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Kindle Daily Deal: In the Courts of the Sun - 06-24-2012

Kindle Daily Deal for 06-24-2012

Title: In the Courts of the Sun By Brian D'Amato



About: The year is 2012, and math prodigy Jed DeLanda is enlisted to decipher an ancient Mayan codex containing the secrets of the Sacrifice Game. It foretells the end of civilization, and only Jed can prevent the apocalypse by playing the game, which takes him on a mind-bending journey across time.

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“In the Courts of the Sun by Brian D’Amato is an enthralling and original read, a stunningly inventive novel that will keep you turning the pages until the wee hours. With the sure hand of a master storyteller, D’Amato weaves together Mayan history, modern science, game theory and the coming Mayan apocalypse to deliver a gripping read. Beware December 21, 2012!”
—Douglas Preston, author of The Codex and The Monster of Florence

"A remarkable, unique, stand-out book. Prodigious in its scope, its originality, its ambition, its intelligence, and the mastery of its research. In a word: awesome. Or brilliant. Make that two words: awesome and brilliant."
—Raymond Khoury, author of The Last Templar and The Sanctuary “Fans of the late Michael Crichton will welcome this engrossing thriller. . . . The period details are as convincing as those in Simon Levack’s superb Aztec mysteries.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred)

“Ambitious. . . . a richly detailed, intellectually stimulating adventure through time.”
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Language: English
# of Pages: 700
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Kindle Daily Deal: The Test - 06-25-2012

Kindle Daily Deal for 06-25-2012

Title: The Test By Patricia Gussin



About: Determined to leave more than money to his six children, billionaire Paul Parnell created a will that gives the lion's share of his estate to his heirs who pass a year-long morality test. The process forces Paul's very different children to face their personal demons and one incredibly evil influence.

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Patricia Gussin is a physician who grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan and practiced in Philadelphia. She and her husband, Bob, divide their time between Longboat Key, Florida, and East Hampton, New York. She is also the author of Shadow of Death and Twisted Justice.


Language: English
# of Pages: 284
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Published by Oceanview Publishing, on October 5, 2009.
 

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Kindle Daily Deal: How to Hepburn - 06-26-2012

Kindle Daily Deal for 06-26-2012

Title: How to Hepburn By Karen Karbo



About: This contemporary reassessment of Katharine Hepburn's life aims to learn what we can from the First Lady of Cinema's enduring persona. Karen Karbo teases unexpected lessons from analyzing Hepburn, one of America's greatest icons whose freewheeling determination redefined the image of the independent woman and endeared her to the world.

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Karen Karbo is the author of three novels, two works of nonfiction, and a memoir, all of which were named New York Times Notable Books. The Stuff of Life was a People Critic's Choice, a selection of the Satellite Sisters Radio Book Club, and winner of the Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. A past winner of the General Electric Young Writer Award, Karen is in addition the recipient of an NEA grant. Her essays, reviews, and articles have appeared in the New York Times, Redbook, Elle, Vogue, Esquire, the New Republic, and Self. She lives in Portland, Oregon.




Language: English
# of Pages: 212
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Published by Bloomsbury USA; 1 edition, on December 12, 2008.
 

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Kindle Daily Deal: Soldier's Joy - 06-27-2012

Kindle Daily Deal for 06-27-2012

Title: Soldier's Joy By Madison Smartt Bell



About: Thomas Laidlaw and his childhood friend Rodney Redmon grew up in the Deep South and fought in Vietnam. After the war, they reconnect and resume their lives amid dangerous and deep-rooted prejudice. This riveting portrait of two damaged souls seeking solace is masterfully written and stunning in its emotional resonance.

