Customer Review: It's not that I object to messages about the benefits of a vegan lifestyle (which many of my close friends practice btw) or that I mind direct, candid, witty communications. HOWEVER - I strongly object to being mislead into making a purchase by positioning that totally misrepresents the intent of... more info
Customer Review: My sister gave me this book for Christmas, saying it was one of the best books she had read in some time. I was fascinated by her description, and started the book the next day. I finished it the next morning. I found it eminently readable and fascinating. I was a history major in college, and had... more info
Customer Review: This book is a difficult read. The author has to "imagine" what it was like back in the day when this lady lived. She references that many times because she (or anyone) does not have any facts regarding the exact life of this subject in her early years. This book is only for people who are really,... more info
Customer Review: Always heard about the man and the book but it was difficult trying to follow and understand. Gave up three quarters of the way through. Did learn a little something though.
Customer Review: Erudite, yet accessible; dead serious, but delivers its dire warnings with a good dose of wit and humor. This is one of the most important books of recent days, and it's one we'll take off our shelves to reread in ten years and wonder how we all could have been so blind to what was going on around... more info
Customer Review: This astonishing and very moving book is based on Elie Wiesel's youth in concentration camps during WW2. It begins with his childhood in Hungary, then his family's incarceration in a Jewish ghetto, then to Auschwitz (where he last sees his mother and sister) and later to Buchenwald. "Night" is made... more info
Customer Review: Along with Mithen's After The Ice, this is the most enjoyable book on European prehistory that I have read. Filled with colorful maps and photos that follow along with the text descriptions, written elegantly and with enough detail to not seem too "dumbed-down" for the layman. If every professor or... more info
Customer Review: This is an excellent follow on to "An Army at Dawn". These books should be required reading in all high school history classes.
Atkinson gives you a view of the war's events from several different perspectives quoting official documents all the way to letters home. All in all a very... more info
Customer Review: Ambrose is the master historian. He made history interesting again. He does it by telling the stories of regular people -- not armies, not generals, not national leaders, but rather, the common GI Joe. He did all veterans a great service in his writing. He will be missed. Don't think you know this... more info
