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    DEVIL'S ADJUTANT: Jochen Peiper, Panzer Leader
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    • Battle of the Bulge
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    • Excellent book
    DEVIL'S ADJUTANT: Jochen Peiper, Panzer Leader
    Michael Reynolds
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    ASIN: 1862271569

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    Now in paperback, this authoritative account and assessment of the military career, Dachau war crime trial and murder of Jochen Peiper, Heinrich Himmler's Adjutant and the "Siegfried" of the Waffen SS, describes his involvement in the Ardennes offensive and Malme'dy Massacre

    - Illustrated with rare photographs, high quality maps and figures.

    - Peiper's rise through the ranks of the Fuhrer's Bodyguard Regiment, Die Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler.

    - Peiper's service with Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS.

    - His fighting record on the Eastern Front and in France.

    - The first thoroughly objective account of his role as the Commander of the Kampfgruppe Peiper in the 1944 Ardennes offensive, which brought him to particular wartime prominence.

    - The facts about "The Malme'dy Massacre" on 17 December 1944, when 84 Americans died at the hands of Peiper's men.

    - The Dachau Trial which led Peiper to the condemned cell in Landsberg prison.

    - His postwar life as a paroled War Criminal.

    - Peiper's death during a fire-bomb attack on his home in France in 1976.

    Major General Mike Reynolds is a respected historian and writer. His other books are Eagles and Bulldogs (Casemate 2003), Steel Inferno and Men of Steel.?

    Customer Reviews:

    1 out of 5 stars Battle of the Bulge.......2006-11-13

    What is the point of reading something like this?There is very very little about Jochen Peiper life,book should be caled"Battle of the Bulge"
    DO NOT believe everything that is writen there, ESPECIALLY by UK writers or directors. Remember, the winners write the history.

    5 out of 5 stars Totally Ambiguous Title but Good Historical Account of the Bulge.......2006-07-10

    Despite this books ambiguous title, it is a very detailed account of Panzer Leader Jochen Peiper's actions of Germany's last major offensive against the Allies at the Battle of the Bulge. Jochen Peiper served under Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, for several years prior to getting a field command. Peiper led the 1st Panzer Division at the Bulge. This book is chocked full of detail written very dryly and attempts to humanize Peiper or justify his actions to some degree. I found this book only of interest because of the great detail contained concerning the actions of the elitist group of Nazi military of the SS division Peiper commanded. For instance: What was the mentality and reasoning for murdering captured US military personnel at Malmedy? I was really not interested in his conviction at the war crimes trials. Basically he was not a good man in my opinion. Because of the book's highly detailed account of military events during the Battle of the Bulge I would recommend this book.

    2 out of 5 stars Great research, dull writing.......2005-06-25

    One the one hand, Reynolds has done impressive research - if you want to know exactly where 1 Company of the 117th Infantry was at 1432 on 21 December, then congratulations - you have found your book. The author has spent a lot of time working out who was doing what, where, and when.
    On the other, he fails to bring any of the characters to life and has - unlike other military historians like Hastings or Beevor - no real facility in describing what happens on the battlefield. There is little extrapolation on the weapons and tactics used, and no feeling for the tension, fear and excitement of action.
    Finally, although one might expect, from the title, that the author would concentrate on the German experience, most of his sources - interviews and written - are American. As someone who has guided German veterans around the battlefield, it is odd that he did not include more remininscences from the Germans.
    To sum up: Reynolds has done a good job researching the minutae of the various units' positions and timings, but does a poor job of writing about battle, and the reader will often lose sight of the woods due to the mass of trees.

    3 out of 5 stars Tittle is Misleading.......2004-11-29

    I bought the book believing it tobe a complete account of Jochen Piper's military career. Even though the details about the Ardennes campaign and the drive to the Meuse are impressive the book says few about Piper's career in Russia. I wanted to know how the Blowtorch Battaillon in Piper's command won its fearful reputation in Russia, about his aggresive tactics with half tracks and his innovative style of commnad that has been praised in numerous accounts. About this I didn't learn something new in this account but it is a very good book about the KG Piper's actions during the Battle of the Bulge. The tittle of the book is a little bit misleading as it does not center in Piper's career or biography and is more a historic account of the Battle of the Bulge. I gave it 3 stars for that, if some chapters were dedicated to Piper's previous career in Russia which accounts for most of his exploits and fame I would have improved my rating.

