The Trafalgar Captains: Their Lives And Memorials

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Must Read for Truth In Nuclear Technology

Great View of Nuclear Pioneers

Terrific History of the Nuclear Pioneers

Terrific Look at the Nuclear Pioneers

Creating the New World: Stories & Images from the Dawn of the Atomic Age
Theodore Rockwell
Manufacturer: Authorhouse
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Customer Reviews:

outstandalicious.......2007-01-05

great read about the history nuclear power and where it's been and where it's going. it talks a lot about the struggles the industry has faced and is facing despite using the strictest guidelines to ensure public safety. or perhaps it is because they used the strictest guidelines for operational safety that the public has regarded it as something insanely dangerous and that the scientists and engineers behind it all have no idea what they're doing. it is a very objective book simply stating facts. there is a bibliography at the end showing all the references and studies it was based on. in fact the whole book is trying to get the sympathy or rather understanding of the reader to not be biased and to make their own conclusions about nuclear power.

another thing that makes this a great read is that this book is NOT pro-nuclear. nor is it entirely about nuclear power. this book deals a lot about the public and the media. the book is like one whole, long, and extensive example about how the media can distort public perception on a subject ignoring numerous studies and facts that have long since been proved and acknowledge. the author questions how it came to be that the public scrutinizes scientists and engineers for not taking into consideration the 'dangers' of nuclear power and lack of safeguards to it. in one instance the author recalls the Three Mile Island incident. he doesn't defend it, nor cast blame. he just states what happens then asks at what point is it bad to have too many safeguards in place, explaining that the operators at the plant were faced with over 100 alarms within two minutes and the alarms continually going off. he gives the reader a brief insight into the mindset of what was going on. But again, he does not provide a biased view. he also goes into what could and should have happened and compares it to rickover's nuclear navy.

the book also goes into depth about relative perceptions as that really is the only way to give a full description of nuclear power without knowing much on the subject. such as what is more damaging to the body, working as a nuclear operator receiving radiation from a reactor or working in a conventional power plant. or smoking everyday to working around a nuclear power plant everyday.

of course the reader may get the impression that all media is bad and untruthful, but the author encourages the reader to not be biased. to not be so subjective. to just simply read the facts and base conclusions on that. to not watch the news and expect them to automatically distort it but to listen to the facts and the possible facts left out to make your own conclusions. to be your own detective really.

Must Read for Truth In Nuclear Technology.......2003-07-20

Man's ability to harness he boundless energy of the Atom has forever changed the world. Nuclear Pioneer Ted Rockwell recounts his role in "Creating the New World" in a series of thirteen essays describing the evolution of his 60 years in Nuclear Technology.

Rockwell is truly one of the American history's unsung heroes, having worked on the "Manhattan Project" supporting the development of the world's first Atomic Bomb, serving as Technical Director of Admiral Hyman Rickover's Nuclear Navy Program that founded America's Nuclear Navy and built the first commercial nuclear power plant at Shippingport, PA, and co-founded a leading engineering firm specializing in high-reliability technologies. Rockwell is also the author or editor of several government publications, articles in trade magazines, as well as a book -- "The Rickover Effect: How One Man Made A Difference."

One of the most astonishing facets of Rockwell is that despite his incredible technical accomplishments, he is able to relate his experience in the nuclear industry in a way that non-technical people like myself understand and appreciate. Throughout the book he is able to relate political, social, and technical issues clearly and persuasively, to give an appreciation of the subject matter.

The first four chapters discuss his work in the Manhattan Project from the time he was recruited out of college into the program at Oak Ridge. He does a great job describing the life style during World War II, explaining how the people banded together to build a community dedicated and their optimism of ending the war through the secret weapon they were developing. The next three chapters mesh Rockwell's work in Rickover's nuclear navy program and explain how his work there defined the values and principles that ultimately made him who he is today. The remaining chapters discuss some of the defining moments later in his life, such as his work evaluating the Three Mile Island accident, discussing the fallacy of that being pro-environment means being anti-nuclear, and revealing the other 90% of nuclear uses that people rarely think of. His overall theme in this book is to show that nuclear technology is "understandable and beneficial" to society.

