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The Accidentby Elie Wiesel, Anne BorchardtISBN 0374523118 (0-374-52311-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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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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Adventures in the Atomic Age: From Watts to Washingtonby Glenn T. Seaborg, Eric SeaborgISBN 0374299919 (0-374-29991-9)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Glenn T. Seaborg (1912-1999) won a Nobel Prize before he was forty. He discovered the element that makes atomic bombs explode and the isotopes used to treat millions of cancer patients. He ran the University of California at Berkeley and advised nine U.S. presidents. Here is his autobiography -- the extraordinary story of a modest Swedish American who never strayed from his strong basic commitments throughout a career that gave him national and international fame. Seaborg's story begins in Michigan with his Scandinavian parents, but shifts quickly to California, where he got himself an education he didn't think he could afford during the dark days of the Depression. During World War II, he led the Manhattan Project group that devised the chemical extraction processes producing plutonium 239. He also shares the drama of scientific discovery and the inner history of his pioneering work on the many transuranium elements he co-discovered at the Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley -- work that earned him the Nobel Prize in 1951. As chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission under three presidents, Seaborg fought for the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty and argued in favor of the peaceful uses and international controls of atomic energy. His is the riveting account of a life like no other -- a model of the best in our nation.More editions of Adventures in the Atomic Age: From Watts to Washington:
Afrika Korpsby Kenneth MacKseyISBN 0356025446 (0-356-02544-6)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books
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Allied Cruisersby Anthony John WattsISBN 0354012010 (0-354-01201-0)
Softcover, Jane's Publishing Company
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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] 
The Americanby Franz-Olivier GiesbertISBN 0375423672 (0-375-42367-2)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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American Empire : The Victorious Oppositionby Harry TurtledoveISBN 034544423X (0-345-44423-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Empire : The Victorious Opposition'Book summary:Harry Turtledoves acclaimed alternate history series began with a single question: What if the South had won the Civil War? Now, seventy years have passed since the first War Between the States. The North American continent is locked in a battle of politics, economies, and moralities. In a world that has already felt the soul-shattering blow of the Great War, North America is the powder keg that could ignite another global conflictcomplete with a new generation of killing machines.
Freedom! Freedom! Freedom! In 1934, the chant echoes across the Confederate States of America, a country born of bloodshed and passion, stretching from Mexico to Virginia. But while people use the word to greet each other in the streets, the meaning of Freedom has become increasingly unclear.
Jake Featherston, leader of the ruling Freedom Party, has won powerand is taking his country and the world to the edge of an abyss. Charismatic, shrewd, and addicted to conflict, Featherston is whipping the Confederate States into a frenzy of hatred. Blacks are being rounded up and sent to prison camps, and the persecution has just begun. Featherston has forced the United States to give up its toeholds in Florida and Kentucky, and as the North stumbles through a succession of leaders, from Socialist Hosea Blackford to Herbert Hoover and now Al Smith, Featherston is feeling his might. With the U.S.A. locked in a bitter, bloody occupation of Canada, facing an intractable rebellion in Utah, and fatigued from a war in the Pacific against Japan, Featherston may pursue one dangerous proposition above all: that he can defeat the U.S.A. in an all-out war.