    4 out of 5 stars Excellent book.......2004-03-26

    For those that want a basic view of Peiper and his role in the Ardennes Offensive, this is very good. The author is unbiased and has both American and German accounts of the battle from beginning to end. Those that want a thorough and indept account of Peiper, Patrick Agte's book is what you want. The Bulge is the final and greatest offensive in the war against the western allies and unlike the war in the east where Peiper participated in, it was the Battle of the Bulge, particularly the Malmady incident that effected Peiper on a more personal level condemning him as a war criminal and to be hanged. Peiper being branded as a war criminal probably what led to his murder by French Communists. But Peiper did nothing unusual that other sides didn't do. The shooting of prisoners was common, particularly on the eastern front, but on the western front Americans also shot German prisoners as well. Aside from the fact that he was a committed Nazi, in all fairness Peiper like all great and aggressive military leaders did what he had to do in order to win a desperate battle.
    The Devil's Adjutant  Jochen Peiper, Panzer Leader, The story of one of Himmler's former adjutants (a leader in Battle of
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      The Devil's Adjutant Jochen Peiper, Panzer Leader, The story of one of Himmler's former adjutants (a leader in Battle of
      Michael Reynolds
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      THE DEVIL'S ADJUTANT - JOCHEN PEIPER, PANZER LEADER
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        REYNOLDS MICHAEL
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        Light in the East: Time Frame Ad 1000-1100 (Time Frame)
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            Turing and the Computer: The Big Idea
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            Turing and the Computer: The Big Idea
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            ASIN: 038549243X
            Release Date: 1999-04-20

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            Few concepts in the history of 20th-century thought are as rich with both philosophical and practical implications as the computer. And few people in the history of computing are as intellectually and personally complex as Alan Turing, the man whose brilliant mathematical imagination laid the foundation for computers as we know them. You could easily spend the rest of the millennium reading up on Turing and his ideas, but if you've only got an afternoon, this engaging, pamphlet-length summary of the man's life and work should get you nicely up to speed.

            Author Paul Strathern sets Turing's accomplishments in their historical context. He starts with the long prehistory of the computer--its roots in devices such as the abacus, the slide rule, and Charles Babbage's remarkably sophisticated 19th-century "difference engine." Strathern then moves deftly through the great mathematical debates that led to Turing's formulation of the abstract "universal computing machine" in the mid-1930s. The author also lucidly presents Turing's contributions to turning that abstraction into a concrete mechanism, beginning with Turing's work on the Colossus machine, which cracked Germany's secret codes during World War II.

            Strathern conveys with equal vividness the haunted private side of Turing's life--his furtive homosexuality, his difficult relationships, and his conviction in the early '50s on charges of indecency, a not-so-private scandal that apparently led to his suicide. The book owes its rich detail to the work of pioneering Turing biographer Alan Hodges, and Strathern graciously acknowledges the debt. But the accomplishment of packing Turing's big life and big ideas into such a compact package is entirely Strathern's own. --Julian Dibbell

            Customer Reviews:

            2 out of 5 stars Computer Journalism.......2003-03-07

            If you want to read about Turing and the origins of computing on the level and in the style of your Sunday newspaper, this is your book (especially if that Sunday newspaper of yours comes in tabloid format). Otherwise, go for something more intelligent, like A. Hodges, Davies or Copeland.

            5 out of 5 stars Learn about computer history!.......2001-01-31

            What? You have never heard of Alan Turing? You don't deserve tolive! Quick, buy this book (which [is inexpensive]) and learn everything about computer history before uncle Gabriel discover it and pull your ear lobes! This book shows the computer history, beginning from abacus and obviously focuses at Alan Turing and his most important inventions for computing history, the Colossus and the ENIAC. What? You have never heard of ENIAC? Promise to us: come back here in Hardware Secrets only after you have finished reading this book, ok?