This book is a must read for anyone that works with nuclear technologies and particularly serves as a means of conveying the history of the industry to the next generation of nuclear workers. However, anyone seeking to learn more about the evolution of nuclear technologies from a historical perspective would also benefit.

The one flaw I found in this book is that it retells some of the same stories that were part of "The Rickover Effect," although at a different level. Then again, if the stories were not the same in both books, that would leave me scratching my head also.

Great View of Nuclear Pioneers.......2003-03-25

This book brings to life the environment and times of the early scientists and engineers who made the Manhattan project a reality. Dr. Rockwell is an effective eyewitness to history and his book provides an invaluable look inside this important part of WWII history.

Terrific History of the Nuclear Pioneers.......2003-03-25

Terrific Look at the Nuclear Pioneers.......2003-03-25

This book brings to life the environment and times of the early scientists and engineers who made the Manhattan project a reality. Dr. Rockwell is an eyewitness to history and his book provides an invaluable look inside this important part of WWII history.

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For most women and their families, a diagnosis of breast cancer is both devastating and confusing. Questions about the disease — its cause, treatment, and prognosis — can be overwhelming at such a difficult time. By gathering together all the latest information available on the subject, Breast Cancer Basics and Beyond helps women better understand their illness and enables them to make knowledgeable choices about their care. Among the topics discussed are the pros and cons of different treatments including surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, hormone therapy, breast reconstruction, recurrence rates, building a support team, follow-up care, and life after cancer. The book also explores current issues such as emerging therapies and examines possible links with obesity, ethnicity, and environmental factors. Top breast cancer specialists and researchers offer comments and testimony, and personal stories from breast cancer survivors provide heartening reminders that the reader is not alone.

Customer Reviews:

A guide easy on the eye, not mired in confusing medical terminology and a fine primer on risks.......2006-12-11

From the basics of diagnosis, treatment options and follow-up care to the latest research on treatment progression, recurrence, genetic and ethnic factors in breast cancer, and more, here's a guide easy on the eye, not mired in confusing medical terminology and a fine primer on risks for any newly diagnosed with breast cancer. There are plenty of books on the market about the subject: what differentiates this from competitors is its focus on traditional treatments, activist responses, and choices which take into account quality of life and future health concerns.

Diane C. Donovan
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Eyeopening, precise, well-researched.......2005-09-25

As a nurse who worked with patients through each step of treatment -- and as a breast cancer survivor myself -- I found this book to be invaluable. It is a must-have for anyone being treated for breast cancer and building a library to understand it better. That's not just because it answers many important questions but because it raises some that scientists still need to answer, especially about environmental links, links to foods, genes, obesity, etc. We need more answers in each of those areas. A chapter is devoted to breast cancer myths, which is very eyeopening. It discusses many common beliefs dangled out there as facts, which turn out not to have much science behind them, like if you eat a lot of broccoli you won't get breast cancer. For some reason many people, some health care professionals included, believe this stuff.
You can try to wade through thicker and wordier books, but for a little less money you can get this one and use your leftover cash to take yourself to a movie. That will at least allow you to take your mind off your medical problems for awhile.

Excellent and comprehensive .......2005-09-22

My oncologist had two of these books on his desk and gave me one the day I was told about my diagnosis. I started thumbing through it when I got home and could not put it down because with each page, all of the questions I had about this terrifying disease were being answered. I wound up reading it from cover to cover in two days.

The real-life stories from women and men who discuss their breast cancer experiences are invaluable and made me think how lucky I have been so far to have good, caring doctors. The author, Delthia Ricks, a medical writer for Newsday in New York, interviewed dozens of breast cancer survivors and each survivor's story is featured in little vignettes.

One woman tells how she had gotten a mammogram, which revealed a large tumor, but her doctor never called to tell her about the results of her test. When this woman went to see the doctor about a sprained ankle months later that's when the staff pulled her records and "accidentally" found the mammogram information. This woman went for months not knowing about her cancer -- and not because she wasn't doing the right thing. She did what she was supposed to do -- she got a mammogram. It was the doctor who was negligent and allowed this woman's cancer to grow and go untreated.

