Old man in a baseball cap: a memoir of World War II

Author: Rochlin, Fred

Title: Old man in a baseball cap: a memoir of World War II

Published: New York: HarperCollins, 1999

Description: xiii, 146 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject(s):

• United States. Air Force -- Biography
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
• Flight crews -- United States -- Biography
• Rochlin, Fred

Review(s):

• Bushnell, William D. "Old Man in a Baseball Cap." Library Journal 124.12 (July 1999): 106

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A glimpse of hell: the explosion on the USS Iowa and its cover-up

Author: Thompson, Charles C.

Title: A glimpse of hell: the explosion on the USS Iowa and its cover-up

Published: New York: Norton, 1999

Description: 430 p. :ill. ; 25 cm.

Bibliography: p. 409-411

Subject(s):

• Iowa (Ship)
• United States. Navy
• Marine accidents -- Investigation -- United States

Review(s):

• Taylor, Gilbert. "A Glimpse of Hell: The Explosion on the USS Iowa and Its Cover-Up." Booklist 95.13 (March 1, 1999): 1136
• "A Glimpse of Hell: The Explosion on the USS Iowa and Its Cover-Up." Publishers Weekly 246.9 (March 1, 1999): 53

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The professor and the madman: a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary

Author: Winchester, Simon

Title: The professor and the madman: a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary

Published: New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1998

Description: xi, 242 p. :ill. ; 22 cm.

Bibliography: p. 239-242

Subject(s):

• Oxford English dictionary
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans -- Biography
• Psychiatric hospital patients -- Great Britain -- Biography
• Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- History and criticism
• New English dictionary on historical principles
• Lexicographers -- Great Britain -- Biography
• English language -- Lexicography
• English language -- Etymology
• Murray, James Augustus Henry, Sir, 1837-1915 -- Friends and associates
• Minor, William Chester

Review(s):

• Sawyer, Michael. "The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary." Library Journal 123.n13 (August 1998): 114
• Saxton, Matthew L. "The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary." Library Quarterly 70.2 (April 2000): 280

Read: August 1999

The Sandino affair

Author: Macaulay, Neill

Title: The Sandino affair

Published: Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1967

Description: 319 p. :ill. ; 22 cm.

Bibliography: p. 307-310

Subject(s):

• United States. Marine Corps -- History
• Nicaragua -- History -- 1909-1937
• Nicaragua -- Foreign relations -- United States
• United States -- Foreign relations -- Nicaragua
• Sandino, Augusto César

Review(s):

• "The Sandino Affair." Reference Services Review 16.4 (Annual 1988): 89

Read: August 1999

Banana gold

Author: Beals, Carleton

Title: Banana gold

Published: Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott company, 1932

Description: 367 p. :ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject(s):

• Central America -- Description and travel

Read: July 1999

Dragonfly: NASA and the crisis aboard the MIR

Author: Burrough, Bryan

Title: Dragonfly: NASA and the crisis aboard MIR

Published: New York: HarperCollins, 1998

Description: 528 p. :ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject(s):

• Mir (Space station) -- Accidents
• United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• Space vehicle accidents
• Astronautics -- Government policy -- United States

Review(s):

• Blackwell, Gordon. "Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir." Library Journal 124.15 (Sept 15, 1999): 131
• "Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir." New Scientist 164 (Nov 20, 1999): 55

Read: July 1999

Dead center: a marine sniper's two-year odyssey in the Vietnam war

Author: Kugler, Ed

Title: Dead center: a marine sniper's two-year odyssey in the Vietnam war

Published: New York: Ivy Books, 1999

Description: 370 p. :ill. ; 18 cm.

Subject(s):

• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives, American
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Scouts and scouting
• Snipers -- Vietnam
• United States. Marine Corps. Marines, 4th
• Kugler, Ed

Read: June 1999

Somoza and the legacy of U.S. involvement in Central America.

