Designing the World's Best: Children's Hospitals 2--The Future of Healing Environments Volume 2

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Designing the World's Best: Children's Hospitals 2--The Future of Healing Environments Volume 2
Bruce King Komiske
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This book continues the unique approach to designing a successful pediatric health care facility, which has made Bruce King Komiske one of the industry's most in-demand design and mgmt. consultants.

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Friedrich's work celebrates the solitude of the soul & man's union with nature. It is lonely, bleak & brilliant. It transports you to another place & time, one far removed from the chaos of modern life. This must be the definative work on CDF, so far as i know. A "must have", if ever there were one.

Provides an in-depth understanding of the artist & his work.......1998-02-14

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Beautiful, Practical,and Inspirational!.......1999-08-23

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Helping Young Children Develop Through Play: A Practical Guide for Parents, Caregivers, and Teachers
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Originally published in Germany in 1955, and in England and the United States in 1958, this classic memoir of WWII by a man who was an acknowledged military genius and probably Germany's top WWII general, is now made available again. Field Marshal Erich von Manstein described his book as a personal narrative of a soldier, discussing only those matters that had direct bearing on events in the military field. The essential thing, as he wrote, is to "know how the main personalities thought and reacted to events." This is what he tells us in this book.His account is detailed, yet dispassionate and objective. "Nothing is certain in war, when all is said and done," But in Manstein's record, at least, we can see clearly what forces were in action. In retrospect, perhaps his book takes on an even greater significance.

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Fascinating insights into WWII by one of it's most active participants.......2007-08-29

Erwin Rommel is widely regarded as the best German general of the war by writers and historians in the West. This is, in large part, due to the fact that he is really the only general faced by Western Armies and there is a self-serving arrogance in claiming that the British and US forces `best the best' the Germans had. Among the Germans, however, Erich von Manstein is considered one of the top, if not the top, field commander of the war. I'm certainly not going to weigh in on that debate, but the memoirs of one of the most noted German officers of WWII can be regarded as nothing but fascinating. This is a must read for an serious student of WW II. You can't claim to be knowledgable about WWII without having read this memoir.

There are so many wonderful insights contained in this book that I can't possibly relate them all, I'll just give a few that particularly struck me as relevent. First, most of the book covers the war in the Eastern front, but in many ways the most interesting part of the book is the first several chapters describing von Manstein's role in the Polish campaign and the development of the plans for the invasion of France in 1940. The French defeat of 1940 is today considered to be one of the most catastrophic military defeats of all time, but how different would things have been if von Manstein (and others) were unable to force their view on the General Staff via Hitler? The details of the Sevastopol campaign are also enlightening, and von Manstein has some interesting insights into the Rumanian soldiers.

Second, von Manstein discusses at length the idea that Germany could have won the war even after Stalingrad if the decision had been made at that point to withdraw from large parts of the Soviet Union, go on the defensive, and use the superior German leadership and mobility to defeat one Soviet thrust after another. For a long time I accepted this as at least plausible, but now I doubt this to be true. The Soviets would have eventually ground the Wehrmacht into the ground. Much has been made about Hitler's decision to pursue the southern option in 1942 and defend Stalingrad to the last man in the winter of 1942/43 and that this was a strategic error. Von Manstein weighs in on this issue at length. My view about this has changed, and I challenge the reader of this review who disagrees with me to check out the book `Sunrise at Abadan' for a different view after reading von Manstein's memoirs. In particular, the Baku oilfields were critical to the Soviet war effort. Had they been occupied, the Soviet Union would have been knocked out of the war and Iran quickly occupied by Germany. This would have meant the loss of Abadan to the British and all their oil as well. The Germans lost the war when they couldn't break through to Baku, and Hitler may have wanted to hold onto Stalingrad in the winter of 42/43 to renew the attack in that direction in the spring/summer of 43. Fundamentally, the Baku oil fields and Iran were the decisive front in the war. Capture these and total German victory is assured, otherwise the combined economic and military weight of the allies ultimately ensures the defeat of Germany. In any case, von Manstein's views on this matter (how Germany could have avoided defeat after Stalingrad) are fascinating.

A third compelling aspect of this book is von Manstein's discussion of his relationships with and views of members of his staff and other German officers. For example, von Manstein discusses the issue of why Hitler refused to visit the soldiers at the front line. According to von Manstein the talk around the campfire was that Hitler was a coward. Von Manstein claims, however, that it was quite the opposite. Hitler didn't want to be weakened by seeing the solders and subsequently hesitating to make difficult decisions because he was in fact too sympathetic to their plight. I have no idea if there is any truth in this, but I was surprised by it.

