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Reconciling the emotional wounds of the Vietnam War.......2000-04-25
This is a book written by the grandson of the famous military historian, General S.L.A. "SLAM" Marshall. It conerns allegations made about his grandfather, that appear to be true. Allegations that make his grandfather out to be a person who does NOT lie about catching the fish, but each time the story is told, the fish gets bigger and bigger. At least, that was my impression. But, it's also about how John Douglas Marshall, the grandson and First Lietenant in the US Army, disappoints and hurts his grandfather by filing for and receiving a Concientious Objector status in 1969, instead of being sent to the Vietnam War. Initially, I was slightly irked, because I was drafted in 1969, and have psychiatric problems from my two tours in Vietnam. It often seems that people with connections, or better education, often get the best of what America has to offer. Yet on another level, I was very pleased with Mr. Marshall's honesty, and the book shows how, no matter what family you came from, the Vietnam War affected everyone in this country, one way or another. One of the remarks Mr. Marshall made, which I will always remember, is a feeling he shared, many years later, with a fellow concientious objector. It was that their decision to seek C.O. status was the most important decision of their lives. And in this sense, I must agree with him and his friend. Because I think my decision to go to Vietnam for two tours, at the end of the war, was the most important decision or event to occur in my life, and I think that must be true of almost any male of our generation. No matter what course of action you took in regards to the war, it was a defining moment in your life. At this point, I look for forgiveness and healing, and I would suggest that this book is truly about some kind of Reconciliation Road for all of us.
Reconciling the emotional wounds of the Vietnam War.......2000-04-25
This is a book written by the grandson of the famous military historian, General S.L.A. "SLAM" Marshall. It conerns allegations made about his grandfather, that appear to be true. Allegations that make his grandfather out to be a person who does NOT lie about catching the fish, but each time the story is told, the fish gets bigger and bigger. At least, that was my impression. But, it's also about how John Douglas Marshall, the grandson and First Lietenant in the US Army, disappoints and hurts his grandfather by filing for and receiving a Concientious Objector status in 1969, instead of being sent to the Vietnam War. Initially, I was slightly irked, because I was drafted in 1969, and have psychiatric problems from my two tours in Vietnam. It often seems that people with connections, or better education, often get the best of what America has to offer. Yet on another level, I was very pleased with Mr. Marshall's honesty, and the book shows how, no matter what family you came from, the Vietnam War affected everyone in this country, one way or another. One of the remarks Mr. Marshall made, which I will always remember, is a feeling he shared, many years later, with a fellow concientious objector. It was that their decision to seek C.O. status was the most important decision of their lives. And in this sense, I must agree with him and his friend. Because I think my decision to go to Vietnam for two tours, at the end of the war, was the most important decision or event to occur in my life, and I think that must be true of almost any male of our generation. No matter what course of action you took in regards to the war, it was a defining moment in your life. At this point, I look for forgiveness and healing, and I would suggest that this book is truly about some kind of Reconciliation Road for all of us.
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Reconciliation Road: A Family Odyssey of War and Honor
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Interesting Portrait of SLA Marshall.......2004-03-27
I very much enjoyed this intimate examination of the family of SLA Marshall written by his grandson, John D. Marshall (JDM). JDM does a good job of presenting a 'warts and all' picture of his grandfather without lapsing into bitterness, especially considering how their relationship deteriorated. That having been said, I have no sympathy for JDM. JDM volunteered for ROTC in college and then volunteered for the infantry. If he had any doubts about Vietnam, he should not have joined ROTC or at least he should have picked a non-combat branch of the Army - like Quartermaster, Signals, or Adjutant General. From my point of view, he used ROTC to avoid the draft and then shirked his duty after he was commissioned.
very interesting.......2000-02-28
I thouroughly enjoyed this book. I have read a great many of slams books and greatly enjoyed his writing style. I also am very familiar with the other people in the book Hackworth,Westmoreland,truscott,etc.thats why i was so interested in it but aside from that, it is a great story of an american family torn apart by Vietnam as many families were.Really enjoyed learning all the history of slam as well.
