Bogart Rogers gives us a uniquely personal perspective of the first air war. Unlike many other war diary books, this book is a collection of letters that Rogers wrote to his soon-to-be wife. The letters, in and of themselves, are very interesting. Obviously, Rogers had no idea they would be published one day, so they have a strikingly intimate and honest tone when compared to other war diaries of the time. Because the story unfolds organically, via this series of letters, there is a lot of reading between the lines. Especially when it comes to what he chooses not to tell his fiance'. His description of one of his close friends not returning after a sortie is written so succinctly and "business-like" that his pain and loss somehow seem more intense and palpable. In some ways, this book is a love story. Although every letter goes into detail about his air combat experiences, his greatest conflict is that he wants to be reunited with the love of his life. Above all, Rogers comes across as a real human being who could have lived now as well as then. The power of his letters comes from the fact that he describes the dangerous training, the chaotic dogfighting, the horrors of war to a woman who has little knowledge of what he is going through. This brings a freshness and vitality to his account of fighting in the air during the Great War.

Sorry, I did not enjoy this book. I did not think it was welll written and nor were the characters fully developed. The entire book was like reading one big dialogue. If you are looking for a book to learn more about the Salem Witch Trials, I don't recommend this one. I am going to try a nonfiction book instead.

I enjoyed this book, and I recommend it.

I really enjoyed this book. Even though it followed a similar narrative to say, any other novels written about the Salem Witch trials, it held my attention. I thought the pace of the story was good and that the overall writing style was vey good as well.

I think anyone who enjoys a good suspense story with a little historical relevance thrown in will enjoy this novel.

For me it was not so much what this book says but the fact that it exists. When it comes to the age of the earth I am an agnostic. What cannot be denied is how science is an appendage of the state and how political conserderation do come into account. Incidentally, Gentry's work which is offically ignored has implications for radioactive waste disposal.

I rank this book as one of the most significant works I have ever read.

The book is terribly detailed and hard to read because Robert Gentry is out to prove a point - not just make it. Because he is a detail oriented scientist, he burries you in all the facts that describe polonium halos ad nausium.

But if you dig through, and it helps if you know a little nuclear physics, you will finally come up with the astounding point of this book - The Earth was made in a very short time - in a matter of hours! This blows many preconceptions out the window.

Gentry was published in such prestigeous publications as Science and Nature - until the inescapable conclusions of his facts were discovered by the establishment.

He also goes into how he was suppressed from further research and his part in the infamous Scopes trial.

If you can handle technical reading and really want to know the truth - this book is for you!

After reading his book, I met and later briefly corresponded with Dr. Gentry when he visited Southern California some years ago. I found him to be a serious researcher, methodical scientist, with projects planned years in advance. His weighty results on Polonium halos cannot be so lightly dismissed as those stuck on the old earth paradigm would like to do, nor should they be first, ignored ("they're so tiny, after all"), and then, suppressed ("we'll lose our funding"), as establishment, big science has done.

All the criticisms I have seen leveled against Dr. Gentry's findings are beside the point, straw men, or "evidence" of "old age" which has been roundly refuted in many other publications. If you care for the truth, read the book. If you can't handle the vast detail and correspondence reproduced in the book, get his video.

Although I had the honor, as a student, to briefly meet the late, great, Drs. Richard Feynman and Fred Hoyle at Caltech, standing beside Dr. Gentry was a bigger honor! I went over everything in the book with a fine-toothed comb. There was no logical flaw. No point of fact I could dispute. The implications of his work are truly profound.

Well, I found this book to be pretty boring, and it was kind of childish. It just lacks maturity. I don't care what others think, this is just my opinion. The story is okay, but it's written in such a simple style, not at all for young adults!!

