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1953by Craig Raine, Jean RacineISBN 0571143121 (0-571-14312-1)
Hardcover, Boston
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The Accidentby Elie WieselISBN 0553581708 (0-553-58170-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Accident'Book summary:In this modern classic, a young journalist steps off a curb and into the path of a speeding taxi. Is it an accident, or has a tormented past driven Eliezer, a German death camp survivor, to attempt suicide? Torn between choosing life and death, he must come to grips with the catastrophe that befell him, his family, his people. Written by a Holocaust survivor. [via]
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The Advocateby Bill MesceISBN 055358197X (0-553-58197-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Advocate : A Novel of World War IIby Mesce, Bill, Jr., Steven G. SzilagyiISBN 055380118X (0-553-80118-X)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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Alamein to Zem Zemby Keith Castellain DouglasISBN 0553251708 (0-553-25170-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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All Things Wise and Wonderfulby James HerriotISBN 0553266055 (0-553-26605-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Angel Child, Dragon Childby Michele Surat SuratISBN 0590422715 (0-590-42271-5)
Softcover, Scholastic
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The Ascent of Manby Jacob Bronowski, British Broadcasting CorporationISBN 0563104988 (0-563-10498-8)
Hardcover, British Broadcasting Corporation
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ascent of Man'Book summary:Traces our rise - both as a species and as moulders of our own environment and future. The book covers invention from the flint tool to geometry, from the arch to the Theory of Relativity. It also explores the social and historical background that gave rise to those inventions. Its grasp of both science and civilization shows man's ability to understand nature, to control it and not be controlled by it. [via]
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Assignmentby Varian FryISBN 0590469703 (0-590-46970-3)
Softcover, Point
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Bat-21by William C. AndersonISBN 0553274899 (0-553-27489-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Battle of Midwayby Ira PeckISBN 0590014374 (0-590-01437-4)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Battle of Midway'Book summary:War news from the Pacific the summer of 1942 was not good. Less than six months after Pearl Harbor, Corregidor, the last U.S. stronghold in the Philippines, surrendered to the enemy. Now the Japanese navy dominated the seas from the western Pacific to the Indian Ocean. When would they attack California or Oregon or Washington? And while we waited and worried, the Japanese were secretly mounting the most powerful naval force in history. Their goal: not the West Coast, but Midway, a small U.S. naval base far out in the Pacific. Why did the Japanese want it so badly? And what could the U.S. do, with their Pacific fleet, to keep strategic Midway out of enemy hands? [via]
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Battlefields of the Second World Warby Richard HolmesISBN 0563537825 (0-563-53782-5)
Hardcover, Bbc Pubns
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Battleship Bismarck: A Survivor's Storyby Burkard Von Mullenheim-RechbergISBN 0583135609 (0-583-13560-9)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Pub
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Black Thursdayby Martin CaidinISBN 0553267299 (0-553-26729-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Blitz: The Story of 29th December 1940by Margaret GaskinISBN 057121794X (0-571-21794-X)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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Brittle Inningsby Michael BishopISBN 0553569430 (0-553-56943-0)
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Cheaper by the Dozenby Gilbreth, Frank B., Jr., Ernestine Gilbreth CareyISBN 0553272500 (0-553-27250-0)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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Combat Commandby Frederick C. ShermanISBN 0553256661 (0-553-25666-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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D-Day: Reflections of Courageby Dan ParryISBN 0563521163 (0-563-52116-3)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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The Dancing Dodoby John C. GardnerISBN 055325135X (0-553-25135-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Dangerous Liaisons: Collaboration and World War IIby Peter DaviesISBN 0582772273 (0-582-77227-3)
Hardcover, Longman Pub Group
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The Day Pearl Harbor Was Bombedby George SullivanISBN 0590434497 (0-590-43449-7)
Softcover, Scholastic
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Destinyby Sally BeaumanISBN 0553270184 (0-553-27018-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Fair Stood the Wind for France: Library Editionby H.E. BatesISBN 0582233305 (0-582-23330-5)
Hardcover, Longman
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Five Boysby Mick JacksonISBN 0571206131 (0-571-20613-1)
Softcover, Faber and Faber
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For Love of a Roseby Antonia RidgeISBN 0571101186 (0-571-10118-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Four Quartetsby T. S. EliotISBN 0571203434 (0-571-20343-4)
Softcover, Faber & Faber Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Four Quartets'Book summary:Published in the fiery days of World War II, Four Quartets stands as a testament to the power of poetry amid the chaos of the time. Let the words speak for themselves: "The dove descending breaks the air/With flame of incandescent terror/Of which the tongues declare/The only discharge from sin and error/The only hope, or the despair/Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre--/To be redeemed from fire by fire./Who then devised this torment?/Love/Love is the unfamiliar Name/Behind the hands that wave/The intolerable shirt of flame/Which human power cannot remove./We only live, only suspire/Consumed by either fire or fire." [via]
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From Milano to New York by Way of Hell: Fascism and the Odyssey of a Young Italian Jewby Guilio CantoniISBN 059500475X (0-595-00475-X)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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Full Dark Houseby Christopher FowlerISBN 0553587145 (0-553-58714-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Full Dark House'Book summary:Edgy, suspenseful, and darkly comic, here is the first novel in a riveting new mystery series starring two cranky but brilliant old detectives whose lifelong friendship was forged solving crimes for the London Police Department's Peculiar Crimes Unit. In Full Dark House, Christopher Fowler tells the story of both their first and last caseand how along the way the unlikely pair of crime fighters changed the face of detection.