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Though in no way a typical "Vietnam novel," this major work by critically respected Bell concerns the postwar lives of two veterans from rural Tennessee. The two men are introduced separately, as Laidlaw (a white) returns to his dead father's land and teaches himself to play the banjo, while Redmon (a black) leaves jail (he'd been set up), works in a warehouse, and hangs out at a Muslim restaurant. When they meet up, these boyhood companions resume an uneasy friendship until local racial tension forces them to draw on their military training in a dramatic finale. With its well-developed characters and well-maintained tension for such a long story, this important, insightful novel belongs in most libraries.
- Ann H. Fisher, Radford P.L., Va.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.


Language: English
# of Pages: 465
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Published by Open Road, on December 6, 2011.
 

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Kindle Daily Deal: Devil Wind - 06-28-2012

Kindle Daily Deal for 06-28-2012

Title: Devil Wind By Deborah Shlian, Linda Reid



About: From the award-winning team of Deborah Shlian and Linda Reid comes a fast-paced thriller set in Los Angeles during a wind-whipped fire season. Stoking the city's heated tension is late-night radio personality Sammy Greene, who's targeting a popular politician. When someone Sammy knows is found dead, Sammy worries she's next.

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Deborah is a physician, healthcare consultant, and author of five award winning medical mystery/thrillers, three co-authored with her husband, Joel. Linda is a physician-broadcaster-author and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at UCLA. Deborah Shlian and Linda Reid are also authors of Dead Air, which won top honors in the Thriller category of the National Indie Excellence 2010 Awards.


Language: English
# of Pages: 394
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Published by Oceanview Publishing, on April 4, 2011.
 

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Kindle Daily Deal: Where Are They Buried - 06-29-2012

Kindle Daily Deal for 06-29-2012

Title: Where Are They Buried By Tod Benoit



About: This fascinating guide to the lives, deaths, and final resting places of the world's most influential figures has been revised with dozens of entries. From Kurt Cobain to Rosa Parks, each entry includes a capsule biography with little-known facts, a description of the subject's death, and directions to their grave.

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Tod Benoit is an entrepreneur who has logged more than 10,000 miles driving around the country in search of notable graves.


Language: English
# of Pages: 560
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Published by Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers; Rev Upd edition, on August 1, 2009.
 

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Kindle Daily Deal: The Vegas Knockout - 07-01-2012

Kindle Daily Deal for 07-01-2012

Title: The Vegas Knockout By Tom Schreck



About: Duffy Dombrowski accepted a dream job: chief sparring partner for Russian heavyweight contender Boris Rusakov. He heads to Vegas for the gig with his entourage in tow, but things turn nightmarish when the Russian mob shows up and a killer begins picking off friends and relatives of Duffy's gym buddies.

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Tom Schreck is the author of five novels, including On the Ropes and Out Cold . He graduated from the University of Notre Dame and has a master’s degree in psychology—and a black belt. He previously worked as the director of an inner-city drug clinic and today juggles several jobs: communications director for a program for people with disabilities, adjunct psychology professor, freelance writer, and world championship boxing official. He lives in Albany, New York, with his wife.


Language: English
# of Pages: 291
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Published by Thomas & Mercer, on May 15, 2012.
 

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Kindle Daily Deal: The Days of Summer - 07-02-2012

Kindle Daily Deal for 07-02-2012

Title: The Days of Summer By Jill Barnett



About: In 1957, oil magnate Victor Banning's family suffers a great upheaval after a tragic car accident in Los Angeles with music-business star Jimmy Peyton. In the decades after, the family's paths cross once again when Victor's grandsons, Jud and Cale, find themselves under the spell of Jimmy's beautiful daughter, Laurel.

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One night in 1957, two cars collide, and the repercussions of the fatal accident form a compelling tale. Orphaned brothers Jud and Cale are raised by their grandfather, Victor Banning, a ruthless corporate titan. Aspiring musician Jimmy Peyton leaves behind gold records and a four-year-old daughter, Laurel, who will be raised by his distraught wife and domineering mother. Years later the three survivors meet after Laurel, a precocious teenager who dreams of becoming a chef, has moved to Catalina, California. Laurel is initially smitten with Jud but then falls in love with his younger brother, Cale. Their long-brewing sibling rivalry erupts as they each fight for the love of lonely Laurel. Barnett delivers a well-written novel filled with enough emotion, passion, and drama to please Danielle Steel fans. Patty Engelmann
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Language: English
# of Pages: 516
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Published by Bell Bridge Books, on December 2, 2010.
 

