Presidential Decoy chronicles the occasions top as much as the taking pictures in Dallas, the swap, and the making sure lifestyles and writings of the thirty fifth President of the United States.

From the Hardcover edition.

She left every thing in the back of to stick to her middle …

The enchanting precise tale of a British warfare bride after global conflict II.

June Baker observed the yank soldier strolling towards her. within the grey of wartime England, he appeared out of place—as if a blond superstar had simply dropped out of the sky. that they had a whirlwind courtship, and June fell in love with and married Borgy, the good-looking GI from St. Charles, Missouri. She eagerly expected her new lifestyles in the United States. but if the struggle ended, June was once horrified to profit they would be relocating to Germany—land of the enemy—instead. And similar to that, June's unforeseen trip all started …

June's tale is an advantage installment of the foreign bestseller GI Brides.

Is battle a traditional of humankind? What are the origins of struggle? Is the trendy kingdom depending on war? How does battle have an effect on the person, combatant or noncombatant? Can there be an finish to conflict? Keegan addresses those questions with a panoramic wisdom of historical past and the various different disciplines that experience tried to give an explanation for the phenomenon. the topics Keegan concentrates on during this brief quantity are necessary to our realizing of why struggle continues to be the one maximum disease of humanity within the twenty-first century, surpassing famine and affliction, its conventional companions.

From the alternate Paperback edition.

Are you a minutiae buff? a reputation nerd? A popular culture junkie?

POP tradition child NAMES: 1940s is a concise, exclusive reference that finds the fascinating tales in the back of approximately a hundred infrequent (but real!) child names that every one debuted within the U.S. throughout the 1940s.

For example, do you know that the child identify Jade -- which went directly to develop into extremely popular, many years later -- was once basically introduced in the US through a Katharine Hepburn motion picture in 1944?

The names during this publication spotlight every kind of unfashionable pop culture: video clips, comedian strips, tune, literature, activities, radio cleaning soap operas, and extra. in addition they characterize snippets of background, from WWII headlines to neighborhood human curiosity stories.

Long hidden within the information, those names have been unearthed by means of the blogger in the back of Nancy’s child Names, which has welcomed many hundreds of thousands of holiday makers on the grounds that 2006.

This e-book is without doubt one of the quirkiest chronologies of the ‘40s you’ll ever see, and it positive aspects proof in regards to the decade that you simply won’t locate at any place else.