May 22, 2007

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wfzimmerman's review: "A classic that has influenced debate since its publication. Many arguments debatable, but the application of geography and biology to history is pioneering and stimulating."
W. W. Norton & Company (1997), Hardcover, 480 pages
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wfzimmerman's review: "A gift from Adam Kolker at the height of the Japan panic. Wow, how dated that seems now!"
University of California Press (1988), Paperback, 320 pages

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wfzimmerman's review: "Terrific study of its subject from the always sterling U.S. Naval Institute.. The interest is limited more by the parameters of the situation. This is not as interesting as, say, SEALION, because there wasn't really much that the Brits could have done that would have affected the outcome."
US Naval Institute Press (1996), Hardcover, 316 pages
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wfzimmerman's review: "A bridge too far ..."
Royal Publishing Company (1995), Paperback, 218 pages

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wfzimmerman's review: "Wow, this seems incredibly trivial and irrelevant now; but, hey, Clinton did lie under oath to a federal court."
Harvard University Press (1999), Hardcover, 288 pages

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wfzimmerman's review: "As Dumbledore says in [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince], somehow Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer have risen above their despair and managed to battle bravely on with a market captialization of umpty zillion dollars and $50 billion in cash."
Free Press (2001), Hardcover, 288 pages

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