a paperback book of about 170 pages. Each story in this collection covers a different perspective of the war. Some of the topics include the battleship Bismarck, women aviators in the Soviet Air Force, the Nazis involved in the "final solution", British spies, and the development of the atomic bomb and its use by the United States to end the war. All of the stories are fairly short, running from 10 to 20 pages or so, enough to develop the main theme without too much detail. Sections at the beginning and end discuss the start and end of the war, providing a background to reference the stories against. One strength of this book is that the stories are often sprinkled with first-person memories of the people associated with the story. This aspect helps one to grasp the impact of those troubled times on the people involved in the conflict. It includes stories that will be familiar to historians, but are probably unknown in the current era. Any reader interested in learning more about the Second World War will find this book a quick primer that covers a wide variety of topics in clear and simple language. The stories are real, and the first-person perspective increases their interest to the reader. [via]
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Under Fireby W. E. B. GriffinISBN 0399147888 (0-399-14788-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Under Fire'Book summary:Having wrapped up World War II with 1999's In Danger's Path, bestselling military author W.E.B. Griffin now deploys his Marines in Korea with Under Fire, the ninth volume in his Corps series. Back are familiar characters from Griffin's previous Corps books--daredevil pilot Pick Pickering, his Scotch-sipping father, Brigadier General Fleming Pickering, Capt. Ken "Killer" McCoy, and Master Gunner Ernie Zimmerman--with historical figures including President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur making appearances as well. It's now 1950, and with Communist forces making their presence felt below the 38th Parallel, Griffin's plot centers on Gen. Pickering, now high up in the newly created CIA, and Ken McCoy as they work behind MacArthur's back to covertly pave the way for an invasion of North Korea.
Readers who crave nonstop battle action and excitement may find it hard to stick with Under Fire, as Griffin takes the time to detail the background leading up to one of America's least-remembered modern wars. Griffin writes for the true armed forces aficionado, filling his prose with realistic descriptions of procedure, gear, and materials, an alphabet's worth of acronyms, and an ex- soldier's ear for military dialogue. Look for more sharp, authentic writing in this series' next installment. --Benjamin Reese [via]
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The Unlikely Spyby Daniel SilvaISBN 0451209303 (0-451-20930-3)
Softcover, Signet
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The Vilde Affair: Beginnings of the French Resistanceby Martin BlumensonISBN 0395253500 (0-395-25350-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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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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War and Society: The United States, 1941-1945by Richard PolenbergISBN 0397472242 (0-397-47224-2)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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When My Name Was Keokoby Linda Sue ParkISBN 0440419441 (0-440-41944-1)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Willow Runby Patricia Reilly GiffISBN 0440238013 (0-440-23801-3)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Andorra: Max Frischby Max FrischISBN 0415115647 (0-415-11564-7)
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