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GERMAN ARMY ELITE UNITS 1939-45

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A great little book on a often forgotten subject.

Units With Fancy Patches

German Army Elite Units 1939-45 (Men-at-Arms)
Gordon Williamson
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ASIN: 1841764051
Release Date: 2002-10-18

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In World War II a number of German Army units and divisions were classed as élites, and were distinguished by special insignia of various kinds. For some this status was simply a matter of lineage - e.g. the Infantry Regiment 'List', which traced its identity to the Bavarian unit with which Hitler had served in World War I. Some, like the 'Grossdeutschland' and Panzer-Lehr divisions, were raised from particularly high grade personnel. Other titles honoured extraordinary battlefield exploits or heroic sacrifice, like the 'Brandenburg' and 'Hoch und Deutschmeister' divisions. This fact-packed introduction to these famous units is illustrated with rare photographs and detailed colour plates.

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GERMAN ARMY ELITE UNITS 1939-45.......2005-10-03

Very typical of books by Gordon Williamson. Well researched and filled with good information about units of interest to the researcher and the collector. Very well illustrated with both photographs and artwork.

Details, details.......2004-07-26

The lengthy review below sums up best the selection criterion for inclusion in this book and I will not belabour that point.

I do want to point out the very excellent artwork by Bujeiro - there seems to be a resurgent interest in Spain in the Third Reich, extending to re-enacting. One of the premier artists for Battlefront games is a Spanish gentleman who does photo realistic artwork for the Combat Mission games.

Bejeiro has done excellent work; colours seem a bit off but that may be a post-production process that makes the field grey shades a bit too blue.

Text is good; as noted in another review, subject matter is a bit scattered. Another review also states there are better GD sources. There are; the colour plate of the GD policeman shows the use of the Polizei helmet decal, which seems to be unsupported in other sources though I may be wrong.

Another interesting error is the deletion of Panzergrenadier Lehr Regiment 902 - a bit of a shock as I personally interviewed a member of that regiment, and it is certainly on the order of battle in other sources! Probably a minor editing error.

Overall, the plates are great and some good photos of rare insignia. Unit organizations are only very basic, and incomplete (in addition to the deletion of PzGren Lehr Rgt 902 mentioned above).

Anyone really interested in any of the units in this book should probably find more in-depth discussions of them in other sources.

Nifty little volume.......2004-03-06

Very good volume covering some little known units, alongside the most famous Heer units of them all (GD and Pz Lehr). Good illustrations, though colours seem a bit off. Not as good as Volstad, but better than Stephen Andrews.

Good information, easy to read format. Usual cautions apply about Men at Arms works. There are better GD volumes if one is so inclined, but some of the units covered are not well represented in English anywhere else.

A great little book on a often forgotten subject........2004-01-17

Gordon Williamson, an expert on the armed forces and paramilitaries (SA/SS) of the Third Reich, has written a good introduction to the elite forces of the Werhmacht. He covers such units as the Brandenburgers and the Grossdeuscthland divisions. I particularly enjoyed the illustrations of Mr. Bujeiro and the many photos that are spread throught the book. Although I admit this book could have had more details on the history of these units instead of uniform details; the Osprey Men At Arm series mostly specialize in describing the dress of the armies of world history. A good book for those who would like to learn about elite army units, rather than the Waffen SS units, which already have a plethora of book and articles devoted to them. Overall, I really enjoyed reading this book and would recommend the other Men At Arm books on the German army of WW2.

Units With Fancy Patches.......2002-11-26

The plain fact is that the German Army did not have many "elite" units in the Second World War, thanks in part to the plethora of such units in the Waffen SS and Luftwaffe. The German Army was built for mass and a force that was never more than 20% motorized could ill afford the luxury of expensive special units. Only a few units were undeniably elite - Grossdeutschland, the Brandenbergers, and Panzer Lehr. Gordon Williamson's latest Men-at-Arms volume, German Army Elite Units 1939-1945, seems to stretch the definition of "elite" to extreme proportions in order to justify covering a variety of units. Overall, this volume seems to be more of an introduction to units with fancy or unique sleeve and collar patches, rather than a real survey of elite units.

Williamson begins with the Grossdeutschland unit, which grew from regiment to division in the first years of the war. The author spends about four pages detailing the history and organization of Grossdeutschland, and three pages on uniform items like cuff bands and shoulder straps. The two interesting satellite units, the FG and FB brigades, are barely mentioned. Two pages are spent on the Brandenbergers, who grew from small commando units to division size by 1944. Panzer Lehr, formed from high-quality training cadres, also receives two pages of coverage. Thus, the author provides only 11 pages out of 42 for the truly elite units, and uses the bulk of the volume on a heterogeneous collection of other units.