Awful, inaccurate.......1996-11-26
Loserama. Another selfish, cowardly baby-boomer writes a long, tedious attempt at justifying his cowardice. Historically inaccurate to boot. Loserama. Skip this turkey
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In this groundbreaking classic linking prayer and health, physician Larry Dossey shares the latest evidence connecting prayer, healing, and medicine. Using real-life examples and personal anecdotes, Dossey proves how prayer can be as valid a healing tool as drugs or surgery.
Dossey explores which methods of prayer show the greatest potential for healing; presents compelling evidence that patients' and doctors' belief in a treatment increases its efficacy; explains that discoveries in modern physics allow us to integrate the spiritual and the scientific and make the power of prayer provable in the lab; and much more.
Provocative, engaging, and powerfully instructive, Healing Words restores the spiritual art of healing to the science of medicine.
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A Must Read!.......2007-07-03
While conducting research on the power of prayer and healing, I was encouraged to get this book and I am so glad I did! I could not but this book down once I began to read it. This is a must read if you are interested in the subject. It is well written and it is based on true experiences in Dr. Dossey's practice.
Renewed belief in prayer.......2006-06-30
This book reaffirmed my belief in prayer, and helped me to better understand its healing powers.
Where's the Free Will in Prayer Healing?.......2005-05-31
I'm having a problem. I'm in a dilemma and I'd like to know what you think. I hope you'll let me know. Here's the problem. I kinda take it for granted that we have free will. It seems like some kind of defining characteristic of the human soul. Although we may breathe the same air, and although the same Spirit runs through us, it's our free will that defines our individuality. The Biblical tradition seems to point to our free will. The concept of sin sure requires it. In the Edgar Cayce readings there is the idea there is nothing more powerful than our individual will. On TV it says, "The power of one!" There you have it.
On the other hand, I've been reading a book on prayer and healing. It's the almost classic and often referred to book by Larry Dossey, M.D., Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine, (HarperCollins). He writes about how over one hundred experiments, exhibiting good scientific methodology, indicate that "prayer brings about significant changes in a variety of living beings." This includes fungus, bacteria, animals and humans. Moreover, the healing effects did not depend upon whether the person praying was in the presence of the organism being prayed for or at a great distance. Healing occurred whether the healing object was in a lead-lined room or a cage shielded from electromagnetic energy. It didn't seem to matter if the person (if it was a person and not a medical sample) knew about the prayer or believed in prayer.
"The fact that prayer works (at least some of the time) says something important about our nature, and how we may be connected to the Absolute," he says. It also shows that we are connected to each other. It shows that our thoughts matter. Dossey is smart and brave enough to discuss the flip side of this revelation. Call it "toxic prayer," where our negative thoughts have a negative effect on others. I'm not talking just about curses or swearing (as in asking the Absolute to squash you or condemn you to an eternity in the fires), but even those so-called "harmless" black thoughts we have about people from time to time. If we can be helped by prayers, we can be harmed by the mental negativity of others, even when we do not know they are being negative toward us, even when we are safely in our own homes, even when we are minding our own business. Sounds to me like an invasion of free will, a bruise to my autonomy, an assault on my integrity.
Now I have often heard that we are not supposed to pray for people without their permission. If Dossey is right, it is possible to pray for people without their knowledge and they still get well. We can hope that they wanted to heal! Seems like we shouldn't say to someone, "Good morning," but rather, "Good morning, by your leave, unless you have other plans!"
But I'm not joking, I'm serious and seriously confused here. I have read of experiments begun in Russia and duplicated here, where one person can mentally affect the physical functioning of another person, making that person tired, sleepy, even putting the person to sleep. It is possible to telepathically affect a person's heart rate. I guess that means that it is possible to stop a person's heart, especially if some writings on Voodoo are to be believed.
Now if it is true that we can mentally, telepathically, energetically--however you want to envision it--affect another person, even when they are in the privacy and safety of their lead lined home, then what does that mean about free will. Do we have free will if someone else can, from a distance, without our knowledge or consent, make us do their bidding, think the thoughts they want us to think, make the moves they want us to make? It is even possible to hypnotize a person at a distance, telepathically. The Russians called it "mental suggestion." Now we've all heard the soothing reminder, "you can't hypnotize a person to do something against their will." So does that mean you can't telepathically induce a person to think, feel, or do something against their will? If the telepathic influence was effective, then at some level the affected person was willing to allow it to happen? Is that how we get out of the quandry? Or is there really a hole in the protective shield of our free will?
