Acquisitions

It has been good hunting as of late, milking the used vein (star-crossed metaphors) at Half Price Books for a copy of Grass' My Century, which I have read and The Emperor's Tomb by Joseph Roth, which I look forward to reading. The latter apparently follows the saga of The Radetzky March after the Great War. Per Roger's advice, I joined the History Book Club and rec'd my grand haul yesterday: Gulag by Applebaum, Grant's memoirs, Harvest of Despair, about the Nazi occupation of the Ukraine and McPhereson's book about Antietam