Castles: Their Construction and History (Dover Books on Architecture)

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Concise, scholarly survey traces castle development from ancient roots. Nearly 200 photographs and drawings illustrate moats, keeps, baileys, many other features. Caernarvon, Dover castles, Hadrian's Wall, Tower of London, dozens more. 199 black-and-white illustrations. Preface. Index. Footnotes.

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Timeless Work.......2007-05-01

This book was written in the 1930's but it is indeed a timeless record of castles from BC to the age of fortifications. I first thought that this was too old of a book but after reading it, it is clearly a great castle book. The real treasure is that it was compiled before Hitler bombed the crap out of Europe. It is chronilogical. It is refereced perfectly. The illustrations include floor plans with scales and north arrows. Building sections keyed to the floor plans. Renderings and photographs keyed to the text. Sidney takes you thru all the different building types and features that make a castle. My favorite is the "Keep". The text is very easy to follow. I was amazed at Sidney's gift of describing without the aid of photographs and drawings castle configurations. I recommend this book to anyone who wants a book that gets to the core of the subject of castles.

Just the facts........2001-08-18

There is no fluff and no romanticizing. This book is just plain hows and whys on castle construction and their evolution from wooden stockades to stone fortresses. It examines the changes in defenses as warfare evolved. It is dry reading, but this is bare bones information with no fantasizing....just what I wanted.

Sometimes too technical, but very helpful!.......2000-06-10

I bought this book because, well to put it plainly, I have always wanted to design a castle of my own. Having no real talent for architecture, I thought I'd see how others had done it before, and why they made the decisions they did. This book does a lot for the novice who wants to learn these things, but does so with enough illustrations to keep the readers interest through the text. I can see why another reviewer said it would make a good textbook -- it reads like one, and provides quite the education!

Add it to a military history collection, a chivalric texts collection, or to your Lego room for the next time you want a more powerful castle than the kit suggests (but, putting little lego men heads on pikes at the gates may be going overboard).

Castles: Is a highly detailed and technical study........1998-06-28

As an Army Officer the study of military history is a professional necessity. The book: Castles their Construction and History has proven to be an incredible aid to this end. I am stationed in Europe and use the book as a guide when I travel and explore the castles in Germany, France and Italy. The book is very technical, it wastes some space giving detailed step by step descriptions of many castles but the casual reader of history will find the drawings, photos and overviews of history very interesting. The text of the book is rather dull to the non-history buff. It was very useful as a reference book while at the University of Florida.

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Around the World Art & Activities: Visiting the 7 Continents Through Craft Fun (Williamson Little Hands Series)
Judy Press
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Little hands explore the natural and man-made treasures of the seven continents as they make music on a didgeridoo, weave Kente-style cloth, craft a Bactrian camel, and create their own Eiffel Tower. 128 pages. Ages 3-7.

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Copper Plate Photogravure describes in comprehensive detail the technique of traditional copper plate photogravure as would be practiced by visual artists using normally available facilities and materials. Attention is paid to step-by-step guidance through the many stages of the process. A detailed manual of technique, Copper Plate Photogravure also offers the history of the medium and reference to past alternative methods of practice.

Copper Plate Photogravure: Demystifying the Process is part of the current revitalization of one of the most satisfyingly beautiful image-making processes. The range of ink color and paper quality possibilities is endless. The potential for handwork and alteration of the copper plate provides yet another realm of expressive variation. The subject matter and the treatment are as variable and broad as photography itself. This book's purpose is to demystify and clarify what is a complex but altogether "do-able" photomechanical process using currently available materials. With Copper Plate Photogravure, you will learn how to:

· produce a full-scale film positive from a photographic negative
· sensitize the gravure tissue to prepare it for exposure to the positive
· prepare the plate and develop the gelatin resist prior to etching
· prepare the various strengths of etching solutions and etch the plate to achieve a full tonal scale
· rework the plate using printmaking tools to correct flaws or to adjust the image for aesthetic reasons
· use the appropriate printing inks, ink additives, quality papers, and printshop equipment to produce a high
quality print

A historical survey and appendices of detailed technical information, charts, and tables are included, as well as a list of suppliers and sources for the materials required, some of which are highly specialized. A comprehensive glossary
introduces the non-photographer or non-printmaker to many of the terms particular to those fields and associated with this process.

