Two books of the day today, both lavishly illustrated coffee table books. The Art of the Airways by Geza Szurow features beautiful reproductions of vintage airline posters, from the days when air travel was romantic. Pacific Legacy: Image and Memory from World War II in the Pacific by Rex Alan Smith and Gerald A. Meehl shows the physical remnants of WWII in the Pacific. From memorials and monuments (on both sides) to rusted-out airplanes crashed in the jungle and helmeted skeletons that turned up in someone’s back garden. Lots of history is given to link these islands of memory to the events that caused them.