History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)

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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege

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absolutely essential.
One of the Most Important Books You'll Ever Read about the Middle East!
Read this book first
Venomous

Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege
Amira Hass
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In what is sure to be a controversial book, Israeli reporter Amira Hass offers a rare portrait of the Palestinians in Gaza. Very few journalists have lived in that troubled region; Jewish ones are rarer still. "To most Israelis," Hass writes, "my move seemed outlandish, even crazy, for they believed I was surely putting my life at risk." But Israelis desperately need to understand the plight of the Palestinian people, she writes, and few of them read the unvarnished truth in the Jerusalem press. This has made most of them ignorant of what goes on right next door, and inspired unduly "harsh" attitudes toward Gaza and its one million residents. Hass even quotes the late Yitzhak Rabin, who wished that Gaza "would just sink into the sea," shortly before he signed the Oslo Accords. Wishing away the problem, however, is no solution, and Hass delivers a detailed--and highly opinionated--diagnosis of what's wrong with Israeli policy toward Gaza. Strong supporters of Israeli will say that Hass is nothing but a mouthpiece for the Palestinians. Indeed, this book's subtitle could apply as much to Israel, surrounded by bitter enemies, as it does to Gaza. Yet it would be wrong to ignore Hass: the scene in Gaza is woefully unreported. The book is not likely to change many minds--this is one of those subjects where passions run deep and fierce. Those who already sympathize with Hass's pro-Palestinian views will find Drinking the Sea at Gaza an invigorating book. --John J. Miller

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In 1993, amira hass, a young Israeli reporter, drove to Gaza to cover a story-and stayed, the first journalist to live in the grim Palestinian enclave so feared and despised by most Israelis that, in the local idiom, "Go to Gaza" is another way to say "Go to hell." Now, in a work of calm power and painful clarity, Hass reflects on what she has seen in Gaza's gutted streets and destitute refugee camps.Drinking the Sea at Gaza maps the zones of ordinary Palestinian life. From her friends, Hass learns the secrets of slipping across sealed borders and stealing through night streets emptied by curfews. She shares Gaza's early euphoria over the peace process and its subsequent despair as hope gives way to unrelenting hardship. But even as Hass charts the griefs and humiliations of the Palestinians, she offers a remarkable portrait of a people not brutalized but eloquent, spiritually resilient, bleakly funny, and morally courageous.Full of testimonies and stories, facts and impressions, Drinking the Sea at Gaza makes an urgent claim on our humanity. Beautiful, haunting, and profound, it will stand with the great works of wartime reportage, from Michael Herr's Dispatches to Rian Malan's My Traitor's Heart.

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What it is really like.......2007-01-09

A very moving account of daily life without the politics, written with care and compassion.

absolutely essential........2006-08-22

I have spent the last summer reading numerous books on the Palestinian perspective of the MidEast crisis, and Hass' 'Drinking The Sea At Gaza' is perhaps the finest and most comprehensive account I have come across to date. Mixing the intellectual depth of Edward Said with the readability of Wendy Pearlman (of 'Occupied Voices'), Hass, in painstaking detail, recounts the daily struggle for Palestinian self-determination within the occupied territories, specifially Gaza, and reveals an intensely human drama not often revealed in the world press. This book is a must read, as are all of Hass' Ha'aretz (Israeli daily newspaper) articles on the conflict.

One of the Most Important Books You'll Ever Read about the Middle East!.......2006-07-14

Amira Hass is an Israeli Jewish reporter living in Gaza with the Palestinians. When I first read this book about a few years ago, I became fascinated by this woman not only an Israeli Jew but the daughter of Holocaust survivors and her life in Gaza of all places by her choice. Amira Hass helps us to understand the life in Gaza even as an outsider. She helps us to understand the Palestinians' life better than any other reporter or author. Of course, there is always politics and the war between Israel and Palestinans. But as of today where Gaza is under seige. You begin to feel compassion for both sides and wonder when will there ever be peace. It's interesting that the author is an atheist or agnostic. Believe me, the book is the worth the read and the price. For all it's worth, the book is probably important to read more than ever.

Read this book first.......2004-08-23

This book is as extraordinary and inspiring as its author. Hass is an Israeli, a Jew, a woman and an atheist who, uniquely in Israel, has chosen to live among the Palestinian people she writes about. To most people this would be as fatal a combination of attributes as could be imagined. Yet throughout her book she tells only of the warmth, generosity and acceptance she is offered, in a region regularly described as among the most dangerous on the planet.

