Michael Gannon. Black May; The Epic Story of the Allies’ Defeat of the German U-boats in May 1943. Naval Institute Press, Paper. 2010.
In May of 1943 a battle ranged at sea between a pact of German Unterseeboot, U-boats, and Allied warships, accompanying a convoy of 43 merchantmen traveling west in the North Atlantic from [...]
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Black May; The Epic Story of the Allies’ Defeat of the German U-boats in May 1943.
October 26th, 2011 · No Comments · Book Reviews, Local Interest
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Infinite City; A San Francisco Atlas.
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Rebecca Solnit. Infinite City; A San Francisco Atlas. University of California Press, 2010, paper.
In Infinite City Rebecca Solnit argues that a limitless amount of information can be gleamed by the diverse mappings of San Francisco and the Bay area. Each of these twenty-two representations of space is accompanied by an essay by Solnit and other [...]
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Wingless Eagle; U.S. Army Aviation through World War I.
October 26th, 2011 · No Comments · Book Reviews
Herbert Johnson. Wingless Eagle; U.S. Army Aviation through World War I. University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
This is a history of army aviation from the Wright brothers’ flight in 1903 through American involvement in World War I. We were woefully unprepared for any military participation in the war; Herbert Johnson demonstrates that this was [...]
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Malcolm X; A Life of Reinvention.
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Manning Marable. Malcolm X; A Life of Reinvention. Viking Press, 2011.
In February 1965, Malcolm Little – Malcolm X – was assassinated while speaking to an audience in west Harlem. Born in 1925, Malcolm had put a lot of life’s experiences under his belt by the time of his assassination. His father was a follower [...]
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