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Can I Keep My Jersey?: 11 Teams, 5 Countries, and 4 Years in My Life as a Basketball Vagabond by Paul Shirley

admin — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 17:18:27 +0000

wfzimmerman's review: "Very entertaining book about the life of an international basketball vagabond. Let's hope there's more to come from this fellow."
Villard (2007), Hardcover, 336 pages
tags: basketball, international basketball, sports, first edition

Waging Modern War:Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Future of Combat by Wesley K. Clark, General Wesley K. Clark

admin — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:57:57 +0000

wfzimmerman’s review: “The title is wildly overbroad — the subtitle is far more accurate, and would be even better if you added the words "A Subordinate’s View of" to the beginning. The book reads like an extended meditation on how Clark failed to understand his limited role as theater C in C in a country with civilian control of the military.”
PublicAffairs (2001), Hardcover, 304 pages

The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy

admin — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:57:49 +0000

wfzimmerman's review: "Boxed 20th-anniversary edition. I'm debating how many Clancys I want to keep in my permanent library. This one, for sure, both because of its merit and because of its significance as an emblem of success by a small publisher. I also regard SUM OF ALL FEARS and RED STORM RISING as "musts", plus the prescient one (can't recall the title) where the Japanese pilot crashes his fully laden 747 into the Capitol. Not sure any of the others will make the cut; Clancy hasn't done much lately and seems to have run out of gas."
US Naval Institute Press (1984), Hardcover, 387 pages

A Practical Guide to Lifeboat Survival by France) Centre d’etude et de pratique de la survie

admin — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:57:07 +0000

wfzimmerman's review: "I've got this book just in case my basement library is suddenly deposited in the Pacific Ocean..."
US Naval Institute Press (1998), Paperback, 140 pages

Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden

admin — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:54:45 +0000

wfzimmerman's review: "The story is terrific, but the subtitle is a bridge too far: shot-down helicopters are a routine event in modern war. What was abnormal was the US political reaction to what, considered in the context of military operations, was really a rather trivial event. Did we expect that no one would ever shoot at us?"
Atlantic Monthly Press (1999), Hardcover, 320 pages

Through Our Enemies’ Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America by Michael Scheuer

admin — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:54:11 +0000

wfzimmerman's review: "Outstanding book by the formerly "Anonymous" head of the CIA's Bin Laden office."
Potomac Books (2002), Hardcover, 408 pages

Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe by Graham Allison

admin — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:54:07 +0000

wfzimmerman's review: "Ever since 9/11, people have been paying lip service to the threat of nuclear terrorism. This is one of the few serious attempts to do something constructive about it."
Times Books (2004), Hardcover, 272 pages

BIOHAZARD by Ken ALIBEK

admin — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:53:46 +0000

wfzimmerman's review: "Credible and terrifying account by former leading Soviet bioweapons scientist."
Random House (1999), Hardcover, 340 pages

THE MAGNIFICENT WILF by Gordon R. Dickson

admin — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:45:58 +0000

wfzimmerman's review: "Entertaining medium-lite Dickson visiting familiar themes of alien encounters."
Baen (1995), Hardcover

A treasury of the cross. by Madeleine S. (Madeleine Sweeny) Miller, . Photos. by J. Lane Miller, drawings by Claire..

admin — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:40:21 +0000

wfzimmerman's review: "I picked up this account of one woman's love affair with the cross at a yard sale at Hillside Terrace, the retirement home where my grandmother died ten years ago. It is pretty cool with a narrative account of her journeys across Europe and the Mediterranean looking at crosses, plus appendices with sayings about the cross, Bible verses about the cross, and hymns about the cross. If you want to know all about the cross, this is the book for you!"
Harper (1956), Hardcover
tags: first edition, singleton