For those of you who own Kindles, have iPhones, Android phones, or tablets with a Kindle app, or who
don't mind reading ebooks on your 'puters be aware that Amazon has a 'daily special' that can be had
at 80-90% off the original price. Many of the books I don't care about but every once in a while they
have a great read, often historical. When I see a book that I like I'll try to post it here. If someone else
sees one that they like or finds somewhere else such as iBooks or even public domain please feel free
to link that here as well. If you know and like the Kindle daily deal already but I don't post it please feel
free to keep this thread alive. It needs all our help.
I'm not a huge sports nut but I want to get the ball( so to speak) rolling so today, 2/5/12, the Kindle deal is as such:
Kindle Daily Deal: Sports Illustrated's Blood, Sweat and Chalk: The Ultimate Football Playbook (http://www.amazon.com/Sports-Illustrated-Blood-Sweat-ebook/dp/B003WMAAFI/ref=amb_link_359921042_3?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1PS6M6BDQJTQ380BVZK3&pf_rd_t=1401&pf_rd_p=1346030002&pf_rd_i=1000677541)
You can find the daily deal here on the Kindle page (http://www.amazon.com/kindle-store-ebooks-newspapers-blogs/b/ref=topnav_storetab_kstore?ie=UTF8&node=133141011) in the corner (usually) and you can subscribe to it.
I missed it but a couple days ago they had a book about the Confederate siege of Washington. You just never know...
101 Things to do with Bacon (http://www.amazon.com/101-Things-Do-Bacon-ebook/dp/B0051UVE1I/ref=br_lf_m_1000789181_2_23_img?ie=UTF8&s=digital-text&pf_rd_p=1355370302&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_t=1401&pf_rd_i=1000789181&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1Y1R84HQ440N6HWT8PHJ)
OK, Not A Wargame but I imagine many of you will forgive...if you read this in time.
99 cent alert! Today only!! (5/20/2012)
Here's a novel (part of a new trilogy) about Europe during the Mongol invasion:
Mongoliad: (http://www.amazon.com/The-Mongoliad-Book-Foreworld-ebook/dp/B005ML3B6W/ref=amb_link_363106002_4?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0MXH02S5NMV0BP3W1V8Q&pf_rd_t=1401&pf_rd_p=1369177362&pf_rd_i=1000677541)
QuoteProduct Description
The first novel to be released in The Foreworld Saga, The Mongoliad: Book One, is an epic-within-an-epic, taking place in 13th century. In it, a small band of warriors and mystics raise their swords to save Europe from a bloodthirsty Mongol invasion. Inspired by their leader (an elder of an order of warrior monks), they embark on a perilous journey and uncover the history of hidden knowledge and conflict among powerful secret societies that had been shaping world events for millennia.
But the saga reaches the modern world via a circuitous route. In the late 19th century, Sir Richard F. Burton, an expert on exotic languages and historical swordsmanship, is approached by a mysterious group of English martial arts aficionados about translating a collection of long-lost manuscripts. Burton dies before his work is finished, and his efforts were thought lost until recently rediscovered by a team of amateur archaeologists in the ruins of a mansion in Trieste, Italy. From this collection of arcana, the incredible tale of The Mongoliad was recreated.
Full of high adventure, unforgettable characters, and unflinching battle scenes, The Mongoliad ignites a dangerous quest where willpower and blades are tested and the scope of world-building is redefined.
A note on this edition: The Mongoliad began as a social media experiment, combining serial story-telling with a unique level of interaction between authors and audience during the creative process. Since its original iteration, The Mongoliad has been restructured, edited, and rewritten under the supervision of its authors to create a more cohesive reading experience and will be published as a trilogy of novels. This edition is the definitive edition and is the authors' preferred text.
This one looks interesting as it was written by five different authors (inc. Greg Bear and Neal Stephenson) and some of them are Medieval Western Martial arts practitioners so the fighting scenes should be good. Has anyone already started this book either on paper or in e-format?
The Princess Bride is today's Daily Deal for Kindle at Amazon. It would be
inconceivable to pass this up!