The Victorious Opposition is a drama of leaders and followers, spies and traitors, lovers and soldiers. From California to Canada, from combat on the high seas to the secret meetings where former slaves plot a desperate strategy for survival, Harry Turtledove has created a human portrait of a world in upheaval. The third book in his monumental American Empire series, The Victorious Opposition is a novel of ideas, action, and surpriseand an unforgettable re-imagining of history itself. [via]More editions of American Empire : The Victorious Opposition:
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American Empire Vol. 2 : The Center Cannot Holdby Harry TurtledoveISBN 0345444213 (0-345-44421-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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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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Babi Yarby A. AnatoliiISBN 0374107610 (0-374-10761-0)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Bonesetter's Daughterby Amy TanISBN 0345457374 (0-345-45737-4)
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The British Fighter since 1912: Sixty-Seven Years of Design and Developmentby Peter M. H. LewisISBN 0370302508 (0-370-30250-8)
Hardcover, Putman
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The Casualtyby Heinrich Böll, Leila VennewitzISBN 0374119678 (0-374-11967-8)
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Colonizationby Harry TurtledoveISBN 0345430220 (0-345-43022-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Colonization'Book summary:Colonization: Down to Earth marks part two of part two of Harry Turtledove's epic alternate history in which WWII gets interrupted--and violently abridged--by a hostile alien invasion. With some of the same characters introduced in the four-volume Worldwar series and Colonization: Second Contact, the story arc continues through the 1960s, as the Lizards (along with their second fleet, composed not of soldiers but of colonists) continue to grapple with their not-quite-subdued conquest, Tosev 3 (a.k.a. earth). And Turtledove's alt-'60s are not--to say the least--about peace, love, and understanding.
Now the reptilian ETs must face off against three world superpowers in an uneasy truce: the United States; Molotov's SSSR; and the psychotic, nuke-wielding Nazis under Himmler. Elsewhere, the U.K. flirts with fascism, Red China (commanded by none other than Chairman Mao) wages a bloody resistance against its scaly oppressors, and the Arab world does likewise under the guidance of Ayatollah Khomeini. As ever with Turtledove, plot takes precedence over characterizations, but his suspenseful twists and turns don't disappoint. And while Down to Earth proves a bit less martial than its predecessors, the action still satisfies--if nothing else, the bang-up finale is worth the wait. --Paul Hughes [via]
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Softcover, Ballantine Books - Colonization : Second Contact: ISBN 0345430190 (0-345-43019-0)
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Colonization : Aftershocksby Harry TurtledoveISBN 0345430212 (0-345-43021-2)
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Colonization : Down to Earthby Harry TurtledoveISBN 0345430204 (0-345-43020-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Colonization : Down to Earth'Book summary:Colonization: Down to Earth marks part two of part two of Harry Turtledove's epic alternate history in which WWII gets interrupted--and violently abridged--by a hostile alien invasion. With some of the same characters introduced in the four-volume Worldwar series and Colonization: Second Contact, the story arc continues through the 1960s, as the Lizards (along with their second fleet, composed not of soldiers but of colonists) continue to grapple with their not-quite-subdued conquest, Tosev 3 (a.k.a. earth). And Turtledove's alt-'60s are not--to say the least--about peace, love, and understanding.
Now the reptilian ETs must face off against three world superpowers in an uneasy truce: the United States; Molotov's SSSR; and the psychotic, nuke-wielding Nazis under Himmler. Elsewhere, the U.K. flirts with fascism, Red China (commanded by none other than Chairman Mao) wages a bloody resistance against its scaly oppressors, and the Arab world does likewise under the guidance of Ayatollah Khomeini. As ever with Turtledove, plot takes precedence over characterizations, but his suspenseful twists and turns don't disappoint. And while Down to Earth proves a bit less martial than its predecessors, the action still satisfies--if nothing else, the bang-up finale is worth the wait. --Paul Hughes [via]
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Combat Officer: A Memoir of War in the South Pacificby Charles WalkerISBN 0345463854 (0-345-46385-4)
Softcover, Presidio Pr
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For the U.S., Guadalcanal was a bloody seven-month struggle under brutal conditions against crack Japanese troops deeply entrenched and determined to fight to the death. For Charles Walker, this horrific jungle battleone that claimed the lives of 1,600 Americans and more than 23,000 Japanesewas just the beginning. On the eve of battle, 2nd Lt. Walker was ordered back to the States for medical reasons. But there was a war to be won, and he had no intention of missing it.
In this devastatingly powerful memoir, Walker captures the conflict in all its horror, chaos, and heroism: the hunger, the heat, the deafening explosions and stench of death, the constant fear broken by moments of sheer terror. This is the gripping tale of the brave young American men who fought with tremendous courage in appalling conditions, willing to sacrifice everything for their country.
