Palm Springs Paradise: Vintage Photographs from America"s Desert Playground

Palm Springs Paradise: Vintage Photographs from America’s Desert Playground by Peter Moruzzi
English | 2015 | ISBN: 142363991X | 176 pages | EPUB | 59 MB

This book collects more than two hundred fascinating and rarely seen historical photographs of Palm Springs, newly digitized from the Palm Springs Historical Society’s expansive archive. Featured are many Hollywood celebrities, including Sinatra and the Rat Pack, who vacationed there, the early days of the desert paradise, various architectural masterworks, such as the fabulous El Mirador Hotel and the extraordinary, outrageous, and irreverent people of Palm Springs.

Historian PETER MORUZZI is the founder of the Palm Springs Modern Committee, an architectural preservation group, and the author of Havan a Before Castro; When Cuba Was a Tropical Playground, Palm Springs Holiday: A Vintage Tour from Palm Springs to the Salton Sea, and Classic Dining: Discovering America’s Finest Mid-Century Restaurants. He’s been infatuated with Palm Springs since his first visit in 1990. He now splits his time between his homes in Los Angeles and Palm Springs.

Eighth Army: The Triumphant Desert Army That Held the Axis at Bay from North Africa to the Alps, 1939-45 (Repost)

Robin Neillands – Eighth Army: The Triumphant Desert Army That Held the Axis at Bay from North Africa to the Alps, 1939-45
Overlook Press | 2005 | ISBN: 1585676896 | English | 388 pages | PDF | 141.59 MB

Eighth Army is Robin Neillands’s masterful and thrilling told account of the defeats and triumphs of Eighth Army, considered by many to be the most remarkable fighting force in World War II. Using first-hand source material–including personal accounts and interviews with veterans of Eighth Army–Neillands digs deeply into the details of the strategies, conflicts, controversies, and politically motivated decisions that plagued, stymied, and galvanized this remarkable group of men.