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003IEJZRY/ref=amb_link_364192902_4?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1EX63BY0GWV6A5PKBF4Y&pf_rd_t=1401&pf_rd_p=1384269342&pf_rd_i=1000677541 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003IEJZRY/ref=amb_link_364192902_4?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1EX63BY0GWV6A5PKBF4Y&pf_rd_t=1401&pf_rd_p=1384269342&pf_rd_i=1000677541)
QuoteBook Description
Publication Date: October 8, 2007
William Goldman's modern fantasy classic is a simple, exceptional story about quests—for riches, revenge, power, and, of course, true love—that's thrilling and timeless.
Anyone who lived through the 1980s may find it impossible—inconceivable, even—to equate The Princess Bride with anything other than the sweet, celluloid romance of Westley and Buttercup, but the film is only a fraction of the ingenious storytelling you'll find in these pages. Rich in character and satire, the novel is set in 1941 and framed cleverly as an "abridged" retelling of a centuries-old tale set in the fabled country of Florin that's home to "Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passions."
QuoteAmazon.com Review
The Princess Bride is a true fantasy classic. William Goldman describes it as a "good parts version" of "S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure." Morgenstern's original was filled with details of Florinese history, court etiquette, and Mrs. Morgenstern's mostly complimentary views of the text. Much admired by academics, the "Classic Tale" nonetheless obscured what Mr. Goldman feels is a story that has everything: "Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest ladies. Snakes. Spiders. Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles."
Goldman frames the fairy tale with an "autobiographical" story: his father, who came from Florin, abridged the book as he read it to his son. Now, Goldman is publishing an abridged version, interspersed with comments on the parts he cut out.
Is The Princess Bride a critique of classics like Ivanhoe and The Three Musketeers, that smother a ripping yarn under elaborate prose? A wry look at the differences between fairy tales and real life? Simply a funny, frenetic adventure? No matter how you read it, you'll put it on your "keeper" shelf. --Nona Vero
Review
PRAISE FOR THE PRINCESS BRIDE
"[Goldman's] swashbuckling fable is nutball funny . . . A 'classic' medieval melodrama that sounds like all the Saturday serials you ever saw feverishly reworked by the Marx Brothers." --Newsweek
"One of the funniest, most original, and deeply moving novels I have read in a long time." --Los Angeles Times
Thanks for posting these 'Wing. Breathes life into this section.
NP, Gus. :)
Today's ebook daily deal:
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut for $1.99
http://www.amazon.com/Cats-Cradle-Vonnegut-Series-ebook/dp/B003XRELGQ/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1343647503&sr=8-1-spell
I tried to link this one through the Grogheads link so I hope we get some Amazon love here.
Sorry to be posting this so late.
Today's deal is
Eastern Inferno: The Journals of a German Panzerjager on the Eastern Front, 1941-43 [Kindle Edition]
Hans Roth (Author), Christine, editor Alexander (Author), Mason, editor Kunze (Author) $1.99LB Edit: This link will give us credit: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004DI7R2E/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=grogheads-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B004DI7R2E
QuoteThis book presents the remarkable personal journals of a German soldier who participated in Operation Barbarossa and subsequent battles on the Eastern Front, revealing the combat experience of the German-Russian War as seldom seen before.
Hans Roth was a member of the anti-tank (Panzerjager) battalion, 299th Infantry Division, attached to Sixth Army, as the invasion of Russia began. Writing as events transpired, he recorded the mystery and tension as the Germans deployed on the Soviet frontier in June 1941. Then a firestorm broke loose as the Wehrmacht tore across the front, forging into the primitive vastness of the East.
During the Kiev encirclement, Roth's unit was under constant attack as the Soviets desperately tried to break through the German ring. At one point, after the enemy had finally been beaten, a friend serving with the SS led him to a site where he witnessed civilians being massacred en masse (which may well have been Babi Yar). After suffering through a horrible winter against apparently endless Russian reserves, his division went on the offensive again, this time on the northern wing of "Case Gelb," the German drive toward Stalingrad.
In these journals, attacks and counterattacks are described in "you are there" detail, as Roth wrote privately, as if to keep himself sane, knowing that his honest accounts of the horrors in the East could never pass through Wehrmacht censors. When the Soviet counteroffensive of winter 1942 begins, his unit is stationed alongside the Italian 8th Army, and his observations of its collapse, as opposed to the reaction of the German troops sent to stiffen its front, are of special fascination.