            3 out of 5 stars Nice biography, but not technical enough.......2000-11-02

            This book gives a short overview over the life of Alan Turing, though it does not go as deep into detail as Douglas Hofstaedter does - and that was just one article in his Metamagicum collection! But if you don't already have Hofstaedter on your bookshelf, you might as well buy this book.

            Unfortunately, the mathematical and technical stuff in the book are only described very vaguely - I did not understand how the Enigma code was cracked, or how the proofs concerning computability worked. I am not quite sure whether the author understood what he was writing about.

            3 out of 5 stars Nice biography, but not technical enough.......2000-11-02

            This book gives a short overview over the life of Alan Turing, though it does not go as deep into detail as Douglas Hofstaedter does - and that was just one article in his Metamagicum collection! But if you don't already have Hofstaedter on your bookshelf, you might as well buy this book.

            Unfortunately, the mathematical and technical stuff in the book are only described very vaguely - I did not understand how the Enigma code was cracked, or how the proofs concerning computability worked. I am not quite sure whether the author understood what he was writing about.

            4 out of 5 stars A good appetizer.......2000-04-01

            This little book offers a quick overview of the history of the computer until eventually settling on Alan Turing and his paramount contributions. Obviously it is not meant to be exhaustive but it opens up a menu of topics to be followed if one is interested, all circling around Turing: computer theory, mathematics and the solution of cryptographical problems, Bletchley Park's contribution to winning WorldWarII, artificial intelligence, mathematical theory, mid-20th century persecution of homosexuals in Britain, eccentricity and the nature of genius, the very peculiar personality of Turing himself. It's a little book that explains some basics and opens many doors, for which one has to be grateful.

            Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story
            Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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            • The Murphys: maybe more interesting than their pal Fitzgerald
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            • A beautiful story beautifully written
            Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story
            Amanda Vaill
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            ASIN: 0767903706
            Release Date: 1999-04-20

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            Gerald and Sara Murphy were the golden couple of the Lost Generation. Born to wealth and privilege, they fled the stuffy confines of upper-class America to reinvent themselves in France as legendary party givers and enthusiastic participants in the modernist revolution of the 1920s. He became an important painter; she made everyday life a work of art. Their friends F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and John Dos Passos all based fictional characters on the Murphys; Picasso painted them; and Calvin Tomkins rekindled their glamour for a younger generation in his affectionate 1971 portrait, Living Well Is the Best Revenge. Amanda Vaill's vivid new biography builds on Tomkins's work to provide a full-length account of the Murphys' remarkable life together.

            As well as good times, that life included suffering endured with great courage. The Murphys' teenage sons died within two years of each other in the mid-1930s--one suddenly, one after a long battle with tuberculosis--and the Depression forced Gerald to resume the uncongenial work of managing his family's business. Vaill's sensitive rendering reveals the moral substance that enabled this stylish couple to survive heartbreak. But it's her marvelous evocation of those magical expatriate years that lingers in the memory. The wit and imaginative panache with which the Murphys lived sparkles again, recapturing a splendid historical moment. As Sara later said, "It was like a great fair, and everybody was so young." --Wendy Smith

            Book Description

            Gifted artist Gerald Murphy and his elegant wife, Sara, were icons of the most enchanting period of our time; handsome, talented, and wealthy expatriate Americans, they were at the very center of the literary scene in Paris in the 1920s. In Everybody Was So Young--one of the best reviewed books of 1995--Amanda Vaill brilliantly portrays both the times in which the Murphys lived and the fascinating friends who flocked around them. Whether summering with Picasso on the French Riviera or watching bullfights with Hemingway in Pamplona, Gerald and Sara inspired kindred creative spirits like Dorothy Parker, Cole Porter, and F. Scott Fitzgerald (Nicole and Dick Diver in Tender is the Night were modeled after the Murphys). Their story is both glittering and tragic, and in this sweeping and richly anecdotal portrait of a marriage and an era, Amanda Vaill "has brought them to life as never before" (Chicago Tribune).

