This book features 176 paintings of World War II by John Hamilton. Looking at the research these photos required, and the skill, talent, and dedication by Hamilton, it is most impressive. I almost missed this book as it was in a random section of the thrift store’s books, and not where it was supposed to be!
Category: History
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John Singer Sergeant is a better artist than all of the “artists” of Modern Art put together.
020825 • Thrift Store Finds
This World War I book, I actually didn’t have, and it has an introduction by John Keegan. Published in 1980, I find it hard to believe I haven’t seen this book before at all of the book sales and thrift/book stores I’ve frequented over the years!
The Demon of Unrest was published within the year, a 2024 book and still has the original $18.99 price tag on it. I got it for nowhere near that much!
Scholar of Mahem is one of those first-person accounts that I like so much, so that was a no-brainer to pick up.
Bloodlands is a book I already had, and accidentally bought again. Turns out I had a beat-up paperback, and this one is hardback. So, everything worked out. And it looks to be a great book on a topic that is extremely interesting.
Magazine • America in WWII
I was at an estate sale on Thursday; there were some magazines I needed to come closer to completing my “America in World War II” set, published 2005-2019. Thirty cents apiece! While this magazine maintains a web site, they don’t appear to still be in print, which is too bad. Many magazines like this are going quarterly, thinner, or just disappearing.
Two New Book Sets
I just noticed that the books in the set on the right are inserted backwards in the case. I had to wait a week for these to become half-off, they were both a great deal! Good for me, but a shame that most people don’t give a hoot about these subjects.
011825 • Thrift Store Finds
Military Books on CD
I never see things like this at the thrifts: military books on cd! This was a great deal! I have read Helmet for My Pillow, which is one of the two books that the miniseries The Pacific is based on.
122924 • Thrift Store Finds
Another week of great finds! I had to leave some behind for various reasons, mostly price and lack of room for new books. But all of these are just great! Behind the Curtain is similar to another book I’ve read that was published around the same time, by another journalist except this one was trying to stay ahead of the Nazi advance, and the one in this book is describing how the Iron Curtain is from behind it. I could go on about each book here, but suffice to say, they all look to be great reading and good additions to my library. The most expensive books were only three dollars, at the ARC where for a while the standard for hardbacks had changed to nine, before the half-off Saturday discount. Most of these here were $1.50-$2.00. One or two of these are only a few years old, and we all know how expensive brand-new hardbacks are!
Report From Ground Zero • I sampled a few paragraphs from this before I bought it, and he was describing what it was like to find someone’s foot and leg bone, and what they did with it. We shouldn’t forget these things, all most people remember or know is the sight of the buildings burning, but there is so much more that happened.
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