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Ferns & Fern Allies Southern Africa
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South African Ferns and Fern Allies
J.E. Burrows
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Whether your customers are traveling in luxury or with just a pack on their back, it's important that they have a safe, fun, and easy-going trip. Bad etiquette and a misunderstanding about customs can put an otherwise very exciting trip on hold faster than a bad case of food poisoning. Readers are going to want to know about the CULTURE SMART! customs and etiquette series and will find them as indispensable as their passports.
The CULTURE SMART! titles are not your basic travel guides: they are consistently updated customs and etiquette references for more than 25 countries, with six new titles available this fall. Now more than ever, travelers are more than just sightseers and tourists; they're ambassadors making impressions of the United States wherever they go. Readers will find these to be invaluable for pointing them on their way to a safe and fun trip abroad.
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Excellent.......2005-01-20
If it's a 'traditional' travel guide you're after, with bus times and hotel prices, then this book isn't for you.
But if you really want to get inside the Costa Rican mindset, then it's fantastic. I read this book before I visited the country and it really helped so many things about how the Ticos behave make sense to me.
The writing style is fun, and I love how the author has peppered the whole book with little personal stories and experiences to illustrate her points.
I'd strongly recommend this book to anyone who wants to do more than just scratch the surface of the country - especially good for anyone going to spend a long holiday in Costa Rica or even move there.
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Amish Drawings Of Florence Starr Taylor
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Loss Forgiveness and Restoration.The Face of Christ illustration and the accompanying story that has changed lives all around the globe.First it is a truelife story of an advertising executive an artist and a pastor Joe Castillo and the way God changed him. It also tells of the many lives touched by this simple illustration.Done before a live audience the very first time it had a powerful impact on those who watched. This motivated the artist to reproduce it in pen ink prints. As an artist Joes struggle to make a living was suddenly compounded by having his wife diagnosed with cancer. They had no insurance to cover the mounting debt but at an opportune time a friend offered to reproduce the artwork on marble plaques and pay royalties. The sales of the plaques were amazing surely this was the answer to all their financial problems But the story seems to grind to a halt. The friend refuses to pay royalties on the artwork that is selling world wide and Joe loses his wife to cancer. It becomes a daily struggle to forgive the man who was profiting from his artwork and overcome the bitterness at the loss of his wife. The plaques seem to show up everywhere compounding his anger and resentment. For Joe it became a bitter symbol of everything that had gone wrong.If you have ever struggled with forgiveness. If some events in your life just dont make sense God can use this artwork and the story that goes with it to help you put the pieces together.
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Doug Peacock, the model for the George Hayduke of Edward Abbey's novels
The Monkey Wrench Gang and
Hayduke Lives!, served two tours of duty in Vietnam as a Green Beret medic, ministering to the Montagnard and Hre peoples of the highlands while trying to jump over the bullets that rang around him. When he returned home, as he writes, "I retreated to the woods and pushed my mind toward sleep with cheap wine." In those woods he found grizzly bears, and among them he shook off memories of war. In the pages of this memoir, recounting what has now been Peacock's many years among them, the bears of Montana come to life. They find an eloquent protector here.
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For nearly twenty years, alone and unarmed, author Doug Peacock traversed the rugged mountains of Montana and Wyoming tracking the magnificent grizzly. His thrilling narrative takes us into the bear's habitat, where we observe directly this majestic animal's behavior, from hunting strategies, mating patterns, and denning habits to social hierarchy and methods of communication. As Peacock tracks the bears, his story turns into a thrilling narrative about the breaking down of suspicion between man and beast in the wild.
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seeking bear deliverance . . . .......2007-09-08
It is the grizzly bear, of all animals, that can teach modern man the humility he needs in order to save his own species. This is Doug Peacock's viewpoint; and when it comes to bear lore, he is thoroughly versed in his subject.
The writing is strong and compelling: a juxtaposing of Vietnam war experiences with his retreats into the wilderness as he seeks deliverance from the aftermath of that war. Peacock's honesty is so brutal that it takes you by the throat. The narratives of his vietnam time are as gripping, even harrowing, as is the opening chapter's depiction of his standoff with a massive male grizzly.
