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Old 11-29-2016, 09:12 PM   #691
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This is one of the best books on the Korean War I have read. Not only do you get a comphrensive look at the miltary campaigns of this war the author also pulls back from the battlefied and puts the war in it's proper historical context as an outlier of WW2 and shows how the global political chess game that the United States and her Allies and the Soviet Union, China and there satellites were playing dictated how this war was fought. It also gives a good overview of effects of the war on global politics up to when the book was written in the mid 1960's. I consider this to be the seminal work on the Korean War even though we now have far more information from all three of the major players then T. R. Fehrenbach had when he wrote the book.
Thanks for your comments.

I passed up on the book simply because I just don't have time to do non-work related reading, and it doesn't look like things will get better anytime soon. I have some time to listen to audiobooks, however, and wish there had been a Whispersync deal on this one. Maybe I'll find the audio (cheap) of it one of these days. One of the libraries with which I have borrowing privileges may have it--I need to check.

There is a very cheap (though not with the size of the markdown of the one above) ebook showing up in the markdown lists today that I would have liked to have had. Same issue keeping me from grabbing it. It is about these guys who gathered intelligence and operated radios behind enemy lines, on mountains in the jungles (Pacific Theater, of course), during WWII. WWII, and also the Korean War to a lesser extent, are interests of mine.

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Old 11-30-2016, 09:37 AM   #692
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Why not grab the book at this price and save it for when you do have time? I have a ton of books I've bought at great prices and am saving for when I retire.
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Old 11-30-2016, 09:39 AM   #693
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And pray, what is the title of the book about the "guys who gathered intelligence and operated radios behind enemy lines, on mountains in the jungles (Pacific Theater, of course), during WWII." I'd like to find that.
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And pray, what is the title of the book about the "guys who gathered intelligence and operated radios behind enemy lines, on mountains in the jungles (Pacific Theater, of course), during WWII." I'd like to find that.
If you are going to mention a great sounding book like this one please tell us the title. I need more books to add to my never going to get to a eighth of them pile.
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Lonely Vigil: Coastwatchers of the Solomons (Bluejacket Books) by Walter Lord

I recognized the title, as I did pick it up. still $1.99

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Lonely Vigil: Coastwatchers of the Solomons (Bluejacket Books) by Walter Lord

I recognized the title, as I did pick it up. still $1.99

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0078X73H0/
That is it. Thanks, Koland.

I didn't mention the title, because I didn't remember it.
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Why not grab the book at this price and save it for when you do have time? I have a ton of books I've bought at great prices and am saving for when I retire.
On my budget, I have to set priorities severely (there's no need or desire to go into details). I still buy quite a few ebooks and audiobooks--I bought four in this most recent Audible sale, at a total cost of about $25, I think.

Given circumstances, my stratagem is to 1) check the libraries and 2) buy in the future.
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Charles River Editors has a handful (maybe as many as 10) of free books that seem not to be repeats. Unfortunately, they are intermixed with repeats.

Here's a link of the ebooks, sorted low to high. The first one, for some reason, is actually not a CRE book (however, it is free, and you might enjoy it--it's a 40-page booklet with a Christmas story by Lyman Frank Baum, of The Wizard of Oz fame). Once you get down the list to the Adam Smith ebook on the Wealth of Nations, then the ebooks cost you money.
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I only see 11, few (no?) repeats in my list.
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On my budget, I have to set priorities severely (there's no need or desire to go into details). I still buy quite a few ebooks and audiobooks--I bought four in this most recent Audible sale, at a total cost of about $25, I think.

Given circumstances, my stratagem is to 1) check the libraries and 2) buy in the future.
Yes, I see. I check the libraries too.
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Charles River Editors, free

Mysterious London: A History of Ancient Mysteries, Odd Individuals, and Unusual Legends across the English Capital

Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris: The Lives and Legacies of the Two Martial Arts Stars

Rome's Most Notorious Defeats: The History and Legacy of the Battle of Cannae and the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest

America's Most Notorious Natural Disasters: The Great Chicago Fire, the Johnstown Flood, the Galveston Hurricane, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, the Okeechobee Hurricane, and Hurricane Katrina

The Apache and Comanche: The History and Legacy of the Southwest's Most Famous Warrior Tribes

The Texas Revolution: The History and Legacy of the Lone Star State's War for Independence from Mexico

World War II in the Arctic: The History of the Aleutian Islands Campaign and Nazi Germany's Arctic Invasion of the Soviet Union

America's Most Notorious Domestic Terrorists: The Life and Crimes of the Unabomber and Timothy McVeigh


See all

https://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search...ld-title=-kids

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=sear...ld-title=-kids
https://www.amazon.ca/s/?url=search-...ld-title=-kids

Repeat spotting is hard due, eg, to Charles River Editors pattern of TITLE A, TITLE B then TITLE A+B

and Mysterious England: Monsters, Mysteries, and Magic Across the English Nation 25 Sep 2016 probably repeats some of
Mysterious London: A History of Ancient Mysteries, Odd Individuals, and Unusual Legends across the English Capital 2 Dec 2016
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Repeat spotting is hard due, eg, to Charles River Editors pattern of TITLE A, TITLE B then TITLE A+B

Yes. but if you sort by publication date (may have to "narrow" by clicking on Kindle books on left side), you get about a 85% probability of selecting only new ones the first time. I generally pick the first one I think I have also, just to be sure...
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Thanks LE! Great list.

Dashiell Hammett was stationed in the Aleutian Islands, so I will be extra interested in that one.
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