            Customer Reviews:

            5 out of 5 stars "Making It New".......2007-09-06

            I had to go out and buy this book after seeing "Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy" at the Williams College Museum of Art in Williamstown, MA. The book is terrific, but if you're interested in this period, its writers and artists than track down this exhibit. It's a wonderful and extraordinary show about the Murphys and those they were friends with. Paintings, theater pieces, diary entries, letters, amazing photographs, home movies and more illustrate that the Murphys were really an essential part of the 1920s and 1930s. An argument can be made that they were the center that everything spun out from. It is absolutely sensational.

            5 out of 5 stars The Murphys: maybe more interesting than their pal Fitzgerald.......2007-04-01

            Zelda Fitzgerald died on March 10, 2005. Hers was a terrible death --- she was a patient at the Highland Mental Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, and the building caught fire, and because the patients were locked in, Zelda and eight others died. She was 48.

            Her life had, effectively, ended years earlier, when she had the first of her breakdowns and was diagnosed as a schizophrenic. Or had it ended earlier than that? Perhaps with the death of her estranged husband, the once glamorous, then ruined F. Scott Fitzgerald, in 1940. Or maybe even earlier, on the Riviera, in 1924, when she had a dalliance with a French aviator that so enraged that her husband she tried to kill herself a few months later. Or even earlier, when Scott started appropriating her personality and her ideas for the characters in his novels.

            Yes, but for a few years there, they had it all, didn't they? They were the Golden Couple, the personification of the '20s: young, beautiful, gifted. But not smart about fame, although, back then, almost no one understood how the flame of media draws you in, consumes you for the amusement of an uncaring public, and leaves you with ashes in your mouth and regret in your heart.

            No, wait. Some people did grasp that. The Murphys did. And, as Amanda Vaill tells their story, they are considerably more interesting than their friends, the drunk and disorderly Fitzgeralds.

            And can we talk about turning life into art?

            Late each morning in the summer of 1922, Gerald went outside his home in Antibes and created something never seen before --- a beach! --- by raking the seaweed and stones. For this, he is said to have invented the idea of the Riviera as a summer destination.

            Moments later, Sara would join him and, on a blanket, read or write. She wore a white linen dress or bathing suit. And, always, a long strand of pearls, which she looped around her back so she wouldn't mar her tan (and, she said, because the sun was good for them). For this, she became a style-setter and muse.

            Gerald and Sara together were not two but one. They were "The Murphys," a young and rich American couple who used their youth and money to establish themselves at the center of a cultural elite in which everybody was young, talented, acclaimed. Cole Porter, Stravinsky, Picasso (who was in love with Sara), Cocteau --- though they were stars on their own, they orbited the Murphys. "There was a shine to life wherever they were," Archibald MacLeish said. "It was as though custom and habit had been wiped away and the thing itself was, for an instant, seen. Don't ask me how."

            Then F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway showed up.

            If you've read Tender Is the Night, you know that Fitzgerald took the Murphys as models for the Divers. Whatever its merits, the novel reduced the Murphys to "Beautiful People." In fact, Gerald was an accomplished painter, an American Leger. He and Sara were experts on African-American spiritual music. They financed theatrical productions and helped worthy friends (Hemingway, for just one).

            And they were far from untouched by the troubles of ordinary mortals.

            First their young son Patrick came down with tuberculosis. Then, suddenly, their younger son died of meningitis. "Fancy. There's no other word for it," John Dos Passos said. "They could have thought & thought for a million years and they wouldn't have been able to think of one like that." And then, "fancy" again, a few years later, when Patrick died, and the Murphys had to carry on for their one remaining child.

            It gets, if possible, more intense. Gerald returned to America to run his family business, a posh New York leather store named Mark Cross. He sent money to the faltering Fitzgerald. He had some deep poetic attachments with young men. And then he died. Dorothy Parker sent his widow this telegram: "Dearest Sara Dearest Sara." The widow staged a funeral that was described as "courage disguised as taste." But that was his life. And hers.

