To Crown The Waves and Soldiers of Destruction are books that are not common at thrifts, so I was fortunate to get them. The Napoleon book was under a dollar, and the Lions of the West is a great topic, the heroes and villains of westward expansion.
The DVD In Enemy Hands is a submariner war movie I’ve never even heard of, it is amazing that I even pulled it off the shelf as the name is so generic.
The BrahmsSymphony by Claudio Abbado is the the second I have by this conductor. It is difficult to pick this kind of title out of all the common ones that look just like it.
I like all kinds of books, new ones, old ones, deluxe leather-bound, guilded-paged editions, beat-up paperbacks, clean-cut pages or deckle-edged pages. I have a soft spot for beat-up books even though they are inanimate objects.
In this case, there are grease or oil stains on the cover and pages and, putting on my detective hat, this probably means that some mechanic was reading this at some point. Because the book was published in the 1970s, I would guess that maybe someone who was actually in the war fixing things, who would be interested in Nimitz enough to read about him. Most people couldn’t care less about Nimitz regardless as to whether they should. Apparently he was important enough to name the current class of aircraft carriers after, so, maybe he was a big deal.
There were other books at the thrift where I bought this that were also beat-up quite a bit, complete with spider-webs and caked-on dust on top of the books (that happens a lot, where someone passes away and the family had to grab all of the ‘worthless’ books and haul them to the thrift.)
So, that’s my guess. I’ll never know. But I’m reading it now with the idea that a former vet read it before me and did so for a reason.
I was reading the comments from another video on this topic, and it was all Canadians who were against anything from the U.S., all insisting on the 40-year old Gripen to replace their aged F-18 Hornets. A perfect example of patriotic bias against logic and the numbers. This video clearly spells out why the Gripen is a terrible idea for Canada going forward. In addition, this should have been decided years ago, but Canada’s governments have continually kicked this can down the road while almost every other NATO country has determined the F-35 was the best option going forward, including other far-north countries that also operate in extremely cold conditions.
Time/Life Books used to make great sets on all sorts of topics, and their World War II set was a big seller. After it was done, they continued by republishing classic World War II books in deluxe volumes, but I didn’t realize this until this week when I came across two of them. I already have some of the Civil War and Epics of Flight deluxe reprints, but these are the first World War II books I’ve ever seen. They aren’t cheap on eBay so hopefully I’ll stumble across more at the thrifts.
A classic example of why I keep a detailed list of my books: the problem of accidentally buying the same book on accident because it has a different cover and altered title. This time, as it often does, my list worked and I left the imposter at the store, but my version of the book wasn’t what I thought it was, it was actually a different reprint, and part of a series. A series that is very hard to find, especially with volumes added to the set after the original lineup proved popular. But, I digress.
Ideally, one would be familiar with every book in one’s library. Although, the great part of having a large library is being able to wander into things forgotten or unknown, or something that is just there when the interest in a topic comes to pass.
Some of this is about the thrill of the hunt, and here, it is the thrill of already having the hunted item, which is far more cost-efficient!
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