A present-day bombing rips through London and claims the life of eighty-year-old detective Arthur Bryant. For his partner John May, it means the end of a partnership that lasted over half-a-century and an eerie echo back to the Blitz of World War II when they first met. Desperately searching for clues to the killer's identity, May finds his old friend's notes of their very first case and becomes convinced that the past has returned...with a killing vengeance.
It begins when a dancer in a risque new production of Orpheus in Hell is found without her feet. Suddenly, the young detectives are plunged in a bizarre gothic mystery that will push them to their limitsand beyond. For in a city shaken by war, a faceless killer is stalking London's theaters, creating his own kind of sinister drama. And it will take Arthur Bryant's unorthodox techniques and John May's dogged police work to catch a criminal whose ability to escape detection seems almost supernatural--a murderer who even decades later seems to have claimed the life of one of them...and is ready to claim the other.
Filled with startling twists, unforgettable characters, and a mystery that will keep you guessing, Full Dark House is a witty, heartbreaking, and all-too-human thriller about the hunt for an inhuman killer.
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Given Up for Dead: America's Heroic Stand at Wake Islandby Bill SloanISBN 0553381946 (0-553-38194-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Guns of Augustby Barbara W. TuchmanISBN 0553254014 (0-553-25401-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Guns of August'Book summary:Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to World War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals, for the first time, just how the war started, why, and why it could have been stopped but wasn't. A classic historical survey of a time and a people we all need to know more about, The Guns of August will not be forgotten.[via]More editions of The Guns of August:
Hirohito: The War Yearsby Paul ManningISBN 0553347950 (0-553-34795-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Holcroft Covenantby Robert LudlumISBN 0553260197 (0-553-26019-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Hope and Gloryby John BoormanISBN 0571149839 (0-571-14983-9)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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House of Dollsby KatzetnikISBN 0583122485 (0-583-12248-5)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Pub
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I Am My Own Wifeby Doug Wright, Charlotte Von MahlsdorfISBN 0571211747 (0-571-21174-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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If You Were There When They Signed the Constitutionby Elizabeth Levy, Joan HolubISBN 0590451596 (0-590-45159-6)
Softcover, Scholastic
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Justineby Lawrence DurrellISBN 0571203973 (0-571-20397-3)
Softcover, Faber & Faber Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Justine'Book summary:Set amid the corrupt glamour and multiplying intrigues of Alexandria in the 1930s and 1940s, the novels of Durrell's "Alexandria Quartet" (of which this is the first) follow the shifting alliances - sexual, cultural and political - of a group of quite varied characters. [via]
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Killing Hitler: The Plots, the Assassins, and the Dictator Who Cheated Deathby Roger MoorhouseISBN 0553803697 (0-553-80369-7)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Last Battleby C. S. LewisISBN 0590406019 (0-590-40601-9)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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Liberation Road: A Novel Of World War II And The Red Ball Expressby David L. RobbinsISBN 055338175X (0-553-38175-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Liberation Road: A Novel Of World War II And The Red Ball Express'Book summary:With his acclaimed novels of World War II, David L. Robbins awakened a generation to the drama, tragedy, and heroism of some of historys greatest battles. Now he delivers a gripping and authentic story set against one of our greatest wartime achievements: the Red Ball Express, six thousand trucks and twenty-three thousand menmost of them African-Americanwho forged a lifeline of supplies in the Allied struggle to liberate France.
