Back in October, we took a drive up to Front Royal on a tip that there was an auctioneer who specialized in midcentury modern furniture. While we found the warehouse for this auction, our trip turned out to be a wild goose chase...no furniture and no preparation for an auction turned up.
We did find something else during that trip, a fine used book store in the same complex. We browsed a while on that previous trip, and I made note of the range of WW2 books that they had on hand.
One of our activities during the last trip was a Sunday drive up there - url is http://www.pagemaster-books.com/ - Mary and I both made some purchases.
Among mine are Behind the Steel Wall, A Swedish Journalist in Berlin, 1941-1943, by Arvid Fredborg, and The GDR: Moscow's German Ally, by David Childs. I also picked up a couple of WW2 history books, and a short autobiography by Heinrich Boll (proper spelling would include an umlaut), a Nobel prize winning German author who wrote extensive about the post-war period.
Our next trip to the bookstore is likely to be late spring, when we'll be looking for summer reading. With five purchases here, I think I have all I need to get through the winter!
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