Author: Diederich, Bernard

Title: Somoza, and the legacy of U.S. involvement in Central America

Published: New York: Dutton, 1981

Description: ix, 352 p. :ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject(s):

• Presidents -- Nicaragua -- Biography
• Nicaragua -- Politics and government -- 1937-1979
• Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional
• Somoza, Anastasio

Read: June 1999

Quijote on a burro; Sandino and the Marines, a study in the formulation of foreign policy

Author: Cummins, Lejeune

Title: Quijote on a burro; Sandino and the Marines, a study in the formulation of foreign policy

Published: México, 1958

Description: 206 p. :ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject(s):

• United States -- Foreign relations -- Nicaragua
• Nicaragua -- Foreign relations -- United States
• United States. Marine Corps -- History
• Sandino, Augusto César

Read: May 1999

Red thunder, tropic lightning: the world of a combat division in Vietnam

Author: Bergerud, Eric M.

Title: Red thunder, tropic lightning: the world of a combat division in Vietnam

Published: New York: Penguin Books, 1994

Description: xix, 328 p. :ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject(s):

• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- United States
• United States. Army

Review(s):

• Root, John D. "Red Thunder, Tropic Lightning: The World of a Combat Division in Vietnam." Armed Forces & Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal 22.n3 (Spring 1996): 494
• Appy, Christian. "Red Thunder, Tropic Lightning: The World of a Combat Division in Vietnam." Journal of American History 81.n2 (Sept 1994): 816

Read: May 1999

Blind man's bluff: the untold story of American submarine espionage

Author(s): Sontag, Sherry, Christopher Drew, and Annette Lawrence Drew

Title: Blind man’s bluff: the untold story of American submarine espionage

Published: New York: Public Affairs, 1998

Description: xvii, 352 p. :ill. ; 25 cm.

Bibliography: p. 293-329

Subject(s):

• Military intelligence -- United States
• Espionage, American
• United States. Navy -- Submarine forces

Review(s):

• Lynch III, Thomas F. "Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage." Armed Forces & Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal 26.1 (Fall 1999): 151
• Polmar, Norman. "Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage." Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 57.5 (Sept 2001): 66

Read: May 1999

The sack of Panamá: Sir Henry Morgan's adventures on the Spanish Main

Author: Earle, Peter

Title: The sack of Panamá: Sir Henry Morgan's adventures on the Spanish Main

Published: New York: Viking Press, 1982, 1981

Description: 304 p. :ill. ; 22 cm.

Bibliography: p. 267-274

Subject(s):

• Privateering -- Caribbean Area
• Panama (Panama) -- Destruction, 1671
• Morgan, Henry, Sir

Review(s):

• "The Sack of Panama." Spectator (Nov 21, 1981): 19
• "The Sack of Panama." Library Journal 107 (March 1, 1982): 548

Read: March 1999

Judas at the Jockey Club and other episodes of Porfirian Mexico

Author: Beezley, William H.

Title: Judas at the Jockey Club and other episodes of Porfirian Mexico

Published: Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987

Description: x, 181 p. :ill. ; 23 cm.

Bibliography: p. 159-171

Subject(s):

• Social classes -- Mexico
• Mexico -- Social life and customs
• Mexico -- History -- 1867-1910
• Mexico -- Social conditions
• Jockey Club (Mexico City, Mexico)

Review(s):

• Hart, John Mason. "Judas at the Jockey Club and Other Episodes of Porfirian Mexico." Journal of American Folklore 104.n412 (Spring 1991): 217
• Mallon, Florencia E. "Judas at the Jockey Club and Other Episodes of Porfirian Mexico." Latin American Research Review 26.n3 (Summer 1991): 247
• Benjamin, Thomas. "Judas at the Jockey Club and Other Episodes of Porfirian Mexico." American Historical Review 93.n3 (June 1988): 807

Read: February 1999

Platoon leader

Author: McDonough, James R.

Title: Platoon leader

Published: Novato: Presidio, 1985

Description: vii, 195 p. :ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject(s):

• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives, American
• Command of troops
• Soldiers -- United States -- Biography
• United States. Army -- Officers -- Biography
• McDonough, James R.

Review(s):

• Herring, George C. "Platoon leader." Journal of American History 73 (June 1986): 152

Read: January 1999

Target Ploesti: view from a bombsight

Author: Newby, Leroy W.

Title: Target Ploesti: view from a bombsight

Published: Novato: Presidio, 1983

Description: xv, 253 p. :ill. ; 24 cm.

