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MA Jeeps Book from Wings and Wheels

November 18, 2012 • CATEGORIES: Bantam-FordGP-WillysMA-EarlyJPs, Books, Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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Roberto forwarded a link about a book published by Wings and Wheels out of the Czech Republic called “MA Jeeps in Detail”.  It looks like a good book.  496 Czech Korunas is approx $25 US.

Learn more about the book here: http://wwpbooks.com/product.php?id_product=223

You can find more jeep books here:   http://wwpbooks.com/search.php?tag=Jeep

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Bounce the Jeep by Barbara Jane Snediker on eBay

November 16, 2012 • CATEGORIES: Books, Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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UPDATE:  Staring bid is $7.50

Bounce the Jeep was published in 1945.

“ENLARGED PICTURES!! Please scroll ALL the way down to view LARGER images.
KA355. Illustrated by Harold Peterson. Pub. Rand McNally 1945.
6 ¾” 45 pages. Small split bottom rear hinge. Otherwise. Very Good condition.”

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Doug and the Old CJ a Book by Bill Nelson

November 1, 2012 • CATEGORIES: Artists/Drawings, Books, Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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UPDATE:  Bill has an updated price structure for his book.

On Amazon paperback—$12.95 plus shipping
On Amazon Kindle—$2.00
From Author—$10. It will cover book and shipping. I will autograh it if they tell me who to sign it for. It must be cash , check or money order. (I can’t do pay pal)
My address is:
Bill Nelson
1208 Green Lane
Chester Springs, PA 19425
email Bill at brillx@yahoo.com.

(10/31/2012) A couple weeks ago Glenn wrote me about a book he ran across call the “Doug and the Old CJ” by Bill Nelson.  Based on Glenn’s recommendation, I wrote Bill and recently received a signed copy of my own.  I still have a few books in front of it, but I’ll write a review once I finish it. I leafed through the book and it includes a nice collection of illustrations, too.

Bill published the book in 2009 and according to him, ” It was loosely based on my boy’s adventures with a 1960 cj5. Beyond a good kids story, I tried to present many mentoring lessons, shop safety, thinking out problems, it is ok to get flustered when talking to a girl, the proper way to talk to a girl, the value of knowledge, setting goals,and general constructive living.”

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Zamboni: The Coolest Machine on the Ice Book

October 30, 2012 • CATEGORIES: Books, Features • TAGS: . This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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UPDATE: This is back on eBay.  Initial bid is $6.99.

I purchased a copy of this book. There are some good pictures and stories of the jeeps used to make the first few Zamboni Ice Resurfacers.  If you haven’t seen it, here’s my post about the Zamboni Ice Resurfacer.

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Ok, Joe Book

October 28, 2012 • CATEGORIES: Books, Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.
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I bought this book because it sounded interesting and because it had a jeep on the cover. “Ok, Joe” is about a Louis Guilloux, who for a short time acts as a French interpreter.  A well respected writer before the start of WWII, Louis kept a diary of his experiences and this book is structured in that way, describing his impressions about the end of France’s occupation and the entrance of the Allies (American’s in particular).   There is not much about jeeps, other than the writer takes several rides in one, driven by a driver named Joe.  If you like WWII history, it’s a different look at it. I enjoyed the book.

From the publisher:
“OK, Joe!” the American lieutenant calls out to his driver. He hops into his jeep and heads out through French countryside just liberated from the Nazis. With him is the narrator of this novel, Louis, a Frenchman engaged by the American Army as an interpreter. Louis serves a group of American officers charged with bringing GIs to account for crimes–including rape and murder–against French citizens. The friendly banter of the American soldiers and the beautiful Breton landscape stand in contrast to Louis’s task and his growing awareness of the moral failings of the Americans sent to liberate France. For not only must Louis translate the accounts of horrific crimes, he comes to realize that the accused men are almost all African American. Based on diaries that the author kept during his service as a translator for the U.S. Army in the aftermath of D-Day, OK, Joe follows Louis and the Americans as they negotiate with witnesses, investigate the crimes, and stage the courts-martial. Guilloux has an uncanny ear for the snappy speech of the GIs and a tenderness for the young, unworldly men with whom he spends his days, and, in evocative vignettes and dialogues, he sketches the complex intersection of hope and disillusionment that prevailed after the war. Although the American presence in France has been romanticized in countless books and movies, OK, Joe offers something exceedingly rare: a penetrating French perspective on post-D-Day GI culture, a chronicle of trenchant racism and lost ideals.”

Learn more about the book “OK, Joe” at Amazon

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