June 1944. The Allies deliver a staggering blow to Hitlers Atlantic fortress, leaving the beaches and bluffs of Normandy strewn with corpses. The Germans have only one chance to stop the immense invasionby bottling up the Americans on the Cotentin Peninsula. There, in fields crisscrossed with dense hedgerows, many will meet their death while others will search for signs of life. Among the latter are two very different men, each with his own demons to fight and his own reasons to risk his life for his fellow man.
Joe Amos Biggs is an invisible colored driver in the Red Ball Express, the unheralded convoy of trucks that serves as a precious lifeline to the front. Delivering fuel and ammunition to men whose survival depends on the truckers, Joe Amos finds himself hungering to make his mark and propelled into battle among those who dont see him as an equalbut will need him to be a hero.
A chaplain in the demoralized 90th Infantry, Rabbi Ben Kahn is a veteran of the first great war and old enough to be the father of the GIs he tends. Searching for the truth about his own son, a downed pilot missing in action, Kahn finds himself dueling with God, wading into combat without a gun, and becoming a leader among men in need of someoneanyoneto follow.
The prize: the liberation of Paris, where a ruthless American traitor known as Chien BlancWhite Doggrows fat and rich in the black market. Whatever the occupied citys destiny, destroyed or freed, he will win.
The fates of these three men will collide, hurtling toward an uncommon destiny in which people commit deeds they cannot foresee and can never truly explain.
From the screams of German .88 howitzers to the last whispers of dying young soldiers, Robbins captures war in all its awful fullness. And through the eyes of his unique characters, he leaves us with a mature, brilliant, and memorable vision of humanity in the face of inhumanity itself.
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Lisa's Warby Carol MatasISBN 0590435175 (0-590-43517-5)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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The Man Who Criedby Sally PotterISBN 0571207480 (0-571-20748-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Marine at Warby Russell DavisISBN 0553271172 (0-553-27117-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Martin Luther: Hero of Faithby Frederick NohlISBN 0570037271 (0-570-03727-1)
Softcover, Concordia Pub House
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The Men of Company K: The Autobiography of a World War II Rifle Companyby John D. Campbell, Harold P. LeinbaghISBN 0553262726 (0-553-26272-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Mussolini's Roman Empireby Denis MacK SmithISBN 0582502667 (0-582-50266-7)
Hardcover, Longman
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Night over the Solomonsby Louis L'AmourISBN 0553266020 (0-553-26602-0)
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Not All Tarts Are Appleby Pip GrangerISBN 0593047958 (0-593-04795-8)
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Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacificby Akira IriyeISBN 0582493498 (0-582-49349-8)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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The Origins of the Second World Warby R.J. OveryISBN 0582290856 (0-582-29085-6)
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The Origins of the Greek Civil Warby David CloseISBN 0582064716 (0-582-06471-6)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Over the Top: Great Battles of the First World Warby Martin Marix-EvansISBN 0572028407 (0-572-02840-7)
Hardcover, Arcturus
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The Paladin: A Novel Based on Factsby Brian Wynne GarfieldISBN 0553258745 (0-553-25874-5)
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Petro's Warby Alki ZeiISBN 0575015632 (0-575-01563-2)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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Phoebe the Spyby Judith Berry GriffinISBN 0590424327 (0-590-42432-7)
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A Place to Hideby Jayne PettitISBN 059045353X (0-590-45353-X)
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Pocahontas and the Strangersby Clyde Robert Bulla, Peter BurchardISBN 0590434810 (0-590-43481-0)
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The Proteus Operationby James P. HoganISBN 055325698X (0-553-25698-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Qb VIIby Leon UrisISBN 055327094X (0-553-27094-X)
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The Rhineman Exchangeby Robert LudlumISBN 0553280635 (0-553-28063-5)
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The Right Stuffby Tom WolfeISBN 0553381350 (0-553-38135-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Right Stuff'Book summary:Tom Wolfe began The Right Stuff at a time when it was unfashionable to contemplate American heroism. Nixon had left the White House in disgrace, the nation was reeling from the catastrophe of Vietnam, and in 1979--the year the book appeared--Americans were being held hostage by Iranian militants. Yet it was exactly the anachronistic courage of his subjects that captivated Wolfe. In his foreword, he notes that as late as 1970, almost one in four career Navy pilots died in accidents. "The Right Stuff," he explains, "became a story of why men were willing--willing?--delighted!--to take on such odds in this, an era literary people had long since characterized as the age of the anti-hero."
