December 2012 | Pearl Harbor Date

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Embracing Defeat is an authoritatively researched and beautifully written account of the U.S. occupation of Japan by a leading specialist on World War II, Japan and the U.S.-Japan relationship. This is a work that pulls no punches. Like no earlier study, it brings to the fore the ironies and contradictions...

Lindbergh vs. Roosevelt: The Rivalry That Divided America Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)As someone growing up in the late 60's and early 70's, Charles Lindbergh was little known to me. Of course, I knew of his flight across the Atlantic in 1927 and the kidnapping and murder of his son a few years later. However, I was not familiar with the controversy about his non-interventionist position...

The Kitchen God's Wife Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)THE KITCHEN GOD'S WIFE, Amy Tan's second novel, is another story that deals with family history and relationships between mothers and daughters. Unlike her first novel, THE JOY LUCK CLUB, THE KITCHEN GOD'S WIFE takes place mostly in the past. Pearl and her mother Winnie have never had a very good relationship....

Sydney Brenner: A Biography Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is a fascinating biography of Sydney Brenner, one of the founders of modern molecular biology. Both Brenner and the author, Errol Friedberg, hail from South Africa, which may explain the strong resonance between the author and subject. The biography quotes liberally from many who know Brenner, but...

U.S. History For Dummies Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)You should only buy this book if you're actually hoping for a far-left opinion piece rather than a book on U.S. history. I expect some bias to seep through in a history book - we are all human beings and we all process information through our personal filters despite our best efforts at objectivity....

Clear the Bridge : The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I could not put this book down. O'Kanes writing puts the reader inside the sub taking part in every detail of the Tang's patrols during WWII. I found myself refering to the maps every time he gave a description of the Tang's approach to enemy shipping and being able to see his detailed discriptions of...

Silent Warfare: Understanding the World of Intelligence, 3d Edition Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Silent Warfare is probably the best introductory text available covering the subject of intelligence. It reads like a text book, but that's because it basically IS a textbook. It's a serious academic text rather than a cloak and dagger story. This is one to read for understanding rather than necessarily...

Iron Coffins: A Personal Account Of The German U-boat Battles Of World War II Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)First off, it should be noted that Capt. Werner beat the odds. He survived to tell his tale. 80% of his fellow submariners would perish under the waves as in the later years of the war each mission was essentially a suicide mission. One of these "ramming" suicide missions was even ordered of his boat...

Forever: A Novel Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Pete Hamill is a legend of New York, and FOREVER feels very much like his magnum opus. It's a wonderfully well thought-out and well researched history of New York City as told through the eyes of one fictional character.Cormac O'Connor, a young 18th Century Irishman, through an accident in the street...

Moon Baltimore (Moon Handbooks) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Good tour guides for areas where you live are notoriously hard to find. The Moon Handbook written by Geoff Brown , who lives in Baltimore solves that problem; but it also makes an outstanding guide for out of towners. There are many interesting takes on the normal tourist attractions including where...

The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)"The Savage Wars of Peace" is a book that is likely to surprise all but the most ardent military history buffs. Once and for all it does away with the myth that before World War Two, America was completely "isolationist" in its foreign policy. The book focuses on America's many "smaller" military actions,...

True Prep: It's a Whole New Old World Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The Official Preppy Handbook ("OPH") was, by its own terms, inclusive, "[l]ooking, acting, and ultimately being Prep is not restricted to an elite minority lucky enough to attend prestigious private schools......[y]ou don't even have to be a registered Republican. In a true democracy everyone can be...

Fighting for America: Black Soldiers--the Unsung Heroes of World War II Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Chris Moore's chronicle of black patriotism from Colonial times through World War II is nothing short of an excellent walk through history. As a history buff I found myself eager to turn each page. I would sit with highlighter in hand marking special passages as though I was still a college student studying...

Love and Honor Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I highly recommend this book I really looked forward to getting my copy of this book. I enjoy an author who believes in heroes and heroines. The story is enjoyable and conveys the sense of history and beliefs are country was founded on. The protagonist, Kieran is the kind of man of honor and integrity...

World War II: The Pacific Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book on tape was well done and informative. Using personal accounts as well as historical record, it gives the listener or reader a relavent glimpse into what it took to win World War II. Those of us born after truly do not have an accurate understanding of what happened during that time. This will...

Sweet Pea at War: A History of USS Portland (CA-33) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I am grateful for Generous' contribution of the details of the USS Portland and all the officers and men who served onboard her from launching to decommissioning. He is deserves praise for the efforts made to insure that those stories would not be lost to history. If he had just concentrated on this...

Movie Instrumental Solos: French Horn Book W CD Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is a great book. My son, who has just begun playing the trombone, was excited to get it for Christmas. Unfortunately, it is too difficult for him right now. But his private instructor said he could begin using it next year.Click Here to see more reviews about: Movie Instrumental Solos: French Horn...