This book also is helpful because it shines a light on harmful myths and cautions readers about needless scare mongering that overshadows breast cancer. She lists some of these scares as underwire bras, antibiotics and seatbelts, each of which have been reported as causes of the cancer. There is no convincing evidence supporting any of these as triggers of the condition.

Ricks helps her readers understand that many studies that lead the evening news or make headlines are about preliminary research whose final results are probably years away. This is a book that I can highly recommend to anyone who has been newly diagnosed, who is in the midst of being treated for breast cancer or who may have had the cancer many years ago. It's well worth your time

Breast Cancer Basics and Beyond : Treatments, Resources, Self-Help, Good News, Updates

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Breast Cancer Basics and Beyond : Treatments, Resources, Self-Help, Good News, Updates
Delthia Ricks
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Binding: Paperback

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Amazing!

Disappointing

Coca Cola Recipe IS wrong!

A culinary wealth of delicious home-style cooking

Five's not enough -- make it 10 stars.

True Grits: Tall Tales and Recipes from the New South
Inc. Junior League of Atlanta
Manufacturer: Wimmer Cookbooks
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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The All-New Ultimate Southern Living Cookbook (Southern Living (Hardcover Oxmoor))

ASIN: 0871974258
Release Date: 1997-07-09

Product Description

A collection of regional recipes, inspired photography, and lively, charming stories by renowned southern authors - people like Anne Rivers Siddons, Lewis Grizzard, Terry Kay, and Eugenia Price. Finalist in the 1995 James Beard Cookbook Awards. First Place Winner of the 1995 PMA Ben Franklin Cookbook Award. A 1995 National Winner of the Tabasco Community Cookbook Award.

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Amazing!.......2007-02-19

As a member of the Junior League and a collector of Junior League cookbooks, I have to say that this book is one of the best I have ever seen or used. While some of the receipes may be a little time intensive, they are worth it! The chicken pecan quiche and the spicy spinich pinwheels are to die for! You will not be disappointed with this book!

Disappointing.......2006-07-28

I expected some simpler Southern cooking because of the title. The recipes might have came from California instead from Atlanta. No thanks, this isn't Southern fixin's.

Coca Cola Recipe IS wrong!.......2005-06-28

The first recipe I tried from this book was the "controversial" Coca Cola Cake-& it was indeed a flop! In researching other versions of this recipe I found that for the icing, this recipe calls for 3/4 cup of cola whereas most others call for approx. 3 tablespoons! No wonder mine looked lake a "floating isle"! Now I'm not sure I trust the other recipes!

A culinary wealth of delicious home-style cooking.......2003-10-14

Compiled by members of The Junior League Of Atlanta, True Grits: Tall Tales And Recipes From The New South presents a culinary wealth of delicious home-style cooking ranging from traditional faire such as Fried Chicken and Buttermilk Biscuits, to original, mouth-watering offerings such as Pan-Seared Crab Cakes with Lemon Linguini; Kiwifruit Frozen Yogurt; Peanut Butter Chocolate Drops; and more. Helpful hints and enjoyable anecdotal tales in the margins add a friendly and enjoyable touch to this excellent and savory recipe guide.

Five's not enough -- make it 10 stars........2002-07-18

Jr. League cookbooks have come a long way since the first little spiral-bound paper products of some 40 or 50 years ago. I don't know if the Atlanta Jr. League was the first to come up with the cookbook moneymaker project, but I do know their cookbooks have been much respected over the years -- venerated, even.

In this one, though, they've outdone themselves. Even if the recipes were awful (and they're not), there's still enough entertainment in this book to make it worthy of the price. And that's not counting the gorgeous illustrations that place it firmly in coffeetable display status.