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The Dark Arenaby Mario PuzoISBN 0345441699 (0-345-44169-9)
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The Day of the Beesby Thomas SanchezISBN 0375401628 (0-375-40162-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Dear Donald, Dear Bennett: The Wartime Correspondence of Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopferby Bennett Cerf, Donald Klopfer, Bob LoomisISBN 037550768X (0-375-50768-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Eagle of the Ninthby Rosemary SutcliffISBN 0374419302 (0-374-41930-2)
Softcover, Sunburst
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Eisenhowerby Geoffrey PerretISBN 0375500464 (0-375-50046-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eisenhower'Book summary:It's no surprise that the biographer of Douglas MacArthur and Ulysses S. Grant clearly conveys the military talents that enabled Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) to ensure the Allies' victory in World War II, but Geoffrey Perret is equally perceptive when dealing with the personality behind the famously genial grin. Perhaps marked by his father's coldness and grim religious zeal (though his mother was a lively, cheerful woman), Eisenhower never expressed his feelings easily, even to his cherished wife, Mamie. His intelligence and scholarly gifts got the poor boy from Kansas into West Point; his administrative and training abilities made him too valuable at home to be employed for active duty in World War I, much to his chagrin. Professional fulfillment and fame as the general who won WWII couldn't change the self-controlled habits of a military lifetime, and Perret depicts Eisenhower as reluctantly drawn into politics by a sense of duty. Covering his presidency, Perret doesn't let him off the hook about such touchy matters as U.S. involvement in the 1954 overthrow of Guatemala's elected government or the biased hearing that lifted physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer's security clearance. But the author obviously likes Ike, and he helps his readers understand why most Americans in the 1940s and '50s did too. --Wendy Smith [via]
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The End of Itby Mitchell GoodmanISBN 0374521913 (0-374-52191-3)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Eye of the Stormby Maura SegerISBN 0373970137 (0-373-97013-7)
Softcover, Harlequin Books
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The Family: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrowby Walter Goodman, Elaine GoodmanISBN 0374322600 (0-374-32260-0)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Famous Fighters of the Second World Warby William GreenISBN 0356083349 (0-356-08334-9)
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Fighting for America: Black Soldiers--The Unsung Heroes of World War IIby Christopher MooreISBN 0345459601 (0-345-45960-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fighting for America: Black Soldiers--The Unsung Heroes of World War II'Book summary:The African-American contribution to winning World War II has never been celebrated as profoundly as in Fighting for America. In this inspirational and uniquely personal tribute, the essential part played by black servicemen and -women in that cataclysmic conflict is brought home.
Here are letters, photographs, oral histories, and rare documents, collected by historian Christopher Moore, the son of two black WWII veterans. Weaving his family history with that of his people and nation, Moore has created an unforgettable tapestry of sacrifice, fortitude, and courage. From the 1,800 black soldiers who landed at Normandy Beach on D-Day, and the legendary Tuskegee Airmen who won ninety-five Distinguished Flying Crosses, to the 761st Tank Battalion who, under General Patton, helped liberate Nazi death camps, the invaluable effort of black Americans to defend democracy is captured in word and image.
Readers will be introduced to many unheralded heroes who helped America win the war, including Dorie Miller, the messman who manned a machine gun and downed four Japanese planes; Robert Brooks, the first American to die in armored battle; Lt. Jackie Robinson, the future baseball legend who faced court-martial for refusing to sit in the back of a military bus; an until now forgotten African-American philosopher who helped save many lives at a Japanese POW camp; even the authors own parents: his mother, Kay, a WAC when she met his father, Bill, who was part of the celebrated Red Ball Express.
