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Michael Korda's brilliant work of history takes the reader back to the summer of 1940, when fewer than three thousand... more

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  With Wings Like Eagles: A History of the Battle of Britain

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  • Posted:Jan-22-2009

  • Here's the "Why?" instead of the tacka-tacka-tacka of war
  • It's tough to predict the future, especially because public attitudes and technology keeps changing and thus messing up the facts used to make predictions.
    
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?Fascists,? ?Brownshirts,? ?jackbooted stormtroopers??such are the insults typically hurled at conservatives by their... more

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A richly detailed and dramatic account of one of the greatest achievements of humankind At 9:32 A.M. on July 16,... more

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  Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon

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  • Blantant Commercialism
  • This book was clearly rushed into production to take advantage of Apollo 11's fortieth anniversary, and the result of this blantant comercialism is a book replete with errors-big and small-that...
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  • Decent Hard Sci-Fi, but the Characters Need Work
  • Rocket Men is a rather preposterous novel about the United States sending a space craft to the moon in 1969. The story begins with the rocket on the launchpad, waiting for blast off, with brief...
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The 5000 Year Leap: A Miracle That Changed the World. For many years in the United States there has been a gradual... more

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  The 5000 Year Leap: The 28 Great Ideas That Changed the World

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  • If one doesn't know what it means to be free in America, this book will teach you.
  • I remember going through school and learning about American history and the writing of the Constitution, but I never felt like I had a feel for the language or the principles upon which that great...
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  • Posted:Jul-24-2009

  • If you believe in miracles, clap your hands
  • Please look closely at the title of this book: "A MIRACLE which changed the world." The very first item in the book (before any preface or introduction) is a short essay on "The Miracle at...
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  • Posted:Dec-12-2008

  • It is time for a miracle
  • Our country is in for a serious Depression, a real financial funk.
    
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Twenty-Five Hundred years ago, Sun Tzu wrote this classic book of military strategy based on Chinese warfare and... more

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  The Art of War

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  • One of the most important military books in history
  • The Warring States period Warring States Period 475-221 BCE is a history of constant warfare, of alliances and counter-alliances, and of treaties made and broken. The nature of warfare evolved...
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  • Posted:Aug-27-2009

  • Poor Quality Edition
  • I bought the book anticipating a concise, un-frilled version of the classic. Upon opening to the first page, I immediately found a typo. Thereupon I soon found several errors in translation and...
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  • Not what i expected
  • I thought this would be the full edition. What I received was a condensed version with excerpts. Not at all what I expected.
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Bringing Chicago circa 1893 to vivid life, Erik Larson's spellbinding bestseller intertwines the true tale of two... more

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  The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America

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  • glowing
  • No spoilers. I am a voracious reader, with many years of reading behind me. This is one of the 5 best books I've read. It was in my top ten tentatively by page 40 or so. If the first 20 pages...
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  • Posted:Oct-19-2009

  • I couldn't get into it but am determined to try again.
  • First Sentence: The date was April 14, 1912, a sinister day in maritime history, but of course, the man in suite 63-65, shelter deck C, did not yet know it.
    
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  • Posted:Jan-21-2009

  • Eerie moments in time
  • A bit plodding and filler, but all in all a decent read. Amazing story about the dark secrets within human nature and its close proximity to the naive. Be careful around those who seem properly...
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From Agee to Astaire, Steinbeck to Ellington, the creative energies of the Depression against a backdrop of poverty... more

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Jon Krakauer?s literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. He now... more

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  Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

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  • Posted:Oct-06-2009

  • RIP Brenda and Erica
  • Jon K says is took 3 years to research this book and 1
    year to write it. This is a good book but I found it a little
    bothersome switching back and forth from the murder,
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  • Posted:Sep-29-2009

  • Oversimplification, which haunts many journalistic formats, has no place in a book
  • If you don't like Mormons you'll enjoy the book, but if you want to understand them, look elsewhere. As a religious studies major I was dissapointed, expecting a frank impartial look at Mormons...
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  • Posted:Jul-01-2009

  • Great story telling, lousy history.
  • First of all, I enjoyed reading this book. It was an easy read and I had trouble putting it down which to me is the signs of a good author. The problem I had was the history of Mormonism was quite...
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Nechama Tec tells the story of the largest armed rescue operation of Jews by Jews in World War II. Arguing that the... more

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  Defiance: The Bielski Partisans

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  • Posted:Feb-02-2009

  • If you have patience
  • The story is incredible. However, it is written very poorly and the author repeats things to many times.
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  • Posted:Jan-30-2009

  • Exellent, must read.
  • Just saw the movie for the second time, loved it, a must see.
    liked the book also, the details are amazing, not impressed with Tec's writing style, to me it was static in it's flow, but the...
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  • Riveting Story
  • This was among the six books my dad loaned me recently. It's about time there is a book about Jews saving other Jews! This book is a deep and thorough study of the partisans who have managed to...
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From the New York Times-bestselling author of In Harm's Way comes a true-life story of American soldiers overcoming... more

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  Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan

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  • Posted:Aug-11-2009

  • Tales of Great Bravery and Adaptability Told in a Convoluted Fashion
  • "Then Moses called to Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, 'Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land which the LORD has sworn to their fathers to give...
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  • Poorly Written, not worth the money.
  • I had hoped this book would be good, as it has a great subject matter. The writing was poor, I had expected more. I don't often leave negative reviews but this book was not worth the money.
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In his runaway bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond brilliantly examined the circumstances that allowed... more

