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Alicia 129 reviews
Alicia Appleman-Jurman
Bantam Press, 1990
A true tale of survival
Few people know the truth about the Holocaust, but Alicia experienced it. As Polish Jews, her family suffered greatly. She watched as her family was slowly picked off by the soldiers and then by starvation. She managed to escape with her life time and time again by using a combination of great fortune and her knowledge. She and her mother survived by her continued ability to work in fields for ...
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Truman317 reviews
David McCullough
Simon & Schuster, 1993
A Book Every American Should Read
The more US history I read, the more I am astonished how the decisions of one person can impact the course of human events so drastically. Following World War II, the US president was forced to make decisions that would impact the world for the next half century. It just so happened that the man in the White House at the time was a non college-educated regular guy from Missouri.
This book ...
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From A Name to A Number: A Holocaust Survivor's Autobiography164 reviews
Alter Wiener
AuthorHouse, 2007
unforgettable memories
This is a book everyone should read it will make you think.I've known Alter for six years hih is a kind and gentle person free of any predjuces considering the cruel treatment he went through,to know him is to learn a lesson in living read the book and you will understand.
There's one part not usually written or told what happens after your free it touches my heart when I read it,he was just ...
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With the Old Breed241 reviews
E.B. Sledge
Presidio Press, 2007
A first rate memoir of the WW2 Pacific island battles
An honest and very well written memoir from an enlisted marine who fought on the first lines in the WWII Pacific island battles of Peleliu and Okinawa.
John Master's memoir, "The Road Past Mandalay" covers the Burma war against the Japanese from the British side (and is a great book), but Sledge's "With The Old Breed" is better, since he was at much greater personal risk and describes the ...
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Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst The Rwandan Holocaust423 reviews
Immaculee Ilibagiza
Hay House, 2006
5 stars for a reason
As almost every other reviewer has said, this is an amazing story of faith. Immaculee Ilibagiza lived through a real life nightmare. Her faith and knowledge of the Word kept the atrocity from destroying her beautiful spirit. She does a wonderful job referring to the Bible and conveying her reliance upon Jesus during the most difficult days of her life.
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Boston's Gun Bible128 reviews
Boston T. Party, Kenneth W. Royce
Javelin Press, 2002
Quite Possibly the Best Gun Book Ever Written. But...
This book is NOT intended for hunters or competitive shooters. It IS a patriot's book; heavily political (i.e. libertarian). It is designed to be a militia man's gun reference book.
Aside from the two aforementioned subjects, the only other topics this book does not adequately cover are shotguns and (for some) pistols. It covers nearly everything else you can imagine, however: which states are ...
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The Forgotten Soldier: The Classic WWII Autobiography (Brassey's Commemorative Series WWII)162 reviews
Guy Sajer
Brassey's, 1990
Sobbering and Balanced
Echos of Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front" - this book's actual accounts will leave the reader mentally drained. The graphic reality of combat on the Eastern front are jaw dropping. Combat experiences are conveyed expertly without self-praise nor self-loathing - just the facts and the struggle. Politics are abscent. The story shows a man's journey and his witness to the horrors of ...
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The Revolution: A Manifesto855 reviews
Ron Paul
Hachette Audio, 2008
A Truthful Patriot Among a Den of Thieves
Chapter 1: The False Choices of American Politics. Dr. Ron Paul writes that his message is one of freedom and individual rights to life and liberty, and that physical aggression should only be used defensively (p. 5).
Chapter 2: The Foreign Policy of the Founding Fathers. Quotes Thomas Jefferson's call for "peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with ...
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End the Fed286 reviews
Ron Paul
Hachette Audio, 2009
Dreaming the 'impossible' dream
I had thought that I was almost alone in believing in sound money and the chance of America returning to a state of financial integrety. Thanks Ron Paul for renewing my faith!
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I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust179 reviews
Livia Bitton-Jackson
Simon Pulse, 1999
Amazing author - Livia Bitton-Jackson
At the time of the Holocaust, Elli was a very young girl. The Nazi regime killed many of her family, imprisoned her and so many others in concentration camps, kept them on starvation rations, and worked people to death. Truly terrible and tragic! It was extremely brutal, senseless, and ruthless violence against Jews and others.
