Mastering Tradition: The Residential Architecture of John Russell Pope (American Architects)

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Mastering Tradition: The Residential Architecture of John Russell Pope (American Architects)
James B. Garrison
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Belisima.......2005-01-11

This is a very well executed book. The pictures chosen are perfect and the authors do a commendable job with the research. The book gives an exhaustive cross section of Mr. Popes work and one gets a real appreciation of his talent. The book publisher deserves credit for creating such a finely made book, one never doubts they are perusing an expensive book. The only qualm I have with the book is that they didn't do like the authors of the book on Delano and Aldrich and include some fine current color pictures to compliment the wonderful vintage B&W photos, that would have made it perfect, but this is close enough. Congradulations to the authors for this fine piece of work.

Mastering Tradition, the Residential Architecture of John Russell Pope

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Mastering Tradition, the Residential Architecture of John Russell Pope
James B. Garrison
Manufacturer: Acanthus Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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Mastering Tradition, the Residential Architecture of John Russell Pope
James B. Garrison
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Binding: Hardcover

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Permanently beautiful art.......2001-08-25

I am an iconographer and work in egg tempera. I became interested in fresco because the same pigments are used. I have been looking for a tutorial for this art form for years. This book is not only readable, it is informative and does not take the ingredients and methods lightly. Working in the old techniques, such as encaustic, tempera and fresco, is slow, meditative and rewarding. This book is simple and beautiful enough for my grandchildren to enjoy and technical enough for me to use successfully to teach myself. Only problem is British material sources. There are a couple of suppliers in the USA.

finally a correct book about the "affresco" tecnique!!!.......1999-07-06

I've been trained as a professional artist in Italy and currently I run a studio in San Francisco where I am an instructor at the Academy of Art College. There is a great difference between an 'affresco' and a generic 'mural' that can be acrilic or tempera. 'Fresco' is a very simple but extremely precious tecnique.I heard people calling a 'fresco' the Leonardo's "Last Supper" wich is not. The Leonardo's painting is a 'tempera', for that reason it did not last.The real 'fresco' last practically for ever (look the great 'fresco' painters like Michelangelo, Raffaello, etc. Their works still shine after centuries). Anyway, this book gives clear and unmistakable instructions to everyone who wants to learn this fascinating tecnique.Well done! By the way:knowing how the great masters did their work does not means automatically joining the Club. Got it?

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Bernard of Hollywood's Marilyn
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Essays on Country Life.......2006-02-07

When I lived in Maryland, I loved reading Dee Hardie's columns about country life, keeping up a historic home, and the glimpses into her family life. I looked forward to her comments on everything from learning to tap dance or keeping closets tidy. She just had a gracious way about her. Many of her columns were saved for reading again later.
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Excellent for raising children

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How to Keep Your Kids on Your Team
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"It's not what you think that will impact your child; it's what you communicate." What are you telling your kids? Are you telling them that their crises are trivial and their ideas are foolish? Probably not in so many words, but you may be communicating just that with your lack of interest in the day-to-day activities of your child. To keep your children on your team, Charles Stanley asserts, you must assure them from the start that you are on theirs.

Focusing on the parental role as one of stewardship rather than ownership, Stanley instructs parents on how to ingrain a sense of personal accountability to God into the minds of children at an early age. By doing so, parents can raise confident, self-controlled kids who will hold fast to the values they instill.

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Excellent for raising children.......2003-07-31

I read this book three times (and I dislike to read) my children are 20 and 18 now and I purchased this when they were 3 and 5. I have purchased this book on-line now to give to parents with new babies. I only wish I could purchase it in stores. It's an excellent, excellent book. Don't pass this one up. For someone who dislikes to read, I couldn't put it down. Thank you so much Dr. Stanley, because of this book, I have to wonderful young gentlemen.

Excellent for raising children.......2003-07-31

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Excellent Detail, but Omits German Exterminatory Plans against the Polish People

Misleading title. No Blitzkrieg, only Ideology and Atrocity.

Understanding atrocities

Graphic Account of Poland Invasion

The Nazis Strike Poland

Hitler Strikes Poland: Blitzkrieg, Ideology, And Atrocity (Modern War Studies)
Alexander B. Rossino
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It was one of the most ruthlessly conceived and executed invasions in the annals of warfare. Hitler's Polish campaign unleashed a blitzkrieg in which SS troops, police squads, and the army itself waged an ethnic war of unprecedented brutality. Tens of thousands of Poles-roughly 80 percent of whom were Christian-were summarily executed in acts of collective punishment. After six weeks, a country was crushed and the world was at war.