Allergic to My Family is about Rosie Maxwell and her family. Rosie Maxwell is the narrator and tells what it was like living in her house for six months. Rosie lives with her family in Copper Canyon, California. A big part of the book was about having a 6th child in her family. The 6th child turned out to be a baby sister, so they named her Clara Maxwell. Clara was born in June after they got out of school. Also her brother Silas talked for the first time after three years! He only talked because his twin sister (Katie) got left at the beach and he was afraid that he would never see her again. Her parents didn't even notice before Silas told them, because they were at the beach on a hot July day. Then in August Katie and Silas had a birthday party for their fourth birthday. They also had a surprise visitor coming, which turned out to be their grandmother. During the time that she was visiting, Rosie and her went to get Katie and Silas birthday presents. It turned out that the birthday presents were a big disaster! At their birthday party Katie and Silas had a neighbor's donkey come and give rides to the four year olds. But while Katie and Silas took their turns, the donkey took off and started to eat a lady's flowers. When the lady came out of her house, she got so made that the donkey stopped eating her flowers and decided to give Silas and Katie the rest of their ride. Boy, that was a disaster! Then near the end of the book there was a fire at their house and their Mom and Dad were not home. So, Rosie had to help her brothers and sisters get out of the house and then made them go to get the bags that had all of their stuff that they needed in case of a fire. But after Rosie assigned all of the jobs she looked up and saw that the roof was on fire. Rosie then crawled up the drainpipe onto the roof, got a hose and sprayed the roof until the fire was extinguished. When Rosie's Mom came home she saw what Rosie was doing and got so proud that she forgot that the house was on fire and paid all of her attention to Rosie. This book was so exciting that I fell off of my seat at the end! I gave the book five stars because it shows problems in the story that could happen to you and gives good ways to solve the problems. This book would be enjoyable for little kids that like to have little kids as characters in the story. But this book is also good for grown ups that like to know what they are doing wrong, like not paying enough attention to their kids. And it also highlights good things like congratulating your son or daughter when they do stuff right. That's why I gave this book five stars.

I'm 11, and I got Allergic to my Family when I was nine, i guess. I think it is really good, because it teaches you about family, but it's not for teens. It's for people probably 8-11, or 8-12. It's a really good book, though.

Dateline: Troy
Book review

The book Dateline: Troy is all about the war against the Trojans and the Greeks. They are fighting over a woman named Helen. The reason that they are fighting over her is because a guy named Paris was asked by 3 goddess` which one of them was the fairest. He eventually picked Aphrodite the goddess of love. Since he picked her she granted him the love of any one he desired. He chose Helen, a married Greek, to be his love.She went to him under the spell. The Greeks didn`t like this, so the war began.
I think this book is confusing because almost every page is about a different person. I also think this book is very exciting because they attack each other all the time. My favorite part is when the Greeks build the wooden horse and pile inside it. They give it to the Trojans saying that they give up. The Trojans take it inside their walls. When the Trojans fell asleep, the Greeks inside attack them while they`re unaware.
If you like books about war, love, and myths, this is a good book for you.

I would recommend this book to anyone who likes to read difficult books, because this book is full of big words. Or anyone who likes war, the book has alot to do with that. But the biggest reason to read this book is if you like and secretly raised him. Paris awarded Aphordite the golden apple and in return she made him invincible in love. The Trojans started a war with the Greeks, But eventually they called a truth. Of course it was broken and the war started up again. At first I didn't really like it but as it went on I did. By the end of the book i thought it was a really good. Like the newborn left to die i didn't like that. But when the war started and the action I liked it then. Another reason I liked it was that it had a big picture on every other page. Over all it was a good book and if I were you I would read this book.

There was a king and a queen of Troy and they had a kid that was put to death when it was born,it did not die. He grow up and become the leader of Troy,than he went and fought the Greeks. It was call the Trojan war and Troy lost. They wanted even so they made a big horse filled with Troys men. They sent it to the Greeks castle as a present and they the Greeks took it in the castle.The man in the horse came out at night and killed all.
I would recommend this book to someone who likes Greek myths. If you like hard books this is the book for you with all of its hard names.If you like war books you may like this book.If you like all of the above this book is for you you would love it. It is also a good because it has things that are going on in the story on one side of the page and on the other there are things happening from the First World War to the Gulf War.
Even know my opinion of this piece of literature is I did not like it you I do not like these kind of books so if you do my opinion is you should get this book. Just because my opinion of the book is one thing does not mean you would not like it.

This is a book that makes you realize publishers should have a new category: SELF-WHINE. Whereas Mr. Morrow is really an excellent writer, he is just so enmeshed with his own life. After the reader delves through his problems with his heart attacks (and that is sad), he has to throw in a tale about a stray cat that gets into his house. So he pulls out a shotgun to kill it. I have to admit I closed the book at this point but EVERY creature in life has the right to live, Mr. Morrow. Perhaps if you could get out of the importance of your own existence, you could see this.

Heart: A Memoir is Lance Morrow at his finest investigative journalism. He delves into the darkness of his own chest and his own past to mingle formative episodes from various plots along the timeline of his life with salient incidents in history -- uniting the events as metaphors for the heart and its machinations.

Morrow suffered heart attacks and bypass operations at the ages of thirty-six and fifty-three. His seventeen years of a second chance at life and his gracious third chance (whose duration has yet to be determined) left Morrow wondering about his place in the world.

