The Bells of Nagasaki, Takashi Nagai I found this book in an antique store while on vacation in British Columbia, 2009. This is, to the best of my knowledge, the only account of the atomic bomb attacks that was personally written by one of the survivors. The only other like volumn was written by an […]
I picked up this book while on vacation in British Columbia and read it in its entirety during the vacation. An enormous number of books have been written about King Arthur and his knights. This book, long out-of-print, is the original and definitive “source book” of the actual textual evidence related to the legend. I’ve […]
Eisenhower and Latin America, Stephen Rabe The Foreign Policy of AntiCommunism Another addition to the library as it relates to my favorite President Forget where I found this. Read most of it on Metro but finished it while in the Air going to see pat and Theresa’s wedding. That was a GREAT time. From the […]
The Arts and Crafts of Travancore, Kramrisch, Poduval and Cousins Printed by the Royal India and Pakastan Society. Found this in an antique shop somewhere and just had to buy it. Travancore is a “province”, if that is the right term (and I doubt it is) for an area of India at the southern tip, […]
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Gilgamesh, A New English Version Simply put, this is my favorite story. Period. I own every copy of every translation that I have ever been able to locate and buy. It is difficult to explain why this is such a favorite….sorta like trying to explain why burnt-orange is my favorite color. The story touches on […]
I found this while traveling in New Mexico during our October, 2009 trip. It is the first book I have seen that treats of this subject so I jumped on it. This is an excellent reference for the subject but it has a clear tendency to address the high-end of this business, both in terms […]
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This is a companion to the other Collier’s book and was bought at the same time and from the same dealer as the first. This one is not in such great shape. I do not think we had this one at home when I was a child but I just had to buy it since […]
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Photographs by the Official Photographers Accompanying Each Army This is one of two such books that I bought at the DC Big Flea on 11/7/2009. This was a “buy on first sight” kinda thing….the reason being that my step-father had this book in our house when I was a child. I opened the book and […]
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What follows are some short reviews and comments related to the books that I have recently read. Chronologically, the most recent will be at the top and the oldest at the bottom. The content is generally derived from the notecard that I kept while reading. I’m not sure when I started the habit of keeping […]
The pictures contained here were those put together by Stacy Swann and myself for the funeral and wake. They are not in the same order as I have yet to figure out how to do that.