Holmes' poignant book contains 500 photographs, almost all of them black-and-white and most drawn from Britain's Imperial War Museum. A few were taken by prominent photographers, such as Cecil Beaton and Robert Capa, but many of the photographers--some destined to remain unknown, others ordinary officers and men--served with army film and photographic units. There are also captured German and Japanese official photographs. Presentation is by year, from 1939 to 1945. Holmes prefaces each year with an account of its major events and briefly introduces each block of photos within a year. Although most of the pictures are war photos, some reflect the fact that millions of civilians were affected--young children being evacuated from London, a British air raid warden comforting a child rescued from a bombed-out home, German citizens made to view the horrors of the Buchenwald concentration camp, shaven-headed French women accused of sexually consorting with the Germans. World War II enthusiasts will want both books.

 

Retold by Kenneth Brodey
Crime

Follow Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes solving the problem of the goose and hat in ‘The Blue Carbuncle’; finding a missing fiancй in ‘A Case Of Identity’; and discovering the identity of a mysterious person in ‘The Yellow Face’.

Dossiers:
Conan Doyle Defends the Crew of the Titanic
Arthur Defends the Underdog

The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes
The dazzlingly clever and always entertaining Raymond Smullyan takes an unorthodox approach to chess puzzles by treating them as mysteries--with Sherlock Holmes as guide and mentor. The key concept is retrograde analysis. Rather than figuring out how to achieve some end from a given arrangement of chess pieces, the game is to examine the board and deduce what has happened in the past: On what square was the White queen captured? or, Is the White queen promoted or original?...To enjoy these problems you need only know how chess pieces move.

The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Microsoft Reader .lit Format)

Here are all full-length novels and 56 short stories chronicling the colorful adventures of Sherlock Holmes--every word Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ever wrote about Baker Street's most famous resident.