Page 51 of North American New Book Catalog Spring/Summer 2008 by International Publishers Marketing

2469 ipm_catss2008_text12 10/2/07 10:07 am page 50 haus publishing new titles april may 2008 hausbooks series continued new titles captain john smith his brave adventures r e pritchard adventurer explorer and key figure in early american and the elizabethan-era british imagination new christened in 1580 with a name so common as to be almost anonymous he set out on what he called `brave adventures to make a name for himself becoming know as a soldier a pirate colonist and author little did he know that his name would forever be associated with that of a young native american princess pocahontas smith was a remarkable man in the great tradition of the elizabethan adventurers brave resourceful intelligent with a vision of what america could become his life reads like an adventure story of battles disasters triumphs and of a refusal to give in his armorial motto `vincere est vivere translates as `to conquer is to live r.e pritchard is a writer and historian living in oxford his area of specialist study is the era of exploration and discovery in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries his biography of the `english marco polo peter mundy merchant explorer will be published by haus in fall 2008 april 2008 cloth us $29.95 can $33.50 isbn 978-1905791-25-5 224 pages 6x9 illustrated armchair traveller biography history rommel the end of a legend ralf george reuth new in paperback `this outstanding examination exposes rommel s true character as being much different and much darker than the fawning accounts the desert fox s legions of fans will be extremely uncomfortable when they meet the real rommel in the pages of reuth s must-read new book armchair general magazine field marshal erwin rommel was the most popular soldier of world war ii under his leadership the german afrika korps advanced all the way to egypt known as the `desert fox rommel was considered invincible that is the story told in the history books ralf georg reuth paints a different portrait of erwin rommel a picture of a man who owed his fame in part to the nazi propaganda and whose role in the resistance is still unclear the image of a soldier who was promoted by hitler and who continued to stay true to him until the end when he committed suicide at the behest of his führer his personal fate is the mirror image of the german tragedy of that time `to have followed the führer to the end and to believe that one had thereby done one s patriotic duty ralf georg reuth chief correspondent for the welt am sonntag holds a phd in history he is the author of numerous non-fiction works on recent german political events such as reunification as well as major biographies on hitler goebbels and rommel he is also the editor of the goebbels diaries may 2008 paper us $18.95 can $21.25 isbn 978-1-905791-36-1 224 pages 6x9 illustrated hausbooks biography history military history page 50 to order call 1-800-758-3756 fax 1-703-661-1501 www.internationalpubmarket.com

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