The anchor of The O’Reilly Factor recounts in gripping detail the brutal muder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy – and how a sequence of gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but also sent America into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War and its culture-changing aftermath. 
In January 1961, as the Cold War escalates, John F. Kennedy struggles to contain the growth of Communism while he learns the hardships, solitude and temptations of what it means to be president of the United States.
Along the way he acquires a number of formidable enemies, among them Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and Alan Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agency. In addition, powerful elements of organized crime have begun to talk about targeting the president and his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy.
In the midst of a 1963 campaign trip to Texas, Kennedy is gunned down by an erratic young drifter named Lee Harvey Oswald. The former Marine Corps sharpshooter escapes the scene, only to be caught and shot dead while in police custody. The events leading up to the most notorious crime of the twentieth century are almost as shocking as the assassination itself.
Killing Kennedy chronicles both the heroism and deceit of Camelot, bringing history to life in ways that will profoundly move the reader. This may well be the most talked about American book of the year. You can buy it today for £2.68.
Peter Bryant’s 1958 novel Red Alert tells the terrifying tale of just how close to nuclear destruction the world can be. Here, we are faced with the worst possible of all worst-case scenarios in the Cold War; an American general loses his reason and orders a full-scale nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. Air Force Brigadier General Quinten is a dying man suffering from the paranoid delusion that he can make the world a better place by setting in motion
this catastrophic attack with Strategic Air Command bombers armed with nuclear weapons.
Once they get wind of it, the President of the United States and his advisors work frantically in all efforts to stop the attack. They order the American bombers shot down, and they succeed – all but with one frightening exception – a lone bomber called the “”Alabama Angel”" escapes destruction. The crew of the Angel ignore the President’s orders and continue on with their deadly mission.
This book was originally published in the U.K. under the title Two Hours to Doom (written by Peter Bryant, the penname of writer Peter George). This intricately plotted and well-thought out novel conjures the vision of apocalyptic threat of nuclear war and illustrates just how absurdly easy such an attack can be triggered. Buy this shorter read for only £1.29.
Housekeeping Returns
Housekeeping is a column to bring you information about Kindles, Amazon, books and anything else that strikes my fancy. I’m reviving the column on this site and will post as time allows. Also, the number of posts is increasing to five a day as I have time and the books are priced below our price point.
Not completely covered
Like many of you, I have thousands of books on in my Kindle library, books of nearly every genre. What you won’t find in my library are the books known as erotica.
Usually these books can be easily identified by the book cover and/or the title. While scrolling through my library of book covers on my Kindle Fire device, I came upon a cover that I will describe as inappropriate. A carefully placed title kept the picture from being the worst that it could be.
Researching things a bit I found that I had downloaded the book – a backlisted romance that had enjoyed a successful run as a paperback with a major publisher. The cover I downloaded featured a man in a military uniform with a woman fully-clothed and smiling at the soldier.
Perhaps the cover picture of the soldier and his girl wasn’t generating the sales the author desired. However, when she changed the cover, she lost this reader forever.
The book cover displayed on your Kindle Fire and Paperwhite is the cover currently in the Kindle Store. If you have children (or your mother-in-law) on your account, please periodically review your book covers for appropriateness.
All I want for Christmas
Prague Winter by Madeleine Albright
I posted this book earlier this month when it was priced at £1.99, but the price changed before the post went live. That happened to be in the middle of the night where I live. Happily the book has returned for that incredible price. Now if the price just holds for a few days. . . .
Book Description: Before Madeleine Albright turned twelve, her life was shaken by the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia—the country where she was born—the Battle of Britain, the near total destruction of European Jewry, the Allied victory in World War II, the rise of communism, and the onset of the Cold War.
Albright’s experiences, and those of her family, provide a lens through which to view the most tumultuous dozen years in modern history. Drawing on her memory, her parents’ written reflections, interviews with contemporaries, and newly available documents, Albright recounts 
a tale that is by turns harrowing and inspiring. Prague Winter is an exploration of the past with timeless dilemmas in mind and, simultaneously, a journey with universal lessons that is intensely personal.
The book takes readers from the Bohemian capital’s thousand-year-old castle to the bomb shelters of London, from the desolate prison ghetto of TerezÍn to the highest councils of European and American government. Albright reflects on her discovery of her family’s Jewish heritage many decades after the war, on her Czech homeland’s tangled history, and on the stark moral choices faced by her parents and their generation. This memoir is selling today for only £1.99.
