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Traitor's Kiss

Literature & Fiction

Seymour,Gerald

Genre Fiction

Overlook

U.S. reprint of 1938 edition. "Nothing but trouble can ensue when Bertie Wooster's Aunt Dahlia instructs him to stael a silver jug from Totleight Towers, home of magistrate and hell-hound, Sir Watkyn Bassett....." (back cover)

The Code of the Woosters

Wodehouse,P.G.

Humor & Satire

Looking beyond the image of the almost superhuman swordsmen promoted in modern film and literature, Hiroaki Sato confronts both the history and the legend of the samurai, untangling the two to present an authentic picture of these legendary warriors. Through his translations of original samurai tales, laws, dicta, reports and arguments, accompanied by insightful commentary, Sato chronicles the changing ethos of the Japanese warrior from the samurai's historical origins to his rise to political power in the 18th century.

Legends of the Samurai

Sato, Hiroaki

Robin Neillands examines every detail of the bomber campaign against Germany during World War II. He looks at the strengths and fundamental flaws in doctrine; the technical difficulties and developments; and the day-by-day, night-by-night endurance of the crews, flying to the limit in discomfort and danger. The book includes oral history in the shape of personal accounts not only of the British but of Americans, Australians, Canadians and other Allied fliers, and also of German aircrews and civilians.

The Bomber War: Arthur Harris and the Allied Bomber Offensive 1939-1945

NEILLANDS, Robin

A novel, together with two novellas, reveals Roth's skill in minute observation and his sensitivity to the tragedy of human life

Hotel Savoy

Joseph-Roth

Literary

A collection of parables--stories with implicit morals--includes the work of Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jerzy Kosinski, Elie Wiesel, Dostoyevski, and Bob Dylan

Imperial Messages: One Hundred Modern Parables

Contemporary

Diagrams trace the development of American house styles from the Indian longhouse to a proposed space settlement and indicate characteristic features of each design

American Shelter : An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Home

Reference

Lester R. Walker

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

A memoir of writer Mehta's thirty-three years of work with The New Yorker magazine's editor William Shawn

Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker

Biographies & Memoirs

MEHTA, Ved.

Professionals & Academics

In this vivid, comic, and wise account, Carolyn Cassady captures the turbulence and raw excitement of her years with Cassady, Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Off the Road is an authentic story of the people who captured the imagination of America's youth.

Off the Road

Cassady, Carolyn

Arts & Literature

January 16, 1991. Operation Desert Storm's coalition forces are arrayed along the Saudi border with Kuwait, on the other side of which lurks the bulk of Saddam Hussein's army. While the battle for air supremacy is being waged in the skies, the coalition forces pull off a stunning, and ultimately decisive, deception. Later dubbed the "Hail Mary Pass," it consists of the abrupt relocation of the coalition ground forces hundreds of miles to the West. Meanwhile, as inflatable decoys, deceptive radio transmissions, and psyops leaflets all lead them to believe, the Iraqis are expecting an amphibious assault from the Persian Gulf, hundreds of miles from where it is actually occurring. The world's fourth largest army is preparing to engage a horde of phantoms. The coalition forces are able to march deep into Iraq with little opposition. Within one hundred days, Kuwait City is liberated and a decisive victory by the coalition forces is won.\nDeception on the battlefield is surely as old as warfare itself. The examples stretch from the very beginnings of recorded military history—Pharaoh Ramses II's campaign against the Hittites in 1294 B.C.—to modern times, when technology has placed a stunning array of devices into the arsenals of military commanders. Military historians often underestimate the importance of deception in warfare. This book is the first to fully describe its value. Jon Latimer shows how simple some tricks have been, but also how technology has increased the range and subtlety of what is possible—bogus radio traffic, virtual images, even false smells. He draws examples from land, sea, and air to show how great commanders have always had, as WinstonChurchill put it, that indispensable "element of legerdemain, an original and sinister touch, which leaves the enemy puzzled as well as beaten." 
Author Biography: Jon Latimer served for sixteen years as an officer in the Royal Welch Fusiliers, as Platoon Commander, Assault Troop Leader and Battalion Intelligence Officer. He has published widely in military journals, and is also the author of Operation Compass 1940 and, with Jim Laurier, of CAM080 Tobruk 1941.

Deception in War: the Art of the Bluff, the Value of Deceit, and the Most Thrilling Episodes of Cunn

Engineering & Transportation

Jon Latimer

Engineering

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