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Some Fruits Of Solitude by William Penn

wfzimmerman's review: "The passage on friendship is quoted as one of the epigraphs in J. K. Rowling's [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]. Death is but Crossing the World, as Friends do the Seas; They live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is Omnipresent. In this Divine Glass, they see Face to Face; and their Converse is Free, as well as Pure. This is the Comfort of Friends, that though they may be said to Die, yet their Friendship and Society are, in the best Sense, ever present, because Immortal.

This edition is carelessly edited -- section headings are treated as run-ons from the previous section. EXAMPLE OF CHEESY SECTION HEADING"
Kessinger Publishing (2004), Paperback, 96 pages

After the Reich: The Brutal History of The Allied Occupation by Giles MacDonogh

wfzimmerman's review: "This book advances such a contrarian thesis that I had to request a review copy to judge it more fairly. To be honest, my first reaction was that immediately prior to the occupation, German aggression was responsible for the death of 55 million people, so who cares if the occupation was brutal?"
Basic Books (2007), Hardcover, 618 pages
tags: first edition, advance reading copy