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Heinrich Harrer - Seven Years in Tibet

Heinrich Harrer - Seven Years in Tibet

In 1943, Heinrich Harrer, a youthful Austrian adventurer, mountaineer, and skier, escaped from a British internment camp in India ...
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Latest review by margyle Aug 9, 2001
"This book was an account of Henrich Harrer's escape from a Indian prisoner of war camp during the se..." Read full review

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Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Tiger: Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Seringapatam, 1799

Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Tiger: Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Seringapatam, 1799

<P> In a battery of events that will make a hero out of an illiterate private, a young Richard Sharpe poses as the enemy to bring down a ruthless ...
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Latest review by otochi Dec 12, 2008
"Sharpe's Tiger is a military fiction written by Bernard Cornwell and talks about the british wars in..." Read full review

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Michael Herr - Dispatches

Michael Herr - Dispatches

DISPATCHES is considered by many to be one of the finest nonfiction books on the Vietnam War. Assigned in 1967 to cover the war by Esquire magazine, ...
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Latest review by ChrisJarmick Dec 14, 2011
"&#8220;Talk about impersonating an identity, about locking into a role, about irony; I went to cover..." Read full review

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Sun Tzu II and Victoria Charles - The Art of War: The Oldest Military Treatise in the World

Sun Tzu II and Victoria Charles - The Art of War: The Oldest Military Treatise in the World

Twenty-Five Hundred years ago, Sun Tzu wrote this classic book of military strategy based on Chinese warfare and military thought. Since that time, ...

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Harry Turtledove - The Great War: Breakthroughs

Harry Turtledove - The Great War: Breakthroughs

During World War I, the United States of America and the Conferate States of American find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict, a situation ...
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Latest review by AliventiAsylum Mar 30, 2002
"Note: Review originally placed in correct category - problems with the epinions books database have..." Read full review

$7 - $8

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Penny Colman - Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front in World War II

Penny Colman - Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front in World War II

An account, based on interviews and other sources, of the women who replaced men in defense plants, factories, and offices and on farms during the ...

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Hermann Hesse - Steppenwolf

Hermann Hesse - Steppenwolf

The novel that influenced a whole generation. Steppenwolf is one of the greatest novels of the 1946 Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse (1877-1962). It ...
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Latest review by brian_lettsin Mar 8, 2007
"I have often wondered just how tenuous the link between man and wolf actually is. For me, there have..." Read full review

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Linda Windsor - Maire: A Novel

Linda Windsor - Maire: A Novel

Taking a reformed mercenary hostage during a raid, a Gleannmara warrior queen learns that her captive is a Christian and initially dismisses him as a ...

$3

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Jack Whyte - The Eagles' Brood: The Camulod Chronicles

Jack Whyte - The Eagles' Brood: The Camulod Chronicles

The saga of Camulod--founded by the descendants of those brave Romans who forged a new way of life for Celt and Roman together after the departure of ...
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Latest review by mcdougall623 Nov 27, 2006
"General The world of Camulod is in its period of transition. Forced to be self-sustaining with the d..." Read full review

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Roddy Doyle and Gerard Doyle - A Star Called Henry

Roddy Doyle and Gerard Doyle - A Star Called Henry

Henry Smart, born into poverty in Ireland, son of a teenage button-maker and a wanted murderer, joins the IRA, and eventually emigrates. Paddy ...
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Latest review by RonFranscell Jun 22, 2000
"The Irish life is an exuberant, cantankerous harmony with a choir of ghosts. In Eire, the past is pa..." Read full review

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Isaac Asimov - Second Foundation

Isaac Asimov - Second Foundation

The third volume of the legendary "Foundation" series concludes this initial--Asimov and others have further explored it in many other ...
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Latest review by cdm72 Aug 22, 2010
"It only took 2 previous novels and over 500 pages, but finally, with SECOND FOUNDATION, Isaac Asimov..." Read full review

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John G. Neihardt and Fred Contreras - Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

John G. Neihardt and Fred Contreras - Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

This is the autobiography of Black Elk, a Lakota Indian fighting for freedom at the end of the 19th century, as told to author John G. Neihardt. ...
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Latest review by treeseed Feb 24, 2004
"This is perhaps the most difficult review I have ever undertaken to write because I hold this book a..." Read full review

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John Scalzi - Old Man's War

John Scalzi - Old Man's War

Enlisting in the army on his seventy-fifth birthday, John Perry joins an interstellar war between Earth and alien enemies who would stake claims on ...
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Latest review by ssjakira1 Jun 15, 2010
"I shouldn't be, I really shouldn't be, but I have an image in my mind of what a science fiction nove..." Read full review

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Jack Whyte - The Eagle: The Concluding Volume of the Camulod Chronicles

Jack Whyte - The Eagle: The Concluding Volume of the Camulod Chronicles

In the epic conclusion of the author's retelling of the Arthurian cycle, Arthur, his beautiful queen Guinevere, and Lancelot share a vision of ...

$7 - $8

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