Savoring the Past: New Kindle Books for History Buffs (2 Feb 10)

February 2nd, 2010 admin

History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the opportunity. – Dexter Perkins. The American philosopher George Santayana is quoted as saying that those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. With more than 27,000 books in the Amazon Kindle bookstore “history” category, Kindle-owning history buffs will not run out of reading material any time soon. Recent history nonfiction includes…


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