Roth's three journals were discovered many years after his disappearance, tucked away in the home of his brother, with whom he was known to have had a deep bond. After his brother's death, his family discovered them and quickly sent them to Rosel, Roth's wife. In time, Rosel handed down the journals to Erika, Roth's only daughter, who had meantime immigrated to America.
Hans Roth was doubtlessly working on a fourth journal before he was reported missing in action in July 1944 during the battle known as the Destruction of Army Group Center. Although Roth's ultimate fate remains unknown, what he did leave behind, now finally revealed, is an incredible firsthand account of the horrific war the Germans waged in Russia.
LB can you tell if any of these links are properly crediting Grogheads? I just purchased through the link I posted above, gotten by navigating there using your original Amazon link.
Quote from: Staggerwing on August 06, 2012, 06:06:12 PM
LB can you tell if any of these links are properly crediting Grogheads? I just purchased through the link I posted above, gotten by navigating there using your original Amazon link.
The one you had did not. The one I inserted via edit (shut up, Gus!) now does.
That's odd. I actually used your link in the sticky and navigated to the Amazon page from there, then copied and pasted the link. Perhaps everyone needs to use the main link and get there themselves. If you post a Grogheads link to here:
http://www.amazon.com/kindle-store-ebooks-newspapers-blogs/b/ref=topnav_storetab_kstore?ie=UTF8&node=133141011
then the daily deal link will always appear in the mid-upper right side.
Quote from: Staggerwing on August 07, 2012, 05:21:27 AM
That's odd. I actually used your link in the sticky and navigated to the Amazon page from there, then copied and pasted the link. Perhaps everyone needs to use the main link and get there themselves. If you post a Grogheads link to here:
http://www.amazon.com/kindle-store-ebooks-newspapers-blogs/b/ref=topnav_storetab_kstore?ie=UTF8&node=133141011
then the daily deal link will always appear in the mid-upper right side.
Well, I suspect that Amazon is placing a cookie on your machine that lets it know that *you* came through our Amazon link. However, because you don't have access to our link code, the link you share isn't viral and won't spread credit for us to other people.
Today's Daily Deal?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005Z57E18/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B005Z57E18&linkCode=as2&tag=grogheads-20
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William ShirerQuoteBook Description
Publication Date: October 23, 2011
When the Third Reich fell, it fell swiftly. The Nazis had little time to cover up their memos, their letters, or their diaries. William L. Shirer's definitive book on the Third Reich uses these unique sources. Combined with his personal experience with the Nazis, living through the war as an international correspondent, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich not only earned Shirer a National Book Award but is recognized as one of the most important and authoritative books about the Third Reich and Nazi Germany ever written. The diaries of propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels as well as evidence and other testimony gained at the Nuremberg Trials could not have found more artful hands.
Shirer gives a clear, detailed and well-documented account of how it was that Adolf Hitler almost succeeded in conquering the world. With millions of copies in print, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich has become one of the most authoritative books on one of mankind's darkest hours. Shirer focuses on 1933 to 1945 in clear detail. Here is a worldwide bestseller that also tells the true story of the Holocaust, often in the words of the men who helped plan and conduct it. It is a classic by any measure.
The book has been translated into twelve languages and was adapted as a television miniseries, broadcast by ABC in 1968. This first ever e-book edition is published on the 50th anniversary of this iconic work.
(Please note: Some reader reviews complain of typos and dead footnote links in this Kindle adaption. It's always possible that these will get fixed later and you can re-download.)
LB, please edit link for Grog Love ;)
Done! That's a lot of love for $2. Heard a lot about the book but never read it. Now's my chance.
Oh man, that is a no-brainer for 2 clams. I already have the print version, too.
Thank you so much for posting that!
Glad to be of service ;)
To the rest of you- if you see a good deal or run across a freebie somewhere post it here. Even if it's not from Amazon there are tools to convert it so we can read it on our kindles and there are plenty of other e-reader apps for iOS and the li'l green 'bot so that yooze wi' dem shmaht fonez and tablablets can get their read on...
Today, Monday 9/17 daily deal:
Secrets of the Cold War: US Army Europe's Intelligence & Counterintelligence Activities Against the Soviets During the Cold War $1.99http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005AU7G20/ref=amb_link_365358042_3?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1W3G98TXRG4Z48HDPY8A&pf_rd_t=1401&pf_rd_p=1398648522&pf_rd_i=1000677541
QuoteSecrets of the Cold War focuses on a dark period of a silent war and offers a new perspective on the struggle between the superpowers of the world told in the words of those who were there. The author, formerly an expert in counterintelligence in US Army Europe, weaves together exciting true accounts of allies collecting enemy information in the East and fighting spies and terrorists in the West.