Bibliography: p. 214

Note: Maps on lining papers

Subject(s):

• United States. Air Force. Air Force, 15th -- Biography
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
• Ploesti, Battles of, Ploesti, Romania, 1943-1944
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Romania -- Ploesti
• Bombardiers -- United States -- Biography
• Newby, Leroy W.

Review(s):

• "Target Ploesti." Library Journal (August 1983): 1476

Read: January 1999

Eaters of the dead: the manuscript of Ibn Fadlan relating his experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922

Author: Crichton, Michael

Title: Eaters of the dead: the manuscript of Ibn Fadlan relating his experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922

Published: New York: Ballantine Books, 1988, 1976

Description: 193 p. ; 22 cm.

Bibliography: p. 191-193

Subject(s):

• Northmen -- Fiction
• Vikings -- Fiction
• Beowulf -- Adaptations
• Ibn Fadlan, Ahmad, fl. 922 -- Fiction

Read: December 1998

Hitler’s secret war in South America, 1939-1945: German military espionage and allied counterespionage in Brazil

Author: Hilton, Stanley E.

Title: Hitler’s secret war in South America, 1939-1945: German military espionage and allied counterespionage in Brazil

Published: Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981

Description: 353 p. ; 24 cm.

Bibliography: p. 339-345

Subject(s):

• World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Germany
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Brazil
• Brazil -- History -- 1930-1945
• Hitler, Adolf

Review(s):

• Siehl, George H. "Hitler's secret war in South America, 1939-1945." Library Journal 106 (March 1, 1981): 556
• Rodgers, Michael. "Hitler's Secret War in South America, 1939-1945." Library Journal 125.3 (Feb 15, 2000): 203

Read: December 1998

The reluctant metropolis: the politics of urban growth in Los Angeles

Author: Fulton, William B.

Title: The reluctant metropolis: the politics of urban growth in Los Angeles

Published: Point Arena: Solano Press Books, 1997

Description: viii, 395 p. :ill. ; 24 cm.

Bibliography: p. 377-380

Subject(s):

• Urbanization -- California -- Los Angeles Metropolitan Area -- Case studies
• Community development, Urban -- California -- Los Angeles Metropolitan Area -- Case studies

Review(s):

• Langdon, Philip. "The Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles." The American Enterprise 8.n6 (Nov-Dec 1997): 81
• Peiser, Richard. "The Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles." Journal of the American Planning Association 64.n4 (Autumn 1998): 494

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Varieties of fear: growing up Jewish under Nazism and communism

Author: Kenez, Peter

Title: Varieties of fear: growing up Jewish under Nazism and communism

Published: Washington, D.C.: American University Press, 1995

Description: xii, 214 p. :ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject(s):

• Jews -- Hungary -- Biography
• Jews, Hungarian -- United States -- Biography
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Hungary -- Personal narratives
• Hungary -- History -- Revolution, 1956 -- Personal narratives
• Hungary -- Biography
• United States -- Biography
• Kenez, Peter -- Childhood and youth

Review(s):

• Mesher, D. "Varieties of Fear: Growing Up Jewish Under Nazism and Communism." Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought 45.n2 (Spring 1996): 237
• Woll, Josephine. "Varieties of Fear: Growing Up Jewish Under Nazism and Communism." The New Leader 78.n6 (July 17, 1995): 17

Read: October 1998

Courage and air warfare: the Allied aircrew experience in the Second World War

Author: Wells, Mark K.

Title: Courage and air warfare: the Allied aircrew experience in the Second World War

Published: Portland: F. Cass, 1995

Description: xiv, 240 p. :ill. ; 25 cm.

Bibliography: p. 214-233

Subject(s):

• World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, British
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American
• Flight crews -- Great Britain -- History
• Flight crews -- United States -- History
• Great Britain. Royal Air Force. -- History
• United States. Air Force. -- History

Review(s):

• Holley, I.B., Jr. "Courage and Air Warfare: The Allied Aircrew Experience in the Second World War." The Journal of Military History 60.n4 (Oct 1996): 793
• Ferris, John R. "Courage and Air Warfare: The Allied Aircrew Experience in the Second World War." The International History Review 19.n1 (March 1998): 118

Read: September 1998