Sunday, December 1, 2013

A visit to my favorite bookstore.

On the rare occasions I get back to Ohio, I always stop in at The Village Bookshop in Linworth north of Columbus. This year on the way out of town headed back to Alabama with my Mom's Christmas money burning a hole in my pocket, I picked up the following:
Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans by T.R. Fehrenbach. Fehrenbach's history of the Korean War, This Kind of War, is one of my top twenty favorite books so I can't wait to delve into Lone Star. I also looked for Fehrenbach's Comanches: The History of a People, but they didn't have it. One of my favorite quotes from This Kind of War:
"Americans in 1950 rediscovered something that since Hiroshima they had forgotten: you may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, pulverize it and wipe it clean of life — but if you desire to defend it, protect it and keep it for civilization, you must do this on the ground, the way the Roman legions did, by putting your young men in the mud.”
The other titles I got for myself:
The Night of the Long Knives: Forty-Eight Hours That Changed the History of the World by Paul R. Maracin.
1938: Hitler's Gamble by Giles MacDonogh.
And Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust by Richard Rhodes.
In no case did I pay more than six bucks each for any of them. THAT'S what I love about The Village Bookshop.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh no! are you trying to get the bookstore shut down and harassed like the army surplus store had to endure?

Average Moke said...

Mr. Vanderbouegh, I was able to get ( this was a few years ago) the most popular non fiction book in America during World War Two for 10 cents ?!, at one of the local second hand stores. One that was printed during the War. Used book stores have all kinds of great stuff :) http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss/177-1046698-8106768?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=under%20cover%20roy%20d%20carlson

Anonymous said...

FYI Fehrenbach died yesterday. Heard it on the local Texas news this morning.