Amassing Soviet military information by Allied agents in the East is at the forefront! Learn the bizarre method a British agent uses to obtain the muzzle size of a Russian tank as he risks his life jumping on a moving train in East Germany. A French officer drives into a Soviet tank column and escapes undiscovered by cunning methods. In West Germany, terrorist attacks and spies are rampant. Communists shoot a rocket propelled grenade into a General's occupied limo and terrorists kidnap another General. From the espionage files, an American soldier is nearly recruited in a downtown bar to be a spy and a First Sergeant is lured by sex to be an unknowing participant in spying.
Behind-the-lines images are historic and intriguing. See photographs of a French officer and a Soviet officer relaxing in the East German woods in a temporary unofficial peace; 'James Bond' type cars with their light tricks and their ability to leave their Stasi shadows 'wheel spinning' in the snow will amaze readers.
A Russian translator for the presidential hotline recounts a story about having to lock his doors in the Pentagon, separating himself and his sergeant from the Pentagon Generals when a message comes in from the Soviets. When he called the White House to relay the message to the President and stood by for a possible reply to the Soviet Chairman, he stopped working for the Generals and started working solely for the President.
In another riveting account, a US Berlin tank unit goes on red alert when the Soviets stop a US convoy on the autobahn between West Germany and Berlin. The Berlin Command orders the tanks to rescue them, "If anything gets in your way, either run over it or blow it away!" Young US Berlin train commanders recount their encounters with their Soviet counterparts aboard the Berlin Duty Train. In an unusual train incident, one male Soviet Officer places a love note in a young US female Train Commander's pocket, touching her leg. The note is in the book.
Containing a host of first-person accounts that lift the lid on previously untold clandestine activities, this is a major contribution to Cold War history, and exciting reading for all those who have an interest in the real-life world of military intelligence, counterintelligence and espionage.
Francis Gary Powers, Jr: "Well written and informative, the book is a magnificent assessment of the Cold War history."
Sorry to post this one so late. I just noticed it myself- too busy to read my email I guess.
Crap. This is starting to look like a habit.
But I'll bite. Here's the GH link: http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=000000&IS2=1&bg1=FFFFFF&fc1=000000&lc1=0000FF&t=grogheads-20&o=1&p=8&l=as4&m=amazon&f=ifr&ref=ss_til&asins=B005AU7G20
Feel free to grog-edit any link I post to Amazon. I'd do it m'self but I don't know how to make it 'stick'.
Do you have a way of checking how many Amazon click-throughs you get this way per week?
Quote from: Staggerwing on September 17, 2012, 07:39:49 PM
Do you have a way of checking how many Amazon click-throughs you get this way per week?
I'll have to check.
I ordered through your thingie but I don't know if it registered or not.
Quote from: Silent Disapproval Robot on September 17, 2012, 11:01:57 PM
I ordered through your thingie but I don't know if it registered or not.
It probably did. Amazon is surprisingly generous with stuff like that.
Today, Sept 20's Daily Deal?
Omaha Beach: D-Day, June 6, 1944 [Kindle Edition]
Joseph Balkoski $1.99
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001GIPLBI/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B001GIPLBI&linkCode=as2&tag=grogheads-20
Quote"Balkoski's depiction of 'Bloody Omaha' is the literary accompaniment to the white-knuckle Omaha Beach scene that opens Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan." -- John Hillen, New York Post
In this unforgettable narrative of D-Day, Joseph Balkoski describes the minute-by-minute combat as it unfolded on Omaha Beach, allowing soldiers to speak for themselves as they recall their attempts to maneuver bombers through heavy cloud cover, the claustrophobic terror aboard transports, and the relentless fire that greeted them on the beach. Equal parts oral history and meticulous reconstruction, Omaha Beach is the closest the modern reader can get to experiencing the Normandy landings firsthand.
Lots of Kudos in the reader comments.
Thanks, Stagger. Updated the link for the GH referral.
I've got to quit looking at these. I think I'm going broke two dollars at a time.
Today's Deal- 14 of Philip K. Dick's classic Scifi novels for $1.99 each!!!
