This entertaining collection of military anecdotes, interlaced with unusual illustrations, brings together over 400 little-known snapshots of men and women at war. Drawing on an impressive range of sources from Plutarch to the present century, from medieval chronicles to the American Civil War, the book includes many famous characters - Wellington, Rommel, Napoleon, Frederick the Great - as well as a gallery of lesser-known individuals, from Basil the Bulgar Slayer to Soviet fighter ace Lily Litvak and the other General Lee. Ranging from David and Goliath to Prince Rupert's poodle, from the the officer who was not only obliged to provide the paymaster with a certificate that he was alive, but also had to get it back-dated to prove that he was alive the previous month, to the shy Allied airman forced to disguise himself as a prostitute to escape the Gestapo, the book takes in some three thousand years of the quirkier side of military history. This highly original collection provides a feast of insights, curiosities and entertainment drawn from the rich sidelines of military history.

Military Anecdotes

Engineering & Transportation

Geoffrey, Regan

Engineering

Deutsch

Jewish Cookery by Leah Leonard is the classic compendium of Jewish cuisine. First published in 1949, it is the authority to which cooks have turned for generations. Not only does it include recipes for hundreds of traditional Jewish dishes -- from universally familiar preparations to little-known regional specialties -- but it also gives instructions for maintaining a kosher kitchen, dozens of suggestions for Sabbath and holiday meals, complete guidelines for Passover dining, a basic nutritional and technical introduction to cooking, and much more. All the Jewish favorites are here: challah (Sabbath egg bread), bagels, cheese blintzes, homemade cottage cheese, beet borsht, homemade farfel, kreplach (dumplings), kasha-varnitchkes (buckwheat groats with bow-tie noodles), mandlen (soup nuts), gefilte fish, baked herring, chopped liver, fried calf's liver...and more! Here are the dishes your mother used to make, from the cookbook your grandmother brought over from the old country. Crown's Classic Cookbook series features a collection of the world's best-loved foreign cookbooks, specially adapted for use in American kitchens. Authentic and comprehensive, these reasonably priced books are a welcome addition to the culinary library of any cook.

Jewish cookery in accordance with the Jewish dietary laws

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Leonard, Leah W.

Special Diet

Robin Howe, connoisseur and author of many regional cookbooks and also the iconic, "Dictionary of Gastronomy", presents typical German recipes that come from every part of Germany. An eye-opener to English cooks of the time (the 1950's) when beer soups where thought to be 'adventurous'. But the methods for cooking potatoes, cabbage, white fish, or the homely plum makes this really special.

German Cooking

HOWE, ROBIN

Regional & International

Red Square at noon

Gorbanevskai͡a︡, Natalʹi͡a︡

By the author of the critically acclaimed "Border Trilogy", "Outer Dark" is a novel at once mythic and starkly evocative, set in an unspecified place in Appalachia sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; the brother leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets forth alone to find her son. Both brother and sister wander separately through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers, headlong toward an eerie, apocalyptic resolution. "McCarthy is a master stylist, perhaps without equal in American letters ...In his hands, everything is done with consummate skill" - "Village Voice". "McCarthy has made the fabulous real, the ordinary mysterious" - "New York Times". "A profound parable that ultimately speaks to any society in any time" - "Time".

Outer Dark

Literature & Fiction

MCCARTHY, CORMAC

Literary

Huge Harold

Children's Books

BILL PEET

Animals

Previous owner's bookplate. Physical description; [6], 407 p. ; 21 cm. Notes; First edition, price-clipped. Subjects; Angstrom, Harry (Fictitious character) - Fiction. Middle class men - Fiction. Middle class men - United States - Fiction. Fiction in English, (1900-) - Texts. Genre; Psychological fiction.

Rabbit redux

UPDIKE, John.

Contemporary

Whingdingdilly

Scamp learns to be content with his dog's life when Zildy the kooky witch turns him into a whing-dingdilly.

The Whingdingdilly

The Tolpuddle martyrs

Marlow, Joyce

Rabbit, Run

Rabbit, run

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