Today’s Amazon Digital Deals include a couple of great movies, a classic, must-have MP3 album, premium apps at 50-67% off, and a very highly-rated book too, so let’s get to it!
In Kindle books, it’s David Halberstam’s The Coldest Winter. Normally priced at $17.99, it’s got an average review rating of 4/5 across 185 reviews and is $1.99 today only. From Amazon:
David Halberstam’s magisterial and thrilling The Best and the Brightest was the defining book about the Vietnam conflict. More than three decades later, Halberstam used his unrivaled research and formidable journalistic skills to shed light on another pivotal moment in our history: the Korean War. Halberstam considered The Coldest Winterhis most accomplished work, the culmination of forty-five years of writing about America’s postwar foreign policy.
Halberstam gives us a masterful narrative of the political decisions and miscalculations on both sides. He charts the disastrous path that led to the massive entry of Chinese forces near the Yalu River and that caught Douglas MacArthur and his soldiers by surprise. He provides astonishingly vivid and nuanced portraits of all the major figures-Eisenhower, Truman, Acheson, Kim, and Mao, and Generals MacArthur, Almond, and Ridgway. At the same time, Halberstam provides us with his trademark highly evocative narrative journalism, chronicling the crucial battles with reportage of the highest order. As ever, Halberstam was concerned with the extraordinary courage and resolve of people asked to bear an extraordinary burden.
The Coldest Winter is contemporary history in its most literary and luminescent form, providing crucial perspective on every war America has been involved in since. It is a book that Halberstam first decided to write more than thirty years ago and that took him nearly ten years to complete. It stands as a lasting testament to one of the greatest journalists and historians of our time, and to the fighting men whose heroism it chronicles.
Still in the historical vein, but heavily fictionalized, the National Treasure Amazon Instant Videos are priced at 99 cents each to rent, today only.
National Treasure has an average review rating of 4/5 stars across 606 customer reviews. It stars Nicolas Cage as treasure hunter Benjamin Franklin Gates, who’s on a mission to clear his father’s name by proving the key to finding a long-buried treasure is hidden on the back of The Declaration of Independence. It’s like Indiana Jones with a United States history twist, and features a rollicking race through several of the United States’ most celebrated historical monuments.
National Treasure: Book of Secrets finds Benjamin Gates again on a mission to acquire historical documents to solve a mystery. This time, it’s the missing pages from the journal of John Wilkes Booth, which hold the answers to the Lincoln assassination conspiracy. But just as with the first film, the fact that the plot revolves around old documents doesn’t put any kind of damper on the action and excitement. This film also has an average review rating of 4/5 stars.
In MP3 albums, it’s Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, priced at just $2.99 today only.
Finally, some premium app developers are running a half off sale on some of their most popular apps.
Bargain hunter’s tip: Many of these apps come with a $1 credit to be used toward future purchases in the Amazon MP3 store. If you’re intending to pick up some of these apps and the Pink Floyd album, you can get the album for free by purchasing three apps that come with a $1 MP3 credit, then buying Dark Side of the Moon afterward, in a separate transaction.
XIMAD INC. offers its 5001 Amazing Facts Premium, This Day In History Premium, Magic Puzzles: Famous Paintings, Magic Puzzles: Zombies, Magic Puzzles: Seasons and many of its other titles for 99 cents today, and most of them come with a $1 credit toward Amazon MP3s!
Oceanhouse Media has put all of its very highly-rated Five Little Monkeys children’s book apps on sale for 67% off; today only, they’re priced at 99 cents each and they also come with the $1 Amazon MP3 credit.
Books, Instant Videos, music and apps: get them while they’re on sale!