Mindful of the variety of interests different readers will take in South Africa's past, publishers have come out with a range of Boer war books, old and new.
Balkoski said he had mixed feelings about the situation because Ambrose's books have done so much to interest the public in World War II books, and because Ambrose wrote the forward to a 1999 softcover edition of Beyond the Beachhead.
They are going to lose the books war because Kindle is not infiltrating the schools the way Apple is.
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Robert Kaplan, a writer from the Atlantic Monthly who has written highly regarded books about war.
His personal study, which was designed to house a 17-by-28-foot Persian rug from the late 1800s, is filled from floor to ceiling with valuables, ranging from gilded fore-edge books to war memorabilia, a brandy bottle left in his guest house by Kennedy Onassis, and even what he says is Sitting Bull's pipe.
Mr Carter apparently read more than 35 books on the war in preparation, and spent seven years writing The Hornet's Nest.
"I've never seen a veteran more qualified to be buried at Arlington, " said O'Donnell, author of several books on World War II.
As for Cornelius Ryan, he was the Stephen Ambrose of his time, in the sense that he wrote massively popular books about the war against Hitler's Germany.
Books tell me that war is an occasion for solidarity and a great national rising above.
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As long as there are journalists willing to risk it all in war zones, there will be books that provide the kind of reportorial insights unavailable from soldiers, the Pentagon and the White House.
Two books set in cities at war, two in cities yet to be consumed by fire.
Dobbs cleverly rebranded himself as a populist, writing such books as Exporting America and War On The Middle Class.
Ryan, who was born in Ireland in 1920, covered World War II as a war correspondent before he turned to writing books.
In the history books, the Second World War can appear as a series of crises and conflicts, following an inevitable course from Pearl Harbor to the coast of Normandy to the deck of the Missouri.
Thanks to them, the Cold War is now another chapter in the history books.
The warm space overflows with espionage books and hard-won Cold War-era collectibles.
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It lasted 15 years with an estimated 150, 000 dead and yet, the war is not even mentioned in school history books, says playwright Rabih Mroue.
It is also a quasi-Freudian biblio-adventure, looping and twisting through the streets of post-war Barcelona and in among the pages of books, in search of lost fathers and sons, mothers and daughters.
Jason amasses a collection of motivational books and CDs with titles like Business Is War!
Lehman is the author of numerous books, including Command of the Seas, Making War, and On Seas of Glory.
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The 200-year-old Wiley doesn't publish War and Peace, but it has a firm position in consumer books (CliffsNotes, the For Dummies series and Frommer's guidebooks) and textbooks.
"They'll think we're obsessed with World War II, " Alex quipped, looking at our shelf filled with history books.
The Longest War: The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict, Dilip Hiro, Paladin Grafton Books, 1990.
Around half Vietnam's people were born after the war, he says, so for them it is something for the history books.
Obama should do what Lincoln did when he sensed that he wasn't getting war-winning advice from his generals and his military advisers--get books on economics and start learning more about the subject from new sources.
Formhals told him the books came from the estate of the late Neville Duke, a famous World War II fighter pilot who lived in Milford on Sea.
Mr Formhals told him the books came from the estate of the late Neville Duke, a famous World War II fighter pilot who lived in Milford on Sea.
Senator Claire McCaskill is calling the FAA out on its authorization of pilots to use iPads in the cockpit and flight attendants to use devices of their own, while restricting passengers from reading books on e-readers -- "A flying copy of 'War and Peace' is more dangerous than a Kindle, " she told the Times.
The books, which Mr Warren's father brought back to America as a German war souvenir in 1945, are among only ten surviving examples.
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