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Kindle Daily Deal: The Minotaur - 07-03-2012

Kindle Daily Deal for 07-03-2012

Title: The Minotaur By Stephen Coonts



About: Navy fighter pilot Jake Grafton gets tapped to head a Cold War bomber program, and his nerve is tested when colleagues start dying and flights are sabotaged. Grafton will lose more than his career if he doesn't navigate a maze of espionage to find a deadly traitor, code-named the Minotaur.

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“Stephen Coonts, like Jake Grafton, just keeps getting better.” —Tom Clancy

“Wildly inventive . . . [Coonts] always seems to be a few months in front of the headlines and never gets a detail wrong.” —Ocala Star-Banner




Language: English
# of Pages: 450
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Published by Open Road, on December 28, 2010.
 

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Kindle Daily Deal: IndependenceNo author has traced the political journey of America's birth--from protest to revolution--with the narrative scope and flair of John Ferling. Independence - 07-04-2012

Kindle Daily Deal for 07-04-2012

Title: IndependenceNo author has traced the political journey of America's birth--from protest to revolution--with the narrative scope and flair of John Ferling. Independence By John Ferling



About: No author has traced the political journey of America's birth--from protest to revolution--with the narrative scope and flair of John Ferling. Independence takes readers from the cobblestones of Philadelphia to the halls of Britain's Parliament. It's the story of how freedom was won and an empire was lost.

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John Ferling is a professor emeritus of history at the State University of West Georgia. A leading authority on American Revolutionary history, he is the author of a number of books, including Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800; The First of Men: A Life of George Washington; and the award-winning A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic. His recent work Almost a Miracle was a history bestseller. Winner of the prestigious Audie Award for his recording of Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic by Gordon S. Wood, veteran actor Robert Fass is equally at home in a wide variety of styles, genres, characters, and dialects. Robert also earned an Earphones Award for his narration of Francisco Goldman's novel Say Her Name, which was named one of the Best Audiobooks of 2011 by AudioFile magazine. He has given voice to modern and classic fiction writers alike, including Ray Bradbury, Joyce Carol Oates, Isaac Asimov, Jeffrey Deaver, and John Steinbeck, plus nonfiction works in history, health, journalism, and business. For eleven years, Robert was featured weekly on the InTouch network, broadcasting selections from the New Yorker magazine to the visually impaired.



Language: English
# of Pages: 448
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Published by Bloomsbury Press, on June 15, 2011.
 

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Kindle Daily Deal: Life From Scratch - 07-05-2012

Kindle Daily Deal for 07-05-2012

Title: Life From Scratch By Melissa Ford



About: Divorced and heartbroken in a lonely New York apartment with a tiny kitchen, Rachel Goldman realizes she can't cook the simplest meal. Escaping into the culinary basics and blogging about it, Rachel becomes a minor celebrity, but will the attention help her get over an ex-husband she still loves?

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Language: English
# of Pages: 198
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Published by Bell Bridge Books, on December 1, 2010.
 

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Re: Kindle Daily Deal: How to Hepburn - 06-26-2012

Here's a pretty great deal on a book I've been meaning to check out:

Sasha: A Trial of Blood and Steel Book One

Digital List Price: $11.99
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Thanks for the reference...I downloaded it to my Kindle at no cost. Will let you know what I think when I read it...I'm on an Elizabeth George kick right now.
 