I've met many people who complain that someone is sending them bad energy, invading their thoughts. Do we take the complaint seriously? Is the person "psychotic"? Since mental influence exists, maybe the person is right. If so, then is the real problem is that the person is willing to have it happen? The person objects to the invasion but feels helpless to stop it. Where's the free will, the willingness? Maybe not all of our free will is available for our freedom of choice. Maybe some of it is hidden in the dark depths of the soul. What do you think? Let me know. www.henryreed.com/publications/bookreviews
Nonlocal mind and the (possible) power of prayer.......2001-07-16
It's probably tempting to dismiss this book as "New Age" claptrap. That would be a mistake.
In fact Dossey is highly critical of the "New Age" movement. And despite some overblown cover blurbs, he doesn't claim to have "proven" anything about the power of prayer in healing; he's making suggestions and exploring possibilities, not laying down law.
Nor, for the most part, is his speculation wild or unfounded. His suggestions are founded on two things: empirical research that seems to show prayer is effective in promoting the biological growth of certain forms of life under controlled laboratory conditions, and the theological/philosophical view that reality is ultimately a single, universal, "nonlocal" Absolute Mind.
However controversial these foundations might be, he presents his suggestions with proper caution. And he is especially careful to avoid falling into the New Age blame-the-patient trap; he is well aware that prayer doesn't always achieve the results we might like and that this isn't because somebody has done something to "choose" or "deserve" ill health.
On the contrary, he has a healthy sense that prayer is really (though this language isn't quite his) for the purpose of adjusting us to the Divine Will rather than vice-versa. (Anthony de Mello tells a story somewhere about a man who said, "In your country it is regarded as a miracle when God does the will of a human being. In my country it is regarded as a miracle when a human being does the will of God.") On his view, the "power" of prayer is shown as much in our acceptance of our health limitations as in their elimination.
There are a couple of places where Dossey threatens to wander off the deep end (e.g. his suggestion that prayer can change the past), and there's a little bit of language (e.g. "Era I, Era II, and Era III") that recalls bad 1970s self-help books. But I really have only one bone to pick with Dossey: he tends at times to overstate the difference between his views and those of traditional, "classical" theism.
There is a tendency among those (of whom I am one, which is in part how I know this) who left their childhood religions in their early teens to assume, more or less unconsciously, that our understanding of such religion was complete at that time and none of its adherents understood any of the cool things we went on to discover for ourselves. It's hard to shake one's implicit belief that those hidebound "fundamentalists" couldn't _possibly_ have known any of this nifty "spirituality" stuff; "dogmatic" religion is, of course, the arch-enemy of "true" spirituality -- isn't it?
Dossey has a very mild tendency in this direction. In consequence I suspect he will occasionally leave more traditional religious believers with the sense that they are being misunderstood, patronized, or both.
But it doesn't happen very often, and it hardly happens at all in this book. On the whole, Dossey's approach tends to confirm rather than undermine the great theistic religions' view of prayer.
A wealth of information on prayer-based healing!.......2000-05-07
Dr. Dossey explains in HEALING WORDS how prayer-based healing works. It has been scientifically proven in hundreds of experiments to be a balanced part of health care that can significantly decrease health problems and significantly improve our quality and quantity of life. Dossey shares some of his own real-life stories of caring for patients... including an American Indian shaman, who requested Dr. Dossey's medical help for his aching neck! This book contains a wealth of information about prayer experiments written in Dossey's characteristically down-to-Earth style. I love the way Dossey raises questions about whether some prayer experiments are ethical, and why some scientists continue to resist the mounting body of evidence that so clearly shows how prayer has a powerful effect on healing.
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The Zinfandel grape--currently producing big, rich, luscious styles of red wine--has a large, loyal, even fanatical following in California and around the world. The grape, grown predominantly in California, has acquired an almost mythic status--in part because of the caliber of its wines and its remarkable versatility, and in part because of the mystery surrounding its origins. Charles Sullivan, a leading expert on the history of California wine, has at last written the definitive history of Zinfandel. Here he brings together his deep knowledge of wine with the results of his extensive research on the grape in the United States and Europe in a book that will entertain and enlighten wine aficionados and casual enthusiasts. In this lively book, Sullivan dispels the false legend that has obscured Zinfandel's history for almost a century, reveals the latest scientific findings about the grape's European roots, shares his thoughts on the quality of the wines now being produced, and looks to the future of this remarkable grape.
