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What We're Reading
Pearl Harbor, Album of Memories, and Disaster! 
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History Bestsellers
Time Lord, April 1865, and Body of Secrets 
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What We're Reading
[IMAGE] Pearl Harbor: The Day of Infamy - An Illustrated History
by Dan Van Der Vat
 President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously declared December 7, 1941 as "A day 
that will live in infamy," the day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, 
pulling the U.S. into World War II. This visually stunning book, by noted 
historian Dan van der Vat, features groundbreaking research, over 250 images, 
including previously unpublished personal photos from the perspective of both 
Americans on the ground and Japanese in the air, as well as a 
moment-by-moment breakdown of the attack. There are also numerous personal 
accounts, memorabilia, and illustrations by Tom Freeman. A major achievement. 


  Our Price: $31.96  You Save: $7.99  (20%) ??? [IMAGE] An Album of Memories: 
Personal Histories from the Greatest Generation
by Tom Brokaw
 As he's done in his immensely popular Greatest Generation volumes, Tom 
Brokaw again celebrates the trials and triumphs of the Americans who 
experienced the Depression and World War II. Album of Memories is a 
collection of letters written to Brokaw by those who lived during this 
period, and in some cases, their children. Complete with photographs and 
memorabilia, the overall emotional impact of these letters is intense. To 
read them is both a moving experience and an opportunity to experience 
history at its most intimate. 


  Our Price: $23.96  You Save: $5.99  (20%) ??? [IMAGE] Disaster! The Great 
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
by Dan Kurzman
 Just after 5 a.m. on April 18, 1906, an earthquake measuring 8.3 on the 
Richter scale ripped through sleeping San Francisco, toppling buildings, 
exploding gas mains, and trapping thousands of citizens beneath tons of 
stone, broken wood, and twisted metal. Drawing on meticulously researched and 
eye-witness accounts, Dan Kurzman re-creates one of the most horrific events 
of the 20th century. More riveting than fiction but incredibly true, 
Disaster! is unforgettable history--a masterful account of the calamitous 
demise and astonishing resurrection of an American city. --From the publisher


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New in Paperback
[IMAGE] In the Heart of the Sea : The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
by Nathaniel Philbrick
 
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Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor
by Robert B. Stinnett
 
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by Olivier Bernier
 
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the War
by Bob Greene
 
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Covert Lives and Classified Deaths at the CIA
by Ted Gup, Edward Kastenmeier(Editor)
 
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History Bestsellers
[IMAGE] Time Lord : Sir Sanford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time
by Clark Blaise
 The remarkable story of Sandford Fleming, the man who created and then 
convinced all the nations of the world to adopt a unified standard for 
telling time. Standard Time was one of the crowning achievements of Victorian 
progressiveness and one of the few Victorian innovations to have survived 
practically unchanged into our era. Few technological inventions have proven 
to be both as invisible and as important. In Time Lord, Clark Blaise 
introduces us to an almost-forgotten figure, who saw the world as a whole and 
overcame traditional and national objections to the rational accounting of 
time. --From the publisher


  Our Price: $19.20  You Save: $4.80  (20%) ??? [IMAGE] April 1865 : The 
Month That Saved America
by Jay Winik
 April 1865 is one of those rare, shining books that takes a new look at an 
old subject and changes the way we think about it. Jay Winik shows that there 
was nothing inevitable about the end of the Civil War, from the fall of 
Richmond to the surrender at Appomattox to the murder of Lincoln. Readers 
will come away with a new appreciation for that momentous month and a 
sharpened understanding of why and how the Civil War was fought. This is a 
magnificent work--surely the best book on the Civil War to be published in 
some time. 


  Our Price: $26.00  You Save: $6.50  (20%) ??? [IMAGE] Body of Secrets : 
Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency from the Cold War 
Through the Dawn of a New Century
by James Bamford
 A no-holds-barred examination of the National Security Agency packed with 
startling secrets about its past, newsbreaking revelations about its 
present-day activities, and chilling predictions about its future powers and 
reach. James Bamford first penetrated the wall of silence surrounding the NSA 
in 1982, with the much-talked-about bestseller, The Puzzle Palace. In Body of 
Secrets, he offers shocking new details about the inner workings of the 
agency, gathered through unique access to thousands of internal documents and 
interviews with current and former officials. --From the publisher


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