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Kindle Daily Deal: Macbeth: A NovelAuthors David Hewson and A. J. Hartley have transformed Shakespeare's Macbeth - 07-06-2012

Kindle Daily Deal for 07-06-2012

Title: Macbeth: A NovelAuthors David Hewson and A. J. Hartley have transformed Shakespeare's Macbeth By A.J. Hartley



About: Authors David Hewson and A. J. Hartley have transformed Shakespeare's Macbeth into a brooding thriller about an 11th-century Scottish lord and his beloved wife. Brimming with gripping, contemporary prose, the novel's electrifying tapestry of characters rides a spiral of murder, treachery, and personal collapse while struggling with clan warfare.

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British-born author A. J. Hartley is the Russell Robinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte and works as a scholar, screenwriter, dramaturg, and theater director. In addition to seven best-selling novels, he is the author of The Shakespearean Dramaturg; an upcoming performance history of Julius Caesar; a book on Shakespeare and political theatre; and numerous articles and book chapters. He also edits the performance journal, Shakespeare Bulletin, published by Johns Hopkins University Press. He is married with one son and lives in Charlotte.

David Hewson is the author of seventeen novels that have been published in twenty different languages. His first book, Semana Santa, was transformed into a movie, and his nine-book, Rome-based Nic Costa series is currently in development for television. Before devoting himself full-time to writing, he worked as a journalist for the London Times, the Sunday Times, and The Independent.



Language: English
# of Pages: 329
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Published by Thomas & Mercer, on May 22, 2012.
 

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Kindle Daily Deal: The Five People You Meet in Heaven - 07-07-2012

Kindle Daily Deal for 07-07-2012

Title: The Five People You Meet in Heaven By Mitch Albom



About: This poignant and profound novel tells the story of Eddie, the head maintenance person at Ruby Point Amusement Park. On his 83rd birthday, Eddie dies while trying to save a young girl. He awakens in heaven where five pivotal figures help him understand the meaning of his earthly life.

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"At the time of his death, Eddie was an old man with a barrel chest and a torso as squat as a soup can," writes Albom, author of the bestselling phenomenon Tuesdays with Morrie, in a brief first novel that is going to make a huge impact on many hearts and minds. Wearing a work shirt with a patch on the chest that reads "Eddie" over "Maintenance," limping around with a cane thanks to an old war injury, Eddie was the kind of guy everybody, including Eddie himself, tended to write off as one of life's minor characters, a gruff bit of background color. He spent most of his life maintaining the rides at Ruby Pier, a seaside amusement park, greasing tracks and tightening bolts and listening for strange sounds, "keeping them safe." The children who visited the pier were drawn to Eddie "like cold hands to a fire." Yet Eddie believed that he lived a "nothing" life-gone nowhere he "wasn't shipped to with a rifle," doing work that "required no more brains than washing a dish." On his 83rd birthday, however, Eddie dies trying to save a little girl. He wakes up in heaven, where a succession of five people are waiting to show him the true meaning and value of his life. One by one, these mostly unexpected characters remind him that we all live in a vast web of interconnection with other lives; that all our stories overlap; that acts of sacrifice seemingly small or fruitless do affect others; and that loyalty and love matter to a degree we can never fathom. Simply told, sentimental and profoundly true, this is a contemporary American fable that will be cherished by a vast readership. Bringing into the spotlight the anonymous Eddies of the world, the men and women who get lost in our cultural obsession with fame and fortune, this slim tale, like Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, reminds us of what really matters here on earth, of what our lives are given to us for.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.


Language: English
# of Pages: 224
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Published by ABC News; 1 edition, on April 1, 2007.
 

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Kindle Daily Deal: The Chaperone - 07-08-2012

Kindle Daily Deal for 07-08-2012

Title: The Chaperone By Laura Moriarty



About: Drawing on the rich history of the 1920s and beyond--from Prohibition, flappers, and the onset of the Great Depression to the burgeoning movement for equal rights for women--Laura Moriarty’s enthralling novel illustrates how rapidly everything, from fashion and hemlines to values and attitudes, was changing at this time.