* Follow step-by-step basic printing procedures for a photogravure plate, complete with trouble shooting information

* Valuable information is offered on the materials, procedures, and printshop equipment

* Study the historical precedents from the invention of photography to its current commercial use

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A very user friendly book on photogravure.......2003-06-16

This new book on the process of photogravure is very well done. It's basic technique is very similar to Deli Sacilotto's now out of print (and almost impossible to find) book. However, Morris and MacCallum have added many useful hint and detailed steps. They have also included a wealth of step by step photographs, and a trouble shooting section at the end of each chapter. With all the variables that can (and always do) creep into the photogravure process, these trouble shooting sections could be very useful. Photogravure is a very complicated process, but, as the title of this book suggests, it should help to sort out a lot of the mystery. This is the most useful book I have read on photogravure, and, heck, it's the only one in print right now!

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Copper Plate Photogravure: Demystifying the Process
Marlene MacCallum David Morrish
Manufacturer: NY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MUBLXS

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The lead character of Baldo, Baldo Bermudez, is a 15-year-old Latino teen with visions of creating the perfect low rider and being popular with the girls. Meanwhile, the strip's creators, Hector Cantú and Carlos Castellanos, began the strip in 2000 with dreams of creating a comic rooted in Latin American heritage that would have wide appeal and soar in popularity. Judging by the pieces of car in the driveway and yet another dateless weekend for Baldo, it's fair to say Hector and Carlos are having all the luck, and Baldo's readers are having all the laughs. Night of the Bilingual Telemarketers is a compilation of strips from the increasingly popular comic's second year. When it launched in April 2000, the strip appeared in nearly 100 papers. Only three other strips in Universal Press Syndicate history had a larger circulation when they began, and all went on to have stellar careers: For Better or For Worse, Calvin & Hobbes, and The Boondocks. Baldo is primed to follow in those successful footsteps. The strip centers around Baldo and his humorous observations on teenage life in school and with family. On the home front is Baldo's relationship with his single-parent dad, his younger sister and budding political activist Gracie, and his live-in Old World aunt Carmen.Cantú and Castellanos know firsthand the experience of growing up within two cultures. Consequently, Baldo's daily adventures challenge him to balance his mainstream sensibilities with his Latino heritage. The result is the humorous mix of teenage silliness rooted in reality found in Night of the Bilingual Telemarketers, a book that will delight readers of all ages and cultures.

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Gotta support fellow Latinos.......2002-12-14

I really enjoyed the first book of Baldo, but somehow, this follow up was just not the same. It is a great concept for a cartoon, though. I think that the first book was really ethnic, and that may have turned off the majority of people because they just couldn't relate. But I loved it. This second book seems to tone down the ethnic part of the characters. I just wish there were more Hispanics in the funnies.

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"In my seventies, I have discovered I am not who I thought I was--and never have been," writes Boston Globe columnist Donald Murray. Murray retired from his university teaching job at 62 and had a heart attack a few months later. This experience and the years of aging that followed led him to contemplate his "lives" by writing this memoir in his '70s. The title refers to the notion that a writer lives life twice: once in the moment, and again in "the greater reality of reflection afterwards."

Murray shares snippets of memories. As a child, he suffered beatings from his father (a leather shaving strap), his mother (a bone hairbrush, wet so it would hurt more), and the school bully (fists). He recounts how he found solace in books, notebooks, and make-believe siblings.

