Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I stumbled across the original H/C version of this book at an antique dealer's shop. I was suprised by the title, I thought that Gore Vidal wrote the only book with that designation.Upon reading the dust jacket and introduction, I knew the book was for me, as the editor drops the name of Charles A. Beard...
Gestapo Chief : The 1948 Interrogation of Heinrich Muller Review
Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is one of four books that have appeared since 1995 on the postwar association of former SS-Gruppenfuehrer Heinrich ("Gestapo"-)Mueller with the American Intelligence community. From the outset, it is well worth having by every scholar or educated laymen interested in the last phase of World War...
D-Day: A Day That Changed America: They Fought to Free Europe from Hitler's Tyranny Review
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on 1/28/2013
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Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)If the first twenty minutes of Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan" gives young students a graphic understanding of what it was like to storm the beaches at Normandy on June 6, 1944, then "D-Day: A Day That Changed America" will put the invasion of Hitler's Fortress Europe in perspective. After all,...
Uss Arizona: Warship, Tomb, Monument Review
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on 1/27/2013
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Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I would recommend this book to anybody that's into WWII. It's very informative and has some great pictures.Click Here to see more reviews about: Uss Arizona: Warship, Tomb, MonumentThe story of the USS Arizona encompasses far more than the milli-second BOOM! that split her hull and snuffed out the lives...
Days of Infamy: Macarthur, Roosevelt, Churchill-The Shocking Truth Revealed : How Their Secret Deals and Strategic Blunders Caused Disasters at Pear Review
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on 1/26/2013
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Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)There are few events that prompt as much spontaneous discussions regarding the possibility of conspiracy and guilty prior knowledge as those involving the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Indeed, there are a whole catalogue of titles dealing with the possibilities, the associated...
American Assassination: The Strange Death of Senator Paul Wellstone Review
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on 1/25/2013
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Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The authors of this important book argue that Senator Paul Wellstone's death, 10 days before the 2002 elections, was an assassination, most likely ordered by the Bush administration. Directly confronting the widespread tendency to reject all "conspiracy theories," the authors point out that "the idea...
Surprise, Security, and the American Experience Review
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on 1/24/2013
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Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The surprise attack of September 11 brought about, in the eyes of many learned observers, a radical shift in American national security policy. Since World War II and up until the collapse of the Soviet Union there was a policy of containment and deterrence. During the 1990s, in the wake of the collapse,...