Many of the best, most relentless and devastating critiques of Israel's colonialism come from Israelis, and none more so than Hass. The most powerful passages are where she likens the lot of the dispossessed in Gaza to the experiences of her own family, Holocaust victims and survivors, in being uprooted by the Nazis from their ancestral homes in Romania. It was her mother's account of the indifference on the faces of the German women who watched as she and the rest of the human cargo were herded from the cattle train en route to Bergen-Belsen that convinced Hass that "my place was not with the bystanders".

This book is no hagiography. She savages the Palestinian Authority leadership for their corruption and brutality (while giving it the necessary context of "a land under siege"). She meticulously documents the inferior position of women in Gaza - their exclusion from the few positions of authority, their lives of domestic drudgery while their unemployed husbands and brothers sit idly by.

Hass gives voice, humanity and a history to a people who live wretchedly on the doorstep of the homes and the lands from which they were expelled barely fifty years ago; who must now accept that neither their own leadership nor the world at large any longer insists on their right of return.

If you are thinking of buying Joan Peters's preposterous From Time Immemorial - a systematic denial of the Palestinians' history and identity, built on misused statistics and fraudulent records - read Drinking the Sea at Gaza first. Then save yourself the money.

Venomous.......2004-08-19

Amira Hass is to be commended for bravely moving to Gaza and writing a book about the people there.

However, this book isn't going to help people of Gaza.

One of the problems in Gaza is the Arab war against Jewish rights. This has poisoned relations among Jews and Arabs. Blaming all this on the Israel and thus promoting more of the same, as Hass does, is not good for anyone. Instead, it sabotages what could have been an effort to promote human rights for everyone in the region. Meanwhile, the author's bias against Israel makes the book unreliable.

Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson Volume 4: The Night Land & Other Romances (Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson)

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Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson Volume 4: The Night Land & Other Romances (Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson)
William Hope Hodgson , and Jason Van Hollander
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ASIN: 1892389428

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The fourth of a five volume set collecting all of Hodgson's published fiction. Each volume contains one of Hodgson's novels, along with a selection of thematically-linked short fiction. Introduction by Jeremy Lassen The Night Land # The Captain of the Onion Boat # Smugglers # The Girl with the Grey Eyes # Kind, Kind and Gentle Is She # A Timely Escape A Note On The Texts

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Outstanding.......2007-01-20

The Night Land is Hodgson's most complex work and not to everyone's taste. It is though an important foundation of fantasy literature much as Dunsany's King of Elfland's daughter is. The tragedy of Hodgson is that he died at tender age in the trenches of the first world war and his gift of writing was taken from us.
These books are my favourite not only for their content but the way in which the publishers have presented them. The Amazon picture does not give full justice to them - they are full size harcovers with blue faux? leather boards, no dustjacket, each book has a wonderful silver gilt lithograph? imprinted into the covers, illustrated within by Jason Van Hollander. Flat spine with silver compass floret and vol no , title , author , publisher. Back cover has silver guilt Hodgson portrait and occult border. Section sewn pages add to durability and I would imagine acid free paper.

GURPS Arabian Nights: Magic and Mystery in the Land of the Djinn (GURPS: Generic Universal Role Playing System)

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Very good reference for arabian games.

GURPS Arabian Nights: Magic and Mystery in the Land of the Djinn (GURPS: Generic Universal Role Playing System)
Phil Masters
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Very good reference for arabian games........2002-11-13

The book is a very good reference for historical facts and characters. It describes the medieval arabian culture and society very well. However, it is not a book for present Arabia, only for the periods before 1.300 a.C.

The book does a good job in the "fantasy" side, introducing elements of Thousand and One Nights, such as monsters and races (complete sheets of the legendary Djinns, Rocs, Persian Dragons and such). The Magic and Magic Itens section is average. It's not as "fantastic" (or "sparky", or "flashy") as al-Qadim, but in the end it's an advantage (there, the Great Caliph is served by hundreds of Djinns!)

The book could have more details about the dangers and facts of living in the desert, handling camels, cooking and surviving, just like GURPS Imperial Rome, which details the life in the court. Also, it could modify more things in magic, just like GURPS Celtic Myths, to improve the interference of "destiny and fate" and the arabian flavor.

