We all know it was in the intrest of Democrats to perpetuate poverty...

[Drake Tungsten]

Exactly whatTF makes it worth $450, anyway? Let alone $1400?

High demand, low supply, monopoly producer, and price-inelastic consumers.

[Elok]

...and this history is so much better than comparable histories that you'd consider paying that kind of money for it? I'm assuming that, as WWII has been researched for about a million history books, it's not new facts that make it valuable but a different presentation of the same information or new insights about causes/effects/whatever. I'm not just being argumentative here, I'm sincerely wondering how damned awesome that book would have to be for the content one volume to be worth as much as a good PC.

[Elok]

Happy endings always cost extra money.

The ending was happy, unless the book was translated from Japanese or German. Well, no, the way Hitler ****ed Germany up, even Dresden was almost worth it. Are you perchance thinking of "The Diary of Anne Frank"?

[Drake Tungsten]

...and this history is so much better than comparable histories that you'd consider paying that kind of money for it?

I'm not going to buy it, which is why I'm complaining. But yes, it is much better than other histories on the German experience in WWII (there are no comparable histories, really).

[Asher]

The ending was happy, unless the book was translated from Japanese or German. Well, no, the way Hitler ****ed Germany up, even Dresden was almost worth it. Are you perchance thinking of "The Diary of Anne Frank"?

I'm thinking of a shady massage parlour.