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Originally Posted by avantman42
The deal ends in just under four hours, so this may be too late to be of use, but the Amazon preview shows rather more:
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Yeah, again I regret that I didn't know about the deal earlier.
Heretofore, I haven't made any special effort to check WarGameVault's daily specials. Reason being, most of the specials are computer games and related items--manuals and such like. I have zero interest in those things. But, every couple of weeks or so, they offer an ebook on things like history. Those are things that I sink my teeth into.
Concerning the smallness of the preview at WarGameVault, I went to the publishers' website to see if they have a preview with any more or any different material, and on the product's webpage, it offered
a link to the "table of contents and excerpts." Well, the table of contents was there, but no excerpts.
(Speaking of the publisher, you might be interested in knowing that they had a price of $45.00 on the softcover on this book.)
Google Books is also a source for previews. They don't have previews on anywhere close to all of the books that they have. But when they have previews--I think that I am correct in saying this--they are always extensive. Their "snippet view," however, is next to worthless.
I have been wanting to compile a list of all of the places that I can come up with where a person possibly can find reviews on a book. There are several others, in addition to the retailers, the publisher, and Google Books. It's interesting to me that each source often has different parts of a book previewed.
You might find this interesting. I was looking for previews recently on an expensive scholarly book that I was interested in. By the time that I had found all of the previews, I realized that I might have on my hands the content of the entire book! Of course, there are at least two issues: 1) the legality of copying and compiling a book that way, and 2) the practicality of copying all of the text. And what would you have on your hands when you got through? A messy collage of texts.