Yet Fighting for America is more than a testimonial; it is also a troubling story of profound contradictions, of a country still in the throes of segregation, of a domestic battleground where arrests and riots occurred simultaneously with foreign serviceand of how the war helped spotlight this disparity and galvanize the need for civil rights. Featuring a unique perspective on black soldiers, Fighting for America will move any reader: all who, like the author, owe their lives to those who served. [via]More editions of Fighting for America: Black Soldiers--The Unsung Heroes of World War II:
Final Impactby John BirminghamISBN 0345457161 (0-345-45716-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The First World Warby John KeeganISBN 0375700455 (0-375-70045-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The First World War'Book summary:Despite the avalanche of books written about the First World War in recent years, there have been comparatively few books that have concentrated on delivering the big picture--a comprehensive account of the war and its campaigns from start to finish--and this book fills the gap superbly. As readers familiar with John Keegan's previous books, such as the The Face Battle, Six Armies in Normandy, and The Second World War, will know, Keegan is a historian of the old school. He has no earth-shattering new theories to challenge the status quo, no first-person accounts to tug on the emotions; what he does have, though, is the gift for talking the lay person through the twists and turns of a complex narrative in a way that is never less than accessible or engaging. Keegan never tries to ram his learning down your throat. Where other authors have struggled to explain how Britain could ever allow itself to be dragged into such a war in 1914, Keegan keeps it practical. The level of communications that we enjoy today just didn't exist then, and so it was much harder to keep track of what was going on. By the time a message had finally reached the person in question, the situation may have changed out of all recognition. Keegan applies this same "cock-up" theory of history to the rest of the war, principally the three great disasters at Gallipoli, the Somme, and Passchendaele. The generals didn't send all those troops to their death deliberately; they did so out of incompetence, ineptitude, and because they had no idea of what was actually going on at the front. Whether deliberate or not, though, the end result was nearly one million dead British and Commonwealth soldiers. The First World War is not afraid to point the finger at those generals who deserve it, but even Keegan has to admit he doesn't have all the answers. If it all seems so obviously futile and such a massive waste of life now, he asks, how could it have seemed worthwhile back then? Why did so many people carry on, knowing they would die? Why indeed. --John Crace [via]
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Five Germanys I Have Knownby Fritz SternISBN 0374155402 (0-374-15540-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Five Germanys I Have Known'Book summary:The "German question" haunts the modern world: How could so civilized a nation be responsible for the greatest horror in Western history? In this unusual fusion of personal memoir and history, the celebrated scholar Fritz Stern refracts the question through the prism of his own life. Born in the Weimar Republic, exposed to five years of National Socialism before being forced into exile in 1938 in America, he became a world-renowned historian whose work opened new perspectives on the German past.[via]
Stern brings to life the five Germanys he has experienced: Weimar, the Third Reich, postwar West and East Germanys, and the unified country after 1990. Through his engagement with the nation from which he and his family fled, he shows that the tumultuous history of Germany, alternately the strength and the scourge of Europe, offers political lessons for citizens everywhere--especially those facing or escaping from tyranny. In this wise, tough-minded, and subtle book, Stern, himself a passionately engaged citizen, looks beyond Germany to issues of political responsibility that concern everyone. Five Germanys I Have Known vindicates his belief that, at its best, history is our most dramatic introduction to a moral civic life.More editions of Five Germanys I Have Known:
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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)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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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 Glass Palaceby Amitav GhoshISBN 0375501487 (0-375-50148-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Glass Palace'Book summary:Brilliant and impassioned, The Glass Palace is a masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh, the gifted novelist Peter Matthiessen has called an exceptional writer. This superb story of love and war begins with the shattering of the kingdom of Burma and the igniting of a great and passionate love, and it goes on to tell the story of a people, a fortune, and a family and its fate.