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=pe_170810_26180670_pe_button/?docId=1000677541
For those of you who don't know who PKD (as he is often referred to among fans) is- He wrote terrific, slightly quirky, novels of which a surprising number were made into movies, usually under different titles and with one true standout classic. This was Blade Runner, originally titled 'Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep?'. Rumor has it that there is a current attempt to turn VALIS into a workable screenplay- good luck with that! Other books turned into movies (from http://www.philipkdick.com/films_intro.html):
QuoteOnce Ridley Scott turned "Do Android's Dream of Electric Sheep?" into the science fiction classic "Blade Runner," eight of Philip K. Dick's novels or short stories have made their way to the big screen. To date, these films have generated over $1 billion in world-wide box office and ancillary revenue. This astounding success is the result of combining visionary stories with talent from the world's finest film directors, studios and stars. Steven Spielberg, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tom Cruise, John Woo, Ben Affleck, Harrison Ford, Robert Downey Jr., Keanu Reeves, and Matt Damon are only a few of the illustrious names associated with these projects.
(So help me I just bought all 14. I should really see a doctor one of these days... 8))
Completed Films
Blade Runner (1982)
Based on "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"
Screamers (1995)
Based on "Second Variety"
Total Recall (1990)
Based on "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale"
Confessions d'un Barjo (French, 1992)
Based on "Confessions of a Crap Artist"
Impostor (2001)
Based on "Impostor."
Minority Report (2002)
Based on "The Minority Report."
Paycheck (December 25, 2003)
Based on "Paycheck."
A Scanner Darkly (July 7, 2006)
Based on "A Scanner Darkly"
Next (April 27, 2007)
Based on "The Golden Man"
Films in Production
The Adjustment Bureau (coming 2010)
Based on "The Adjustment Team"
King of the Elves (coming 2012)
Based on "King of the Elves"
Adjustment Bureau has already been released BTW. Another book that's part of the sale and often discussed for a movie option is "Man in the High Castle" which is an Alt history story that describes the world of the 60's as it would be had the Axis won. In an occupied United States a book is secretly being circulated which describes a different world, one in which the Allies were actually the
victors...
I'm going to have to apologize in advance to LB's wallet for this...
Kindle deals for Vet's Day:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/r.html?R=3O9WMX4MBDRMU&C=15FJSDE162FFI&H=SARWIYTCXDZO3PHTZQEQ2NJMJPMA&T=C&U=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Ffeature.html%2Fref%3Dpe_170810_26768890_pe_button%2F%3FdocId%3D1000677541
There's some good stuff in there- The Long Ships, Red Eagles: America's Secret Migs, No Greater Ally: The Untold Story of Poland's Forces in World War II, Tonight We Die As Men PB: The Untold Story of Third Batallion 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment from Toccoa to D-D
If the link doesn't work go to Amazon through the Grogheads link in the first thread here, choose the Kindle Store option up top in 'Shop by Dept' and then look on the right side where the Daily Deals are posted.
Why is one of the Remembrance Day deals a Runescape book?
Damifino... I just report 'em.
I bought the one about the Poles in WWII. Looks interesting.
April 28, 2013
Here's a freebie for Kindle thanks to Tuna's sharp eyes and his post in another thread:
http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=5719.msg138305#msg138305
Quote from: Tuna on April 28, 2013, 08:11:02 AM
FYI cruising the WITE forum on Matrix, I saw this post for a free kindle book on Amazon
Decision in the Ukraine: German Panzer Operations on the Eastern Front, Summer 1943 (Stackpole Military History Series) (http://www.amazon.com/Decision-Ukraine-Operations-Stackpole-ebook/dp/B00BJ8LQ78/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1367145874&sr=8-1)
- not sure how long this one will last!
Listed at $9.73 when I check the link.
Must be a US-only thing then as it shows $0 even now and I was able to get it for free.
Sorry to all you Outlanders, didn't mean to tease...
Strange. I use the US Amazon sight when I buy my Kindle books. Maybe I'll try a proxy and see what happens.
EDIT: Well, bugger me! Sneaky Amazonian bastages. If I sign out of my account, use TunnerBear VPN and go to Amazon.com, it shows as $0.00 but if I log into my account via the VPN, the price changes to $9.73.
Anyone wanna gift me a copy?