In the end, it's a great book! Worths very well the money paid for it.

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An early work of fantasy

Rich, enigmatic, profound

Lovecraft isn't wrong

The Human Thing after the end of time.

Brilliant...

The Night Land
William Hope Hodgson
Manufacturer: Hard Press
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I Am Legend

ASIN: 1406905143
Release Date: 2006-11-03

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Now, after that destruction which had come upon the Ten-thousand, and the fresh assurance that was upon us of the terror of the Night Land, it may be known that there could be no more thought to succour. Though, in truth, those Youths that went now upon the Road Where The Silent Ones Walk were far beyond our aid.

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An early work of fantasy.......2007-05-03

It is not clear from the reviews above that this epic fantasy novel was one of the first in the genre, first published in 1912.

Hodgson conjures up a unique vision of the far future, where Earth is near its heat death, and all is darkness. At times his prose is brilliant, hinting at how humans are a minute remnant, scurrying between the toes of titanic forces they only dimly understand. In this he evokes a Lovecraftian sense of our vulnerablity. However, his prose goes beyond purple well into the ultraviolet. It is not written in what one might call modern English, nor even turn of the century English. He is trying to evoke a mythic tone by writing with a more archaic mode. It is full of enough "Lo!"'s and "Behold!"'s to choke a bard. If you can get past that, the novel is worth while for the mood it evokes.

Rich, enigmatic, profound.......2006-11-11

This book defies the categories that are given to it. Science Ficiton, Fantasy, Horror. It really is none of these things. I am not going to tell you that if you like Machen or Lovecraft, then you will love this book. I very much dislike Machen and Lovecraft, and that particular genre as well. Hodgson is weird, but he does not go out of his way to convince or to push off his beliefs on the reader. He speaks of his own experience, so to share with the reader of the amazing, and he does this very well. He actually has sever places in this book where he states these facts, and you see the credible nature of his narrative, and you are not forced to see his point of view to enjoy the story. This fact is one of the main reasons that I enjoyed this work immensely.

Then, of course, there is the aspect of the language employed, a romantic english that verges past Victorian all the way to middle english. This makes the book hard to read, but it is in the way I have always looked for in the fantasies that I read. If forces you to read the book in intervals. Sometimes, minutely, sometimes daily, even yearly. It took me four and a half years to read this book, and although I admit that it was hard to read, (not a child's first book), it was this aspect that made me cherish this work more. I always wanted a book that I could savor, and not read all the way through in two days. Like Vonngegut, for instance.

I like Vonnecgut, but you have to work hard to remember the scenery and plot, whereas with a more challenging read such as "The Night Land", the imagery is something that will stick with you for the rest of your life.

Like Hodgson does with his writing, I will not try to convince you to read this book by telling you the story, and try to pass off the story on the merit of the story. All I can say is that it is not a book someone should read who does not understand grammar, such as a High School student. However, If you appreciate eternal imagery with a quality of the strange, then you will be glad you read this book all the way through.

I can finish this review by telling you that I will never read this book a second time. I had to work very hard to finish this book, and I will always reamember (especially the island) the subtle breaks of non-continuity that made my resuming the book after a time, and the moments I decided I would put it down to read my other book. More books should be as ambitious as Hodgson's premeire work. Even though I will not read it again (if you can finish it, you don't need to), I will read "The Dream of X" which is a condensed version of the story, and remember all of the deleted scenes as if they actually happened. I look forward to reading "The Dream of X". If you read the book, you will too.

Lovecraft isn't wrong.......2005-09-09

HP Lovecraft called this book a masterpiece. It is, and it isn't. It's full of the late Victorian crap about endless love, and the word Love is always capitalized. Our hero's treatment of the woman he loves is also suspect. I doubt very seriously whether women's libbers would like this book. (Do women's libbers read, though?) Still, the depiction of the Night Land is incredibly chilling and the obvious and unalterable end of humanity is also chilling. We've finally bitten off more than we can chew, and the very universe itself is out to get us, and it WILL win, whether through the Pneumovores, or the Watchers or some other dark denizen of the Night Land. This is difficult reading, both because of the prose style Hodgson chose and for the dark depressing subject matter, but it is well worth reading. Also, please look for Andy Robertson's more modern book in the Night Land here on Amazon. You need to have read this book before you tackle the Robertson, but both are wonderful reads.

