I have read a great deal about the Holocaust, and I've read quite a few personal accounts, but this one is extraordinary. It has an immediacy that comes from having been written just after World War II, so that it is in essence a primary source document. But it's also a great piece of literature, a love story, and (despite the graphic horrors it describes) it ultimately is uplifting. Everyone interested in how humans can survive horrendous trauma with dignity intact should read this book.

Herman Langbein is one of the best known Auschwitz historians, and this book chronicles, in painstaking detail, acts of resistance and defiance that took place in the nazi concentration camps. The book recounts simple acts of humanity between prisoners, far reaching acts of organised resistance (for example using the nazi's obsession with bureaucracy - people selected for extermination were saved by altering forms), to open acts of insurrection towards the end of the war.

Langbein, himself a key member of Combat Group Auschwitz, uses all the rigour and objectivity we expect of the serious historian. The book is an important contribution in these days when those who survived to bear witness are fewer and where the accounts by important witnesses such as Filip Muller, Hans Marsalek and Eugen Kogon, are out of print.

This book is especially important as evidence to counter the Holocaust denialists, and those who condemned Jewish and other people for "acting like sheep".

As messenger boy in the Travel Agency I learned about cabotage and fifth freedom rights. You could write a book about it. Wait! This guy did!
WWII created modern intercontinental aviation. Initially, this business was greeted with much of the wariness today's WTO engenders. Anglo-American unity broke down over aviation even before the war was over.
The negotiations required to resolve these conflicts, especially the famous Chicago Conference of November 1944, are detailed in some depth by University of Wisconsin lecturer in journalism Henry Ladd Smith in this 1950 book. Indeed his writing has much journalistic color, and he always discusses which Congressman is flakking for which airline.
Aviation was so important to the United States and President Roosevelt--even at this late stage of the war and his life--that he dealt with all aviation matters more or less personally. The concept of "fifth freedoms" was FDR's.
I think it deserves all five stars.

Marguerite Henry, author of the classic children's book Misty of Chincoteague, gives both children and adults like a short but informative look at the major horses breeds. With beautiful color illustrations by Wesley Dennis, this book shouldn't be missed.

Peter Brears intersperses a thorough examination of Henry VIII's kitchens at Hampton Court with recipes drawn from period sources.

The palace kitchens at Hampton Court were a large-scale industrial enterprise that fed 600-1200 people every day - everyone from the lowliest servant to the King himself. The author does a grand job of describing how the system procured, stored, and prepared immense amounts of raw materials each day.

Interspersed with the description are recipes drawn from contemporary sources that are similiar to what might have been served at the palace. The author also covers Tudor table manners, etiquette, and the ceremony involved in feeding the monarch.

Wow! Up Town Poolde Down Town pups is the book history. What is there to say? It was so good that I couldn't put it down. There is a teen named Heather ,a senior citizen named Ms. Vase, Sheena and her friends. Who are pups and get in to everything, and get locked in a car. I like this book because it's exciting, and you never know what is going to happen next. I think you should read this book, and pass it on.

My son was delighted with this book. Rather than focusing on one particular sport, All Star Sports Fun represents a wide variety of recreational activities. The book also contains several different types of puzzles so my son was excited to complete every page, rather than quickly becoming bored with the monotony. The illustrations are colorful and active. My son is younger than the recommended age and I helped him understand the directions to the puzzles. I'm not certain that kids in the higher end of the recommended age group would be as captivated with this book. We thoroughly enjoyed it.

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I have been a fan of Henry Miller since the early 1960's, when to read his banned work meant trekking up to the Treasure Room of Columbia University's library and having the book delivered to your carrel, a la the research scene in Citizen Kane. When Jay Martin's bio of Henry was published in 1978 I read it immediately with great pleasure. On Henry's birth centenary in 1991 two more biographies came out, which I read, and I'm writing to say Martin's is the best. Incidentally, in June 2002 while driving from San Francisco to Los Angeles on a little tour, in Big Sur I passed a Henry Miller institute/library, and did a u-turn after a few seconds of realization that this was probably my last chance to pay homage. What a throwback to the '60's (which, btw, I don't think Henry was a fan of.) Anyway, I recommend the pilgrimage for all of Henry's fans.

This book is excellent. Both in its analysis of U.S. history and in its use of hard to find documents--such as controversial Supreme Court decisions (Amistad, Dred Scott, etc.) and international agreements--the book paints a picture not often available in mainstream texts. I highly recommend it for both personal use as well as use in high school and college classrooms.