The inclusion of the Feldherrnhalle Division is justified by its links to the SA, but there was nothing in actual battlefield performance that distinguished it from other divisions. Some readers might be tempted to equate Feldherrnhalle with a Waffen SS-type unit, but this was not the case. The justification for elite status becomes even murkier when the author moves on to the 44th "Hoch und Deutschmeister" Infantry Division. Aside from the fact that this unit was organized, trained and equipped as an ordinary German infantry division, the only distinguishing characteristic was a cuff band that was authorized two months before the end of the war but never issued. So a cuff band that was never issued makes a unit elite? Even more unremarkable are the 5th Cavalry Regiment "von Mackensen" and the 9th and 119th Infantry Regiments which shared the honorific title "List." The inclusion of these units with fancy names and insignia but no elite characteristics is a serious distraction from the real elite units.

The other oddity about this volume is the inclusion of several panzer and mountain units; the author includes the 21st, 24th and 116th Panzer Divisions and the 3rd and 5th Mountain Divisions. Other than participation in some sideshow campaigns like Narvik, Crete and North Africa which allowed some veterans to wear rare service badges, these units were really no different than many other similar divisions. Why include the 3rd Mountain as elite, but exclude the 1st or 2nd Divisions? There is no dispute that all these divisions were effective combat formations but the author makes no case to distinguish them as elite from other similar units in the German Army. The author concludes this volume with a brief survey of the ten non-divisional "Tiger" tank battalions. Again, these units were certainly formidable but were they truly elite? Some battalions, like the 510th, were organized late in the war and quickly swamped by the advancing Red Army. Apparently, the author feels that the "legendary" reputation of the Tiger tank renders all units equipped with it elite. Yet if lethal reputation is the prerequisite for elite status, why not include some of the longer-serving assault gun battalions that destroyed far more Soviet tanks than some of the later Tiger units?

Ultimately, the whole issue of elite units is obscured by this study's arbitrary inclusion of units without applying any objective criterion for admission. Apparently, in this author's mind, elite status can derive from the adoption of fancy uniform accessories and honorific titles just as much as special training or recruiting. Indeed, the issues of recruiting, selection and training are noticeably absent in this volume. This is a bungled attempt at a survey of elite German Army units that founders due to lack of an objective methodology. Instead of using the limited space in an Osprey Men-at-Arms title to focus on the genuine elite units, space is gratuitously wasted on "eye-wash" and celebrity units in order to bolster the market appeal of this volume. Other elite or specialist units, such as the German long-range reconnaissance units in North Africa or assault pioneer units in Russia, would have been better candidates for inclusion in this volume than units like the "List" Regiment.

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Never before have the women of the Capetian royal dynasty in France been the subject of a study in their own right. The new research in Capetian Women challenges old paradigms about the restricted roles of royal women, uncovering their influence in social, religious, cultural, and even political spheres. The scholars in the volume consider medieval chroniclers' responses to the independent actions of royal women as well as modern historians' use of them as vehicles for constructing the past. The essays also delineate the creation of reginal identity through cultural practices such as religious patronage and the commissioning of manuscripts, tomb sculpture, and personal seals.

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Interesting background to the author,Dare Wright!

The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: the Search for Dare Wright

A Little Family, Lonely No More

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The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright
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Release Date: 2005-07-14

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In 1957, a childrens book called The Lonely Doll was published. With its pink-and-white-checked cover and photographs featuring a wide-eyed doll, it captured the imaginations of young girls and made the author, Dare Wright, a household name. Close to forty years after its publication, the book was out of print but not forgotten. When the cover image inexplicably came to journalist Jean Nathan one afternoon, she went in search of the book--and ultimately its author. Nathan found Dare Wright living out her last days in a decrepit public hospital in Queens, New York. Over the next five years, Nathan pieced together Dare Wrights bizarre life of glamour and painful isolation to create this mesmerizing biography of a woman who struggled to escape the imprisonment of her childhood through her art. "Although I never read The Lonely Doll as a child or saw Dare Wright's photographs, it's as if I somehow did. Nathan has done an amazing job to capture Wright's life on the page and to bring us into the household of one of the saddest dysfunctional families ever.' -- Cindy Sherman The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll makes absorbing reading, both as biography and parental cautionary tale. Keep out of the reach of children. - The Globe and Mail Its a fascinating read and you cant help but feel compassion for DareThe Secret Life of the Lonely Doll is proof real lives are often more interesting than anything fiction creates. - The Ottawa Sun The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll prove[s] that a skilled biographer can write absorbing books about minor figures, particularly those with secrets. - The Toronto Star

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Interesting background to the author,Dare Wright! .......2007-05-28

As an elementary teacher, I am very familiar with the children's books written by Dare Wright. However, I was not familiar with her life. Therefore, when I saw this book I was intrigued and had to have it.

