FREE/BARGAIN - Non-Fiction - 2015

[TrevorViking]

Eleven hours of Russian Roulette?! That's gotta be a record.

[GtrsRGr8]

The Whispersync deal on Russian Roulette would have been better placed in the "Audiobooks" thread. However, the ebook itself is a great buy right now ($1.99).

[GtrsRGr8]

Tragically, many of the soldiers of this unit drowned before they could ever participate in the fighting on D-Day. The soldiers' recollection of that situation will be particularly sad, I'm sure.

D-Day was just one of many formidable challenges that "the Screaming Eagles" faced over the years, and with great bravery and skill. This ebook should be a great read about this very highly decorated U.S. Army division.

The rating (4.5) is almost amazing, considering that this is primary source material.

The price of $1.99 right now makes the ebook a terrific bargain--it's only 13% of the digital list price.

D-Day with the Screaming Eagles. By George Koskimaki. Rated 4.5 stars, from 29 reviews at the present moment. Print list price $7.99; digital list price $14.99; Kindle price $1.99. Casemate Publishers. 384 pages. http://www.amazon.com/D-Day-Screamin...BEQWV742PS1DH5.

Book Description
Many professional historians have recorded the actions of D-Day but here is an account of the airborne actions as described by the actual men themselves, in eyewitness detail.

Participants range from division command personnel to regimental, battalion, company, and battery commanders, to chaplains, surgeons, enlisted medics, platoon sergeants, squad leaders and the rough, tough troopers who adapted quickly to fighting in mixed, unfamiliar groups after a badly scattered drop. And yet they managed to gain the objectives set for them in the hedgerow country of Normandy.

This book is primary source material. It is a “must read” for anyone interested in the Normandy landings, the 101st Airborne Division, and World War II in general. Hearing the soldiers speak is an entirely different experience from reading about the action in a narrative history.

[GtrsRGr8]

The author of this book, Andrew Bridgeford, has a new, alternative interpretation of the meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry. I'm skeptical.

However, the book is certain to present a lot of historical information about the Norman Conquest of England and the Tapestry, whether the author is right or wrong about his interpretation. That's why I've bought it. Of course, it has to be highly rated, and it is that (4.4 stars). And it has to qualify as a great "bargain," and it does that (83% off of the digital list price).

I sure hope that the missing panel of the Tapestry shows up one day. In my lifetime, I mean. ha. Maybe it will give information that will lead to a definitive interpretation.

1066: The Hidden History in the Bayeux Tapestry. By Andrew Bridgeford. Rated 4.4 stars, from 33 reviews at the present moment. Print list price $19.99; digital list price $11.99; Kindle price now $1.99. Walker Books, publisher. 354 pages. http://www.amazon.com/1066-Hidden-Hi...J93S2HR1KYWGSB.

Book Description
For more than 900 years the Bayeux Tapestry has preserved one of history's greatest dramas: the Norman Conquest of England, culminating in the death of King Harold at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Historians have held for centuries that the majestic tapestry trumpets the glory of William the Conqueror and the victorious Normans. But is this true? In 1066, a brilliant piece of historical detective work, Andrew Bridgeford reveals a very different story that reinterprets and recasts the most decisive year in English history.

Reading the tapestry as if it were a written text, Bridgeford discovers a wealth of new information subversively and ingeniously encoded in the threads, which appears to undermine the Norman point of view while presenting a secret tale undetected for centuries-an account of the final years of Anglo-Saxon England quite different from the Norman version.

Bridgeford brings alive the turbulent 11th century in western Europe, a world of ambitious warrior bishops, court dwarfs, ruthless knights, and powerful women. 1066 offers readers a rare surprise-a book that reconsiders a long-accepted masterpiece, and sheds new light on a pivotal chapter of English history.

[Dngrsone]

The write-up is good... I'll bite, thanks!

[Fbone]

The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way by Bill Bryson is $1.99 everywhere.

http://smile.amazon.com/Mother-Tongu...ue+bill+bryson

[GtrsRGr8]

Non-fiction book about fiction writers. ha.

Dark Quartet: The Story of the Brontes. By Lynne Reid Banks. Rated 4.7 stars, but from only 3 reviews at the present moment; rated 3.97, from 152 ratings at GoodReads. Print list price N/A; regular(?) digital price $3.99; Kindle price now $0.99. Endeavor Press, publisher. 416 pages. http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Quartet-L...ustomerReviews.

Book Description
The Bronte sisters - Charlotte, Emily and Anne - are some of the best-known, and best-loved, English authors.

But less well-known were the two other Bronte sisters, Maria and Elizabeth, who died before reaching adulthood, and their brother Branwell, who was haunted by his own demons until his death in his thirties.