Wolfe's roots in New Journalism were intertwined with the nonfiction novel that Truman Capote had pioneered with In Cold Blood. As Capote did, Wolfe tells his story from a limited omniscient perspective, dropping into the lives of his "characters" as each in turn becomes a major player in the space program. After an opening chapter on the terror of being a test pilot's wife, the story cuts back to the late 1940s, when Americans were first attempting to break the sound barrier. Test pilots, we discover, are people who live fast lives with dangerous machines, not all of them airborne. Chuck Yeager was certainly among the fastest, and his determination to push through Mach 1--a feat that some had predicted would cause the destruction of any aircraft--makes him the book's guiding spirit.
Yet soon the focus shifts to the seven initial astronauts. Wolfe traces Alan Shepard's suborbital flight and Gus Grissom's embarrassing panic on the high seas (making the controversial claim that Grissom flooded his Liberty capsule by blowing the escape hatch too soon). The author also produces an admiring portrait of John Glenn's apple-pie heroism and selfless dedication. By the time Wolfe concludes with a return to Yeager and his late-career exploits, the narrative's epic proportions and literary merits are secure. Certainly The Right Stuff is the best, the funniest, and the most vivid book ever written about America's manned space program. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
The Scarlatti Inheritanceby Robert LudlumISBN 0553271466 (0-553-27146-6)
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Secret Missionsby Ellen LevineISBN 0590411837 (0-590-41183-7)
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Sink the Tirpitz!by Leonce PeillardISBN 0583123848 (0-583-12384-8)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Pub
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Skin of Our TeethISBN 0573615489 (0-573-61548-9)
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The Story of Wake Islandby James P.S. DevereuxISBN 0553279610 (0-553-27961-0)
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Strangers in Paradise: The Hollywood Emigres, 1933-1950by John Russell TaylorISBN 0571117007 (0-571-11700-7)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Characterby Richard P FeynmanISBN 0553276646 (0-553-27664-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character'Book summary:A series of anecdotes shouldn't by rights add up to an autobiography, but that's just one of the many pieces of received wisdom that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) cheerfully ignores in his engagingly eccentric book, a bestseller ever since its initial publication in 1985. Fiercely independent (read the chapter entitled "Judging Books by Their Covers"), intolerant of stupidity even when it comes packaged as high intellectualism (check out "Is Electricity Fire?"), unafraid to offend (see "You Just Ask Them?"), Feynman informs by entertaining. It's possible to enjoy Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman simply as a bunch of hilarious yarns with the smart-alecky author as know-it-all hero. At some point, however, attentive readers realize that underneath all the merriment simmers a running commentary on what constitutes authentic knowledge: learning by understanding, not by rote; refusal to give up on seemingly insoluble problems; and total disrespect for fancy ideas that have no grounding in the real world. Feynman himself had all these qualities in spades, and they come through with vigor and verve in his no-bull prose. No wonder his students--and readers around the world--adored him. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Characterby Richard Phillips FeynmanISBN 0553256491 (0-553-25649-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character'Book summary:A series of anecdotes shouldn't by rights add up to an autobiography, but that's just one of the many pieces of received wisdom that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) cheerfully ignores in his engagingly eccentric book, a bestseller ever since its initial publication in 1985. Fiercely independent (read the chapter entitled "Judging Books by Their Covers"), intolerant of stupidity even when it comes packaged as high intellectualism (check out "Is Electricity Fire?"), unafraid to offend (see "You Just Ask Them?"), Feynman informs by entertaining. It's possible to enjoy Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman simply as a bunch of hilarious yarns with the smart-alecky author as know-it-all hero. At some point, however, attentive readers realize that underneath all the merriment simmers a running commentary on what constitutes authentic knowledge: learning by understanding, not by rote; refusal to give up on seemingly insoluble problems; and total disrespect for fancy ideas that have no grounding in the real world. Feynman himself had all these qualities in spades, and they come through with vigor and verve in his no-bull prose. No wonder his students--and readers around the world--adored him. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Tank: The Progress of Monstrous War Machineby Patrick WrightISBN 0571192599 (0-571-19259-9)
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Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925by Vera BrittainISBN 0575024674 (0-575-02467-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925'Book summary:When war broke out in August 1914, 21-year-old Vera Brittain was planning on enrolling at Somerville College, Oxford. Her father told her she wouldn't be able to go: "In a few months' time we should probably all find ourselves in the Workhouse!" he opined. Brittain had hoped to escape the Northern provinces, but the war seemingly dashed her plans. "It is not, perhaps, so very surprising that the War at first seemed to me an infuriating personal interruption rather than a world-wide catastrophe."