What amazed me wasn't so much her story, but it was her ...
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The Law121 reviews
Frederic Bastiat
Blackstone Audiobooks, 1997
Never wrote an internet review in my life.
This book was absolutely amazing. I read it now, as a 27 year old military veteran trying to make sense of what is going on in the free market and I see we don't even have a free market. I get introduced to a couple crazy ideas about history predicting the mess we are in and I find things like "War is a Racket" and "The law" and I have to sit back and be amazed about how it took me 27 years to ...
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Peter the Great112 reviews
Robert K. Massie
Ballantine Books, 1981
Truly the Great
Robert Massie may be the best popular narrative historian of his generation, and "Peter the Great" is his greatest accomplishment to date.
Peter Romanov, as described by Massie, was a dynamo. "The most accurate image...is of a man who throughout his life was perpetually curious, perpetually restless, perpetually in movement." His energy and enthusiasm reminded me of Teddy Roosevelt and ...
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In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer97 reviews
Irene Opdyke
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1999
In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer, by Irene Gut Opdyke
"In My Hands" starts with the author writing to the reader that if she tried to tell you what really happened during the war, told you everything at once, you wouldn't understand it. She includes an image that you won't comprehend until later in the book, the image of a bird falling, a bird that is not a bird. And as you come to ...
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The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45108 reviews
Wladyslaw Szpilman
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 1999
Living more than five years in hell
I read this excellent book, here in Brazil.This book is amazing.The author, a polish jew is hunted to be exterminated, by nazists.And this happens for more than five years.All his family is murdered.He has famine and even tries the suicide, one time.
About the Warsaw uprising, the author writes on page 186:"I was walking down a broad main road, once busy and full of trafic.There was not a single ...
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No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah128 reviews
Bing West
Bantam, 2005
Definitely did his homework
This is one of the better books I've read on military history. It goes into detail explaining the story leading up to the battles that took place in Fallujah. The politics and personalities that made everything go into motion are described here, and give a great explanation of the developments leading into the historical battle. A must read for history fans or those that want to know what was ...
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The Anatomy of PEACE97 reviews
The Arbinger Institute
ReadHowYouWant, 2009
Great message, worth it for that (don't mistake this book for a story with a messge, its a lesson thats all)
I totally agree witht the philosophy that this book espouses. Its required reading for all those people out there with type A personalities and high blood pressure.
This isn't a book detailing some story with a hidden message, it describes characters at a weekend seminar detailing 'the anatomy of peace' the characters are entirely designed to present difficult questions on the subject, so that ...
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Nicholas & Alexandra110 reviews
Robert K. Massie
Scribner, 1972
Slightly outdated (in places), but still brilliantly written (details)
Here we have an aggregation of factual stories which effectively summarizes multiple historical events, chiefly of late-period Tsarist Russia, delivered by Robert K. Massie in the artful style of a great novelist.
The principal theme is that of the marriage and family life of Tsar Nicholas [Romanov] II and his wife, the German Princess Alexandra, their privileged fairy tale existence with ...
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A Rumor of War111 reviews
Philip Caputo
Pimlico, 1999
Tremendous Insight into American History
It's been a few years since I read this book, but I still remember it vividly. This autobiographical rememberance of one man's service in Vietnam is quite memorable. Anyone who thinks the U.S. should be sending soldiers to fight in the Middle East and Asia should definitely read this book for perspective. One of the main things I got out of this book was that there are just some wars that not are ...
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York119 reviews
Robert A. Caro
Knopf, 1974
Brilliant
If you combined Milton's "Paradise Lost" with New York State's tax code the result would be Robert Caro's "The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York." Here is a strong and powerful man - both physically and mentally - who in the morning would rush to work early in the morning, driven by and driving others with an imagination as prodigious and as wide as the Atlantic Ocean he would ...
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Iron Coffins99 reviews
Herbert A. Werner
Bantam, 1991
I Could Not Put It Down
What a unique and exciting story Herbert Werner has, and against all odds, he lived to tell about it. Iron Coffins is the story of Herbert Werner, beginning as an ensign aboard German u-boats (German submarines during World War II), chronicling his move up the ranks to finally captain a number of u-boats during the most deadly time of the war during which only about 15% of boats sent out on a ...
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