Their home, Haworth Parsonage, stood on the edge of the Yorkshire Moors like a rock in a tempest.

After the death of Maria and Elizabeth, the four remaining children returned to its cheerless rooms and dreamed their wild and shining fantasies, bound together by a mutual passion for literature and for their beloved moors.

Forced by poverty to emerge from Haworth to earn their living, the sisters were set free to write their extraordinary novels.

But for their brother, it meant ruin.

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Non-fiction book about fiction writers. ha.

Dark Quartet: The Story of the Brontes. By Lynne Reid Banks. Rated 4.7 stars, but from only 3 reviews at the present moment; rated 3.97, from 152 ratings at GoodReads. Print list price N/A; regular(?) digital price $3.99; Kindle price now $0.99. Endeavor Press, publisher. 416 pages. http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Quartet-L...ustomerReviews.

Book Description
The Bronte sisters - Charlotte, Emily and Anne - are some of the best-known, and best-loved, English authors.

But less well-known were the two other Bronte sisters, Maria and Elizabeth, who died before reaching adulthood, and their brother Branwell, who was haunted by his own demons until his death in his thirties.

Their home, Haworth Parsonage, stood on the edge of the Yorkshire Moors like a rock in a tempest.

After the death of Maria and Elizabeth, the four remaining children returned to its cheerless rooms and dreamed their wild and shining fantasies, bound together by a mutual passion for literature and for their beloved moors.

Forced by poverty to emerge from Haworth to earn their living, the sisters were set free to write their extraordinary novels.

But for their brother, it meant ruin.

£0.99 incl tax in UK

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Quartet...dp/B00O43B21A/

[AnemicOak]

Next Stop Execution: The Autobiography of Oleg Gordievsky by Oleg Gordievsky - Freebie

Oleg Gordievsky was the highest ranking KGB officer ever to work for Britain.

For eleven years, from 1974 to 1985, he acted as a secret agent, reporting to the British Secret Intelligence Service while continuing to work as a KGB officer, first in Copenhagen, then in London.

He gave Western security organizations such a clear insight into the mind and methods of the KGB and the whole system of Soviet Government that he has been credited with doing more than any other individual in the West to accelerate the collapse of Communism.

Here for the first time his extraordinary, meticulously planned escape from Russia is described.

Peopled with bizarre, dangerous and corrupt characters, Gordievsky’s story introduces the reader to the fantastical world of the Soviet Embassy, tells of the British MPs and trade unionists who helped and took money from the KGB, and reveals at last what the author told Margaret Thatcher and other world leaders which made him of such value to the West.

Gordievsky’s autobiography gives a fascinating account of life as a secret agent. It also paints the most graphic picture yet of the paranoia and incompetence, intrigues and sheer nastiness of the all-encompassing and sometimes ridiculous KGB.

“Gripping.” – Luke Harding, Guardian correspondent and author of Mafia State: How one reporter became an enemy of the brutal new Russia

[Froide]

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

Charles River Editors

The Hundred Days Offensive: The History of the Final Campaign of World War I

The Firebombing of Tokyo: The History of the U.S. Air Force's Most Controversial Bombing Campaign of World War II


http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-...=charles+river

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=searc...=charles+river
http://www.amazon.ca/s/?url=search-a...=charles+river

These are non-fiction, so I've cross-posted them from the historical fiction thread where I saw them.

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by Froide

These are non-fiction, so I've cross-posted them from the historical fiction thread where I saw them.

Thank you. Just a mistaken post rather than a suggestion that they ought to be reclassified.

My library once classified "Pricing Second-hand Cars" under Science-Fiction.

Charles River Editors

Legends of the West: The History of the James-Younger Gang

The End of World War II in Europe: The History of the Final Campaigns that Led to Nazi Germany's Surrender

The End of World War II in the Pacific: The History of the Final Campaigns that Led to Imperial Japan's Surrender


http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-...=charles+river

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=searc...=charles+river
http://www.amazon.ca/s/?url=search-a...=charles+river

[Little.Egret]

Copyright !

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The Copyright Act provides guidance for determining fair use, as follows:

17 U.S.C. §107. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include—

(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;

(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;

(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and

(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors.
The fairness of a particular use is determined on a case-by-case basis, applying an equitable rule of reason analysis. Pieczenik v. Bayer Corporation, (Fed. Cir. 2012)

[Athens80]

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

Fair Use Doctrine (Intellectual Property Law Series) (2763 pp) by LandMark Publications

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[Difflugia]

The updated 2008 edition of the classic The Joy of Sex by Dr. Alex Comfort is $1.99.
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[murg]

Originally Posted by Difflugia

The updated 2008 edition of the classic The Joy of Sex by Dr. Alex Comfort is $1.99.
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