Book Shopping, Day Five
I’ve invited the Broadcasting Legend™ to suggest a holiday gift book that might appeal to the man on your list. He came up with A Genius for Deception: How Cunning Helped the British Win Two World Wars, by Nicholas Rankin. Need I add that the Broadcasting Legend™ is a great fan of the History Channel, the Military Channel, and pretty much anything to do with war?
But this, according to Michael Bywater of the Daily Telegraph, “is a book of marvellous yarns, which will appeal to a far wider readership than the sombre consumers of standard military history.” “It is all here,” writes Simon Winchester, author of The Man Who Loved China and A Crack in the Edge of the World, “colonels in drag, midget submarines, corpses with stashed secrets, a black radio station called Aspidistra and more inventions than James Bond’s Q could ever conceive—and is endlessly fascinating in consequence. No better book about the mad arcana of belligerence has ever been written.” Now who could resist that?
This is definitely going to be in the Broadcasting Legend™’s stocking come Christmas morning. He may have to fight me for it.
A Genius for Deception: How Cunning Helped the British Win Two World Wars by Nicholas Rankin is available from Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Amazon, and your favorite independent bookstore.