It's the stories by famous Georgia writers that kick this volume into the stratosphere of pleasure.
Ferrol Sams's double-take as he watches Katie Couric brave a glass of horse's milk on the Today Show, for example, is bound to split a stitch or two.
Then there's the late Lewis Grizzard on his prowess at the grill. "I come from a long line of outdoor grillers," he says, "My Uncle Jerome still holds the American record for consecutive days grilling out, 178."
Reconstructed Yankee Bill Diehl holds forth on how he came to love the South. He quotes his mentor, Ralph Gill of the Atlanta Constitution, "We must work to make a better North, South, West or New England, because in so doing we make a better America."
The inimitable Anne Rivers Siddons holds forth on the difficulties of finding a bowl of real Southern grits while on book tour in the great Fly-Over Land.
Stuart Woods, Eugenia Price, and Valerie Richards Jackson are just a few of the star-studded literary lights who shine in these pages. What a great idea to showcase Georgia's finest literary talents along with its best culinary talents!

I'll vouch for the recipes, too. I've been married to a full-fledged (and also reconstructed) Yankee for more years that you can count on all the digits of several people and when his side of the family came to visit recently, of course they expected Southern food from the only bona-fide Southerner in the family. So I served Crème Fraiche Biscuits with Chevre and Country Ham Butter, Spicy Grits Casserole and German Pancake with Peach Compote when they converged on me for a reunion brunch. They loved the food, asked for recipes and when I showed them the cookbook, they enthused over that, too!

Every recipe I've tried from TRUE GRITS has been delicious and has garnered raves from my family and friends. Therefore, I can unequivocally give it the highest recommendation from a cook's point of view as well as from one who values -- indeed, treasures -- a good read.

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True Grits: Tall Tales and Recipes from the New South
Inc Junior League of Atlanta
Manufacturer: Junior League of Atlanta
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NOWOXE

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True Grits Tall Tales and Recipes From the New South
Inc. The Junior League of Atlanta
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Publish Your Patterns

I wish I had this 25 years ago

Not for Garment Designers

A gold mine for any designer

Publish Your Patterns

Publish Your Patterns! How to Write, Print, and Market Your Designs
Nancy Restuccia
Manufacturer: Make It Easy Sewing & Crafts
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Binding: Paperback

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The Basic Guide to Selling Crafts on the Internet

ASIN: 0971450137

Book Description

The "How to" book for anyone in the "soft craft" world (quilting, sewing, needlework, doll making) who wants to take their original designs and turn them into patterns. Section I, "From Idea to Paper", covers coming up with the idea, writing how-to instructions, creating a cover, delivering files to the printer, and packing patterns into bags. Section II, "The Marketing Approach", describes the five elements of the marketing mix — product, package, price, distribution, and advertising/publicity/promotion — and shows how to use them to maximize sales. Section III, "Business & Legal Issues", has advice for setting up and running a business, including administration, finance, record keeping, and copyright registration. Section IV, "Appendices", contains resource information including list of distributors, trade shows, trade publications, printers and more.

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Publish Your Patterns.......2007-04-07

This book was much more then I expected. It walks you thru step by step from conception to completion and all the variations. Great book.

I wish I had this 25 years ago.......2007-04-06

I had been designing for needlework, craft and quilting magazines on and off for over 25 years when I decided the time was right to start my own pattern business and take my hobby seriously. One of the first things I did (on the recommendation of several professional designers) was to purchase this book. I can't say enough good things about it. Through the years I've read literally dozens of book on selling your arts and crafts, home businesses, and the like, but this is the ONLY book I've ever seen that gave designing one's own patterns more than just a couple of vague sentences, and specifically addressed the questions I had.

Not for Garment Designers.......2007-03-31

This book should properly be titled "Publish Your Craft Patterns". There is no information on garment drafting, grading, sizing, and nothing on getting the actual patterns printed. It's a decent book, as far as it goes, but it doesn't go nearly far enough.

A gold mine for any designer.......2006-03-19

OK, I'm not a quilter. And I have no plans on self-publishing paper patterns.
Still, I have a learnt a LOT of useful things in this book! My copy has paper clips on many pages, to mark the chapters I want to refer to in my work.
A very interesting book for any textile designer!