Her father eventually relented, however, and she was allowed to attend. By the end of her first year, she had fallen in love with a young soldier and resolved to become active in the war effort by volunteering as a nurse--turning her back on what she called her "provincial young-ladyhood." Brittain suffered through 12-hour days by reminding herself that nothing she endured was worse than what her fiancé, Roland, experienced in the trenches. Roland was expected home on leave for Christmas 1915; on December 26, Brittain received news that he had been killed at the front. Ten months later Brittain herself was sent to Malta and then to France to serve in the hospitals nearer the front, where she witnessed firsthand the horrors of battle. When peace finally came, Brittain had also lost her brother Edward and two close friends. As she walked the streets of London on November 11, 1918--Armistice Day--she felt alone in the crowds:
For the first time I realised, with all that full realisation meant, how completely everything that had hitherto made up my life had vanished with Edward and Roland, with Victor and Geoffrey. The War was over; a new age was beginning; but the dead were dead and would never return.
First published in 1933, Testament of Youth established Brittain as one of the best-loved authors of her time. Her crisp, clear prose and searing honesty make this unsentimental memoir of a generation scarred by war a classic. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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This Shining Landby Rosalind LakerISBN 0553277588 (0-553-27758-8)
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Three Corvettesby Nicholas MonsarratISBN 0583120857 (0-583-12085-7)
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The Turing Testby Paul LeonardISBN 0563538066 (0-563-53806-6)
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Unsolicitedby Julie Wallin KaewertISBN 0553582097 (0-553-58209-7)
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Victory at Stalingrad: The Battle That Changed Historyby Geoffrey RobertsISBN 0582771854 (0-582-77185-4)
Softcover, Pearson P T R
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The Village That Died for England: The Strange Story of Tynehamby Patrick WrightISBN 057121441X (0-571-21441-X)
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Wahoo: The Patrols of America's Most Famous World War II Submarineby Richard O'KaneISBN 0553281615 (0-553-28161-5)
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Waking Raphaelby Leslie ForbesISBN 0553383418 (0-553-38341-8)
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War in the Shadows: The Guerrilla in Historyby Robert B. AspreyISBN 0595225934 (0-595-22593-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'War in the Shadows: The Guerrilla in History'Book summary:Ranging from Alexander the Great's battles with Asiatic Scythians, through the Russian Revolution, and on up to the turmoil in the Middle East and the battle in Northern Ireland, War in the Shadows is a book of monumental sweep and singular perspective. It also contains a comprehensive and hard-hitting strategic evaluation of the Vietnam War-one of the most significant analyses of "the war that won't go away." War in the Shadows tells the story of the countries currently torn by armed insurgencies and clarifies the causes of each conflict. It provides the broad viewpoint necessary for understanding them in the historical terms of guerilla warfare. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the end of the Cold War, and a highly unstable "new world order," this brand of rebellion has never been more powerful and potentially disruptive. As the author states in his Foreword, "For a number of reasons guerilla warfare has evolved into an ideal instrument for the realization of social-political-economic aspirations of underprivileged peoples. This is so patently true as to allow one to suggest that we may be witnessing a transition to a new era in warfare, an era as radically different as those of which followed the writings of Sun Tzu, Machiavelli, Clausewitz, and Mahan." War in the Shadows is crucial to understanding the complex challenges of our new and dangerous era. [via]
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War of the Century: When Hitler Fought Stalinby Lawrence ReesISBN 0563384778 (0-563-38477-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'War of the Century: When Hitler Fought Stalin'Book summary:Labeling the Second World War battles between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia on the Eastern Front as the War of the Century is asking for trouble. What about the First World War, not to mention the other theaters of the 1939-45 conflict? Laurence Rees argues that the brutality of the fighting was unprecedented and that the outcome, with the annihilation of the German troops, was pivotal to the Allies' eventual victory. On both counts, he is absolutely right. The severe cold, hunger, shelling, and hand-to-hand street-fighting decimated both sides, and the casualties ran into the millions. And, yes, Germany never did recover neither physically nor mentally. The supposedly unbeatable one had been beaten. But does this make it a war of the century? To decontextualize the Eastern Front is to miss the bigger picture. This was not just a war between two competing ideologies--Communism and Nazism. The Russians, whatever their politics, were Britain's and America's allies; they may have had a separate private agenda in the war--what country didn't?