Through the stark confrontation of the primal fear man has of the bear, Doug Peacock transcends his suffering through this fear and finds a kind of healing salvation. He finds this healing in the wild places, with the animals that society has villified for so many generations. And nobody gets closer to the big bears (and that includes the former fool T. Treadwell) than Doug Peacock.
A man in search of himself via the deliverance nature offers him.
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A new high for environmentlist journaling!.......2006-11-21
I met Mr. Peacock a few weeks ago at the the Southwestern Writers conference in College Station. Among his published works he read from, "Walk it Off". Giving us all insight into his years in Vietnam and his friendships made along the way. He is one of a few writes who can actually transport you to the time and place he is experiencing.
Bravo Mr. Peacock!!! Bravo! Thank you for such a wonderful reading.
A killer Book!!!.......2006-09-21
For lovers of wilderness and Bears this is an outstanding book. I read it from cover to cover in two sittings. Doug Peacock has been through a lot in his lifetime and he did what he did to bring some sanity back into his life after Nam. I found this to be a much more interesting read than "Walking it off" which dewells too much on his feelings for Ed Abbey and tells you very little about his Viet Nam experiences or even himself.
Buy this Book! You won't be sorry!
Awesome book, one of the best environmental books out there.......2005-03-12
This is an outstanding book written by a man who is extraordinarily comfortable in his own skin, yet extraordinarily uncomfortable in modern society.
Peacock is a man who can write lyrically and genuinely about the wilderness, who can stand tall while staring a grizzly in the eyes, and yet who can't attend a party, or walk through a city, or even meet an innocuous stranger who has expressed an interest in chatting with him.
I've read a few other books by people who share Peacock's gruff no-compromise attitude when it comes to environmental protection, and have been really bothered by the sense that they seem to have formed a "we understand nature and you don't" club that excludes most of the environmental movement. Authors Gary Ferguson and Rick Bass (who spent some wilderness time with Peacock) have managed to make this model of environmental conservation seem childish and churlish. But Peacock, who is basically writing the same argument, gives this idea wings on which we soar.
Peacock is brutally honest about himself, and about how his war experiences in Vietnam shattered his soul and left him thrashing about the country in a state of spiritual agony. When he relates a story about becoming frustrated with a payphone operator, and then taking out a shotgun and blowing the telephone to bits, we know that he's not billing himself as a healthy individual.
This honesty lets us see the genuine love that Peacock has for nature in general and grizzly bears in particular. He is well-versed in the scientific side of environmental preservation, and gives us plenty to chew on as far as the good and bad of the institutions that are involved with grizzly bear issues. But his most compelling, unique contributions come when he is alone in the wild, stalking grizzly bears carrying nothing but photography equipment and a knife, with which he is prepared to defend himself to the death.
This is a great book for the environmental movement, and deserves a unique place in that broad and cluttered field. You should definitely read this book if you're an environmentalist. More importantly, you should give it to someone who is not an environmentalist, even someone who is against environmentalism.
Peacock has a way of framing the issues in a way that even a republican will love and understand. His individualistic approach and character are the antithesis of the characterization of environmentalists that the right has been pushing for the last forty years.
great, honest book by a great, honest man.......2004-11-03
Grizzly Years is easily one of the best "nature" books written in recent years. It is a great story of a man, like so many, soured by his service in the war in Vietnam. Though I did not read this book for its war aspect, Mr. Peacock does a great job blending it with the nature part of the book. It is very apparent how much these bears mean to Doug, and his fight to protect them is nothing short of courageous. Grizzly Years is a great nature book with human aspects thrown in, much like Lynn Schooler's The Blue Bear. I recently had the privaledge of meeting and listening to Doug, and it was one of the pleasures of my life to shake hands with a man I admire so much. I recommend this book to any lover of the natural world. Doug Peacock will change your perspective on the natural world, like so few can.
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Bulbs: Four Seasons of Beautiful Blooms
Lewis Hill , and
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A seasonal guide to adding bulbs to home and garden.
