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Flyboys: A True Story of Courage
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Not as advertised. This book feels like its thrown together. The focus is not on aviation so much as on the brutality of the Japanese and the fates many American aircrew faced when captured. Also the first 3rd of the book has very little to do with aviation. The author discusses the growth of the militaristic regime in Japan in the late 19th and ea... »
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The VICTORS, THE: Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II
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The Victors is like a compilation of Stephen E. Ambrose's greatest hits, drawing heavily from his biography of General Dwight D. Eisenhower and several military histories that recount the events of the Allied push across the European continent in 1944 and 1945 from the frontline trooper's perspective. The narrative is vintage Ambrose, full of en... »
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
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How do you write a definitive history of a clandestine agency? Like his subject, author Tim Weiner gets a standing pass on the assumption that at least three-quarters of the story is below the surface and never really can be told.
The narrative is somewhat jerky. Much of the book is a series of cubistic portraits of Agency Directors and ... »
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Confederates in the Attic
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tony Horwitz returned from years of traipsing through war zones as a foreign correspondent only to find that his childho... »
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The Prince
When Lorenzo de' Medici seized control of the Florentine Republic in 1512, he summarily fired the Secretary to the Second Chancery of the Signoria and set... »
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Founding Brothers
In retrospect, it seems as if the American Revolution was inevitable. But was it? In Founding Brothers, Joseph J. Ellis reveals that many of those ... »
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