He drifts effortlessly between past, present, and distant past -- plucking key incidents to illustrate the evolution of his life or draw parallelisms between rage nurtured in an individual's heart and the global atrocities of the Holocaust, the Balkans, Gaza, Hiroshima, and such. He commingles these brutalities with the goings-on at his farm in upstate New York: the natural interactions of animals and the role of death in their daily existences.

Morrow recounts specific deaths that have contributed to the sum of his understanding of the dynamics of mortality and the attendant issues that wrap themselves about the moment of death and remain in its aftermath. He delivers a masterful read that serves as both an autobiography and a dissertation on the role of death in life and the philosophy of recovery, of getting on with the task of living while life can be had.

NOTE TO OTHER REVIEWER: It's a memoir. It's an account of the memories of his life and the events that shaped it. It's natural the reader might feel the writer is "enmeshed with his own life."

By reading the notes in the back of the book, it's obvious that Susan Hertog painstakingly researched her subject, and presented her story sincerely. Unfortunately, Ms. Hertog was unable to craft a narrative that carries the reader through Anne Morrow Lindbergh's life.

The book lacks narrative--it's more of a dreamy account of significant events in Mrs. Lindbergh's life. There are lots of gaps; lots of unanswered questions. And throughout, Ms. Hertog tries to make the reader sympathetic to Mrs. Lindbergh's fate. In the end, I tired of reading about the poor little rich girl who married a hero and couldn't enjoy the wonderful life given her.

Anyone who has read Anne Morrow Lindbergh's books and was impressed by her courage in accompanying her husband in flight, her perceptive written observations as she searched for more depth and meaning in life, her strength in emotionally surviving the horrible kidnapping death of her baby will NOT find the fleshed-out person you seek in the laborious biography by Susan Hertog. The author writes with the amateur footnoted patchwork of a fledgling college English major. Denied access to Anne's private papers and only having gained ten interviews, she presents voluminous scraps of information which come across as piecemeal and conflicting. Where a true insight into Anne fails her, the author returns again and again to Charles, reiterating his faults in what the public has always done in vilifying its heroes. Her extensive coverage and criticism of Charles' nonintervention WWII stance before Pearl Harbor was attacked is judgmental and strident in tone. Over and over again throughout the book, the author falls prey to being judge and jury, drawing conclusions and making generalizations, apparently limited by the filter of her own narrow life experiences. As she alternately condemns and praises the Lindberghs, you are aware of Hertog's own ambivalence. Yet the mark of a true biographer would be one who remains invisible while presenting the person in all of his/her vicissitudes. When will we ever have the pleasure of meeting Anne in the pages of a biography? Maybe never - since she has refused to name a biographer or write one herself. Maybe her refusal is her final statement: The press never had the right to dissect our lives - and they still don't. Each person is entitled to a private journey as he/she struggles down the various paths of enlightenment. At least Anne attempted the journey and perhaps already understood that each person must do so individually; for the answers to life's mysteries could not be revealed in the tidy summations of a biographer.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh was and still is a remarkable woman. This is the third book I have recently read that she was a major part of; firstly it was A. Scott Berg's Pulitzer Prize Winning "Lindbergh", next was "Under A Wing" by the youngest of the Lindbergh children Reeve Lindbergh, and now this volume by Susan Hertog. While unique understandings of parts of this book may be interpreted differently by a woman than a man, you do not have to be female to read this book. Being a Parent is not required nor is being married. Any combination of these may bring a different perspective, but none would be definitive. Anne Morrow Lindbergh is amazing for all her accomplishments as a writer, a pilot, a Mother, and the list goes on. She also is amazing for having had the ability to spend a life with Charles Lindbergh, or having only one relationship with another man. Lindbergh's first crossing of the Atlantic was lucky timing. There were literally other pilots from France that were lost en route as he was preparing to leave. Had he never attempted the flight, and the accomplishment had gone to another man/woman, Anne Morrow may or may not have married, but after reading these books I believe she would have been a great deal happier as would her children. She arguably could have achieved all she did and more. When a Daughter says that when her Father was away she and the Family felt "relief", doesn't say much for the man. When the same word is used to describe her feelings at his death, what kind of "Father" are we talking about? Question the quote? read the book by Reeve Lindbergh. A Wife who states that had he not made the first flight he would probably have "pumped gas at an airport", hardly had stars in her eyes all her life. As Susan Hertog describes in this book, visitors to the Lindbergh's home in England characterized Lindbergh's method of Fathering as "a certain sort of sadism". His first Son was kidnapped. Good Old Looser Lindy constructed an enclosure for the 18 month old, and directed he be placed in it, during the winter, and forbid that he be helped or attended to so he could "fend for himself". A little early for survivalist training? Does not everyone put their next son in a pen with a "butting Ram" and let him learn to defend himself? These digressions are needed to show that in spite of, and not because of, "The Hero Lindbergh" Anne Morrow Lindbergh not only survived him, but also managed to flourish despite him. Charles was a man of science, you bet! As long as he was with his racist buddy Alexis Carrel, creating what the press termed "modern Frankensteins" on their island. Carrel was thrown out of The Rockefeller institute because he was a Doctor only a Nazi could love. I believe the authoress did a good job, but there were inconsistencies with police photographs regarding the trial (the plank of wood in reference to the ladder, Susan Hertog claimed matched "perfectly", was the wrong length and thickness) that tend to undermine what I am confident is a 95% accurate book. There is a huge difference between "pardoning" a convicted murderer, and "commuting" a death sentence to life in prison in exchange for an admission of guilt. Hauptman would not admit his guilt to save his life, only he knows why. The authoress either has information other writers did not have or was careless with her words. There is no footnote for the statement in the book. Mrs. Lindbergh dealt with this man who was an anti-Semite to everyone who was not a member of "America First", it was she who pronounced his award from Hitler "an Albatross", while he was clueless as to the fool's role he was playing, and she had long periods of self doubt and self worth because of how she measured up to him? Lindbergh the "Hero" is narrow to be kind, and blatant revisionist history if accurately described. Anne Morrow was her Father and Mother's Daughter, and had all that was necessary to be her own success. We will never know how great, as she had the misfortune to marry, and the loyalty to stay with this severely flawed, morally impaired individual. There should be a statue to her, in the place of his.