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De Stijl 1917-1932: Art and Environment of Neoplasticism
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Often overlooked in accounts of World War II is the Soviet Union's quiet yet brutal campaign against Polish citizens, a campaign that included, we now know, war crimes for which the Soviet and Russian governments only recently admitted culpability. Standing in the shadow of the Holocaust, this episode of European history is often overlooked. Wesley Adamczyk's gripping memoir, When God Looked the Other Way, now gives voice to the hundreds of thousands of victims of Soviet barbarism.
Adamczyk was a young Polish boy when he was deported with his mother and siblings from their comfortable home in Luck to Soviet Siberia in May of 1940. His father, a Polish Army officer, was taken prisoner by the Red Army and eventually became one of the victims of the Katyn massacre, in which tens of thousands of Polish officers were slain at the hands of the Soviet secret police. The family's separation and deportation in 1940 marked the beginning of a ten-year odyssey in which the family endured fierce living conditions, meager food rations, chronic displacement, and rampant disease, first in the Soviet Union and then in Iran, where Adamczyk's mother succumbed to exhaustion after mounting a harrowing escape from the Soviets. Wandering from country to country and living in refugee camps and the homes of strangers, Adamczyk struggled to survive and maintain his dignity amid the horrors of war.
When God Looked the Other Way is a memoir of a boyhood lived in unspeakable circumstances, a book that not only illuminates one of the darkest periods of European history but also traces the loss of innocence and the fight against despair that took root in one young boy. It is also a book that offers a stark picture of the unforgiving nature of Communism and its champions. Unflinching and poignant, When God Looked the Other Way will stand as a testament to the trials of a family during wartime and an intimate chronicle of episodes yet to receive their historical due.
“Adamczyk recounts the story of his own wartime childhood with exemplary precision and immense emotional sensitivity, presenting the ordeal of one family with the clarity and insight of a skilled novelist. . . . I have read many descriptions of the Siberian odyssey and of other forgotten wartime episodes. But none of them is more informative, more moving, or more beautifully written than When God Looked the Other Way.”—From the Foreword by Norman Davies, author of Europe: A History and Rising ’44: The Battle for Warsaw
“A finely wrought memoir of loss and survival.”—Publishers Weekly
“Adamczyk’s unpretentious prose is well-suited to capture that truly awful reality.” —Andrew Wachtel, Chicago Tribune Books
“Mr. Adamczyk writes heartfelt, straightforward prose. . . . This book sheds light on more than one forgotten episode of history.”—Gordon Haber, New York Sun
“One of the most remarkable World War II sagas I have ever read. It is history with a human face.”—Andrew Beichman, Washington Times
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Much Needed Contribution.......2007-09-04
A marvelous book. The author is to be commended for his ability to recall these events from the vantage of so young an age at the time of occurrence. This story is little known, sometimes actively forgotten, almost always disregarded in the record of 20th century crimes against humanity. I had the privilege recently of speaking, literally for only a few minutes, at the funeral of an older man (born 1922) from Rowne--only a few miles from Adamczyk's hometown, Luck. A decade older, he tried to get to Hungary in October, 1939, failed, and was therefore a criminal for having made the attempt. His story, then, was of direct prisons rather than of being dumped by the side of the tracks. Each situation had its advantages and disadvantages. The man from Rowne was "amnestied" from Norilsk, above the Arctic Circle, in late 1941, and his story paralleled that of Adamczyk until arrival in Persia, emaciated--at 86 pounds at age 20 and suffering recurring malaria. There are a million of these stories; more should be published.
Thank You.......2007-04-04
I am sitting here struggling to find the words to begin to express my love for this book. I have just spent the past twenty-six hours not putting this book down. Now, I don't know if it is the fact that my family had delt with these similar circumstances and moved to the same area of Chicago, but i have never felt so connected/transported to individuals in a book as I did with this one.
The ugliness of reality balanced with hope, faith, and love render this reader, at least, speechless. I can only thank Mr. Adamczyk for a glimpse of what my family had found to difficult, with good reason, to talk about. This book has left me with a greater understanding of World War II, the atrocities of a Communist rule, and a deeper appreciation of my Polish faith and heritage.
This book reflects the resilience of the human spirit even in the most devistating of circumstances and stands as an inspiration to reflect on the freedom we too often take for granted.