The Glass Palace tells of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who creates an empire in the Burmese teak forest. During the British invasion of 1885, when soldiers force the royal family out of the Glass Palace and into exile, Rajkumar befriends Dolly, the woman whose love will shape his life. He cannot forget her, and years later, as a rich man, he goes in search of her. [via]More editions of The Glass Palace:
The Good Man of Nanking : The Diaries of John Rabeby John Rabe, Erwin Wickert, John E. WoodsISBN 037540211X (0-375-40211-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Good-Bye to All Thatby Robert GravesISBN 0374932336 (0-374-93233-6)
Hardcover, Octagon Books
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The Grappleby Harry TurtledoveISBN 0345464079 (0-345-46407-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Great Republic : A History of Americaby Winston L. S. ChurchillISBN 0375408568 (0-375-40856-8)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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Guderian, Panzer Generalby Kenneth MacKseyISBN 035608325X (0-356-08325-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guderian, Panzer General'Book summary:Guderian was a man of ideas equipped with the ability to turn inspiration into reality. A master of strategy and tactics, he was the officer most responsible for creating blitzkrieg in World War II. This biography--fully updated with new material on Enigma and Guderians reaction to the July plot--illuminates the struggles within the German hierarchy and examines why Guderian was so admired by some while denigrated by others. This revised edition of the biography of a famous German general provides insight into the man behind blitzkrieg and includes information taken directly from the extensive Guderian family archives. [via]
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The Guns of Augustby Barbara W. Tuchman, Robert K. MassieISBN 0345476093 (0-345-47609-3)
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A Hero of Our Own : The Story of Varian Fryby Sheila IsenbergISBN 0375502211 (0-375-50221-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Hidden Childby Isaac MillmanISBN 0374330719 (0-374-33071-9)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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A History in Fragments: Europe in the Twentieth Centuryby Richard VinenISBN 034911269X (0-349-11269-X)
Hardcover, Abacus
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The Hitler Youth: Origins and Development 1922-45by Hannsjoachim W. KochISBN 0356046974 (0-356-04697-4)
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Homeward Boundby Harry TurtledoveISBN 0345458478 (0-345-45847-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homeward Bound'Book summary:The twentieth century was awash in war. World powers were pouring men and machines onto the killing fields of Europe. Then, in one dramatic stroke, a divided planet was changed forever. An alien race attacked Earth, and for every nation, every human being, new battle lines were drawn. .
HOMEWARD BOUND
With his epic novels of alternate history, Harry Turtledove shares a stunning vision of what might have beenand what might still beif one moment in history were changed. In the WorldWar and Colonization series, an ancient, highly advanced alien species found itself locked in a bitter struggle with a distant, rebellious planetEarth. For those defending the Earth, this all-out war for survival supercharged human technology, made friends of foes, and turned allies into bitter enemies.
For the aliens known as the Race, the conflict has yielded dire consequences. Mankind has developed nuclear technology years ahead of schedule, forcing the invaders to accept an uneasy truce with nations that possess the technology to defend themselves. But it is the Americans, with their primitive inventiveness, who discover a way to launch themselves through distant spaceand reach the Races home planet itself.
Nowin the twenty-first centurya few daring men and women embark upon a journey no human has made before. Warriors, diplomats, traitors, and exilesthe humans who arrive in the place called Home find themselves genuine strangers on a strange world, and at the center of a flash point with terrifying potential. For their arrival on the alien home world may drive the enemy to make the ultimate decisionto annihilate an entire planet, rather than allow the human contagion to spread. It may be that nothing can deter them from this course.
With its extraordinary cast of charactershuman, nonhuman, and some in betweenHomeward Bound is a fascinating contemplation of cultures, armies, and individuals in collision. From the novelist USA Today calls the leading author of alternate history, this is a novel of vision, adventure, and constant, astounding surprise. [via]
I Am Alive! : A United States Marine's Story of Survival in a World War II Japanese POW Campby Charles Jackson, Bruce H. NortonISBN 0345449118 (0-345-44911-8)
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I, Juan De Parejaby Elizabeth De TrevinoISBN 0374435251 (0-374-43525-1)
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An Illustrated History of the First World Warby John KeeganISBN 037541259X (0-375-41259-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Illustrated History of the First World War'Book summary:John Keegan's The First World War was everywhere praised, and became the definitive account of the war that created the modern world. The New York Times Book Review acclaimed Keegan as "the best military historian of our day," and the Washington Post called the book "a grand narrative history [and] a pleasure to read."