I am so glad that I bought this book because it explains Dare's life, her ups and downs, and how she decided to write such adorable books. The book also goes into great detail about her family background, which explains why Dare was such a creative and "unique" individual. The book also explains why Dare was such a tortured individual.

An interesting read! The author did a wonderful job!

(PS: the photos are also fascinating!)

The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: the Search for Dare Wright.......2007-04-02

I couldn't put the book down it was fascinating! Whether you ever heard of Dare Wright or not I promise this book with spark your interest.

A Little Family, Lonely No More.......2006-11-27

Just as every little girl wonders about the secret life of her dolls -- teddy bear picnics and dolly tea parties when Mommie is not at home -- so we adults wonder about the lives of the authors who have brought us our favorite childhood books. They must have been beautiful princesses, we surmise, or else lonely old maids whose lives were lived through their characters. Dare Wright was an odd combination of the two -- a beautiful child/woman, who was primped and shaped by her mother, Edie, a well-known, well-respected portrait painter of her time, though a devastatingly domineering mother -- but who, after her mother died, indeed became a lonely old maid, bereft of any family ties.
Jean Nathan's "The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright" strips away the pink and white gingham cover facade of the Lonely Doll books to show us the bizarre, unconventional life of Dare Wright, a model/photographer/and author of the books, and her mother, a two-for-one pair all-but conjoined throughout Dare's life.
When first introduced to a child, the adventures of the lonely doll, Edith, and her companions, Mr. Bear and Little Bear, are enchanting. The lonely doll seems to be living in a swanky New York City apartment, but there are no scenes of a little girl's room, or even any evidence that a child lived in that home at all. In fact, Edith doesn't seem to belong to anyone; does she live alone? Is that her apartment? Whose dressing room and jewel box do Edith and Little Bear pillage and plunder? And how exactly did the Bears come to show up on the lonely doll's doorstep?
Reading Jean Nathan's book, it is quite clear to the arm-chair psychoanalyst that Mr. Bear and Little Bear are substitutes for the father and big brother that Edie callusly cast out of her life and her daughter's. For many years, Edie pretended that she had never had a son, while Dare tried to make sense of her buried memories of a family of four people that she could not clearly picture in her conscious mind.
There are parts of the book that don't seem right, and as a doll collector (and owner of a very old cloth doll) I wished had been explored more carefully: the doll in the picture book series is made of fabric (by the Italian doll company Lenci), but doesn't photograph as a 20+year-old doll; the fabric looks immaculate, and shows no signs of wear. In later books, the doll keeps getting makeovers, but somehow the cloth's integrity is sturdy enough to keep up with changing fashions. And I have long been fascinated by the photo of Edith and Little Bear, standing with their backs to the camera, on the totally deserted Brooklyn Bridge. The mechanics of managing that location shoot must have entailed months of paperwork and permits and I would have liked to have just a few details of the artist's creative processes, and the actual task of wrangling those dolls (who truly seemed to have minds of their own) into such perfect poses.
"The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll" is a book for grown-ups; once you have read it, you can never again look at the series of Lonely Doll books with child-like wonder. But for the adult reader it fills in the missing pieces of the books; the lonely Dare Wright created for herself a mother-less universe, with a father and brother who promised to never leave her, and together the three of them would live happily ever after.

Interesting.......2006-11-26

If I had never read this book, I would never have imagined this kind of life. I have never read any of Dare Wright's books but I ordered this book shortly after reading the New York Times review. It read like an extended version of a DC Tales of the Unexpected comic about a possessive stage mother and her devoted income-generating daughter who never grew up and wore a wig of blonde banana curls. Sad to know that this actually happened to Dare Wright. I recommend this book. It's very sad but very informative about selfish personalities and a warning about dealing with such people. It also gives good reason for sleepaway camp. Too much parental contact is too much.

