Thanks Julie.  I think I'll do a used bookstore crawl for Gautam's
recommendation first, and go from there.  Next week I'm visiting the
Nimitz museum in Fredericksburg, so that'll be cool.  (I still need to
return your _Buddy Holly is Alive & Well_ book, too!)

On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Julia Thompson wrote:

> "Marvin Long, Jr." wrote:
> >
> > Any on Brin-L?
> >
> > I'm interesting in getting recommendations of good books to read about
> > the Pacific War from all perspectives.
>
> 1)  I can ask my mom when she gets home, if you'd like me to.  She's
> been reading anything she can get her hands on on WWII for a number of
> years, and switched to mostly reading about the Pacific War sometime
> since I got married.
>
> 2)  If you'd like to borrow my copies of _The Winds of War_ and _War and
> Rememberance_ (as per Tom Beck's recommendation) after we move, let me
> know.  They've been boxed.  I know which box they're in (Book box #21)
> but I'd rather not open it.
>
> 3)  Has anyone else read _Victory At Sea:  World War II In the Pacific_
> by James F. Dunnigan and Albert A. Nofi to rate it for Marvin as a
> general work?  That is likely to be one of the later things boxed, and
> as such may be available for lending to Marvin.  (That's Dan's book,
> though, so we'd have to ask him about it.)
>
>       Julia
>
>

Marvin Long
Austin, Texas

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