Throughout the book, we get glimpses of his life and the meanings or lessons he learned. His experience as an "animal of war"--a paratrooper and military policeman in World War II--taught him that "few of us who fought are ever discharged from our wars." He refers to the death of his 20-year-old daughter several times, and finally tells the whole story with as much pain as if it happened yesterday. He tells fond stories about his wife, Minnie Mae, only revealing toward the end the day-to-day reality of caring for a wife with Parkinson's. "We don't grow older in an even march but in sudden lurches," writes Murray. He doesn't fear his own death, but fears indignity and dependence.

My Twice-Lived Life does more than let us tiptoe into the private life and thoughts of an excellent writer--it beckons us to examine our own. --Joan Price

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In an extraordinary memoir that skillfully negotiates between the fierce candor of a war veteran and the quiet sensibility of an artist, Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe columnist Donald Murray dives head first into aging, a subject that is often only whispered about, stereotyped or, even worse, ignored. Turning his penetrating journalist’s eye for observance and revelation onto his own life, Murray ventures back through his seventy-plus years with an unsparing honesty and clarity that age has afforded him.

Born to God-fearing Scottish parents, Murray grew up with little more than a handshake from his mother and a solidly constructed lack of confidence in his abilities and intellect. A sickly child with no siblings, he had only solitude to grow on–a lonely meal, but one that fed his imagination and his talent for sketching out the subtleties of life that have made his columns so beloved.

From his struggles to put himself through college and his vivid experiences as a paratrooper in World War II, to his shaky acceptance of himself as a writer and his survival of immense personal tragedy, Murray addresses issues and emotions that society has long deemed taboo for men of his era: feelings of inadequacy, grief, family dysfunction, and most importantly, the indignities of age. But as he courageously sheds light on the difficult aspects of growing old, he discovers that there is more joy abundant in it than he ever imagined.

Whether he is relaying a war story or his poignant ritual of listening for his wife’s breath each morning, Murray never shies away from a truth–no matter how uncomfortable it may be. Propelled forward by the love of his work, a quiet devotion to his family, and an unceasing commitment to understanding his place in the world, he is an elegant reminder that the drive to live fully does not end at retirement. In his hands, aging is adventurous terrain, full of possibilities and unprecedented insight–a time that we spend much of our life fearing but, when reached, bestows upon us unexpected gifts.

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OH MY GOD -- WHAT A MASTERPIECE!!!!!.......2004-01-02

After reading Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom, I found myself wanting more of the same type of novel and with that I stumbled upon My Twice-Lived Life. Being in my mid-40's, my mind set has started to wander about what lies ahead. Mr. Murray has done a tremendous job capturing not only his life but thought process. It's very easy to read, as the sub title chapter are carefully arranged. His sense of humor is comforting as he puts everything into proper prospective. Anyone looking for answers about aging should read this masterpiece. I loved every page and know I'll reread this treasured novel again and again. I can't wait to give it to my mother-in-law to read.

Move over Maury.............2001-07-28

Look out Mitch.....you and Tuesdays with Maury are about to be replaced. Dr. Murray delivers his book even better than he did in the classroom. As a former student of his....this book made me laugh....brought a tear to my ear and a lump to my throat. First he taught me to write. Now he teaches me about life as we all face growing older. Thank you for a great read!!

A superb columnist looks at life and at looking at life.......2001-06-08

I got to know Donald Murray's writing while living in Massachusetts in the mid-90s. Ever since, I've read his Boston Globe column online, and almost always forward it to people I know, from my teenage son to my father in his 80s. I keep hoping the columns will be collected in a book. In the meantime, there's this wonderful memoir. There is more wisdom in a Donald Murray column than in most of the rest of the paper put together, but it's not WISDOM, delivered from on high and meant to make you feel inadequate. He's had a mixed life - a ghastly childhood, wartime service, professional failure and success, profound grief, enduring friendships, a satisfying marriage - but the book is not just a collection of "and then I" passages. Murray conveys so well how the past is always present, how it can be seen more clearly from the distance that decades provide, and how old age is enriched by that clarity, even as one deals with the inevitable losses and physical decline. His style is conversational-seeming, but without the extraneous matter true conversation always has. The passages about being bullied in boyhood are heartbreaking because there is no anger in his account. He doesn't need to express it; the reader will be furious on his behalf. Murray is a teacher of writing, and as a writer, I find his books on the subject are well worth reading (wish I could have studied with him). Readers will learn a great deal about good writing from "My Twice-Lived Life," as well as a great deal about living.