Fascinating Life But Ending seems Farfetched.......2006-07-03

I suddenly became interested in the life of Dare Wright, for no other reason but because I started a small business on Ebay...I am always intrigued by eccentric individuals, and on my ebay search, I found The Lonely Doll, I also collect Lencis, and thought who would destroy such beautiful dolls for art?...Dare Wright's books, did not impress me as books for children, they seemed to be talking to an older audience. In my zest for learning more and more about this woman, I came to this interesting biography of Dare Wright.
The initial 200 pages are fascinating, if indeed Dare Wright lived this horrendous existence, and was such an child-woman all her life, it explains why her books The Lonely Doll series are so much Dare Wright.
What I couldn't quite understand was the end of her life as portrayed by Jean Nathan. I felt the writer embellished the ending, to make Dare's life even more horrendous, and compelling. I must commend Jean Nathan on her writing ability, but what I objected to was Jean Nathan bringing her own life in the epilogue, how can this writer identify herself with Dare Wright's life...Nathan had an angelic existence compared to this abandoned, abused, controlled, woman-child, Dare Wright. The book makes for fascinating reading...I would love Joyce Carol Oates to take a hold of Dare Wright's story and make it her own...

The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright

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The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright
Jean Nathan
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The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright
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The average GI in World War II carried a rifle, had military support, was committed to whatever action his unit was engaged in, and often had time to rest and regroup before advancing. Conversely, the combat photographer had his camera, a sidearm, and a jeep, was sent wherever there was fighting to document what was happening. He often saw the worst of the war.

Charles Eugene Sumners was a still photographer in the 166th Signal Photo Company, and in Darkness Visible he offers his World War II memories—some sad, some happy, many horrendous, all life-changing. With the aid of many of his photographs reproduced in this book, he remembers boot camp, the trip overseas, and events in France, Germany, Belgium, and Luxembourg, including the Battle of the Bulge, while covering Patton's Third Army's field artillery, infantrymen, engineers, the 10th Armored and the 6th Armored. Other subjects include Hitler youth, refugees, labor camps, POWs, other combat photographers including his friend Russ Meyer, and going back to Europe after the war.

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Terrific World War II research source.......2002-11-21

Charles Sumners (with the help of Ann Sumners) wrote with his memory book "Darkness Visible" a book which was overdue for a long time: Who didn't wonder under which dangers and conditions the often single pictures have arisen when looking at the photos in the many publications to the World War II? For me, in the meantime, it has become an important means of work at my researches as a German historian, publicists and documentary movie director, who actively has a good look at this time! Charles Sumners manages important attempts to think with his memories and he activates to further intensive researches! This applies to me particularly with reference to the photo which can be found on the title page of the book - the photo which made Charles on April 4th, 1945 in the village of Oberdorla near the city of Mühlhausen, Germany! With this photo Charles Sumners has been placed in the elite of the combat photographers in the WWII! "Darkenss Visible" is also a very intimate and also gripping report of the insides of his 166th Photo Signal Company, and of friendships which arose in the face of the daily dangers and endangerings and lasted up to the death of the ones involved.

I have read hundreds of American and German books at my researches about the WWII - "Darkness Visible" is part of my "Top Ten" if I carry out a qualitative evaluation! I wish that this book will find a large and broad readership in the USA and in all the world; and I wish as well that a translated edition is published of "Darkness Visible" in Germany soon, too! What Charles Sumners writes makes thoughtful... The book has seemed very late - but still not too late!

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One of the country's most distinguished scholars presents a brilliantly original approach to the twin dilemmas of abortion and euthanasia, showing why they arouse such volcanic controversy and how we as a society can reconcile our values of life and individual liberty.

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Not for the Pro-Life crowd. .......2007-05-22

This book is one of the most amazing and critical inquiries into a socially relevant topic of the 20th century. The arguments are almost flawless, beautifully interwoven with examples, anecdotes and personally relevant stories spanning the whole spectrum of human emotion.

This book will not bore you. It will be quite interesting from a humanistic, legal and historical point of view. However, Ronald Dworkin is indeed a liberal philosopher who believes that liberal social policy (in regards to abortion and euthanasia) can coexist with one's belief that life is ever precious.

Naturally, conflicting and strict moral belief systems divide conservatives and liberals in regards to such hot-button issues. If you are truly willing to read this book with an open mind, you will not be disappointed and perhaps will become a better and more informed advocate. On the other hand, if you read this book while conceptualizing some circular reasoning debasing Dworkin's every word - in favor of a verse from the bible - this book is certainly not for you!

carefully and closely reasoned investigation.......2003-09-04

Not light reading or a polemic, but rather a carefully and closely reasoned investigation of how one comes to decisions about matters involving the taking of life, with particular emphasis on doing so under the US Constitution

< < < <...the American Constitution, understood as one of principle, provides a better form of government than any in which the legislative and executive branches of government are legally free to disregard fundamental principles of justice and decency. A constitution of principle, enforced by independent judges, is not undemocratic. On the contrary, it is a precondition of legitimate democracy that government is required to treat individual citizens as equals, and to respect their fundamental liberties and dignity. Unless those conditions are met, there can be no genuine democracy, because unless they are met, the majority has no legitimate moral title to govern.>>>>>