Now Keegan gives us a lavishly illustrated history of the war, brilliantly interweaving his narrative--some of it derived from his classic work and some of it new--with a brilliant selection of photograps, paintings, cartoons and posters drawn from archives across Europe and America, some published here for the first time. These images take us into the heart of battles that have become legend: Ypres, Gallipoli, Verdun, the Somme. They show us the generals' war and the privates' war--young soldiers, away from home for the first time, coming of age under fire.
We see how a civilization at the height of its power and influence crippled itself as the faith in progress, rationalism and liberalism that had prevailed in Europe since the Enlightenment was shattered. We see how four empires--the German, the Russian, the Austro-Hungarian and the Ottoman--collapsed, and how the seeds for the Second World War were planted. Keegan tells how ambition, mistrust and failures of diplomacy and communication all played a part in allowing this conflict to set ablaze what was then the world's most prosperous society. And he describes how the effects of this war lasted long after it ended; its ghosts still haunt Europe today.
An Illustrated History of the First World War carries us across the Europe of nearly a century ago, revealing the devastation, camaraderie, political machinations and battlefield maneuverings that changed the world. It presents the essential cast of that cataclysmic drama, from the decision makers at the top--Haig, Joffre, Hindenberg, Pershing--to the troops in the trenches. Through its unique amalgam of pictorial and narrative brilliance, the book illuminates the war as no other work has done. [via]More editions of An Illustrated History of the First World War:
In My Brother's Shadow: A Life and Death in the SSby Anthea Bell, Uwe Timm, Philip BoehmISBN 0374103747 (0-374-10374-7)
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In Our Image : America's Empire in the Philippinesby Stanley KarnowISBN 0345912411 (0-345-91241-1)
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Infantry Aces : The German Wehrmacht in World War IIby Franz KurowskiISBN 0345451945 (0-345-45194-5)
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Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Quaedaby John KeeganISBN 0375400532 (0-375-40053-2)
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Intelligence in War: The Value - and Limitations - of What the Military Can Learn About the Enemyby John KeeganISBN 0375700463 (0-375-70046-3)
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Intelligence gathering is an immensely complicated and vulnerable endeavor. And it often fails. Until the invention of the telegraph and radio, information often traveled no faster than a horse could ride, yet intelligence helped defeat Napoleon. In the twentieth century, photo analysts didnt recognize Germanys V-2 rockets for what they were; on the other hand, intelligence helped lead to victory over the Japanese at Midway. In Intelligence in War, John Keegan illustrates that only when paired with force has military intelligence been an effective tool, as it may one day be in besting al-Qaeda. [via]More editions of Intelligence in War: The Value - and Limitations - of What the Military Can Learn About the Enemy:
Jewelsby Danielle SteelISBN 0375433252 (0-375-43325-2)
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Katarinaby Kathryn WinterISBN 0374339848 (0-374-33984-8)
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The Land of Ulroby Czeslaw Milosz, Louis IribarneISBN 0374519374 (0-374-51937-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Land of Ulro'Book summary:This major prose work, originally published in English in 1985, is both a moving spiritual self-portrait and an unflinching inquiry into the genesis of our modern afflictions. A man who was raised a Catholic in rural Lithuania, lived through the Nazi occupation of Poland, and emerged, first in Europe and then in America, as one of our most important men of letters, speaks here of the inherited dilemmas of our civilization in a voice recognizable for its honesty and passion.[via]
Lilla's Feastby Frances OsborneISBN 0345472381 (0-345-47238-1)
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Macarthur's Victory: The War In New Guinea, 1943-1944by Harry A. GaileyISBN 0345463862 (0-345-46386-2)
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The Museum Guardby Howard NormanISBN 0374216495 (0-374-21649-5)
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The Navigation Log : A Novelby Martin CorrickISBN 0375508120 (0-375-50812-0)
