| 341. The Submarine: A History | |
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by: Thomas Parrish, Tom Parrish List Price: $29.95 Amazon.com's Price: $20.37 You Save: $9.58 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Review: "The Submarine" by Thomas Parrish Viking-2004-576 pages including notes and large bibliography Over the past ten years, many submarine books have passed by my reading chair. There has been a fair mix of fiction and non-fiction. The fictional books are needed to keep a level of interest and fun going through the much tougher reading non-fiction works. Some of the fictional books are keepers. All of the non-fiction works have lasting value and are keepers. Some of these ... Read More  Read Reviews and Description
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| 342. Compass: A Story of Exploration and Innovation | |
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by: Alan Gurney List Price: $22.95 Amazon.com's Price: $16.07 You Save: $6.88 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Review: "The Submarine" by Thomas Parrish Viking-2004-576 pages including notes and large bibliography Over the past ten years, many submarine books have passed by my reading chair. There has been a fair mix of fiction and non-fiction. The fictional books are needed to keep a level of interest and fun going through the much tougher reading non-fiction works. Some of the fictional books are keepers. All of the non-fiction works have lasting value and are keepers. Some of these ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 343. Behind Rebel Lines: The Incredible Story of Emma Edmonds, Civil War Spy (Great Episodes (Hardcover)) | |
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by: Seymour Reit List Price: $14.15 Amazon.com's Price: $12.31 You Save: $1.84 (13%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description This is a very quick read even for the 9-12 year age group it is intended for. Never-the-less, it is a very exciting and interesting bit of true Civil War drama. It is the story of Sarah Emma Edmonds, or Emma Edmonds as she was known, a young woman, born in Canada, who, disguised as a man, became a solider, battlefield nurse, spy and detective for the Union army. Emma was sworn into the Union army as Private Franklin Thompson and served bravely and cunningly in many dangerous missions and in many disguises. ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 344. PEGASUS BRIDGE | |
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by: Stephen E. Ambrose List Price: $12.00 Amazon.com's Price: $9.60 You Save: $2.40 (20%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description I'm a firm believer that no one can weave together a battle, invasion or engagement that took place in the European Theater quite like Stephen Ambrose. He has a knack for understanding the soldiers, getting inside their minds and allowing them to tell the tale for him. Pegasus Bridge is no different. It's a fascinating account of how one British unit seized the most critical objective in the wee hours just prior to D-Day. Much like Band of Brothers, Ambrose starts with the beginning of the unit -- how it was formed, its ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 345. Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills | |
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by: Charles Henderson Amazon.com's Price: $7.99 Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Written by two fellow Marines, one of whom served as Hathcock's commanding officer, this tale chronicles the life of the most notorious sniper in Vietnam. Marine Sniper touches on the issues that faced wounded vets upon returning home, the grim conditions snipers dealt with in the field, and the role that Hathcock played in establishing the Corps' scout sniper program. Another apsect that this book deals with is the stigma that haunts snipers throughout the service in the military and beyond. Having personally served ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 346. Origins of the Crash: The Great Bubble and Its Undoing | |
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by: Roger Lowenstein List Price: $24.95 Amazon.com's Price: $16.97 You Save: $7.98 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description In Origins of the Crash, Roger Lowenstein has written a fascinating account of the late 90's stock market bubble and subsequent collapse. The overriding theme of the book is that the culture of "shareholder value" was twisted from creating true long-term value into an obsession with the daily ups and downs of the companies' stock prices. It's an interesting way to view things and should prove thought provoking to many. Lowenstein makes a compelling case that the scandals of the past several years are not the work of just a few bad ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 347. Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century | |
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by: Barbara Tuchman List Price: $17.95 Amazon.com's Price: $12.57 You Save: $5.38 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Whenever I meet someone who enjoys reading history, this is the book I always seem to recommend first (I love reading history). It is so beautifully written. It has the drama and intrigue of a novel, yet Barbara Tuchman, as she notes in her book Practicing History, always worked from primary resources. This work of history is accurate. And all of her books are great: Guns of August, Proud Tower, Zimmerman Telegram, Stillwell, to name a few. A Distant Mirror stands out, in my opinion, because it vividly describes how difficult, how different ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 348. Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect That Shaped the American Frontier | |
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by: Jeffrey A. Lockwood List Price: $25.00 Amazon.com's Price: $17.00 You Save: $8.00 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Dr Lockwood has written a very readable and carefully detailed biography of the encounter of the pioneers with the Rocky Mountain Locust and the modern day entomologists' investigations of its dissappearance. He lays out a good case for the most recent hypothesis for the 'Extinction' of the migratory form of M. spretus. He also lays the groundwork for us to accept that M. spretus is still with us. His paragraphs about describing something as a PROCESS rather than an object is an epiphany that many people will never have. Also valuable and which rings ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 349. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor | |
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by: David S. Landes List Price: $16.95 Amazon.com's Price: $11.87 You Save: $5.08 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Like many Americans, my knowledge of history is not what it should be. I'm interested in history and how it has shaped the world we live in, and that's why I bought this book. Hats off to David Landes for his diligent and thorough research and his deep knowledge of the subject about which he writes. This book is not light reading; indeed, at times it was somewhat difficult for me, not being of the "ivory tower" set, but it is worth getting through. Landes does an excellent job of analyzing how such factors as climate, religious ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 350. Our Mothers' War : American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II | |
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by: Emily Yellin List Price: $26.00 Amazon.com's Price: $17.68 You Save: $8.32 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description This is a unique compilation of astonishing research and personal history that takes the crust off our mothers' wartime persona. Even the high profile women of WWII - Dietrich, Lombard, Davis, et al - are illuminated in thoroughly surprising ways. I read slowly and savored each page, and by the end I knew my mother and grandmothers and the human spirit, better. Kudos to Emily Yellin. Read Reviews and Description
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