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.

Went to four ARC thrifts this weekend for their half-off Saturday sale, and also hit an estate sale where I picked up four really old yearbooks for next to nothing. One of them was from 1902, and the other three were before World War II! I haven’t purchased this many books in a really long time! I’m finding that estate sales can have a kind of depressing air about them, as usually someone has passed away and all of their things are for sale… right where that person lived, and maybe died. In this case, it was a dirty, dusty house full of stuff that had to have been a rough job for the people running the sale. The book selection was one of those odd situations where all of the books didn’t interest me at all, save for the yearbooks. But at least at sales like this, things can be both cheap, and still flexible in price. Also, many of the books I saw at one of the ARC stores gave off the possibility that some World War II vet had just passed away, or someone older with that kind of interest based on the volume of books and the date they were published. Another one of those sad realities.