Books by John Costello and Complete Book Reviews
William Boyd, Author, John Costello, Author William Morrow & Company $21 (600p) ISBN 978-0-688-10363-7
Though Boyd made his reputation with novels of larky humor, his new work is a literate tale of romantic suspense that eschews comic relief and holds the reader's attention with effective foreshadowing. Like his last novel, The New Confessions , this
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John Costello, Author Little Brown and Company $17.95 (309p) ISBN 978-0-316-73968-9
Abetted by the entertainment industry, sex and romance flourished perhaps as never beforethough not always togetherduring WW II as men and women, separated from their loved ones, found new companions with whom to assuage loneliness and find...
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John Costello, Author William Morrow & Company $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-08662-6
On May 10, 1941, in one of WW II's most bizarre episodes, Rudolph Hess, the deputy fuhrer of Germany, parachuted onto Scottish soil. Costello ( I Was There ) uses recently declassified material to answer 50 years of speculation about the true...
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John Costello, Author, Oleg Tsarev, With Crown Publishers $25 (538p) ISBN 978-0-517-58850-5
Soviet master spy Alexander Orlov (1895-1973), who defected to the U.S. in 1952 to denounce Stalin's crimes, was eulogized in the U.S. Senate for helping America fight the Cold War. But this astonishing report--an unprecedented collaboration between
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John Costello, Author, Paul McCarthy, Editor Pocket Books $24 (448p) ISBN 978-0-671-76985-7
For 50 years, Adm. Husband Kimmel and Gen. Walter Short have been blamed for the unpreparedness that led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. British historian Costello (Ten Days to Destiny), working from recently declassified documents, reveals...
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