Starting with an in-depth look at the arguments about abortion, Dworkin moves out to wider considerations of euthanasia and suicide. He shows how many of the classic arguments in these areas are actually closer to each other than most participants would think or admit, and then shows where continued dialog and discussion might be useful, without asking either side to compromise basic principles. One of Dworkin's main concerns is to show that a principled interpretation of the constitution should be both a liberal and a conservative mandate. Even in the divisive issue of abortion, principled stand based on the inherent value of life helps both sides:

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Of course, if we centered the abortion controversy on the question of whether a fetus is a person with a right to live, then one state's having the right to forbid abortion would not mean that another had the right to require it. But that does follow once we recognize that the constitutional question at stake is whether a state can impose on everyone on official interpretation of the inherent value of life. It would be intolerable for a state to require an abortion to prevent the birth of a deformed child. In the United States, no one doubts that such a requirement would be unconstitutional. But the reason why - because it denies a pregnant woman's right to decide for herself what the sanctity of life requires her to do about her own pregnancy - applies with exactly equal force in the other direction. A state just as seriously insults the dignity of a pregnant woman when it forces her to the opposite choice. That the choice is approved by a majority is no better justification in the one case than in the other. >>>>

Some further examples demonstrate the depth of his discussions, but can only hint at the fully developed arguments present in the book.
< < < < < <.. the distinction between the question of what acts or events are in some creature's interests and the question of what acts or events respect the sanctity of that creature's life.

< < < < <...the appeal to the sanctity of life raises here the same crucial political and constitutional issue that it raises about abortion. Once again the critical question is whether a decent society will choose coercion or responsibility, whether it will seek to impose a collective judgment on matters of the most profound spiritual character on everyone, or whether it will allow and ask its citizens to make the most central, personality-defining judgment about their own lives for themselves.

not advised.......2002-05-09

I was actually looking forward to reading this book. I came with an open mind and yet the poor writing and lack of credible arguments astounded me. How is this author a scholar and still able to write weakly biased material that is published by a major house?

I would recomend not reading this book no matter what your stance is on these topics. If you agree with the author, you may be blinded by your beliefs to embrace his scewed logic, and if you disagree, you will get a bad impression of the actual arguments his side could give.

False Rationalizations.......2000-08-27

Dworkin claims that accepting abortion and euthanasia is to somehow embrace the sanctity of all human life. What tripe. Whatever one thinks of these controversial issues, both involve killing as a means to problem solving. That hardly embraces life's sanctity unless language has lost all meaning.

An Excellent and Thought-Provoking Book.......2000-06-08

Amazingly, Dworkin offers a new take on the abortion dispute--and I think a correct one. I don't agree with everything he says, but this book sheds more light on these issues than any other that I have read. I would say that it is the best philosophical book I have read in a long while. Among the many things that I appreciate about this book is that Dworkin along the way also has interesting and insightful things to say about the philosophy of mind, the meaning of life, and the nature of human dignity. If you are at all interested in bio-ethics, the philosophy of the abortion dispute, euthanasia, or the meaning of life--read this book. I plan to re-read it soon.

Life's Dominion: An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom. (book reviews): An article from: Michigan Law Review

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Alexander Morgan Capron
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Title: Life's Dominion: An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom. (book reviews)
Author: Alexander Morgan Capron
Publication: Michigan Law Review (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 1994
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Life's Dominion: An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom.(Brief Article): An article from: Theological Studies

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Life's Dominion: An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom.(Brief Article): An article from: Theological Studies
Robert J. Araujo
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This digital document is an article from Theological Studies, published by Theological Studies, Inc. on March 1, 1994. The length of the article is 763 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Author: Robert J. Araujo
Publication: Theological Studies (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 1994
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This book, the second in the series on the avifauna of Indonesia, introduces the reader to the most typical and colourful birds of the large islands of Sumatra and Kalimantan, whose dipterocarp forests of the lowlands and wetland forest of the coastal plains are particularly rich habitats. The main descriptions covering 148 species from nearly every bird family on the two islands, provide information on the plumage, behaviour, habitat, and distribution to enable the general naturalist to identify most of the birds found readily in the different habitats of the islands. Reference is also made in the text to a further 129 species to illustrate the range and variety of birds in each family. It is hoped that this book will encourage a greater interest in birds in particular, and wildlife in general, and foster an increased awareness of the need to protect an adequate area of some of the richest habitats in the world while there is still time.

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