The Human Thing after the end of time........2004-10-17

This novel could be called " The Resolute Acceptance of Death" and it could also be called "The Resolute Denial of Death". For some reason Hodgson believes all of those debased faery tales. He believes romantic love conquers even death when, of course, considering how many people die every day, romantic love does no such thing.
The landscapes and the devil-deities depicted in this nightmare- world of the far future creep down into the nerves and light up all kinds of disturbing non-human lightnings. We are not merely talking about the destruction of the human race. We are not also talking about phantoms dredged up from the bottom of the human soul to spook us in the daylight. Jung and the approved psychologists have no place here. Something more grave is at stake - the confrontation of a bedraggled humanity with non-human forces that seek humanity's final destruction.
I have no sympathy for reviewers and readers who dislike the language - the style of prose Hodgson uses to tell the story. The language is the utterance of a subtle form of madness - the particular insanity of the Hero who tells the tale and lives it.
And the Hero is insane! It took me half of the way through the book for me to realize this. Everything about the Hero fulfills the dread shape of the male protagonist beloved to the old pulps and adventure stories in the early part of the century that has passed. He is occasionally brutal towards the woman he loved; that, combined with an extravagance of manly tenderness towards her tells me that the screws are a bit loose in his head - or too tight.
This book describes more of the human condition ( if I may drag that ponderous entity into this little review) than do a hundred thousand essays and novels and plays written by writers who adhere to the strict and ruthelessly exclusive artistic codes of "realism". The reason it does so is because Hodgson is something of a deranged mystic who ignores the rationlist strictures so many other writers of the day obeyed like slaves. I highly recommend this book to any reader yearning to repaint the landscape of her (or his) dreams. The colors will be vivid and aweful, but at least they will both provoke and endure.

Brilliant..........2004-03-21

Everyone raves about "The Lord of The Rings", but this is the real "grand-daddy" of the "modern" epic adventure. I read this for the first time when I was a young teen-ager (admittedly skipping the more "flowery" bits), and the book's dark and frightening imagery has haunted me ever since. I recently picked up an old copy and re-familiarized myself with it more thoroughly. Yes, the prose is repetitive, and Victorian in style, but it's all part of the experience. It takes a bit of discipline to plow through this tome, but it's worth it - knowing that you've completed reading so difficult and rewarding a book makes you feel good. Think about all the folks who have given up trying to wrestle with it..?! There are very few books written which are able to convey such senses of atmosphere and desolation. This is a book that you either like immensely, or hate completely. Hodgson was brilliant - what a shame that he died so young. Imagine if they made it into a film...WOW!

Night Riders of Reelfoot Lake (Fire Ant)

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Night Riders of Reelfoot Lake (Fire Ant)
Paul Vanderwood
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Mixed results of attack on secondary front are good reading

A Fine Night for Tanks
Ken Tout
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ASIN: 0750931892

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On 7 August 1944, the Canadian Army, reinforced with British Army units, sent four armored columns south of Caen to close the Falaise Gap. Driving through the night, the British tanks reached their objectives behind German lines and linked up with their Canadian compatriots. In the German counter-attack that followed, the British smashed the elite Tiger-equipped Wittman Troop. Using eyewitness accounts from tank crews and infantry, Ken Tout reveals how Totalize was a resounding Allied success.

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Mixed results of attack on secondary front are good reading.......2001-02-23

"Operation Totalize" doesn't get much ink in most reference books about World War II. It was a less than successful action, one of a series of such by the British and Canadians in France. The Germans were superb defensive soldiers, and they checked Montgomery's forces time and again.

On this particular section of front, the Germans held all the high ground. They were able to block British movements by day, allied air superiority notwithstanding, and rebuild their defenses by night. The lumbering Tiger tank and 88 mm anti-tank gun were nightmares to the crews of the inferior British armor--and to the Polish army-in-exile crews of the lend-lease Shermans. "Tommy-cookers", the Germans called them, on account of their combustability.

The solution the British command came up with was to launch an armored attack at night. Tracer fire would mark the boundaries of the assault lanes, and strategic bombers would act in a tactical role, pulverizing the German rear.

The usual "fogs of war" descended over the plan: last-minute tinkering by the commanders, unexpected movement and resistance by the Germans, columns going astray, friendly fire from the bombers, etc. The Poles were too eager for revenge and outstripped their support. The Canadians were too reserved in places and did not gain ground that they otherwise might have, or else were destroyed when they cornered first-class German armored formations. The front was too narrow for such a heavy attack, and it ground to a halt about ten miles from its objective, Falaise.

