Have to say, the kindle app is what finally persuaded me to get an i-phone instead of just buying another no-frills nokia brick.
I love it. It's awesome. Haven't gone for the free books much (one or two that looked interesting. Most of the free classics that i would want to read, i have done already through other means. I think one of the free books was 'Tenshun! : A Boy in the Penninsula - which is a 19th century boy's adventure story set in the Penninsula war (from a few decades earlier) - though I may be misremembering, and this one may have had a small charge on it. Definately not a full price book though.
I have found some excellent paid books.
So far I have bought:
To War with Wellington, by Peter Snow - a straight up biog of the man and his way of waging war.
Why Does E = MC2 ?, by Brian Cox and another guy - am checking it out to see if worth buying in print as xmas pressie for Our Kid.
A couple of others I can't recall titles of....and the best book I have read in ages:
Dave Barry Slept Here, by Dave Barry.
I am in awe of this man. It's a faux-history of the USA. I have yet to read more than two pages without laughing out loud, or if on the bus, snickering into my scarf.
I now have to buy his other books. If they're half as funny as this I'll be happy.
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Battles in those days took longer than they do today. First off, it took a while for the British to form into strict military formations, which, when viewed from the air, spelled out nationalistic slogans such as GO BRITS!
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The federal government had acquired assorted western territories like Utah through treaties with the Native American inhabitants under which the United States got the land and the Native Americans got a full thirty minutes’ head start before the army came after them.
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One key lesson of history is that virtually anything, including afternoon or evening thundershowers, causes Germany to invade Belgium.
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Oh, and for ease of understanding, Dave Barry employs the single dating system within the work. Everything in history always happens on 8 October.