Usually given short shrift in most histories of World War II, the invasion of Poland was more than a series of opening salvos; it was a testing ground for German brutalities to come. In this first intensive study of the invasion, Alexander Rossino provides a comprehensive study of the Polish campaign, including disturbing new insights into its racist and ideological underpinnings.

Rossino tells how this invasion melded the ideology of the Nazi party with Germany's military yearning for empire in the East. The Polish campaign was important as the first step in Hitler's drive for "living space" for Germans in Eastern Europe, and as the blitzkrieg decimated urban residential areas, civilians soon became indistinguishable from combatants. In addition to describing military operations, Rossino also provides a close analysis of SS plans to murder Polish leaders, German army reprisal policies, and the close collaboration of Wehrmacht and SS forces in the subjugation and execution of Polish citizens.

Rossino considers both top-level decision making and the experiences of German soldiers as he explores the mentality of those who perpetrated crimes against civilians. He particularly investigates the links between Nazi racial-political policies and military action to show that Poland was merely the German army's dress rehearsal for the later slaughter of other Slavs and Jews during the Russian campaign. By providing a detailed examination of atrocities committed by both military and SS personnel, he shows that the Wehrmacht's criminality was clearly evident at the beginning of the war.

Hitler Strikes Poland is a startling reconstruction of history that clearly reveals the extent to which Nazi philosophy drove the German war machine. It also helps us better understand the brutality of the years that followed and better appreciate the suffering of the Polish people.

This book is part of the Modern War Studies series.

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Excellent Detail, but Omits German Exterminatory Plans against the Polish People.......2007-07-07

Rossino recognizes the fact that German plans to destroy Poland went far beyond the "injustices" of Versailles, and had long preceded Hitler's rise to power (p. 6, 221-226). He also touches on Pilsudski's 1933 suggestion for a preventive Polish-French war against the infant Nazi state (p. 2).

The German invaders of 1939 saw the crushing poverty of Polish farmers as one that kept them 200 years culturally behind the poorest German farmer, and attributed this state of affairs to Jewish economic dominance (pp. 209-212). Ironic to the modern portrayal of Poles as eager anti-Semites, certain Germans chided Poles for their "stupidity" for letting the Jews cheat them and keep them in such poverty! (p. 210)

Rossino sees the 1939 German conquest of Poland as one exhibiting a level of viciousness unprecedented in European warfare up to that time, and not to be matched until Operation Barbarossa (p. 1). There was no love lost between the Pole and the Hun and, although atrocities occurred on both sides, German atrocities against Poles greatly dwarfed the reverse. Wehrmacht officers commonly opposed SS atrocities--not from ethical motives, but out of fear of adverse effects on military discipline (p. 115, 232). Still, the Wehrmacht was responsible for the massacres of 16,000-27,000 Polish civilians (p. 263). In addition, German forces murdered Polish POWs at hundreds of locations (p. 185). The SS alone murdered 43,000 Poles and 7,000 Jews through December 1939 (p. 234, 300). This is, of course, in addition to the colossal level of death and destruction resulting from German military operations.

Rossino elaborates on "Bloody Sunday" at Bydgoszcz (Bromberg). Some 1,000 Volksdeutsche were killed during their fifth-column actions against armed Poles prior to the Wehrmacht's entry (p. 62). This German propaganda embellished into a Polish massacre of 5,400 (p. 62) and then 50,000 (p. 258) implicitly-innocuous and defenseless German civilians. (I knew an eyewitness, Mr. Stefan Marcinkowski, who reported that there was no wholesale killing of unarmed German civilians by Poles at Bydgoszcz).

Rossino recognizes the fact that German atrocities continued even after Polish civilian resistance decreased (p. 153) and often had no relationship to the latter at all (p. 160, 178). He also recognizes the fact that the Nazis saw both Poles and Jews as enemies in a collective, racial sense: "According to the SS, the soldier was first and foremost a National Socialist Kampfer (fighter) who saw enemies in practical as well as in racial terms. SS personnel thus defined Polish soldiers and the civilian population (Jewish and non-Jewish) alike as legitimate targets of aggression." (p. 115).

