Best Selling Books by Mackinlay Kantor

"The men who flew the planes knew it was a war. behind the lines in Japan, the women know it too- flier'' wives and civilians, always waiting, always greedily and hungrily waiting for the men. And in the teeming Tokyo suburbs, the sing-song girls in the exotic gardens of Kumbawa- they knew it too. Here is a powerful and eye-opening story of American soldiers, their wives- and their women, a novel of conflict and passion by the author of Signal Thirty-two" -- Back cover.

A scoutmaster''s forty years of service in a small Iowa town.

Small-town life in Iowa in the years before the World War.

An old school janitor reviews his past in relation to the many pupils he has known.

A wealthy man''s passion for restoring flocks of passenger pigeons to America.

Thomas always pretended his favorite menu was creamed angleworms on toast. Then one day when he also pretended he was sick enough to miss school, his family thought he deserved whatever he wanted for lunch.

Autobiography of the man who served on active duty as a 4-star general longer than anyone in the history of our country.

Story of Missouri bushwhackers, when returning soldiers could no longer be judged by the color of their trousers.

MACKINLAY KANTOR Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Andersonville VALLEY FORGE Poignant, tender, and powerful, VALLEY FORGE brings into sharp new focus one of the most tensely dramatic episodes of the American Revolution. With warmth and wit, compassion and sensitivity, MacKinlay Kantor evokes the flavor, pulse and texture of the last quarter of the eighteenth century, transporting the reader into the houses and workshops, kitchens and stables, parlors and bedrooms of ordinary citizens. Here are not only the soldiers of Valley Forge, but the panorama of the Revolution itself. George Washington, lamenting the remoteness and lack of valor in the Congress, anticipating new battle; the sprightly, good-humored Martha, always loyal and loving to a fau

This book is a story about the life of Lobo, the family dog, and how he came to be with and stay with the Kantor family.

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