Posted: Apr 30, 2020 4:52 am
surreptitious57 wrote:There is an excellent online site called [b]wordery . com that boasts a phenomenal I0 000 000 titles in its collection
As Waterstones dont always have every book you want then it is an excellent place to go with a stock of that size
For difficult to find (i.e. usually out of print) books I go to BetterWorldBooks. Naturally they are second-hand. Not that I mind. Saves on landfill, and the site claims to have raised funds amounting to $30,765,212 for literacy & libraries to date.
Currently on their way to me:
Inside Europe, the 1940 edition by American journalist and author, John Gunther. What it lacks in citations and footnotes it makes up by the fact that the author lived there at the time he wrote about and was variously in charge of the Daily News's offices in London, Berlin, Vienna, Moscow, Rome, and Paris.
The Enlightenment: An Interpretation (2 volumes, 1966 & 1969) by American historian, Peter Gay, whose family had escaped Germany in 1939. Fun fact: Gay's original surname was Fröhlich, the German word for gay, as in 'cheerful'.
I read these books in the mid or late 70s, but they are among the many I lost one way or another over the years. Worth reading again, so here they come.