The Fortunes Of War: Four Great Battles Of World War II (out of print), by Andrew A Rooney (aka Andy Rooney), is free over on the B&N website. No doubt this was done just so he could make a point during his 60 Minutes commentary this last week and there is no telling how long it will remain free. I opened it up in nookStudy and it is 124 pages, two columns per page and there are a few areas where it looks like you get hieroglyphics instead of text (around some photos). He says this was his first published book (at $7.50 for a Hardcover), but there is no info on the Kindle or B&N sites as to the content. Rather obviously, from the title, it's a look at four battles during WWII and does include some maps and illustrations. I did manage to find one review, from 1962, in Harper's magazine, but could not read it (it's only available to subscribers). A little more digging located the book on the Internet Archives and Kobo. Originally published by Little and Brown, it's now free in many formats and all of them look like OCR'd scans that haven't been corrected.Click HERE for the free download from B&N.
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Click HERE for the free download from the Internet Archive (there is a Kindle compatible edition there).
