What non-fiction book did you read in 2013 that you most recommend?

[TeamPooka]

78. Napalm: An American Biography, Blazing Ice, Rocking The Pink

Napalm
Napalm is a revelation. In a story that takes us from Harvard Stadium to Vietnam, Robert M. Neer retells the past 70 years of American history through a single extraordinary and terrible invention. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the American way of war and its humanitarian dilemmas. (John Fabian Witt, author of Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History)
http://www.amazon.com/Napalm-Robert-M-Neer-ebook/dp/B00BL7IVS4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1386464074&sr=8-1&keywords=napalm

Blazing Ice
Blazing Ice is the story of the team of Americans who forged a thousand-mile transcontinental ôhaul routeö across Antarctica. For decades airplanes from McMurdo Station supplied the South Pole. A safe and repeatable surface haul route would have been cheaper and more environmentally benign than airlift, but the technology was not available until 2000.
http://www.amazon.com/Blazing-Ice-Pioneering-Twenty-first-Century%C3%86s-ebook/dp/B009NH256S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1386464142&sr=8-1&keywords=blazing+ice

Rocking the Pink: Finding Myself on the Other Side of Cancer
In 2008, just as Laura Roppé was poised to burst onto the music scene, her doctor called her with news that left her spinning—she had been diagnosed with an extremely aggressive form of breast cancer. Just days earlier, she had signed a dream-come-true contract with a record label; now, she wasn’t even sure how much longer she had to live. Never one to back down to a challenge, however, Roppé gathered her courage, took stock of her priorities, and made a decision: Cancer may take my hair, she told herself, but that’s all it’s getting.

More than a cancer journey, Rocking the Pink is a quirky, charming, and poignant ode to love, friendship, and music. Roppé is unflinchingly honest and unfailingly funny as she tells the story of her odyssey: from childhood dreamer and giddy valet parker to the Hollywood stars to disillusioned lawyer, wife, and mother; from budding songwriter and late-blooming recording artist to determined cancer survivor. Full of raw emotion and humor that will make you laugh through your tears, Rocking the Pink is a chronicle of discovering one's true self through life’s difficult circumstances—and a testament to the hang-in-tough, take-no-prisoners attitude it takes to kick cancer’s butt.
http://www.amazon.com/Rocking-Pink-Finding-Myself-Cancer-ebook/dp/B007OVT8XS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1386464305&sr=8-1&keywords=rocking+the+pink