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Normandy: The Real Story How Ordinary Allied Soldiers Defeated Hitlerby Shelagh Whitaker, Terry Copp, W. Denis Whitaker, J. T. CoppISBN 0345459075 (0-345-45907-5)
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Panzer Acesby Franz KurowskiISBN 0345448847 (0-345-44884-7)
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Paris 1919 : Six Months That Changed the Worldby Margaret MacMillan, Richard HolbrookeISBN 0375508260 (0-375-50826-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paris 1919 : Six Months That Changed the World'Book summary:Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919 is a colourful, epic history of the momentous days after World War I that saw U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and the other Allied leaders reshape the world. Wilson arrived in France to referee the Paris Peace Conference only a month after the war's end, sailing into a French port past an avenue of British, U.S., and French battleships. The world, horrified by the millions of war deaths, was desperate for peace and embraced Wilson's call for a League of Nations and self-determination for all peoples. Enthusiastic European crowds greeted the U.S. president and posters bearing his face lined the streets.
It was a conference unlike any other in history: attendees redrew borders, rewrote international relations, and tried--unsuccessfully--to contain German militarism. It unfolded in the midst of massive social upheaval as Europeans awoke to widespread hunger and the inequalities of their age. In the pressure cooker of Paris, this bubbling stew of social and political forces boiled over, and many of Wilson's dreams were dashed. The world lives with the legacy of these few months. Not only did the conference produce a new map of Europe and the Middle East, it led to the infamous Versailles Treaty, often blamed for provoking World War II. MacMillan, a University of Toronto history professor, argues that the Allied leaders did their best, and to blame World War II on them is to absolve Hitler and his appeasers. MacMillan could perhaps be accused of bias: her great-grandfather was British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, one of the main political players in 1919. However, her book has been acclaimed by historians and has won Britain's richest nonfiction award. Complete with backroom intrigue, personal drama, and vivid characters, Paris 1919 is a vital contribution to our understanding of the last century and the current one. --Alex Roslin [via]
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The Power of Oneby Bryce CourtenayISBN 034541005X (0-345-41005-X)
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Unabashedly uplifting . . . asserts forcefully what all of us would like to believe: that the individual, armed with the spirit of independencethe power of onecan prevail.
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In 1939, as Hitler casts his enormous, cruel shadow across the world, the seeds of apartheid take root in South Africa. There, a boy called Peekay is born. His childhood is marked by humiliation and abandonment, yet he vows to survive and conceives heroic dreamswhich are nothing compared to what life actually has in store for him. He embarks on an epic journey through a land of tribal superstition and modern prejudice where he will learn the power of words, the power to transform lives, and the power of one.
Totally engrossing . . . [presents] the metamorphosis of a most remarkable young man and the almost spiritual influence he has on others . . . Peekay has both humor and a refreshingly earthy touch, and his adventures, at times, are hair-raising in their suspense.
Los Angeles Times Book Review
Marvelous . . . It is the people of the sun-baked plains of Africa who tug at the heartstrings in this book. . . . [Bryce] Courtenay draws them all with a fierce and violent love.
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A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron Forgotten Heroes of World War IIby Stanley Cloud, Lynne OlsonISBN 0375411976 (0-375-41197-6)
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Ribbentropby Michael BlochISBN 034911515X (0-349-11515-X)
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The Right Hand of Sleepby John WrayISBN 0375406514 (0-375-40651-4)
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The Right Stuffby Tom WolfeISBN 0374250324 (0-374-25032-4)
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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.