My only negative comment is that this is not really a stand alone memoir, you have to know a great deal about the events to really get the most out of this book. This is not meant to be a complete or detailed history about any aspect of the war, only von Manstein's views and, from his perspective, the role that he played. As such, I can only recommend this to a serious student (for whom it is a must read).

Must read for people interested in the Eastern Front and WWII.......2007-08-19

This is one of the most interesting books I have read about WWII. Obviously it is biased by the author but I found it extremely interesting. Von Manstein, besides being one of history's most brilliant generals sheds some light on dealing with Hitler as well

Insightful.......2007-07-08

Very detailed book with many details not learned in normal history despite Holocaust references being conspicuously absent.

Erich von Manstein the German soldier's choice for Chief of staff.......2007-06-10

Field Marshal Erich von Manstein was born in Berlin in 1887 as Erich von Lewinsky, he fought in WW1 and was injured in Poland in 1915. He may have had Jewish relatives. He served on the Staffs of a number of Army Groups. General Erich von Manstein (he was adopted by his mother's brother-in-law, General von Manstein) served as Commander of 56 Army Corps in March 1941 spearheading the dash for Lake Ilmen during the attack on Leningrad. September 1941 he commanded the 11th Army and conquered the Crimea, he was promoted Field Marshal. In 1942 he assumed command of Southern Army Group attempting to relieve Stalingrad, he defeated a Russian Army at Kharkov March 1943, for this he was awarded Oak Leaves to his Knight's Cross.
The title Die Verlorene Siege (Lost Victories) highlights von Manstein's disgust with Hitler over operations in the east, Hitler relieved von Manstein of command, he was not used in war operations again.
This book is an essential war diary for aspiring Military Commanders interested in dealing with large unit tactics.

Lost Victories is an interesting study of the German high command.......2007-04-28

Lost Victories is doubtless one of the best and most interesting studies of the German high command to be published and coming from one of Germany's greatest wartime military commanders in the most lucid language, it is an enthralling read from first to last. Indeed, it is one of the most readable war memoirs of any highly-placed commander of any belligerent in the Second World War; it is arguably the best. That said, the readability of the English-language edition has come at the cost of the excision of certain sections of the book.

In this instance I must echo the criticisms of others who have reviewed it. I do not think that the translator with the book's English-language editors or publishers should have taken it upon themselves (back in the late 'fifties when the English translation was published) to excise sections of the text to shorten the book, but left it whole and complete in translation as Manstein had written the text in the original German. And following on from this, the chapter on "Operation Citadel" should have been left entire and complete instead of excised from the English-language edition and a much shorter article on "Citadel" written by Manstein for the US Marine Corps Gazette inserted in its stead. I realise that these excised sections were so removed in order to increase the book's readability for publication in English-speaking countries, which readability, as I have said, is excellent; however, I would have preferred these deletions included as I believe that they probably would have given an even deeper insight into the character and attitudes of Manstein.

These criticisms aside, Lost Victories is still, I repeat, an exceedingly interesting book in which Manstein's excellent intellect with its great clarity and marvellous vigour shine through from beginning to end. It gives the reader a crystal-clear view of what the German Army's high command had become under National Socialism through Manstein's sharply-sensed and vivid though concise descriptions. Such descriptions include those of Hitler and his government's attitudes and general relationship to the German military and the converse relationship of the Wehrmacht's high command, as professional soldiers, to its National-Socialist masters, the leading personalities of these sometimes conflicting entities, and their interaction under the strain of conflict through the course of the European war up to Manstein's removal from command in 1944. All of which is riveting material for consumers of military history, and others. Indeed, I would recommend this book even for those who are not inclined as a rule to read military history, but would still like some understanding of the course of the Second World War from the German perspective (up to Manstein's dismissal) and of the interior history of the German military during Hitler's war.

LOST VICTORIES : THE WAR MEMOIRS OF HITLER'S MOST BRILLIANT GENERAL

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LOST VICTORIES : THE WAR MEMOIRS OF HITLER'S MOST BRILLIANT GENERAL
Erich von Manstein
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Lost Victories The war memoirs of Hitler's most brilliant General
Field Marshall Erich (Anthony G. Powell, Edited & Trans) von Manstein
Manufacturer: Henry Regnery Co.
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Lost Victories: The War Memoirs of Hitler's Most Brilliant General
Erich Von Manstein
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Culture, Empire, and the Question of Being Modern explores the problematic formation of national culture within modern English society. In this ambitious work of post-colonial and cultural theory, C. J. Wan-ling Wee investigates the complex interaction between a modern, industrialized, metropolitan, and progressively rational English national culture and a nationalistic imperial discourse interested in territorial expansion and the valorization of an idealized agrarian past.

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