Sullivan reconstructs Zinfandel's journey through history--taking us from Austria to the East Coast of the U.S. in the 1820s, to Gold Rush California, and through the early days of the state's wine industry. He considers the ups and downs of the grape's popularity, including its most recent and, according to Sullivan, most brilliant "up." He also unravels the two great mysteries surrounding Zinfandel: the myth of Agoston Haraszthy's role in importing Zinfandel, and the heated controversy over the relationship between California Zinfandel and Italian Primitivo. Sullivan ends with his assessments of the 2001 and 2002 vintages, firmly setting the history of Zinfandel into the chronicles of grape history.
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This digital document is an article from California History, published by California Historical Society on September 22, 2004. The length of the article is 588 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Indispensable Price Guide.......2007-02-28
When it comes to concise and easy to use price guides to Lionel Trains I have found Greenberg's Guides to be invaluable. It breaks the catalogue numbers down into eras or distinct ranges of years of production and lists price ranges based on condition in a very orderly fashion. If you sell or buy on eBay this is a valuable tool. Greenberg's Lionel Trains Guides and publications are all first rate and come highly recommended.
Indispensable.......2006-03-17
This is an indispensable, pocket guide for identifying Lionel Trains at train shows. It's easy to use and obviously handy because it slips easily into a back pocket. I use the pricing only as a way of identifying general area of value. Any one item could be worth more or less. Guide is great for keeping track of train items you own or are looking for.
Greenberg's Guides Lionel Trains 2006 Pocket Price Guide.......2006-03-17
Excellent book! Get resource! My last one was falling apart from all the times I used it.
Greenberg's Pocket Price Guide to Lionel Trains 2006.......2006-03-10
A great book for the casual buyer or serius collector. A wealth of pricing information. Wouldn't buy without it. The only thing that keeps it from a 5 star rating is lack of pictures.
Greenberg's guide to vintage lionel pricing.......2006-03-01
A must have for every collector, offered at a great price.
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This handy bench reference tells what kinds of jig make a table saw more efficient or accurate, what’s the best drill-bit speed to use to drill a one-inch hole in hardwood, what clamps and fixtures to use if you’re lamin-ating curved pieces, and many more tricks. At last, a comprehensive, accessible, and easy-to-understand guide you can pull off the shelf whenever you’re stumped.
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Spoiled by poor binding.......2005-01-21
As other reviewers have noted this is a great reference book for the workshop and I know I will use it constantly. My disappointment lies in the fact that the book jacket is terribly flimsy and made of really thin card. I can't imagine it lasting long even given that the spiral binding makes the book easy to use.
Packed with tons of useful information.......2004-09-13
Just starting to dabble in woodworking as a hobby, I have acquired several books, but this is definitely one that I keep coming back to, and there a several reasons for that.
First and maybe most important is that it's bound in such a way that I can lay the book flat on the table. It allows me to go set up a tool, and constant refer back to the book without having to put weights to hold the book open, photocopies, etc. It's at much a tool as anything else in the shop.
Second, it covers all the major power tools, and their intended uses. It doesn't just tell you what each tool is, and how they work, but the best methods of how to use the tool.
Third, it is chock full of all sorts of tips and tricks to help make the work that you're doing easier and/or more precise. While sometimes it may be hard to remember exactly where a particular trick may be, the book does have a well put together index to help finding things.
This is easily the most important book that I have in my workshop, and have recommended it to others that I know. Now if only other book manufacturers would bind their books in the same way.
Good reference book.......2003-02-25
This is a good reference book - there's just enough information to be useful, not too much so that it's overwhelming. If you are looking for your first woodworking reference, this is a good overview of all the basics, from wood types, to tools and techniques, project design concepts, and home shop setup. There's a really nice appendix at the end the book, with a list of other recommended reads, and lots of "woodworker geek charts and graphs" to ensure that this book stays in the shop. Lots of good info at a value price.