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Outstanding Recollection of a Little-Known Tragedy.......2006-06-14
The teaching of history is often distorted by selective presentation of past events. Virtually everyone has heard of the 5-6 million Jews killed by the Germans. Few outside Polish circles have a clue about the fact that 2-3 million gentile Poles were also murdered by the Germans, and a few hundred thousand by the Soviets--first as Poland's sworn enemy and then as an "ally". While Churchill and Roosevelt were dilly-dallying with "Uncle Joe" Stalin, he was still murdering Poles and executing his plans to deprive "liberated" Poland from her rightful independence, freedom, and sovereignity. The western powers shamelessly disregarded the Atlantic Charter and betrayed the Poles--who all along had been fighting on their side on just about every front, and who had played a significant, if not decisive, role in preventing the Luftwaffe from achieving air supremacy over the English skies as a prelude to the planned German invasion (Operation Sea Lion).
This work provides an absorbing personal account of the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Poles by the Soviet Union following the German-Soviet conquest of Poland in 1939. Wes Adamczyk, then a boy of 7, was to lose his father in the infamous Katyn Massacre, and his entire family was uprooted and sent to a living death in Kazakhstan. He was one of the lucky few to be released and to eventually find his way to a new life in the United States. Decades later, he fulfilled his wish to visit the site of his father's murder near Smolensk, Russia.
The reader is exposed to the brutality of the Soviet police as they ransack the Adamczyk home, destroy objects related to Polish patriotism, and herd the family ("enemies of the people") into overcrowded trains for the fateful trip east. Every day becomes a battle for survival. They are near starvation. However, individual Kazakhs and Russians show friendship towards the Poles. The young Adamczyk befriends Mr. Petrovitch on a fishing boat. The moving account tells how the elderly Russian teaches the boy the truth about Communism. It is lies on top of lies on top of lies. In fact, the continued spying by the Soviet police on the captive Poles does not stem from the fact that they suspect that the Poles may escape or revolt. The spying comes from the fear that the locals may learn the truth about the outside world from the Poles--that the non-
Communist world is not rotten, and that the Soviet Union is no workers' paradise.
Nazi Germany turns against its erstwhile Soviet ally, creating a chance for the Poles, consigned to eventual death from starvation, overwork, and disease, to escape the Gulag. Negotiations "succeed" in securing the release of captive Poles. But the Soviets drag their feet, and only a fraction of still-living captive Poles end up being released. The Adamczyk family has to stage a near-escape adventure to reach Iran. The squalor of the just-freed Poles is indescribable. Thousands die right there, including Wes Adamczyk's mother--ironically just a short time after having finally left the clutches of the Soviet hell.
Tens of thousands of previously-captured Polish officers are found to be conspicuously and unexpectedly missing, and the Soviets say, "They all escaped to Manchuria". As time drags on, the Adamczyks realize the fate of their father and the remainder of the POWs. The Soviets don't admit responsibility for the Katyn Massacre until 1990. The long cover-up by western governments is little better than the decades-long Soviet one. The west needed a second coverup to cover its first coverup of the conspiracy of silence about this heinous Soviet crime.
The Adamczyks, like all surviving Poles, get a cruel blow when they learn that Roosevelt and Churchill have betrayed their faithful ally Poland by giving away eastern Poland to the Russians, and allowed a Communist puppet state to be forced on the rest of "liberated" Poland. In a sense, all of the Polish sufferings and sacrifices turn out to have been in vain. The Adamczyks, and millions of other Poles, have no home to return to. The only "happy ending" is a new life in America.
An insightful recollection by the innocent of the gruesome Soviet events .......2005-09-21
Simply stated, this book reiterates everything my grandpa told me about the Russians' way of life and their mentality brought on by the deceitful communist system full of oppression and anti-western propaganda. Read and you will begin to fathom the injustice inflicted upon the peoples, both Polish and Russian. It will take generations to undo the damage.