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The next Dragonlance novel in the trilogy that launched the entire Dragonlance line, Dragons of Winter Night has been adapted to a format specifically targeted at young readers. The novel has been divided into two volumes, The Nightmare Lands and To the Gates of Palanthas, that are sized to fit the young reader market. These titles contain brand new cover art and interior art and are a continuation of the overall young reader adaptation of the entire Dragonlance Chronicles trilogy.

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Great Series.......2005-02-22

This book is amazing! The whole Dragonlance Chronicles series is very good. I recommend this book to everyone.

Another Great Book.......2004-01-10

this book was great the companions get split up and right as your about to find something out it goes to someone else and there is a big surprise at the begining of the next book so you have to read this book if you like dragon lance

Celestial Nights: Visions of an Ancient Land

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Stunning, Ethereal, Other-Worldly...
Beautiful landscapes

Celestial Nights: Visions of an Ancient Land

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ASIN: 089381945X
Release Date: 2005-06-15

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This series of new and compelling night images of the ancient land and skies of Israel offers the viewer mystical points of entry and departure. The world depicted in Celestial Nights is composed of a delicately constructed order where earthly elements and the heavens mirror each other. Folberg emphasizes the singular and poignant presence of objects against the backdrop of the infinite. His photographs describe places where the spiritual is at once near, imprinted in the forms of the arid landscapes, and far away in the dark, starlit recesses of space.

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Stunning, Ethereal, Other-Worldly..........2003-03-21

These photographs transport the reader to another world, a twilight zone where the universe meets the earth and mind....these are black and white photographs, powerful, transporting, wonderful....Neil Folberg has captured the mysterious power of a sacred place and made marvelous photographs. Startingly original, deep and authentic. This is great art.

Beautiful landscapes.......2002-03-02

I discovered Neil Folberg through a photograhy magazine, and I fell in love with his images and process of making them. The book is beautifully made and classy with a matte dust cover, but it got a 4 rating because it was just a little less than I had expected. The two images that I had seen over and over again are included, but they are the only ones so dynamic in the book. Others seem a little plain, but art is subjective so what I don't like about this book may not be what others dislike. Either way, I see Folberg gaining more recognition as time goes on and he will continue to improve on his style.

Gumboots, Lesson Plans And Hot Rugby Nights: New Beginnings in New Zealand

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Gumboots, Lesson Plans and Hot Rugby Nights

Gumboots, Lesson Plans And Hot Rugby Nights: New Beginnings in New Zealand
J. A. Flynn
Manufacturer: AuthorHouse
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 141842658X

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This tale recounts the development of a "strategic plan" that propels the author into the next stage of her working life - teaching ESL. By implementing the plan, she finds a job via the Internet and accepts a position in Auckland, New Zealand to teach English and accounting to Asians. During those six months, she experiences a thrilling and unexpected transition in her life as she gains a new perspective about life, love and happiness from her ambitious students and the Kiwis who thrive in their small island country. Her solo adventure 'down under' takes place in the middle of a cold, wet winter. As the story unfolds, she becomes enveloped in teaching and in relationships with her new Kiwi friends. The account of this sojourn weaves in anecdotes related to the trials and tribulations of maintaining a bi-continental relationship with her husband. The narrative recounts travel experiences both within Auckland and to neighboring islands as well as exploration of the North and South Island. Intermingled throughout are colorful tidbits that elucidate readers about the culture, the cuisine (recipes included), the Kiwi lifestyle, current issues in the country and a bit about Maori traditions/legends. In the telling of the story, many comparisons are made between Auckland and her hometown, San Francisco. A must read for anyone thinking of making a career transition or at one of life's crossroads, and especially those who wish to visit this fabulous country.

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Gumboots, Lesson Plans and Hot Rugby Nights.......2005-05-28

Fantastic "Dear Diary" tale of the author's trip overseas to pursue a teaching assignment. Try to keep up, if you can, as she takes you through the streets, trails and beaches, local eateries, museums and sightseeing highpoints of many New Zealand cities.

Planning a trip to New Zealand? Read this book first! Enjoy cooking? Try the wonderful recipes included, such as this one (pg.209); Sticky Date Pudding with Butterscotch Sauce. Yum!

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