            It's easy to read a book like this for the anecdotes about the mighty. But Fitzgerald comes across here as an eternal college boy and a bit of a fool, Hemingway as cold and manipulative. In contrast, the Murphys seem like explorers of the rarest kind --- blessed with money, they set out to find beauty and harmony. That they also found tragedy only makes their story more fascinating.

            College kids majoring in Gender Studies can find much in the life of Zelda Fitzgerald to ponder. I'm not knocking that --- there are lessons galore in that roller coaster of a life. But when you're further along the road, the Fitzgeralds start to be, at bottom, a lot of noise --- spoiled children breaking things.

            The Murphys, in contrast, look more substantial, more worthy of a sustained view. The Murphys, for all their money and privilege, seem real. These days, I don't want to read about the Fitzgeralds; I want to read Fitzgerald. But the Murphys --- they're well worth 500 pages.

            5 out of 5 stars Real Life Is Better Than Fiction!.......2007-01-11

            This delightful story is like watching a wonderful old movie from the 30's-40's! And I learned a thing or two about history!!! I'll be urging my book group to read this.

            5 out of 5 stars You will wish you had lived and loved and laughed with them.......2006-07-23

            This is a joy, a party, a nonfiction book that reads like a novel. It will make you long to be a part of the expatriate Americans in Paris and the south of France during the 1920s, even if you are not particularly good with history. Amanda Vaill takes a decade, a place, and a group of friends, and unravels for you a world where Hemingway and Fitzgerald adored, hated and envied one another; a world in which Picasso draws Sara Murphy on the beach, nude but for a long strand of pearls; a world in which John Dos Passos and Dorothy Parker and so many others of the "Lost Generation" simply populated each other's lives with more talent and longevity than any of them truly knew. Meeting them one at a time, through beach parties and romances and the writing of novels and the making of art and the normal joys and tragedies of life, will plant the history of this time in your mind like you would never guess. Watch out -- your next step may be Hemingway's "Moveable Feast" and Fitzgerald's "Tender is the Night," and you will be yearning to eat at The Brasserie Lipp in Paris, straining to hear the ancient laughter coming from the back room.

            5 out of 5 stars A beautiful story beautifully written.......2005-12-27

            The story of Gerald and Sara Murphy is sprawling and encompasses so much that was exciting about America's last period of innocence, and runs the gamut from being the golden-child chosen ones of their era to something approaching Greek tragedy in their private lives. But the real test of a good biography is in the writing, and Amanda Vaill stands beside David McCullough as one of the most engaging biographers in our time, doing the incredible job of keeping all the players and egos, all the locations and permutations straight, intriguing, and finally resulting in something most biographies never are: A real page-turner. Even if you've never read Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Dos Passos, or MacLeish, their stories as interwoven with the Murphy's own will grab and hold your attention as brilliant, distinct, and all-too-human characters. Kudos for a masterwork that pulls all the disparate elements of the Lost Generation together so effortlessly to convey this important time in 20th century history.
            Everybody Was So Young - Gerald And Sara Murphy, A Lost Generation Love Story
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              Amanda Vaill
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                Amanda Vaill
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                Stalk And Kill: The Thrill And Danger Of The Sniper Experience
                Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
                • Completely Dry
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                • Very good read.
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                Adrian Gilbert
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                ASIN: 0312968116

                Book Description

                From the sharpshooters of the American Revolution to the Marine snipers who dominated the streets of Mogadishu, a famed military historian puts you behind the crosshairs of the most adept killers in history.

                A sniper is more than a crack shot. He's a calm professional with the instincts and patients of a master huntsman.

                Intensive training leaves snipers razor-sharp, able to creep undetected within arm's reach of the enemy.

                The finest marksmen in the world, a sniper can place a bullet in an enemy's heart from a thousand yards away.

                Stalk and Kill puts you on the battlefield for the most daring missions in history. You'll duel a Nazi "super sniper" in Stalingrad, outfox the Viet Cong in Southeast Asia, and silence the enemies of U.S. troops in Beirut. And you'll never cease to marvel at the sniper's iron nerve and lethal precision.