This e-book contains exclusive content that enhances your reading experience. Enhancements may include audio, video, bonus photos, playlists, author interviews, or interactive galleries. The enhancements are available only on the Kindle application on iDevices. All others will receive the text of the book.
Free now: Year of the Monkey - Acclaimed as one of the most important novels of the Vietnam War – offered free by the author this Remembrance Day. Originally published by Simon & Schuster.
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In the poisoned soul of Saigon, Russ Payne is an army journalist partying his nights away when a wild grunt named Willingham is lobbed into his life like a grenade. Willingham, the lone survivor of a Special Forces squad, has been reassigned,
inexplicably, to Payne’s cushy rear unit. Suddenly Payne’s fragile peace is shattered when he’s forced to spy on his new friend as part of a secret CIA investigation. On a mind-bending odyssey into the depths of the war-torn jungle, he follows Willingham in his bloody quest to avenge the massacre of his former unit–and discovers a hell of his own.
Cutting through an apocalyptic jungle of intrigue, Payne falls in love with a woman who welcomes him into the fold of a Viet Cong camp, witnesses the death of his childhood friend, discovers the horrific meaning of attrition…and ultimately leads to him committing a crime beyond redemption.
In stunning scenes of combat and intrigue, we glean as in no other novel or movie the patch-quilt nature of the Vietnamese people and the murderous deceit of sinister body count politics.
In the year of the monkey, Payne will come to understand the terrible consequences of following orders–and of ignoring them.
Click here to purchase Year of the Monkey
Winston Churchill’s monumental The Second World War, is a six volume account of the struggle between the Allied Powers in Europe against Germany and the Axis. RosettaBooks’ collection of Churchill’s best writing is gathered together here, reflecting his first-hand experience, notations, speeches, and journals. Churchill won the Nobel Prize for Literature in large part due to the writing reflected in these important books that journal the everyday happenings and relationships between the Axis and the Allies during World War II and other major 20th century conflicts. The six books of the series are in order below and are selling for £2.99 each today.
Is the crisis in the Middle East hurtling toward the point of no return?
Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, tells the U.N. that Iran could have nukes by spring.
Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has called for the end of the United States and Israel.
Chaos is erupting throughout the region.
Rumors abound of an impending Israeli first strike against Iran’s nuclear program.
Is war imminent?
New York Times best-selling author Joel C. Rosenberg looks at the events developing in the Middle East and asks the tough questions: Could Israel launch a preemptive strike at any moment? How might an Israel-Iran war set the Middle East on fire? What should we be watching for? Israel at War will help you understand what is happening right now behind the scenes in this volatile region—and how this high-stakes showdown could affect the future of the Middle East and the world. Buy this short book for only £1.53 today.
Free now: Inspirational non-fiction from faith-based publishers plus Ralph Peters’ Endless War: Middle-Eastern Islam vs. Western Civilization
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Free now: Two non-fiction books from Stackpole Books – Ralph Peters on military strategy and clay shooting guide
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Don’t miss shopping at the Jubilee Sale -more than 200 books specially priced to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. The Andrew Marr history book below is just one of the books priced at only £0.99. Sale ends 11:59 pm on June 7, 2012.
In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire. Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation was shaken by war and peace. The two wars were the worst we had ever known and the episodes of peace among the most turbulent and surprising. As the political
forum moved from Edwardian smoking rooms to an increasingly democratic Westminster, the people of Britain experimented with extreme ideas as they struggled to answer the question ‘How should we live?’ Socialism? Fascism? Feminism? Meanwhile, fads such as eugenics, vegetarianism and nudism were gripping the nation, while the popularity of the music hall soared.
It was also a time that witnessed the birth of the media as we know it today and the beginnings of the welfare state. Beyond trenches, flappers and Spitfires, this is a story of strange cults and economic madness, of revolutionaries and heroic inventors, sexual experiments and raucous stage heroines. From organic food to drugs, nightclubs and celebrities to package holidays, crooked bankers to sleazy politicians, the echoes of today’s Britain ring from almost every page.
Buy this book today for your library for only £0.99.
Click here to purchase The Making of Modern Britain
Free now: Inspirational fiction and non-fiction from faith-based publishers. Some have been offered free previously.
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