The Courage and Clarity of a Twice-Lived Life.......2001-06-05

My Twice-Lived Life has long been in the making. Murray's first idea was to publish a collection of his Boston Globe columns that dealt with aging, the Depression, and World War II. His editor convinced him to look at the subject matter as a memoir, whole and of itself. Good idea.

I've read most of Murray's Boston Globe columns. It is often amazing what he does with these 800 word personal essays. But the memoir gives him more room to explore and develop his subject matter.

We're used to Murray writing about writing. There is a little of that woven throughout the chapters in My Twice-Lived Life. But writing isn't his primary topic here. He writes about the stuff of his life---his childhood, his parents, and World War II, in which he was a paratrooper.

One chapter is titled "The Not-So-Good-Old School Days." I'll use this chapter with my students at Miami University who are studying to be English teachers. In direct opposition to those who deify some past golden time of schooling, Don recounts his own school days and deromantizes that myth. He speaks of teachers today, how they seek further learning in summer programs and professional development, and he writes about how he came to teaching writing.

All those chapters were good reading, but the really courageous chapters are about aging. His wife, Minnie Mae, has had serious medical problems with Parkinson's, diabetes, and breast cancer. Don writes about these times of increasing care-taking clearly, compassionately, and unsentimentally.

In "Fatherhood" he ends the chapter by focusing on the death of his 20 year old daughter of Reyes' Syndrome in the late 1970s. Many of us know bits of this story, because those bits have worked themselves into Don's textbooks and columns, but here we get the most complete rendering and sense-making of that story, including one poem he wrote of Lee's passing.

In the last two chapters Don writes about the extended dying of a neighbor, what he learned as nurses and one doctor tended to her and touched her and helped her to let go. I wished I'd had this book to read two years ago during the time my mother slipped away gradually and inexorably.

A friend of mine in Utah used to say of such writing, "That's it. Write about the tough stuff."

Don Murray does that in My Twice-Lived Life. Reading it made me want to live life well, fully attuned to my senses, aware of the compassionate stories around me, learning how I might approach the coming years with courage and caring and humor.

A Memoir for Those of All Ages.......2001-06-02

Some books are easy reads, some books are hard reads. What you get from a book is not necessarily a function of the difficulty of the read.

Donald Murray gives you with his memoir an easy read, yet a rewarding feast. Counter to what he may think, his memoir is not about aging, it is about life.

With people much younger than myself, I have read chapters of this book, and listened to chapters read to me. Treasure pieces about fear, hope, solitiude, and union with family and friends.

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My Twice-Lived Life. A Memoir.
Conald M. Murray
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OVOJSO

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A work of genius

Thoughtful and Fascinating

A challenging and innovative exploration of where Autism ends and Asperger's begins.

Intense reading

What's described is real, but the way it's described....

Autism And Sensing: THE UNLOST INSTINCT
DONNA WILLIAMS
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A work of genius.......2006-02-17

I am a philosopher and expert hypnotist, and this book is the finest exposition of 'low-level' perception and apperception that I have ever read. Anyone interested in issues of consciousness and altered states of awareness should read this superbly well-written book.