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]
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Roseby Martin Cruz SmithISBN 034542252X (0-345-42252-X)
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The Secret Alliance: The Extraordinary Story of the Rescue of the Jews Since World War IIby Ted SzulcISBN 0374249466 (0-374-24946-6)
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The Seizure of Powerby Czeslaw MiloszISBN 0374516979 (0-374-51697-9)
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Setting Free the Bearsby John IrvingISBN 0345417984 (0-345-41798-4)
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Settling Accounts the Grappleby Harry TurtledoveISBN 0345457250 (0-345-45725-0)
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Shoshaby Isaac Bashevis SingerISBN 0374524807 (0-374-52480-7)
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This Dame for Hireby Sandra ScoppettoneISBN 0345478118 (0-345-47811-8)
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This Side of Paradiseby F. Scott Fitzgerald, Susan OrleanISBN 0345481224 (0-345-48122-4)
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Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolutionby Victor SebestyenISBN 037542458X (0-375-42458-X)
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Two Citiesby Adam Zagajewski, Lillian ValleeISBN 0374280169 (0-374-28016-9)
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U-Boat:the Secret Menace: The Secret Menaceby David MasonISBN 0356025470 (0-356-02547-0)
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Unto the Sonsby Gay TaleseISBN 0345463420 (0-345-46342-0)
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At long last, Gay Talese, one of America's greatest living authors, employs his prodigious storytelling gifts to tell the saga of his own family's emigration to America from Italy in the years preceding World War II. Ultimately it is the story of all immigrant families and the hope and sacrifice that took them from the familiarity of the old world into the mysteries and challenges of the new.
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A Vanished Worldby Roman Vishniac, Elie WieselISBN 0374282471 (0-374-28247-1)
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The Victorious Oppositionby Harry TurtledoveISBN 0345444221 (0-345-44422-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Victorious Opposition'Book summary:Harry Turtledoves acclaimed alternate history series began with a single question: What if the South had won the Civil War? Now, seventy years have passed since the first War Between the States. The North American continent is locked in a battle of politics, economies, and moralities. In a world that has already felt the soul-shattering blow of the Great War, North America is the powder keg that could ignite another global conflictcomplete with a new generation of killing machines.
Freedom! Freedom! Freedom! In 1934, the chant echoes across the Confederate States of America, a country born of bloodshed and passion, stretching from Mexico to Virginia. But while people use the word to greet each other in the streets, the meaning of Freedom has become increasingly unclear.
Jake Featherston, leader of the ruling Freedom Party, has won powerand is taking his country and the world to the edge of an abyss. Charismatic, shrewd, and addicted to conflict, Featherston is whipping the Confederate States into a frenzy of hatred. Blacks are being rounded up and sent to prison camps, and the persecution has just begun. Featherston has forced the United States to give up its toeholds in Florida and Kentucky, and as the North stumbles through a succession of leaders, from Socialist Hosea Blackford to Herbert Hoover and now Al Smith, Featherston is feeling his might. With the U.S.A. locked in a bitter, bloody occupation of Canada, facing an intractable rebellion in Utah, and fatigued from a war in the Pacific against Japan, Featherston may pursue one dangerous proposition above all: that he can defeat the U.S.A. in an all-out war.
The Victorious Opposition is a drama of leaders and followers, spies and traitors, lovers and soldiers. From California to Canada, from combat on the high seas to the secret meetings where former slaves plot a desperate strategy for survival, Harry Turtledove has created a human portrait of a world in upheaval. The third book in his monumental American Empire series, The Victorious Opposition is a novel of ideas, action, and surpriseand an unforgettable re-imagining of history itself.
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Weimar Germany:Democracy on Trial: Democracy on Trialby Sefton DelmerISBN 0356039072 (0-356-03907-2)
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White Teeth: A Novelby Zadie SmithISBN 0375501851 (0-375-50185-1)
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Worldwar : Upsetting the Balanceby Harry TurtledoveISBN 0345420586 (0-345-42058-6)
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Yo, Juan De Parejaby Elizabeth Borton De Trevino, Enrique De Trevino Borton, Enrique R. Trevino BortonISBN 0374492921 (0-374-49292-1)
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