1995 Books
The Agenda
by Bob Woodward
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The Forgotten Soldier (5/95)
by Guy Sajer
-- biography about an Alsatian who joined the Wermacht and fought
on the Eastern Front
Midway, the Battle that Doomed Japan (7/95)
by Mitsuo Fuchida
-- the Battle of Midway, from a Japanese point-of-view. Author critiques
what went wrong for Japan
To Renew America (7/95)
by Newt Gingrich
-- the ideas and vision of America's future by Newt Gingrich.
Fantastic Voyage II (8/95)
by Isaac Asimov
-- sequel to Fantastic Voyage. An American scientist is kidnapped
to be sent as a miniaturized crew to save a Soviet scientist
who is working on the time-matter continuum.
Massacre at Oradour (9/95)
by Robin Mackness
-- the author argues that the Massacre at Oradour by the 2nd SS
"Das Reich" division was not in retaliation for partisan
activities but because the commander of the SS unit had lost
a shipment of ill-gotten gold during an ambush
The Proteus Operation (10/95)
by James Hogan
-- excellent; a sci-fi about an alternate history where Hitler's
Nazis are on the verge of world conquest and the Americans send a
team back into time to change history as a last effort of
survival.
Maus I/II (10/95)
by Art Spiegelman
-- a biography by the author about his father, a Jew who survived
the Holocaust. In cartoon form, the Jews are depicted as rats,
the Nazis/Germans as cats, Poles as pigs.
Armageddon (11/95)
by Clive Ponting
-- the author's take on some WW2 issues, iconoclastic and interesting.
He puts his own spin into why Britain went to war in 1939, for
example.
The Great Gatsby (12/95)
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
-- a classic; the story of America's search for spiritual meaning
which cannot be found in material goals. Tom and Daisy Buchanan,
Nick Carraway, Jay Gatz live during the Roaring 20's when
America's facade was enthralling but its core was hollow.
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