Great Reference.......2001-01-30
This is a great reference. There is so much information in this book, in an easy to read format, that is has become my primary reference around the shop
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Breakthrough Parenting- a relationship approach that works!.......2000-05-20
This book is excellent for facilitating a healthy parent - teen relationship. It provides a practical look at raising healthy and well adjusted teenagers through a mutually respectful relationship AND enjoying it!
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From Townshend's early childhood as the son of a sexually voracious mother to his devotion to the Indian mystic Meher Baba, this is the true story of a man looking back, forward, and in the mirror.
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Wait for the real deal..........2007-01-02
Since this is a review about the book, I normally do not wish to mention anything about the author. But it is truly hard to do so: apart from the several pages devoted to his interaction with Pete, the style of writing betrays a strange disconnection of the author from his subject: while his life did cross paths with Pete's more often than most of us readers, the author doesn't seem to have "gotten" his subject. He quotes George Harrison at the back while seemingly being unable to see what George, the master of thoughtful sarcasm, meant.
Pete's writing his own book and that will be worth the wait. Get another book in the meantime, unless you can pick this up at your local used books place.
This man is not a good writer.......2006-07-21
I wanted a more clever and biting title for this review but not sure I would get away with it. This "writer" has written books by three of my favorite musicians-Townshend, Rod Stewart and Paul McCartney. Unfortuntely, I have read all three. His prose is nothing to get excited about, his books contains errors that any casual fan could point out, and he is just rather slimy in his selection on what to cover. If he ever get to Springsteen, I will know not to bother. You would be wise to avoid anything with this man's name on the cover.
Best left on the shelf.......2005-08-24
"I cannot wait until all of the Beatles and the other rock stars drop dead, because then I can write whatever I want about them and after they're dead, none of them can sue me." That quote (from author Geoffrey Giuliano's own website) is enough to let the wise reader know what they are up against when approaching this book. In a word, this plodding expose' is a bore, partly because of the author's lackluster handling of the subject matter and partly due to the subject himself. I love Pete Townshend and his music dearly and will always think of him as a hero of mine, but reading this badly-written dross about his exceedingly complex personality, drug and alcohol bouts and jealousy-fueled abusive behavior against his little brothers and Roger Daltrey (post Daltrey's 1965 boot-out for his own violent behavior) is more than tedious, especially since all of this has been documented elsewhere in firsthand interviews with Townshend which were written by far better, more inspired writers.
Worse still is having to wade through the author's self-serving section of the book in which he digresses about having stolen and apparently abandoned some of Townshend's personal tapes (outtakes from the "Tommy" recordings) from a locked office while on the man's payroll and while claiming to be a fellow devotee to the teachings of Maher Baba. He gleefully reprints painful replies from Townshend, responses sent as the author shamefully continued to contact the man after having betrayed him in the most ungrateful fashion, all the while desperately avoiding expressing either guilt or remorse for his actions (outside of being sorry that he was found out). At this point the author's constant references to his own irresponsibility become pretty nauseating and it's difficult to rebound to the point of reading any further.
My recommendation: Search out a book about The Who written by a more reputable source. There are many enjoyable books out there which will get you caught up on what's what with the band's members during their heyday. This isn't one of them.
Great Work On A Great Man.......2004-05-20
I really enjoyed this well written and researched book. Giuliano is well know and lauded for his great work in the field of rock lit, in Behind Blue Eyes hes done it again!
Behind....What I should have left this book.......2003-01-07
I don't know what I expected from this book. Perhaps I was looking for the tell all book of the Who that filled me in on all of the details that I didn't already know about the band, and really get into the shoes of one of the greatest musicians alive. It didn't happen for me with this book. Yes, there were things that I learned about Townsend, and The Who, but there wasn't enough interesting things to fill a whole book in my opinion. After this book I was not left with any overwhelming feeling of WOW! That was great, or, WOW! I learned a lot from this book. It covered the basics, but to me, never really went into things with much detail. I didn't find myself glued to the book except for a very few parts. I'd almost say I found it boring, but it wasn't quite that bad. I was left thinking that there must be better books about the Who and Pete than this one. If I were you, I'd look for those ones.
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Behind Blue Eyes : A Life of Pete Townshend
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the book missed one big point.......2007-04-11
I just received this today and skimmed over the pages. There is close to nothing about why the British flew these Jews from Palestine into Europe. There is a vauge reference to intelligence work, but even the young girls' book on Hannah Senesh put out by Scholastic Books states on the back cover that she was sent by the British to set up an escape network for Allied airmen shot down in the region. The group was also sent to help repatriate Russian soldiers from the nearby (to Roumania) Soviet border. The VHS movie "Hannah's War" from the 1980s makes that also very clear and plain.
