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Target: Patton: The Plot to Assassinate General George S. Patton
Robert K. Wilcox
Regnery Publishing, 2008
Compelling Evidence
This book is a great read, and a break through in history! Wilcox provides compelling evidence and is getting great acclaim for the book world wide. Copy and paste this article and see what London Telegraph reporter wrote:
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Simon & Schuster, 1995
Remarkable character portraits
This is the first book by Doris Kearns Goodwin that I've read. I've often seen her on tv and enjoyed listening to what she's had to say on presidential history. This book is a sympathetic portrait of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during the years of World War II. Few ...
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
Diane Ackerman
W. W. Norton, 2008
Great read
I loved this book. I have always enjoyed stories about the
war and how people survived and help each other. I'm also a
big animal lover so I could understand caring deeping about
the animals.
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Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
H.W. Brands
Doubleday, 2008
This Settles It- Brands Is Great
Iv'e always been a little doubtful as to whether H.W.Brands is a great popular historian. The guy is a writing machine and his work touches every era of American history. However, Traitor to His Class resolves the issue. Not only is it the best biography of FDR, it is ...
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The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
Amity Shlaes
Harper Perennial, 2008
The Great Impression
Amity Schlaes goes into such great depth into the pysche of all the major players of The Great Depression. It is lengthy reading but worthwhile if you really want to know what happened during FDR's regime.
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Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
Rick Perlstein
Scribner, 2008
We Are All Living in Nixonland
This is an outstanding and thoroughly entertaining history of American politics and culture (and how they intertwine) between 1964 - 1972. He details how Nixon succeeded as a politician because he learned lessons early on how to exploit people's fears for his gain. The ...
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The New York Times: The Complete Front Pages: 1851-2008
CC The New York Times
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2008
Small Print!
This book CD set is a real window on history. It gives the modern viewer a real look at the issues of past times. The Print however is very small. The publisher was very thoughtful to include a magnifing sheet in the back of the book. My family will get many hours of ...
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Seven Days in the Art World
Sarah Thornton
W.W. Norton & Co., 2008
Fantastic Read
Sarah Thornton's book offers an attentive, ethnographic eye to art, artists, and the world in which they exist. She writes clearly and with great attention to detail not only to the art, but the people and super-sized personalities that they house. This and her access ...
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Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
Steve Martin
Scribner, 2008
Well Worth Reading
Steve Martin started out as a stand up comedian. Most people think of him today as a movie star, a zany comic whose performances seem spur of the moment and effortless. He confesses here in Born Standing Up that his image is far from the truth. Beginning with his ...
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The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington
Jennet Conant
Simon & Schuster, 2008
Likely an Unknown Item of History
Roald Dahl is well known as a children's book writer. Little known is the fact that he served in the British military during World War II. Likely unknown completely is the fact that Dahl served British intelligence during the war, against the Americans, in ...
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Sarah's Key
Tatiana de Rosnay
St. Martin's Griffin, 2008
Wonderful Book: a look at parallel lives in 1942 and 2002.
"Sarah's Key" is the haunting and memorable story of a young girl's experience of the Vel d'Hiv roundup of the Paris Jews on July 16, 1942, intertwined with the experiences of Julia Jaramond, a transplanted American journalist assigned to write about the roundup for ...
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Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Beacon Press, 2006
This Book Saved My Life: Create Meaning, Create Hope, Create New Life
Dr. Frankl went through the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps. While many gave into despair and gave up their will to live, Frankl fought on to create some meaning from these horrible experiences. He believed that anything in life can be dealt with as long as we ...
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Wall and Piece
Banksy
Random House UK, 2007
Brilliant!
This book is amazing, intriguing and never gets old. I pick it up constantly and always show other people. It makes a GREAT coffee table book for anyone who likes art.. or graffiti.
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The Steel Wave: A Novel of World War II
Jeff Shaara
Ballantine Books, 2008
Shaara's best so fare
Great book. Excellent character development and very realistic. Definitely Jeff's best product to date.
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Mission: Black List #1: The Inside Story of the Search for Saddam Hussein---As Told by the Soldier Who ...
Eric Maddox, Davin Seay
Harper, 2008
RICK "SHAQ" GOLDSTEIN SAYS: "THE MAN WHO HELPED LEAD "U.S." TO SADDAM'S SPIDER HOLE!"
**ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2003 AT 8:30 PM SADDAM HUSSEIN WAS CAPTURED IN A "SPIDER-HOLE" IN THE TOWN OF AD DAWR, WHICH IS SOME 15 KILOMETERS SOUTH OF TIKRIT.**
This is the amazing story of Staff Sergeant Eric Maddox of the United States Army who was instrumental ...
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