--but they were on the right side and part of an overall allied effort. Moreover, Rees's position lets the Germans off the hook somewhat. It allows them to make the revisionist claim that they were fighting Communism--something that became a holy cause in the West in the postwar years. They weren't. They were Nazis fighting the Allies. End of story. Rees also goes on to make the somewhat bizarre claim that the German defeat unleashed the Holocaust against the Jews. This will come as a massive surprise to the millions of Jews who were persecuted in the 10 years prior to 1943. It is true that the death camps went into overdrive after the defeat in Russia, but this would almost certainly also have happened if the Germans had won. The result on the Eastern Front was immaterial. However, there is also much to recommend in War of the Century. The comparisons between Hitler's Nazi Germany and Stalin's state capitalist U.S.S.R. are well made. Repression and contempt for life existed on both sides. Rees has found much new material from the newly opened Soviet archives and has also turned up many eyewitnesses from both sides, and their accounts provide a compellingly readable narrative. For this alone, the book is worth reading. At times it feels as if Rees is being willfully controversial simply to be noticed. But he needn't have bothered, because there was a fascinating book there anyway. --John Crace, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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War of the Ratsby David L. RobbinsISBN 055358135X (0-553-58135-X)
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Wartime Chronicle: Diary, 1939-1945by Vera Brittain, Alan Bishop, Y. Aleksandra BennettISBN 0575045175 (0-575-04517-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wartime Chronicle: Diary, 1939-1945'Book summary:This is the third volume of Vera Brittain's diaries, following "Chronicle of Youth" and "Chronicle of Friendship". It gives a blow-by-blow account of the London blitz by a woman who was an active pacifist and at the centre of London's social and political life. Vera Brittain's observations of daily life and the passing seasons contrast vividly with her own self-searching based on a sincere view of Christianity. Alan Bishop is a teacher of English Literature at McMaster University, Canada, which owns the Vera Brittain archive. [via]
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We Can Take It!by Mark ConnellyISBN 0582506077 (0-582-50607-7)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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Wild Cardsby George R.R. MartinISBN 0553261908 (0-553-26190-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wild Cards'Book summary:A world of Wild Cards! The alien virus arrived on Earth just after World War II and the world was never the same. For those who become infected, there are two results; death, or transformation. And depending on the recipient, death is sometimes the preferable outcome. Only a few lucky ones become super-human 'aces' as a side effect of the virus; the rest are turned into horrible, grotesque 'jokers'. It's a strange and wonderful, terrible and terrifying world where anything can go. A world that, in a twist of fate, could lie just outside your door. [via]
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The Wind Chill Factorby Thomas GiffordISBN 055329752X (0-553-29752-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wind Chill Factor'Book summary:A Reich is born. . .Hitler lost the war. This the world knows. What the world doesn't know is that some Nazi survivors view their defeat as a mere temporary setback. Their plans have long been in motion. Their key personnel are in place inside the corporations and capitals of every major nation. By the end of this century, it will be all theirs. . . against a man on the edge. John Cooper is an heir to this evil--an evil he thought he'd turned his back on. Until now. For the dark legacy has finally caught up with him, thrusting into his hands a secret too explosive to be kept as he races against time a figure from his past, insubstantial as a whisper, will be revealed to him. And for a single electrifying moment Cooper's fate, and the fate of billions, will hang in the terrifying balance. The Wind Chill Factor is classic suspense from a superlative storyteller. [via]
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The Wooden Horseby Eric WilliamsISBN 0563369019 (0-563-36901-9)
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Yeager: An Autobiographyby Chuck YeagerISBN 0553256742 (0-553-25674-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Yeager: An Autobiography'Book summary:General Chuck Yeager, the greatest test pilot of them all -- the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound . . .the World War II flying ace who shot down a Messerschmitt jet with a prop-driven P-51 Mustang . . .the hero who defined a certain quality that all hotshot fly-boys of the postwar era aimed to achieve: the right stuff.
Now Chuck Yeager tells his whole incredible life story with the same "wide-open, full throttle" approach that has marked his astonishing career. What it was really like enaging in do-or-die dogfights over Nazi Europe. How after being shot over occupied France, Yeager somehow managed to escape. The amazing behind-the-scenes story of smashing the sound barrier despite cracked ribs from a riding accident days before.
The entire story is here, in Yeager's own words, and in wondeful insights from his wife and those friends and colleagues who have known him best. It is the personal and public story of a man who settled for nothing less than excellence, a one-of-a-kind portrait of a true American hero. [via]More editions of Yeager: An Autobiography:
Zeroby Jir-O Horikoshi, Masatake OkumiyaISBN 0553288725 (0-553-28872-5)
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