Publish Your Patterns.......2004-07-14

I am a new designer and have been struggling with the seemingly mountainous task of getting launched in the designing business. I have read countless books, most of which just bring more questions to mind! Enter THIS book, which is without a doubt, the single best resource on the market. In fact, pertaining specifically to pattern design, there is no other resource on the market that you need waste your money on!!!

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“The authors provide data on what type of environment and climatic conditions are needed for each specific genera of orchid, explain the classification of orchids by growth habits, and give basic instructions on their cultivation...propagation methods, pests and diseases. An orchid identifier with color photographs of 128 plants...gives the plant’s history, habitat, flowering time, and temperature range. Excellent for beginners.”—Booklist.

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Complete Babysitting Kit
Self-Counsel Press
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This complete kit has everything a parent and babysitter needs to be organized and prepared, including forms for contact lists, feeding requirements, and permission slips.

- Ready to use forms and checklists on CD-ROM - Ensure that the children are safe - Make certain all necessary information is on hand

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Too little space for too many topics

Less Than Ivory

Henderson's means for resolving dilemmas he faced in life

Tower: Faith, Vertigo and Amateur Construction

Tower: Faith, Vertigo, and Amateur Construction

Tower: Faith, Vertigo, and Amateur Construction
Bill Henderson
Manufacturer: North Point Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0865476144

Book Description

A "strange and fascinating" (Los Angeles Times) book on the human drive to build skyward, from a man who did it himself.

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of tiny towers to appreciate . . . All are mere pebbles on the earth's surface. It is the tall imagination that counts, in this book at least.

Tower is Bill Henderson's winning personal account of erecting, by hand and almost entirely on his own, a wooden tower on a plot of land in Maine. For Henderson, constructing the edifice -- which he resolutely declares to have "no purpose," religious or utilitarian -- is an exercise in faith and self-reliance. Henderson guides us through the details of design and construction with clear illustrations and humor, often digressing to contemplate the various towers of Yeats, Joyce, Sam Rodia, and Gustave Eiffel. The finished result is not only Henderson's completed tower, in which we share an inspiring sense of accomplishment, but a revelatory insight into what motivates the builders and thinkers who precede our own efforts to gain a higher viewpoint.

Customer Reviews:

Too little space for too many topics.......2005-04-27

What an odd little book. I'd rather have had him dwell more on towers and stories about towers, which fascinated me. I got bored with all his inner stuff, maybe if it hadn't been so scattershot, if he hadn't tried to cover so much in so little space. Let's see... there was the purchase of the land and the construction of the tower, tidbits about other towers in place and time, his struggle with faith/religion, his struggle with vertigo, his struggle with a plethora of people he knew fighting cancer, and his relationship with his daughter and to a lesser degree, his wife. Whew! All that in 200 small pages with wide margins.

Less Than Ivory.......2002-02-11

Against all logic, Bill Henderson travels to Maine in search of a quiescent state of mind. The editor of Pushcart Press is a married middle-aged man who has just completed his memoirs and is now searching for... what? A tower. His own tower. This compulsion to create a space of fortified solitude is an impulse that is as equally mysterious to the writer/builder himself as to the reader. This curious book is a hodgepodge of details of some of the most acute personal events of his life, the practical construction of a tower from the allocation of a plot of land to the ideal decor for a tower and a scattered history of tower raising. It is a meditation on the compulsive need for solitude in a world where religion falls short of answering our metaphysical questions. The details of the tower's construction are threaded with Henderson's anecdotal accounts and justifications for the project. Illustrations of the tower he builds and various historical towers are scattered throughout the book. Unfortunately, he spends a tad too long summarizing the major points of his two previous memoirs instead of digging into new areas of his literary and personal life. Far from solving the problem of why he wants to build his own tower, this book is a testament to the impulsive desires of our lives. It is meant not only as a practical guide to building your own tower but dealing with the oddities of individual existence. Like Thoreau's Walden, this book is a novel, memoir, philosophical essay and social commentary touching upon universal issues through a moving personal account.