I felt I was reading a good general history of WW II, with Jewish partisan movement included and major battles, but not a book about why Hannah Senesh voluteered to go to Europe on a dangerous mission, other than to see her mother. As if this was "tourist season" in WW II.
The need for Hannah's mission (it included 30 men and another woman) stems originally from the Allies repeated air attacks on the Ploesti oilfields in Roumania which supplied the Germans 60% of their oil. The first attack in 1943 lead to 200 shot down Allied fliers captured. This lead to two other major attacks on the oilfields because the were put back in production quickly. Flack damaged airplanes can go hundreds of miles before a need for the crew to parachute out. The border distances between Roumania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia (the return route to an Allied airbase in Italy) are small, even for a World War II bomber. In fact, Hannah's group did rescue some Allied airmen. And there was a major secondary reason the British knew about but would not endorse: setting up escape networks for fleeing Jewish refugees AFTER WW II to get to Palestine (Israel) by outfoxing the British blockade, a blockade in effect even before WW II.
But reading this book, I got the impression that the author Linda Atkinson all but thought the British were running a travel agency or a "Make a Wish" Foundation to reunite Hannah with her mother. Despite the worthy inclusion of many biographical concerns of a Hannah as a young woman, including boyfriends, decisions about what she wanted to do with her life, her self-doubts and strengths, I found the extremely limited discussion of why Hannah was sent to Europe an insult to the military mission, the British and the Israelis who risked their lives to fly all 32 native European speakers in to set up escape networks. I thought, in the sections regarding Hannah, that I was reading "Hannah's (Not So) Excellent Adventure." I would recommend the Scholastic book over this for teenage girls.
In Kindling Flame, she sparked a fire.......2006-05-16
When I read this book, I had no idea what to expect. The assidnment was to read a book from the WWII/Holocaust period. There were shelves full, but this one caught my attention. I took it home and started to read, but was so sucked in I didn't want to stop! Hannah Senesh had such a wonderful story, and I could easily compare her to Anne Frank. She had such a wonderful personality; she was poetic, determined, and courageous. Unlike Anne, Hannah didn't go into hiding. She escaped to Palestine and trained for a parachuting mission back to her homeland of Hungary. She was captured and beaten, and eventually killed, but remained a beacon to her fellow women in jail, making dolls for children and teaching Hebrew to the adults. Hannah was such an inspiration, I think everyone should read her story.
An excellent story of a girl fighing for her rights.......1999-07-01
When I first read this book, I had just finished touring the Holocaust Museum in Wash. D.C and I picked this out at the bookstore. I am amazed by this book. The reader immediatly falls in love with Hannah, for her strength and courage. The reader finds themselves reading on wanting to know if she succeeds the Nazis or not. If you enjoy reading about the Holocaust, you will love this book! Thank You for reading my review.
The most inspiring book I have ever read........1999-06-05
I read this book in the 6th grade and it was very heavy, but it is my favorite book. I did a project on Hanna Senesh and I learned so much about the Holocaust. I would recomend this book to anyone who needs to be inspired. Hanna Senesh was a brave young lady.
Excellent, inspirational reading!.......1998-12-28
This biography for young adults uses the diary, letters, poetry, interviews with her mother and brother, and official documents to tell the story of Hannah Senesh. Atkinson begins Hannah's story by describing her happy life before anti-Semitism took hold in Hungary. She uses Hannah's own words to describe her need to make something of her life. Hannah's decision to immigrate to Palestine shows that she clearly appreciated the potential for danger in remaining in Hungary too long. The reader quickly comes to admire Hannah, for she is described as a flesh-and-blood creature. She is forceful, determined, and youthful, but not without self-doubt. It is her self-doubt that makes her want to "do something" by returning to Hungary from the relative security of Palestine to help Jews escape to freedom. Although Hannah's mission was not successful, her willingness to act decisively makes her a symbol of her adopted homeland. By reading the story of Hannah Senesh, young readers will gain a clearer understanding into the national character of Israel.
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