Thoughtful and Fascinating.......2006-01-28

This is a book about the experience of sensing not the mechanics of perception... it is philosophy, not science. The basis of the book is the idea that most people move quickly on from sensing the world to interpreting it, but that autistic people either remain in the sensing stage or never quite fully let go of it. I identified with a lot of the thoughts and experiences related here and found it interesting and enjoyable to read. I think there are many people who might not 'get' where this is coming from though... from those who do not understand her philosophical approach and mistake it for bad science to those who take every word literally and mistake this for a book about the paranormal. This isn't a book suitable for everybody, but if you have enjoyed Donna's other books or are in to self analysis and exploration I think you'll find this delicious.

A challenging and innovative exploration of where Autism ends and Asperger's begins........2005-09-30

Donna Williams is not an expert but an explorer of ideas. Here we see an intriguing theory about Autism as a state before the ability to process information with meaning and conscious awareness; a place of Sensing.

As someone who didn't grasp meaning of what she saw or heard until very late in childhood, Donna describes what the world was like in a preconscious state of pattern, theme and feel. She contrasts this strikingly with what it was like to then develop awaress of meaning in incoming language and to look past the purely sensory and pattern form of objects to try to find their intellectual concept and, hence, link them with thought and language.

In this sense, Autism And Sensing is an amazing exploration because most people on the Autistic Spectrum who do communicate developed the capacity to understand meaning or hold conscious awareness long before Donna did. Hence they usually can tell us what it was like to have Autistic behaviours or facinations but they can't so easily tell us what it was like as a whole to navigate a world without meaning or what it was like to be almost out of childhood and discover meaning existed and try to learn its system and use it as most people do. She covers things like how this changes identity and sense of self which tells us a whole other social-emotional dimension to what people with Autism may experience in moving what may for them be like moving between two very different worlds.

Donna described the more intellectual but literal world of people with Asperger's who have always known and relied upon a relatively fluent system of meaning, but contrasts it strongly with the Autistic end of the spectrum when everything is known through movement and the body rather than the mind.

Its a challenging concept given we don't have a clear idea yet where Autism ends and Asperger's begins. But if Donna is right then this book may help us indicate who is where on the spectrum according to how they process information rather than how 'Autistically' they behave and to shape learning and development programs accordingly both for those who, like Donna, were able to later develop some processing skills more akin to Apserger's and those with Autism who are not but could be, nevertheless, relatively able.

Donna's writing and structure is always unusual but then we are reading the work of someone who didn't learn to understand three sentences in a row until she was nine years old. This in itself is informative if we judge it on its own terms.

What's without doubt is that it takes a great deal of courage to write on a subject as intangible as Sensing and then give it to a world of readers who will read it with minds that have always known Interpretation and meaning.

Intense reading.......2005-09-14

Though slim, this book is dense and intense. Perhaps it is one of the most provacative books on autism as it gets into the core of what's going on with many people--though certainly not all--on the spectrum. It was an incredible window into my daughter's world that helped me to understand and make sense of what I felt I knew about my daughter but couldn't put into words. Donna found those words beautifully and effectively.

What's described is real, but the way it's described...........2003-08-31

This book attempts to outline the "system of sensing" -- a way of perceiving the world that the author feels is common to everyone, but that in most people without certain neurological conditions, it is replaced and made redundant by the "system of interpretation" and "significance".

She explains phenomena that would normally be referred to as paranormal, and how they really seem to arise from a particular form of awareness of one's environment that using one's rational mind can obscure. Having experienced many of these phenomena, I'm inclined to agree with her there, and applaud her for attempting to remove the layer of fear most people place on top of these things.

However -- and this is where her writing usually breaks down -- her attempts to come up with categories to fit different modes of thought and development neatly into, come across to me as about as accurate as trying to read the Freudian stages of development and apply them to my life. The stages of "sensing," "interpretation", and "significance" -- in the order and delineation she gives them -- simply don't apply to my life or to many others' lives, yet she makes these developmental stages the basis for much of her understanding of autism. I can understand "sensing", but the others both lose me and make me think that if they do exist, they may not exist in exactly the forms she tries to give them. For someone who says she's primarily outside of language (as am I), she seems to apply a lot of rigid linguistic ideas where they're not useful.

