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Gary Santos
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A Grand Pause: A Novel on May 14, 1945, the USS Randolph, Kamikazes, and the Greatest Air-Sea Rescue
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2023
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2 editions
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Bill Bleyer Lecture
I attended a fascinating lecture by author Bill Bleyer on the naval history of Long Island. Even before the United States was founded, Patriots carried out the nation's first amphibious landings on Long Island against British strongholds. Bleyer traced the island's rich maritime history through every major conflict, including the Civil War—where Confederate commerce raiders threatened local waters
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| I’m continually amazed by the versatility of authors. I can only write about aviation. However, Josh Dean started as a sports journalist and has written what I consider the definitive history of Lockheed’s Skunk Works. In The Impossible Factory, he d ...more | |
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| The A.B.C. Murders was my first encounter with Agatha Christie using an unusual story structure, with Captain Hastings following Hercule Poirot and recounting much of the story in the first person. Yet, there are brief interludes in the third person. ...more | |
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| Bellanca CF by Jay Spenser is less a biography of the Bellanca CF than a concise history of Bellanca aircraft. Spenser traces Giuseppe Bellanca's innovative designs, the company's rise during aviation's Golden Age, and the aircraft that made the Bell ...more | |
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| A Study in Scarlet is my first Sherlock Holmes story, and fittingly, it's also the detective's origin story. Holmes' legendary power of deduction has become so ingrained in popular culture that it feels like a cliché, but Arthur Conan Doyle meticulou ...more | |
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| Ernest Gann's The High and the Mighty is one of the most gripping aviation novels I've ever read. It's far more than an airliner in trouble, it's a masterclass in building suspense with believable characters. Every passenger feels like a suspect in a ...more | |
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I came away from Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream somewhat disappointed, probably more to do with my expectations than the quality of the book itself. I expected a traditional political biography with detailed accounts of the major events of John ...more |
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Death in the Clouds is my favorite Agatha Christie novel so far. As an aviation enthusiast, I especially enjoyed the airplane setting, which gives the mystery a unique setting. I must say Poirot has rotten luck in his travels. While I didn't find the ...more |
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James Michener’s Caribbean earns a solid 4 its historical storytelling. Spanning from early Arawak and Carib tribes to the Twentieth Century. Michener blends fictional families and characters with real historical people and events seamlessly. Each cha ...more |
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