Presidents at War: From Truman to Bush, The Gathering of ...
 Author: Gerald Astor Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 355.03357309045 EAN: 9780471696551 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0471696552 Number Of Pages: 336 Publication Date: 2006-07-31 [... more]
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Semper Fi in the Sky: The Marine Air Battles of World War II
Author: Gerald Astor Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 940.544973 EAN: 9780891418771 ISBN: 0891418776 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: 2005-11-29 Release Date: 2005-11-29 [... more]
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Battling Buzzards: The Odyssey of the 517th Parachute ...
Quality history of a special unit.: This is an excellent book about one of WWII's special forces-an Airborne Regimental Combat Team. The accounts range from gruesome to hillarious, and cover both the combat and the non-combat parts of this unit's history. [... more]
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Operation Iceberg: The Invasion and Conquest of Okinawa ...
Cost of information per the book and it's offering.: I was reading this book primarily for details to add to a genealogy project. This book supplied me with an amazing amount of the basic information about the invasion. Price is OK for a paperback. Some [... more]
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The Mighty Eighth: The Air War in Europe as Told by the ...
Where are the editors & proofreaders?: I just started this, am about 25 pages in, & have found a couple of glaring errors already. I hope things improve, since I bought this after reading a number of reviews, such as the preceeding ones. BTW, [... more]
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The Bloody Forest: Battle for the Hurtgen: September ...
Not definitive...not interesting: The Bloody Forest is an account of the battle of the Huertgen Forest, which took place during the fall of 1944. As with all of Astor's books, this is an "oral history". This means it's really a book based on [... more]
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June 6, 1944: The Voices of D-Day
Excellent - An Accurate Portrayal: I found Astor's book to be an excellent read. He lets the soldiers tell their own stories and does not exclude any of the blood-and-gut comments. You get an accurate portrayal of what the invasion must have been like [... more]
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Crisis in the Pacific: The Battles for the Philippine ...
From Amazon.com: The fighting that waged across the Philippines during World War II ranks among the most vicious in the annals of war. Nearly 80,000 Americans and Filipinos were taken prisoner on Bataan, the name of which is forever linked with the [... more]
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Wings of Gold: The U.S. Naval Air Campaign in World War II
A very interesting oral history collection: Astor's book takes a look at the Pacific theater air campaigns of the Second World War from the perspectives of the U.S. Navy aviators who participated in them. The numerous interviews with aviators, and their [... more]
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A Blood-Dimmed Tide: The Battle of the Bulge by the Men ...
It's an oral history, not a detailed strategic discussion.: Potential readers of this excellent book should realize that it is in the "oral history" context, not a detailed discussion of German and Allied strategy. It does not present its story, [... more]
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The Jungle War: Mavericks, Marauders and Madmen in the ...
Author: Gerald Astor Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5425 EAN: 9780471273936 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0471273937 Number Of Pages: 400 Publication Date: 2004-07-02 [... more]
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