Why there's no Nuremberg trials for the Soviet Communists.......2005-09-11
Anyone with half a brain might wonder why the Nazis are still minced to pieces in all media 60 years after the war's end, while the Soviets, with 70 years of blood on their hands, have passed quietly out of their Communist terrorism without any great international trials or severe criticisms by the Western media. Is it because the leftists still believe that "true Communism" has yet to be attempted? Well, perhaps, there are such fringe lunatics still around (in the Frisco and NYC areas).
No, the real answer lies in the deadly dealings of the Allies in WWII, in cooperating with Stalin in the Lend-lease supply of materiel, and in not condemning the murders, exile, and starvation of the Poles before Germany attacked Russia. In our all-out effort to defeat the Nazis, the USA and England cooperated in suppressing the knowledge of the 5,000 Polish officers and Polish civilians shot and buried by the Soviets in 1939, when they invaded and took over Eastern Poland. This famous massacre in the Katyn Forest was for years blamed on Hitler, when the Germans had not yet been in that side of Poland. Only when Gorbachev came to power was the murder order signed by Stalin made public - but Roosevelt knew, as did Churchill.
This remarkable book takes us into the frightening world Wiesiu Adamczck, a seven-year-old boy when his father, then 47, was taken away and killed in Katyn Forest, unbeknownst to his family - Wiesiu's mother, older sister and brother. They are all packed up on trains and sent to Kazakistan, as members of a bourgeois oppresser class, they must be punished according to Soviet logic.
The writer, now a man in his 70's, is an excellent wordsmith, who doesn't stint in telling what Russian and Polish expressions mean. He dwells on his own family, his own people and the terrible consequences of the Communist regime for the people of the USSR, for the Poles, and for all nations which fell to its avarice and terror after WWII. His incredible adventures, if you want to call them that, in surviving such a deportation through the Eastern republics of the chaotic war years, into Persia and finally to England, then the USA, is a ten-year journey of incredible hardship, hunger, cold and homelessness. His mother dies, and the truth about the father is known at the end of years of hoping against hope.
What Hollywood or the BBC could do with this material! The story of the Soviet empire and all its disgusting inhumanity should be aired out thoroughly, even more so than the Nazis' philosophy. If it should take root again, woe betide the planet and the millions to be starved in the future.
This book should be mandatory reading in the US high schools, as many students will never know that non-Jewish-descended EUropeans also suffered dreadful consequences during the war.
A skewered history is often a false one, and that is slowly happening throughout the US media, in omitting the Communist side of the horrendous torture and killing from 1917-onwards.
Well, this book will make it clear: FDR knew it, as he knew that Pearl Harbor was to be bombed.
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I true look into a mad man hiding behind a religious political mask!.......2007-07-08
I have read NUMEROUS books and talked to several freinds from Ulster that lived this conflict. This book is a good image for me to see how the other side viewed things. I understand this one loser is not the a good representation of all prods in Ulster, but he is a good represenative to those youths that decided to go to the gun and grenade to find there owns so called justice. This book showed me that allot of these Brits living on the Island of Ireland truely feel they deserve the right to be a British citizen in a different country! This man was a street thug ang gang leader that simply was pushed to a cause that makes me question if it was the killing or the cause that drew him in. A good read non the less, but do so with an open mind and realize that Ireland belongs to the Irish and the only Ireland that will exist in peace is a free united Ireland! Out with the brits!!!
Great read.......2006-09-11
Michael Stone's book offers a look into the rage and despair that could have effected either catholic or protestant. I think if Mr. Stone had been catholic he would have been the same maverick/rebel that he is as a protestant. Overall I found his book to be honest and thoughtful. No matter what side your on, Mr.Stone proved himself to be a caculating and effective "warrior". I have not read Martin Dillon's account of him but I'm sure its a bit different.
I'm not claiming to be in his fan club but I applaud him giving up his "war" and applying himself to something creative.
This book opens the closed doors of a paramilitary activity much in the same way "Killing Rage" did.
