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Originally Posted by killdanzig
I am once again buried in WWII books.
Currently invested in Citizen Soldier by Stephen Ambrose. I just can't pull myself away from the ETO. I really need to move further east into the Pacific at some time.
My wife is in the middle of The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjorn Lomborg and the Oxford Book Of Modern Science Writing by Richard Dawkins (that title hurts my little pea-brain...  )
We are biding our time until volume 12 of The Walking Dead comes out, then it is a full on fight for first perusal  .
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You might like the Truman biography by David McCullough. It's a bigbook, but has a very detailed accounting of what was happening in th oval office as the Cold War started, plus a lot of stuff about the home front activities to try and stop war profiteering.