Free Ebooks

[DanaC]

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.

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!

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.

One key lesson of history is that virtually anything, including afternoon or evening thundershowers, causes Germany to invade Belgium.

Oh, and for ease of understanding, Dave Barry employs the single dating system within the work. Everything in history always happens on 8 October.