                A main selection of the military book club with eight pages of fascinating photos!

                Customer Reviews:

                1 out of 5 stars Completely Dry.......2005-02-17

                While it's great that he covers so many different areas in our global history of snipers, with his bibliography I could have cut and paste stories along a timeline too. This book while containing facts on actual events, left little to be desired as far as enjoying the read goes.

                2 out of 5 stars Limited in depiction of "sniper experience".......2004-01-11

                The history of sniping provided is the usual standard stuff; like most books, this book begins its account from the American Revolution, continuing through the American Civil War and the World Wars to approximately the last decade, although "stalk and kill - the sniper experience" goes a long way back before that and should include the use of weapons other than firearms. In depicting post-World War 2 sniping, the author limits himself to theaters in which the British had influence (Falklands, Korea, Yemen etc) and the experiences of the British Army, various English mercenaries, and the SAS. He fails to discuss "the sniper experience" of Russia's wars, or the Caucasus, Africa, or the Middle East. While the book's best focus is on the First World War, it does not particularly shine even in portraying that theater. Overall a lackluster book of fairly limited scope.

                5 out of 5 stars Very good read........2003-11-10

                It contains everything: rich history, amazing stories, and an huge bibliography. A pleasure to read.

                5 out of 5 stars The real dirt..........2002-03-05

                This is an interesting non-fiction piece, which carries the reader through the historical evolution of snipers. If you've ever wanted to know how snipers came to be the way they are today, then this book is for you.

                5 out of 5 stars excellant.......2001-06-20

                i would recomend this book to any body interseted in snipers and the tactics that snipers use to get with in killing range of their target, this book was very interesting and informative
                Stalk And Kill: The Thrill And Danger Of The Sniper Experience
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                  Stalk And Kill: The Thrill And Danger Of The Sniper Experience
                  Adrian Gilbert
                  Manufacturer: St. Martin's Paperbacks
                  ProductGroup: Book
                  Binding: Paperback
                  ASIN: B000OTGXDK

                  My Holy War: Dispatches from the Home Front
                  Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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                  My Holy War: Dispatches from the Home Front
                  Jonathan Raban
                  Manufacturer: New York Review Books
                  ProductGroup: Book
                  Binding: Hardcover

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                  ASIN: 1590171756
                  Release Date: 2005-11-15

                  Book Description

                  Ranging from Seattle to Cairo, from the high seas to the US presidential campaign, Raban brings a distinctive and often unexpected perspective to the issues facing post-September 11 America.

                  What does the "war on terror" and a new era of religious ferocity look like to an Englishman living in the Pacific Northwest? Jonathan Raban finds, as he reads the source texts that have inspired modern-day jihad, memories of his own adolescent atheism help him understand why young people suffering from cultural alienation and moral uncertainty turn to a backward-looking version of Islam to help them resist the upheavals of modernity.

                  Raban reflects on the Bush administration's manipulation of the threat of terrorism to undermine civil rights. In diagnosing what has gone wrong in the Iraq war, he emphasizes the US failure to understand the history of the Middle East, and explains the region's shifting and complex loyalties of religion and ethnicity. He traces the continuing support for a disastrous war to the legacy of American Puritanism: the tendency of Americans to be inspired by a religious fervor oblivious to history and reason. And he explores the increasing polarization of American politics, as exemplified by the issues that he has seen divide his urban from his non urban neighbors in the Northwest.

                  Customer Reviews:

                  4 out of 5 stars Outside view.......2005-12-11

                  A small but valuable and articulate series of essays on 9/11 and subsequent events and issues written from the vantage point of a British author living on the West Coast of the US. Raban builds upon insights into Arabic culture acquired for an earlier work to offer a perceptive point of view. Recommended.

                  The Peregrines of the Lake District (Caliologists' Series)
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                    M.J. Dawson , and Bryan Hanlon
                    Manufacturer: Oriel Stringer
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