Not the man I thought he was..........2006-05-04
I remember the events that took place all them years ago in Milltown. Being a Protestant born in East Belfast but not necessarily a Loyalist like Stone I didnt care for the taking of lifes in such a way. Therefore I didn't care much for Michael Stone, actually thought he was a lunitic until I read his book. Reading this book has opened my eyes to the belief system of this unique man. Since very early in his life he was conditioned to be what he was destinant to become, a soldier, his book explains how he stood by his beliefs through everything, even right though a year in solitude in the Crumlin Road Prison and later putting up with gangster foul from both the enemy and his own kind in The Maze Prison. The book reveals a strong humanity for Michael Stone hidden deep in a loyality to his natural calling in life, 'Defender of Ulster' and this in my opinion is inspirational for anyone regardless of religion, colour or race, if one can be openminded enough. He has paid for his wrongs and doesnt brag or cry about it, a true example of an honest man. Most men would crumble with a fraction of this man's story. If any one of us put as much heart and energy into our goals as this man, we would be successful. This book is a must - educational, inspirational and sometimes emotional. What this one man has went through and lived to tell us, one should not ignore.
A book by a convicted terrorist whcih exposes the utter failure of "Loyalisim" to conquer the IRA........2005-10-29
This is a book written by one of the most incompetent and laughable men within the terrorist ranks of the UDA.
Although it is written by a confessed murderer, it does contain some good info as to why neither the "loyalist" terror groups OR the British Army were able to defeat the superior forces of the IRA.
One of the things that it exposes, is the link between the Loyalist terrorists, the British Army, and the RUC.
Because the British army and RUC were losing the war against the IRA, the British military decided to basically "Team Up" with both loyalist terror groups. The idea was that the UDA and UVF would be used as "Proxies" against the IRA. The RUC and British Army proceeded to give the Loyalist groups intel on IRA and Sinn Fein members, in the hopes that they would be killed by loyalist hit-men. The plan backfired though, as the amateurish loyalists proceeded to kill hundreds of catholic civilains, but only a handfull of actual Republican paramilitaries. In response the IRA and INLA proceeded to assassinate 50 or more high ranking UDA and UVF men, from between 1987 to 1994. It was because of the the IRA assassinations and the introduction of a massive bombing campaign on the British mainland, that the British Army and Govt. decided to commence peace talks with Sinn Fein and the IRA.
The book details all of this, along with the secret negotiations held between the British govt. and the IRA.
Al and all this is a good book that exposes the ciminality of the Loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland, and their ultimate failure at defeating the IRA.
Loyalist warrior faces reality.......2003-08-22
A very easy and compelling read, with insight into the situation in Northern Ireland impossible to find in the media.
Michael Stone achieved notoriety as an Ulster Loyalist ( Protestant ) paramilitary when, distrustful of the Loyalist hierarchy and acting alone, he crashed the funeral of the 3 IRA paramilitaries killed by the SAS at Gibraltar.
His intention was revenge for the IRA atrocity of bombing a WW2 Remembrance memorial at Enniskillen, when the IRA killed many innocent civilans. His intention was to assassinate IRA dons Gerry Adams & Martin McGuinness, amid thousands of hostile Republican mourners. Such a "suicidal" course of action earned him the title of "Rambo".
He describes how he was betrayed, had no getaway car, fought a rearguard action alone, while hundreds converged on him as he ran out of ammunition, how he was beaten within an inch of his life before the RUC ( police ) got to him, his subsequent imprisonment, trial, and sentence.
A book sparsely and unemotionally written, describing, without rancour, not only the dynamics of the inter-sectarian struggle in Northern Ireland, but the conflicts within the Loyalist movement itself - the officers who collaborated with the UK police, the hoods and gangsters, overtly Loyalist but out for themselves, even cooperating with the IRA.
A gripping tale, without padding, revealing a man resolved to sacrifice anything for his people, including his own family life, liberty, & life itself, as he acknowledges did his Republican adversaries. His description of the brief accord between IRA and Loyalist prisoners in the Maze prison adds a touch of wry humour to the raw seriousness of the book.
His refusal to utter a word in his own defence at his trial, and his defiant words finally breaking his silence after being sentenced to 850 years, are impressive, as is his determination to survive an imprisonment where he in more danger from assassination than on the outside.
Ultimately he lays down the sword, in the context of the peace agreemnent, takes up painting, and reveals his reflective side.
A unique and revealing book. Worth reading.
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