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"The Chaperone is the enthralling story of two women . . . and how their unlikely relationship changed their lives. . . . In this layered and inventive story, Moriarty raises profound questions about family, sexuality, history, and whether it is luck or will—or a sturdy combination of the two—that makes for a wonderful life."—O, The Oprah Magazine

"In her new novel, The Chaperone, Laura Morirty treats this golden age with an evocative look at the early life of silent-film icon Louise Brooks, who in 1922 leaves Wichita, Kansas, for New York City in the company of 36-year-old chaperone, Cora Carlisle. . . . A mesmerizing take on women in this pivotal era."—Vogue

"With her shiny black bob and milky skin, Louise Brooks epitomized silent-film glamour. But in Laura Moriarty's engaging new novel The Chaperone, Brooks is just a hyper-precocious and bratty 15-year-old, and our protagonist, 36-year-old Cora Carlisle, has the not-easy mission of keeping the teenager virtuous while on a trip from their native Kansas to New York City. After a battle of wills, there's a sudden change of destiny for both women, with surprising and poignant results."—Entertainment Weekly

"Throughout The Chaperone, her fourth and best novel, Laura Moriarty mines first-rate fiction from the tension between a corrupting coastal media and the ideal of heart-of-America morality. . . . . Brooks's may be the novel's marquee name, but the story's heart is Cora's. With much sharpness but great empathy, Moriarty lays bare the settled mindset of this stolid, somewhat fearful woman—and the new experiences that shake that mindset up."—San Francisco Weekly

"Film star Louise Brooks was a legend in her time, but the real lead of The Chaperone is Cora Carlise, Brooks' 36-year-old chaperone for her first visit to New York City in 1922. As Cora struggles to tame Louise's free spirit, she finds herself moving past the safety of her own personal boundaries. In this fictional account of Cora and Louise's off-and-on relationship, Laura Moriarty writes with grace and compassion about life's infinite possibilities for change and, ultimately, happiness."—Minneapolis Star Tribune

“When silent film star Louise Brooks was a sexually provocative and headstrong 15-year-old from Kansas, she traveled with a chaperone to new York City to attend dance school. In this fascinating historical novel, her minder, Cora, struggles to keep her charge within the bounds of propriety but finds herself questioning the confines of her own life. Thorough Cora the world of early 20th-century America comes alive, and her personal triumphs become cause for celebration.”—People

"#1 Summer 2012 novel."—The Christian Science Monitor

"A fun romp."—Good Housekeeping

"Devour it."—Marie Claire

"The novel is captivating, and the last lines about Cora (you might think I’m giving everything away, but I’m not giving anything away—the story rolls through changes in terrain so subtle that it’s like a train from Wichita to New York and back) capsulate it all, revealing the richness of the saga.”—The Daily Beast

"The Chaperone," an enchanting, luminous new novel by Laura Moriarty, fictionalizes the tale of the very real caretaker who accompanied a 15-year-old Louise Brooks on the first leg of her journey to silent-movie stardom. . . . Moriarty is a lovely writer, warm and wise."—Cleveland Plain Dealer

"It is [Louise Brooks's] endearing and surprising companion Cora Carlisle—a sharply drawn creating—who is the heart and soul of this stirring story.”—Family Circle

“Set to be the hit of the beach read season.”—Matchbook

“The challenges of historical fiction are plentiful—how to freely imagine a person who really lived, how to impart modern sensibility to a bygone era, how to do your research without exactly showing your research. And yet, when this feat is achieved artfully (we’re talking Loving Frank or Arthur and George artfully), it can transport a reader to another time and place. Laura Moriarty’s new novel, The Chaperone, falls into this category.”—Bookpage



“It’s impossible not to be completely drawn in by The Chaperone. Laura Moriarty has delivered the richest and realest possible heroine in Cora Carlisle, a Wichita housewife who has her mind and heart blown wide open, and steps—with uncommon courage—into the fullness of her life. What a beautiful book. I loved every page.”—Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife

“What a charming, mesmerizing, transporting novel! The characters are so fully realized that I felt I was right there alongside them. A beautiful clarity marks both the style and structure of The Chaperone.”—Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab's Wife and Adam & Eve

The Chaperone is the best kind of historical fiction, transporting you to another time and place, but even more importantly delivering a poignant story about people so real, you'll miss and remember them long after you close the book.”—Jenna Blum, author of Those Who Save Us and The Stormchasers



Language: English
# of Pages: 377
File Size: 571 KB
Published by Riverhead, on June 5, 2012.
 