Despite the foregoing, Rossino appears to be fixated on German anti-Polish actions as ends in themselves (crushing resistance), and fails to put them into proper genocidal context. In time, 3 million Polish gentiles were murdered by the Germans (p. 298). But, as pointed out by Raphael Lemkin (the Polish Jew who coined the term genocide), the killing off of the Polish intelligentsia (along with such things as the reduction of Poles' fertility, destruction of Polish cultural objects, etc.) was actually part of a multi-faceted, long-term plan to exterminate the Polish people.

Nowadays, Christianity is sometimes blamed for the Jewish Holocaust--never mind the fact that Nazism had been a secularist ideology. Furthermore, many leading Einsatzgruppe and Gestapo officials, later involved in the rape of Poland, are specifically identified by Rossino as having repudiated Christianity. These include: Bruno Streckenbach (p. 32), Bruno Mueller (p. 33), Karl-Heinz Rux (p. 40), Wilhelm Scharpwinkel (p. 42), Fritz Liphardt (p. 42), Lothar Beutel (p. 44), and Otto Hellwig (p. 51). (So, of course, did Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler, Frank, Kaltenbrunner, and other top Nazis.).

Misleading title. No Blitzkrieg, only Ideology and Atrocity........2004-10-17

I was looking for a book about the polish campaign, in particular from the military point of view. I knew that talking about it means talking about Einsatzgruppen, SS and Wehrmacht atrocity against Jews and Polish 'Intelligentsia'.
In fact, the Rossino's study focuses only on these Killing Mobile Units, telling about the campaign main course only to place the testimonies of atrocities in a cronological context.
Beware, if you are searching a military point of view this is not the book for you. If you want an Einsatzgruppen story and a great study about Wehrmacht and SS collaboration (you'll discover that sometimes the Wehrmacht hindered the former tasks) for the Untermensch destruction, buy it. If you proudly display a WWII library, buy it anyway. But buy also Browning's Ordinary Men.
The 3 stars comes out not from the above statements but from the book boring attitude. The work is well researched and Mr. Rossino is a competent scholar. The goal was not to entertain us, but to teach a piece of history and he accomplished the task. The problem is that he didn't even try to make the reading more pleasant.
A study about an olocaust should not entertain you, but could possibly stimulate your attention.
Too much plain stats can drive you mad. I finished it only because I finish every book. I made it in two months and in the meantime I read 6 other books.
If you, too, will finish it, you'll get a deep comprehension of the matter. Then you'll proudly put it on the shelves and never take it again.
I'm an Assistant of a Law University Professor and I know that no subject is necessarily boring. The first and fundamental challenge is to teach well. The second is to maintain an high level of interest of the listeners (and readers).
Unfortunately, Mr. Rossino did not take care of the latter goal.

Understanding atrocities.......2004-08-06

This is a serious history book but easy to read. I read this book to better understand how people can come to do such evil things. I have a personal interest in this as I am of Polish descent and my wife is partially of German descent. The book mentions atrocities committed by both Germans and Poles prior to the Nazi invasion of 1939. In fact a relative (German) of my wife was murdered by members of the Polish Army (or at least wearing the uniform of the Polish Army).

The book gives a thorough picture of the brutal methods used by the SS and condoned by the German Army. It also explains the social conditions and attitudes that made these actions seem acceptable to Germans.

What I found most disturbing is that I have family members who are advocating using the same brutal methods used by the Nazis against the warlords in Afghanistan in order to find Bin Laden. Reading this book and seeing how good people today can go down that same path is disturbing.

This is a book everyone should read because it is a history lesson everyone should understand. If we do not learn the lessons of history, we will be forced to repeat them. This is, indeed, one of those lessons that should be learned from history not from experience.

Graphic Account of Poland Invasion.......2004-07-08

This book goes into great detail of how Germany invaded Poland by employing its "blitzkrieg" tactics and the atrocities that accompanied the invasion. Some of the horrors inflicted on the Polish, particularly Polish Jews, are unthinkable. I really liked how Rossini describes the various factions within the SS and the major players involved throughout the entire process to create "Lebensraum" (living space) for the German peoples. I also find it quite ironic that the Polish are described by many of the SS barbarians as "violent." My only complaint was that the author could have described the military tactics from the Polish perspective a bit more. In other words, why was the German army able to steamroll the Polish military so easily. A few accounts from Polish officers would have helped, though we did get quite a few accounts from Polish civilians.