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  Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

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  • Good review of many historical societies
  • Is civilization, as we know it today, invincible? Considering human existence since the beginning, it's a tough call to say how long we'll survive. On the other hand, it is feasible to review past...
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  • Diamond collapsed after "Guns, Germs, and Steel"
  • I loved the first half of the author's "Guns, Germs, and Steel". So I bought this book. Unfortunately this book is just awful.(However, if you especially liked the second half of that book, you are...
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  • Posted:Aug-26-2008

  • Obvious pluses and not so obvious minuses
  • Jared Diamond has a gift for explaining complex phenomena to the average person in a way that is captivating and digestible. In this book, he tackles a topic (the collapse of societies) that is...
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Advance Praise for Fred Kaplan's 1959: The Year Everything Changed "An engrossing story about not just where... more

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  1959: The Year Everything Changed

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  • 1959 Was a Good Year to Make a Change...a Very Big Change
  • 1959 is certainly a worthy subject for a book, but I have to admit a bias...that was the year I was born. However, I will not lay claim to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Fred Kaplan's subtitle,...
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  • Not Totally Accurate
  • I saw this author on CSPAN2 BookTV this afternoon. I only heard a small part of his talk but I heard enough to know he does not have all his facts straight.
    
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Margaret MacMillan, an acclaimed historian and "great storyteller" (The New York Review of Books), explores here the... more

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  Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History (Modern Library Chronicles)

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  • Great read on the historical situation
  • MacMillan's call for historians to take back the discipline of writing and thinking about history is a welcome sight. For my own part, I'd have liked to have seen a bit more history in the work,...
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  • Posted:Aug-03-2009

  • The View of History from the Seminar Room
  • The content of the book is flat and one-dimensional. First, only political history of the 20th century is considered. There is no consideration of the use of the history of science or the history...
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Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is the... more

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  People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.)

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  • Wish I had been exposed to this much earlier!
  • I enjoyed this book as much for the perspective that it is told from as I did reading the normally buried individual accounts, stories, testimonies and exposes of marginalized heroes that Dr. Zinn...
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  • Unfortunate Indoctrination
  • I could write volumes about this book, and for that matter every other Howard Zinn book I have ever read.
    
    Ask yourself, why does this book always sell well? Answer, because every...
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  • A political, not a cultural, history
  • Professor Zinn definitely fills a need--a well-documented political history of the United States from the point-of-view of those who work to move this country nearer to a realization of the...
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  The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child: Volume 1: Ancient Times: From the...

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  • A good idea not so well executed
  • As another reviewer noted "Many things are presented as facts that are actually storytelling". Among other noted inaccuracies, the author offers up bible stories as "history". Other readers might...
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  • Great book for all ages
  • I bought this book for my 14 year old daughter. I was a little bit concerned that it might be to elementary for her, but I was pleasantly surprised. While it is written in a very clear,...
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  • Not for all ages
  • I homeschooled our older daughter for six years back in the Dark Ages (the mid 90's). We switched over to learning about history chronologically, a relatively "new" idea then,after being convinced...
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  A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam

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  • Simply the truth.
  • Thanks to Lewis Sorley. This is an objective history. The truth is very difficult to bear. God bless the men and women who fought for the Republic of South Vietnam.
    
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  • Good But Overrated
  • I noted from the book's jacket that: "There was a moment when the United States had the Vietnam War wrapped up, writes military historian Lewis Sorley (biographer of two Vietnam-era U.S. Army...
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  • Old wine in a new bottle
  • Using new evidence from the Abrams papers, but failing to examine massive recent declassifications of Nixon's and others' papers and tapes, including Soviet, Chinese, and Vietnamese documents and...
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  On Combat, The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace

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  • The Science Behind Why We Train
  • This is THE ONE book every uniformed service member must read: Military, Police, and Fire. Training Officers - you owe it to your team to read this book: their lives depend on it. It provides the...
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  Fast Food Nation

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  • Informative!
  • Fast Food Nation is a very eye opening and informative book. Schlosser examines all sides of the fast food industry. It is a definitely a must read for anyone who lives in America.
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  • McDonalds is healther than Subway!
  • This is outrageous propaganda! I am truly disgusted at how much they insult McDonalds. McDonalds is healthy for you! With every meal at McD's you get vegetables, grains, meat, and the optional...
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  • Food for thought
  • Schlosser attempts to explain the food industry: its origins, its workers, the supply of meat and potatoes and how these all have changed over the years. While I had already heard about the food...
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  Eyewitness to the Civil War

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  • Eyewitness to The Civil War
  • An excellent book. Authentic pictures that give one a true feel of how it was and an appreciation of the dreadfulness of war on our soil.
    
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  The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations (Thrift Edition)

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  • Lotta Wisdom in Little Book
  • It's tough to sum up Lincoln's "wit and wisdom" in a single volume, but this little book takes a valiant stab at it. Personally, I found it a nice work to accompany a more substantial biography or...
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  • Big Man, Little Book
  • I was completely disappointed in the size of this book. The city guide of Possum Trot, Kentucky has to be bigger then this. Measuring in at a hefty 3&1/2" tall, its no Abe Lincoln. It was more like...
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