I have read about half of Jude Deveraux's books now - she is the only romance author I have read and I love her complex and touching plots - but have to admit that this one just doesn't compete with the others. It was okay, but the story didn't click in various areas: romance was questionable, intricacies of the plot were sometimes confusing and inconsistent, and the end was downright perplexing. How can a lady marry a man who doesn't even look at her at the altar much less stand next to her??!!!

I have to say that when I first began to read this book, I almost immediately took a dislike to it. I am so used to the usual way that Jude writes and this was not it. Tynan and Chris have this amazing heat when he abducts her. She almost seems to enjoy his touching and caressing... That just doesn't seem realistic to me. During an abduction fear or terror would be more seemly. The characters sometimes didn't seem real and there was really not too much romance in the book. I never sensed true sexual tension between them or much love either. It had a good story plot though where action is concerned. It was a quick and easy read and I did like the ending. I'm a huge fan of Jude Deveraux's and I have never rated her below a 4... but this book really is more of a 3 to me. For classic Jude, check out her other books first such as The Princess, The Conquest, Knight in Shining Armor, etc. This one might discourage you from reading more of her.

I really enjoyed this book. This story was more light-hearted than other Jude Deveraux books, but that's how some of her stories are. Some are more emotional than others. I actually laughed out loud several times while reading this book.

I really like Tynan, being the "tortured hero" that he is. He was really focused on changing his life, and not falling back into the bad habits and wild lifestyle he'd once led. How could he do that if he defied Christiana's father? This just proved to be an obstacle that made the story what it is. What's a good romance read without obstacles?

Christiana was an admirable heroine, she had a lot of spirit, and she was able to overstep the boundaries of what was deemed as socially acceptable for women of her time.

Some say this story was not believable. To me, most historical romances are not believable and are totally out of the ordinary. That's why I enjoy historical romances better than contemporaries.

What a pity that a science which has as much to offer as permaculture should be so degraded by the radicalism of some of its proponents as to make it unsaleable to the mainstream of potential users, who will be turned away by its political philosophy. This book, while it offers some good ideas about design and planning, is tinged throughout by its greenie fringe. eg. what is the solution to weeds caused by vehicular pollution? Get rid of your car!

I bought this book to learn about sustainable agricultural practice, but found myself enmeshed in a diatribe of leftist sentiment. For those of us who do not wish to wear biodegradable clothes, or who do not believe that corporate profits are the result of greedy and unethical conspiracies, it is too tempting to disregard the entire subject of permaculture.

The proponents of this science need to accept that the majority of those citizens of the planet who have become accustomed to living in personal circumstances better than that of the "third world" are not going to go back to that lifestyle. While it might be a romantic ideal for some to live like a Vietnamese villager, not all would want to accept the poverty, short life expectancy and high infant mortality, to mention just three factors, which brand that country "third world". Permaculturists should abandon their politics and concentrate on promoting their science.