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Kindle Daily Deal: How To Slay a Dragon - 07-09-2012

Kindle Daily Deal for 07-09-2012

Title: How To Slay a Dragon By Bill Allen



About: Book one of Bill Allen's imaginative and entertaining "Journals of Myrth" fantasy series introduces 12-year-old Greg Hart, an easily-bullied boy who's taken by the magicians of Myrth to fulfill a prophecy. Everyone expects Greg to rescue King Peter's daughter from a dragon, but Greg's convinced it's all a horrible mistake.

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Language: English
# of Pages: 228
File Size: 609 KB
Published by Bell Bridge Books, on January 13, 2011.
 

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Kindle Daily Deal: The Coldest Winter - 07-10-2012

Kindle Daily Deal for 07-10-2012

Title: The Coldest Winter By David Halberstam



About: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam's brilliant chronicle of the Korean War provides nuanced portraits of the conflict's major figures within a compelling narrative of the war's political decisions and crucial battles. This account sheds light on a dark corner of American history and honors the men whose heroism it details.

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Reviewed by James BradyAt the heart of David Halberstam's massive and powerful new history of the Korean War is a bloody, losing battle fought in November 1950 in the snow-covered mountains of North Korea by outnumbered American GIs and Marines against the Chinese Communist Army.Halberstam's villain is not North Korea's Kim Il Sung or China's Chairman Mao or even the Soviet Union's Josef Stalin, who pulled the strings. It's the legendary general Douglas MacArthur, the aging, arrogant, politically ambitious architect of what the author calls the single greatest American military miscalculation of the war, MacArthur's decision to go all the way to the Yalu [River] because he was sure the Chinese would not come in.Much of the story is familiar. What distinguishes this version by Halberstam (who died this year in a California auto crash) is his reportorial skill, honed in Vietnam in Pulitzer-winning dispatches to the New York Times. His pounding narrative, in which GIs and generals describe their coldest winter, whisks the reader along, even though we know the ending.Most Korean War scholars agree that MacArthur's sprint to the border of great China with a Siberian winter coming on resulted in a lethal nightmare. Though focused on that mountain battle, Halberstam's book covers the entire war, from the sudden dawn attack by Kim Il Sung's Soviet-backed North Koreans against the U.S.-trained South, on June 25, 1950, to its uneasy truce in 1953. It was a smallish war but a big Cold War story: Harry Truman, Stalin and Mao, Joe McCarthy and Eisenhower, George C. Marshall and Omar Bradley, among others, stride through it. A few quibbles: there were no B-17 bombers destroyed on Wake Island the day after Pearl Harbor, as Halberstam asserts, and Halberstam gives his minor characters too much attention.At first MacArthur did well, toughing out those early months when the first GIs sent in from cushy billets in occupied Japan were overwhelmed by Kim's rugged little peasant army. MacArthur's greatest gamble led to a marvelous turning point: the invasion at Inchon in September, when he outflanked the stunned Reds. After Inchon, the general headed north and his luck ran out. His sycophants, intelligence chief Willoughby and field commander Ned Almond, refused to believe battlefield evidence indicating the Chinese Communists had quietly infiltrated North Korea and were lying in wait. The Marines fought their way out as other units disintegrated. In the end, far too late, Truman sacked MacArthur.Alive with the voices of the men who fought, Halberstam's telling is a virtuoso work of history. (Sept.)James Brady, columnist at Parade and Forbes.com, is author of several books about Korea. His latest book is Why Marines Fight (St. Martin's, Nov.).
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