The book uses simplistic concepts of "right-brain" and "left-brain" that have been thoroughly discredited and decried by most serious neurologists, but which have survived in the pop-neurology contexts that most people have seen them in. Even something as simple as being left-handed throws these functional categories into question, and there is extreme variation in which things are handled on which side of the brain even among right-handers.

It also describes some rather dangerous ideas about how most evil is drawn to the "false self". Given that a person can be very good, not very trapped (if at all) in "false self" land, and still have evil thrown at them, I think this section of the book goes too far. In trying to remove the "Stephen King mentality" around that which is called "psychic", it also removes a healthy sense of caution around things that it's wise to be cautious around. Saying "It can't harm you if you aren't drawn to its embrace", as part of the book does, highlights this danger well. Certainly being drawn to it or afraid of it (which can amount to the same thing) increase one's susceptibility to being harmed by evil, but so do being in the wrong place at the wrong time or being physically weak, which have nothing to do with a false self. Parts of the book are very unbalanced this way -- there is a certain arrogance in believing one is completely immune to evil if one is not drawn to or afraid of it. It is right that fear is a bad thing around evil, but caution is not a bad thing at all, and the book does not directly address caution.

There are some very good points made in this book, and some very good descriptions of ideas most people shy away from, which is why I gave it two stars instead of one. But the elaborations on these descriptions range from misleading (the developmental stages as applied to autism, the right-brain/left-brain thing) to dangerous (the ideas about evil, and the subtle underlying hints that a person who does not agree with these ideas has too much false self and misplaced fear hanging around), and that was important enough to remove the other three. I have already met professionals who directly damage autistic people by misapplying the already misguided concepts in parts of this book, and while this is not entirely the book's fault, the concepts outlined in the book were substantial contributors.

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I Was There

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Helps fill a void in the history of the "Forgotten War"

On Hallowed Ground: The Last Battle For Pork Chop Hill
Bill McWilliams
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July 1953. The Korean War had become a bloody stalemate. Peace was imminent but-as bitter fighting continued-each soldier could only ask himself, would he be the last to die? Despite this, a small group of the U.S. 7th Infantry Division fought back the Chinese Army on Pork Chop Hill. In round-the-clock counterattacks, devastating artillery assaults, and vicious hand-to-hand fighting, the Korean War's final, hellish chapter played out-while truce negotiations dragged on.

On Hallowed Ground uses previously classified documents and never-before-told accounts by the soldiers and medics whose extraordinary heroism held "the Chop" to reveal, for the first time, the full story of the greatest test of U.S. soldiers' resolve since Valley Forge.

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I Was There.......2007-08-17

As I was the first platoon leader of I Company 32 Infantry who was wounded in this engagement I can attest to the author's excellent and honest recreation of the events of those terrible days in July of 1953. It really is difficult to understand the carnage that occurred on that insignificant little outpost in front of the MLR if one had not been there. But, the author not only did a fine job in explaining the political situation(Pork Chop had no strategic value- so why expend so many lives?), and the tactical situation as it evolved day by day, but he managed to tell what it was like for the individual infantryman to fight and try to survive under merciless shelling and masses of enemy soldiers whose leaders cared little about the cost to these men in their wave assaults.
As a side bar- the second battle of Pork Chop Hill was the most intense artillery action in the history of modern warfare. Never in such a limited area were so many shells fired from as far back as the big guns at the Corps level down to the battalion mortars.