Henderson's means for resolving dilemmas he faced in life.......2000-07-22

Interesting, insightful read of how an intelligent man resolved crisis he faced in life in a positive, 'constructive' manner. The details of building his tower on a VERY low budget are given along with other towers that have been built worldwide including the Watts Towers (LA) which were also built without apparent reason.

Actually there is a reason for building the tower. Henderson faced certain dilemmas in his life and the solitude and focus he used to build the tower also helped him resolve these problems. Wouldn't it be great if all people could muster the strength to work out their life dilemmas in such a positive manner?

This was a thoroughly enjoyable read. I just wonder if Henderson continued to elaborate on his tower in subsequent seasons?

Tower: Faith, Vertigo and Amateur Construction.......2000-04-18

In this book, Bill Henderson gives the reader insights into his personal quest to build as strong,lasting and well-crafted a tower as the relationship he aspires to build within his family and with his God. Both forms of construction entail the exercise of care and personal responsibility and also call on faith to overcome the vertigo of all human beings as they stand poised over the abyss:in this posture, they can, through their action or inaction,either rise to great heights or fall to the lowest depths.

Tower: Faith, Vertigo, and Amateur Construction.......2000-04-17

Tower--Faith, Vertigo amd Amateur Constuction is a lovely small book, as entertaining as it is profound. Threaded through Henderson's meditation on his search for God, love and self is a parallel acount of his construction of a small tower on a breathtaking hill, in Sedgwick, Maine. As the tower takes shape, Henderson grapples with the most fundamental concerns of life-vanquishes his vertigo and rediscovers the grace of every day life. Sharing his journey, we do too. His book is a true gift.

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Tower: Faith, Vertigo, and Amateur Construction

ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 1402897626

Product Description

From the Publisher "Beautiful, moving, warm and wise...utterly compelling....Should become a classic."Joyce Carol OatesBill Henderson had an epiphany one day after buying a plot of land high atop a hill in Maine overlooking the sea: why not build a tower "for no reason"? For this lapsed Presbyterian, it all made sense. With his spiritual life in neutral, his marriage struggling, his daughter growing up, a tower was no less appropriate than, say, hiring a shrink or buying a fast car. Ignoring the fact that he knew little about construction, and armed only with a hammer, a handsaw, a tri-square, a tape measure, and a rope, he set about erecting a modest tower upon his not-so-modest hill. Tower is Henderson's down-to-earth study of a sky-high subject that celebrates the dreamer in all of us.

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Tower: Faith, Vertigo, and Amateur Construction
Bill Henderson
Manufacturer: NY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MU4K0O

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Tower: Faith, Vertigo, and Amateur Construction
Bill Henderson
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OX3ZM8

Book Description

Sgt. James Donovan Gautier Jr. distinguished himself by meritorious service while engaged in ground combat against an enemy of the United States in defense of the Philippine Islands from January 2, 1942 to September 12, 1945. Displaying magnificent courage and devotion to duty, Sgt. Gautier inflicted heavy losses while engaging an enemy force of superior size and weaponry.

Sgt. Gautier displayed undaunted valor, not only in the engagement of the enemy in combat, but in his conduct under impossible and unbearable conditions while being held as a prisoner of war from April 9, 1942 to September 12, 1945. This book tells the story of how one man's heroic actions and unselfish dedication to duty have reflected great credit upon himself and the United States Air Force.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent, moving, interesting, firstperson story.......1998-11-06

Sgt. Gautier was given some unusual assignments while a prisoner of the Japanese, and he was fortunate to have survived the Death March, prison camp and the voyage to Japan. He gives a gripping account of his experiences, and also provides us insight into the lives of the PoWs after their returned to the States.

This is a good book. Anyone interested in learning what it was like to be a prisoner of war under the Japanese will find it intriguing.

How true that this books is and how real it was........1998-09-18

This book was one that out of all of the books about the Death March of Bataan, was the most vived.This man came to my school and old us how real that this war that most people just talk about, was so real! This man went through so much and survived it and then went through it again, just to tell people about it. I think that it was a very honorable thing to do.

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