Rosemary Morrow lives in Eastern Australia and has taught permaculture design in India, Africa, Thailand and Cambodia. As a result of her considerable skill and experience she has written a first-rate, practical and informative guide to sustainable living. Permaculture was first developed by Bill Mollison and Dvid Holmgren and has since spread exponentially around the world. This book is a very practical guide to help you get started in your locality. While it has an Australian perspective, I have found the vast majority of it entirely applicable or easily adaptable to a Northern hemisphere temperate context. I bought The Earth User's Guide to Permaculture because I wanted to learn about Permaculture but was intimidated by the price and sheer weight of the key textbook, Permaculture: A Designer's Manual, by Mollison. I was also unable to participate in a hands-on design course at the time due to work and family committments. What I found was inspiring. I have since completed the design certificate and am now teaching a university course in environmental ethics. There are several strengths to the Earth User's Guide. First, there are plenty of excellent illustrations by Rob Allsop, so you can see as well as read about the process and principles of permaculture design. The twenty well-chosen colour photographs compliment these. Secondly, the book focusses on two different real-life examples, a small suburban house and an eighty acre farm. Seeing permaculture in action in real places is very helpful. Third, the book avoids duplicating material that can be found elsewhere and instead focusses on the practical. There are project ideas here that could take a morning or a lifetime to complete. As Rosemary Morrow writes in the preface, 'start now and let your life be enriched'.

This is an excellent first read on permaculture. It covers nearly all the bases that Mollison's intro does (the daddy of the discipline) but brings the somewhat heady concepts down to a tangible, 'here's how you can do it' level. One of the things that I liked so much about this book is that the author doesn't assume (like many PC writings seem to do) that you live way out in the bush somewhere, with acres and acres to work with, no infrastructure, no other job, and heaps of people working alongside you. She has ideas for those folks, but also for the rest of us who maybe have a small yard, a deserted lot, a community garden space, or just a stoop and a lot of creativity. this is a good book. I recomend it highly.

5 stars if you're planning to make a hollywood horror movie; you'll be swarming in dubious info, perfect for any imaginary work. -1 star for taking every thrown-at anecdote as proof enough, as if the phobia of all (so-called) secular beliefs after the beginning of the world's christianising would not result in as many fictional beliefs and false histories as that which secular cultures heathenishly accept. -1 more stars because 4 points is too high a grade.

However, there may be some truth to what he says. How widespread these practices were, and whether they were at all related to a diabolic entity from Christiandom is another matter.

It must also be noted that present-day Witchcraft (Wicca) and Satanism (Church of Satan) are mostly harmless institutions: they do not eat pies made from human babies and exhumed corpses. There are practically no police records of any virgins being napped off for sacrifice at some altar or other. None to worry there. Nor prejudice.

I read a review of someone talking about how this author doesn't understand Wicca... This book was written a long time before Wicca came to be, and before the Wiccan rede and all that other (...) was thought up, so that's not really relevant to this book.

This is a lengthy and exhaustive history of witchcraft and the occult written by the eccentric occult historian Montague Summers in 1927. Summers was well known for his many books on witchcraft, vampires, werewolves, and the history of the occult in general. He was generally considered The Expert on the history of witchcraft in the early 20th century and was filled with little-known anecdotal tales of witches, warlocks and dark devilish conspiracies as is evidenced by the many long dry examples in this book. This work is, however, a thorough reference on a arcane subject and is valuable for its many historical accounts of witch trials and other tales of witches, devils, and their arts. Summers is often criticized for his lack of skepticism, as noted below, as well as the heaps of praise he showers on the works of the Inquisition and its supposed war on witchcraft during the height of witch hysteria. His translations of notorious books like the Malleus Maleficarum and the Compendium Maleficarum, both witch hunting manuals used for centuries to detect, judge, and execute suspected witches, are his best-knwn works. Summers appears to revel in the age-old war against witches and often seemed a man born into the wrong time. He seems to wax nostalgic on the "Burning Times" and its blatant mysoginistic undertones, and this was in our "modern" age. In fact, he seems almost like a magistrate plucked from a 17th century witch burning and transplanted into the 20th century to write about his esteemed accomplishments! Yet, all this comes from a man who went to great lengths to transcribe and republish Reginald Scots' "Discoverie of Witchcraft", a 16th century treatise DISCOUNTING the existence of witches and demons and which was banned by the Holy Office and ordered burned by King James I of England! Very interesting stuff indeed.