The Must-Have Book of the Korean War.......2004-01-27

As an Australian military historian myself, I have written numerous books on the Australian military experience overseas, principally in the two world wars. Quite frankly, however, I admit I knew lamentably little about the Korean War, the so-called "forgotten war". In fact, I think it's true to say that most people's knowledge of that war these days would only have derived from watching episodes of MASH. That lack of knowledge for me, at least, changed forever after a friend relentlessly urged me to read Bill McWilliams' superb account of the battle for Pork Chop Hill in 1953. If anything, I found it to be even more evocative and powerful than James Bradley's wonderful "Flags Of Our Fathers" for the descriptions of the battles, and the compelling stories of the ordinary but extraordinarily gallant leaders and men who fought, died or survived in one of the bloodiest, most ferocious engagements of any war. You cannot read past the stories of such combatants and medics as Bob Northcutt, James McKenzie and Dick Shea without giving thanks for their astonishing valour and determination, and yet the book is filled with such stories, told at length or in a few simple but effective sentences. At first glance the book's earlier pages may seem a little overladen with background detail, but once you begin to read you realise that the author has done a superb and meticulously thorough job of research, and does not lead us into any situation without first fully presenting the preceding events, the units assigned, and those individuals particularly involved. It is a masterful blend, as McWilliams first informs us, then sets the scene, and finally takes us through the different battles and aftermath using the stark, sometimes horrifying, often poignant recollections and accounts of a host of participants and/or witnesses. There is a welcome abundance of excellent photographs and maps to show where the engagements took place, and many of the soldiers and leaders who took part. Family members also reflect back over half a century to the deeds and heroism of their loved ones, which adds yet another dimension to this engrossing book. The story of the 7th Infantry, and in particular the different battalions of the 17th and 32nd Regiments, is one that has been told before, but never with such descriptive detail, real-life drama, and compassion. This is certainly a book to be treasured, and read many times. Thank you, Bill McWilliams, for giving us this truly fascinating, truly compelling book.

Helps fill a void in the history of the "Forgotten War".......2004-01-17

The Korean War is often called the "Forgotten War." However, in truth, the war of maneuver that made up the first year of the war has been the subject of many excellent books. The stationary, or "outpost war," that was fought from 1951 to 1953 has received far less attention. Bill McWilliams' book, "On Hallowed Ground: The Last Battle for Pork Chop Hill," is a close study of one of the most brutal battles fought during that period.

Pork Chop Hill may be familiar to some readers as the subject of SLA Marshall's book and the subsequent movie starring Gregory Peck. That book and movie deal with the April 1953 battle for the outpost on Pork Chop. McWilliams reviews that earlier battle as well as the overall strategic situation, but he focuses on the July 1953 battle in which regiments of the U.S. 7th Infantry Division fought against a Chinese enemy determined to seize Pork Chop.

The author does a great job in describing this chaotic battle and the bravery of the soldiers in the rifle companies and their supporting elements that fought it. He examines in detail the decisions made at high levels of command that ultimately determined the outcome of the battle. And finally, in his section on the aftermath of Pork Chop, he puts it in the perspective of both history and the families of the fallen.

This is a great addition to the literature of the Korean War. It should be of interest to both students of the Korean War and those readers with a general interest in military history and ground combat.

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Hallowed Ground: The Last Battle for Pork Chop Hill.(Book Review) : An article from: Infantry Magazine
Mike Davino
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Title: Hallowed Ground: The Last Battle for Pork Chop Hill.(Book Review)
Author: Mike Davino
Publication: Infantry Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2004
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Volume: 93 Issue: 5 Page: 51(1)

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TRADITIONS & ENCOUNTERS: World Civilization Reader -- Volume II
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VOL II

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The main part of the book begins with a study of behavioral development in animals, progresses to the neural and endocrine aspects of behavior, and then to the social behavior of nonhuman primates. The final transition from monkeys to humans, which Hinde made in his own research, leads to an impressive section on the development of social behavior in humans. The last scientific chapter relates to Dr. Hinde's deep concern about aggression and the peculiarly human institution of war. His own commentaries to the book discuss the recurring theme of crossing and recrossing the boundaries among different levels of analysis and the need to study processes. In the final section, his former student Jane Goodall and the late Niko Tinbergen write of their memories of this inspiring man.

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