A wonderful book about roses, 5.75" X 8.25", with soft laminated full color cover. The inside illustrations, several on each page of the book, are beautifully photographed older varieties of roses, all in full color and very well done. If you want to be able to identify a particular variety of old garden rose (not bred for exhibition at a rose show or the florist's shop), this may be the book for you. If you are a rose lover, it is certainly a book you will want in your library.

Joseph Pierre

The poems in this book come in all lengths, broken down into chapters by subject. They include numerous submissions by the prolific author "anonymous", as well as many other popular writers (and a few not-so-well-known). Many of the entries are somewhat pointed; a few are a little racy - most of these are in the second chapter (about affairs of the heart). All of them are humorous.

My advice: buy this book, and give it to someone who likes poetry. Or better yet, give it to someone who doesn't, and see if they don't laugh out loud at some of Dorothy Parker's writings.

To begin, I can honestly classify this title as simply an excellent read. Gibbons succeeds in giving a full recollection of the occurances during the life of Richthofen, and the respect the author had for Richthofen is apparent throughout the book. It is written with the same views that I believe the pilots of the time would have had pertaining to aerial warfare, or flight alone. The romantic aspects of flight, which were held in higer regard in the times of elegant, open cockpits and gallant pilots than it is today, the book unfolds in a more-than-satisfying manner the events leading up to, and including, Richthofen's time as an aerial fighter. The book includes excerpts from Richthofen's own accounts of the war, through letters to his mother, the official requests for acknowledgement for many of the victories he attained, and quotes. Certainly the book is worthy of much more praise than I am able to give in a short review such as this. For anyone even remotely interested in the early days of Aerial warfare, and of course of special interest to those interested in the history of Germany's Ace of Aces.

Furthermore, Berryman's study serves as a model for the way in which these interactions have taken place in other areas of the world, such as the US, where there are far along, Africa, where they are just beginning and Asia which is somewhere in between.

I would have been interested in more history of these developments, especially how the movements emmigrated from the US, then again, I'm probably one of those overly US centered Americans. :)