The Nazis Strike Poland.......2004-06-09

Rossino's book, Hitler Strike's Poland, strikes a key note in understanding Germany political, military, and ideological objectives during the Second World War. For too long, histories of the war have tended to separate these three pillars of Hitler's national socialism, as if each were a distinctive "war" waged by separate armies. Students of Operation Barbarossa (The German attack on the Soviet Union) realize that this isn't the case, but for those who concentrate on the "clean" wars in the west and in the Mediterranean, the Wehrmacht carries a different reputation than it ought to.

Rossino's meticulous research brings the reader to the conclusion that ideological and racial considerations influenced German military operations and strategic aims. For example, German army units (not SS or secret police) deliberately encroached on the Soviet zone in order to evict Jews and prevent their entry into German occupied territory. Also, it is striking how many valuable resources -- transportation, manpower, fuel, and ammunition -- of which the Germans did not have an overabundance, the Germans committed to their extermination and suppression campaigns against Poland's non-Jewish civilians. From a strictly military standpoint, it was overkill, but from Hitler's perspective, military force was simply another, albeit more final, method to achieve political control over eastern Europe.

What I would have liked to have seen to make this a "five-star" book: A chapter on Polish resistance. The author only alludes to this facet of the campaign, which according to his German sources, played into Nazi propaganda and long-standing German animosity towards the Poles. It is unfortunate that the Poles, just as the Germans would have wished to view them, are "shadowy" characters in this tragic story. Second, some military terminology and concepts are either misrepresented or wrongly applied. For example, Poland was no "blitzkrieg," as we use the term. True, the Germans had tanks, but this campaign was won by hard marching and fighting infantry, artillery, and some aircraft. Tanks provided mobility, and they made some impressive gains, but of themselves were not decisive to the outcome (however, the 1st Panzer Division does have a more unsavory side to it in this campaign). Also, a "strategy of annihilation" as described by Karl v. Clausewitz was not a forerunner, doctrinal basis, or prescription for the "war of annihilation" as practiced by the Third Reich. The former refers to the destruction in battle or capture of an enemy's means to resist (his armies and navies); the latter seeks the eradication of racial and ideological enemies. Lastly, as reflected in the title of this review, I feel that it is more appropriate to emphasize that the wanton destruction inflicted on Poland's civilians, Jew and Gentile alike, was not the work of Hitler alone. In fact, Hitler was not much involved in the formation and employment of Einsatzgruppen or German army units. Other individuals -- Heydrich, Himmler, Halder, Brachitsch, and a host of other Generals and police functionaries -- had far more practical influence. Hitler certainly gave breath to anti-Polish and anti-Semetic attitudes, but he had other do the dirty work.

This book ought to become a classic in World War II literature. It shows that from the very start, German political and military objectives and means were thoroughly infused with racial, biological, and ideological motivations. It should prompt a reexamination of German army operations in the Balkans, Scandinavia, and western Europe.

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Hitler Strikes Poland: Blitzkrieg, Ideology, and Atrocity (Modern War Studies)
Alexander B. Rossino
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A Holocaust survivor begins an epic search for his wife through post-war Europe. Here is a memoir of the twentieth century's greatest cataclysm, with a profound and illuminating difference. Casting light on the little-examined period of chaos immediately after World War II, it tells how, with unflagging courage and perseverance, one man and his wife recover freedom and individual dignity. The Aftermath was the inspiration for the international award-winning documentary, Dark Lullabies.

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A moving, uplifting Holocaust memoir.......2002-03-08

I have read a great deal about the Holocaust, including personal accounts, but this one stands out for several reasons. Because it was written just after World War II, it has an immediacy and authenticity that others written later might lack. It's amazing that it was only published a few years ago, and it still isn't well known, though it deserves to be. It's really a kind of primary source document. But it's also great literature, really well-written and moving and ultimately (despite some of the horrors so graphically depicted) it is uplifting, a testament to the human spirit's capacity to retain its dignity despite everything. Highly recommended.

A moving, uplifting Holocaust memoir.......2002-03-07

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.

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