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British Heroes of World War II: True Stories of Individual Bravery from the Battlefields of World War II (War Heroes)
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British Heroes of World War II is a collection of mini-biographies that focus on the dramatic moments in the lives of Great Britain鈥檚 war fighters that led to the highest national honors being bestowed on them.

The 27 stories cover the land, sea, and British Heroes of World War II is a collection of mini-biographies that focus on the dramatic moments in the lives of Great Britain鈥檚 war fighters that led to the highest national honors being bestowed on them.

The 27 stories cover the land, sea, and air war and the soldiers, sailors, and airmen (and some spies) who seemed fearless in the martial spirit that often led to death. They come across as fearless in these accounts鈥攕oldiers single-handedly charging machine gun emplacements or pilots continuing on a bombing raid even as their airplane is ripped with bullets from German fighters and hot fragments of flak from bursts of anti-aircraft shells. It鈥檚 hard to imagine that any of them did not experience extremes of fear, but, of course, that is what courage is鈥攄oing what has to be done in war despite the dread of death.

One of the most fascinating of the mini-biographies is that of Ursula Graham Bower, an anthropologist who lived with the Naga tribe in a region of India bordering on Burma. After the Japanese invaded Burma, she shaped the tribesmen into a guerilla force adept in jungle ambushes and sabotage, personally leading them into battle and operations to rescue British soldiers and downed airmen.

I was most drawn to the accounts of the bomber pilots because their experiences brought back memories of my father鈥檚 war stories. He was a tail gunner on a Royal Canadian Air Force heavy bomber and was shot down over Belgium on the way to bombing raid over Germany. Badly injured, he spent the remainder of the war as a POW. Only 17 percent of the Canadian airmen made it through the 25 missions required of them without getting shot down, and the percentage was likely similar for the air crews of other countries. So you can imagine the gut-churning dread starting out on each raid knowing the odds are stacked against you.

Yet they continued on. That鈥檚 the message of Alex Viner鈥檚 collection of stories of extraordinary bravery and could serve as an alternate title.

British Heroes of World War II is not a book that can be read in one stretch. There is too much detail in the mini-biographies to absorb all at once, but from beginning to end it鈥檚 an inspiring read. ...more

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The 12th Imam:The Tribulation Begins
by James W. Parker (欧宝娱乐 Author)

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With his three-part 12th Imam series, author James W. Parker is onto a fascinating and important subject: the End Time ideology of Iran鈥檚 theocratic rulers.

The ayatollahs are adherents of a sect of Islam that awaits the return of the Hidden Imam, th With his three-part 12th Imam series, author James W. Parker is onto a fascinating and important subject: the End Time ideology of Iran鈥檚 theocratic rulers.

The ayatollahs are adherents of a sect of Islam that awaits the return of the Hidden Imam, the 12th direct descendant of Muhammad鈥檚 daughter Fatima and his son-in-law Ali. Muhammad鈥檚 death set off a power struggle for control over Islam between what became the Sunni and Shiite factions. The 12th Imam, a Shiite, was hidden when he was five years old so that he wouldn鈥檛 be assassinated like most of his predecessors. In the mullah鈥檚 dogma, his spirit remains in hiding, but he will return during a time of great chaos to gain control of Islam and initiate the first phase of the End of Time.

I was hoping to learn more about it in the book, but I regret to say I was disappointed. I read the second installment, The 12th Imam: The Tribulation Begins. The opening chapters offer enough back story to make it a stand-alone, though I can see it would be best to start with the first book.

What held me back from appreciating Mr. Parker鈥檚 obvious desire to enlighten people about Islam was the writing. The 12th Imam doesn鈥檛 make much use of dramatic construction, and I found that it reads more like an outline than a finished draft. With few exceptions, the characters are only names. Example: Omar, personal aide to the 12th Imam. That鈥檚 all that鈥檚 said about him, yet he has presence throughout the book. Some of the spelling lacks consistency. For example, the capital city the 12th Imam built for himself is called Bavalim, an alternate name for Babylon, but the word is sometimes spelled Bavilim.

Among the positives are the quotes at the beginning of each chapter鈥攁n interesting approach to suggesting the theme of the chapter. Most often they are drawn from the Book of Revelation, but some cite Islamic sources, certainly very useful for readers who want to explore the subject in greater depth. The author is due an applause for revealing truths about Islam. And another for his book cover. It鈥檚 very eye catching and relevant to the story. ...more

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The Newspaperman
by Sal Nudo (欧宝娱乐 Author)

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I was in the news business years ago, so the title of Sal Nudo鈥檚 short novel The Newspaperman caught my attention. After reading some of the positive reviews on Amazon, I bought it hoping it would stir memories of those stressful days of fleshing out I was in the news business years ago, so the title of Sal Nudo鈥檚 short novel The Newspaperman caught my attention. After reading some of the positive reviews on Amazon, I bought it hoping it would stir memories of those stressful days of fleshing out breaking stories and turning in copy under tight deadlines.

There was none of that newsroom high tension in The Newspaperman. Nudo鈥檚 focus is on what he sees as a decline in the quality of the content of journalism today: fake news, the use of unnamed sources, and an obsession with celebrity gossip and sensationalized crime. Nudo presents it as something new, yet the same was said more than a hundred years ago of William Randolph Hearst鈥檚 newspapers and even those of his competitor, Joseph Pulitzer.

Well that鈥檚 fine. A lot of people voice such complaints. The problem I had with this story is that it was hard to read. The endless complaints about a newspaper in Champaign-Urbana were one problem, but I found the plot unbelievable and the characters all cardboard: a greedy, unscrupulous publisher, thugs he employs to intimidate or kill critics, and of course the crusader hero Seth Kesler who becomes a target for murder.

The author seems oblivious to his own selective and tendentious views and to the irony of his main character鈥檚 behavior: While denouncing the ills of journalism, his crusading critic buys up quantities of the offensive newspaper to burn so they would not fall into the hands of gullible and impressionable citizens of Champaign-Urbana. That鈥檚 a form of censorship that goes by the name 鈥榖ook burning鈥�.

Some people really like tabloid journalism because it gives them gossiping material. There's an adage that is relevant: Small minds talk about people; average minds talk about events; great minds talk about ideas. Sal Nudo鈥檚 novel shows that he tries to be high minded about journalism, but I think his denunciation of shoddy journalism could be better handled in an article or essay rather than a novel. ...more

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The Ringmaster Murder: A Paranormal Mystery (Alistar Circus Mysteries Book 1)
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Ruby Tuesdays
by Joan Lewis (欧宝娱乐 Author)

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It鈥檚 hard to get nit-picky with a British expat who lives and writes from southern France in a sunshine region dear to my own heart (surtout Aix-en-Provence), but c鈥檓on Joan Lewis, your opening chapters made me think of a deux chevaux that鈥檚 hard to It鈥檚 hard to get nit-picky with a British expat who lives and writes from southern France in a sunshine region dear to my own heart (surtout Aix-en-Provence), but c鈥檓on Joan Lewis, your opening chapters made me think of a deux chevaux that鈥檚 hard to start and once going putts along on one cylinder.

The author did not make it easy for herself. She took on an enormous challenge with themes of mental illness, alienation of children from their parents, social conditions that destroy the lives of many youngsters leaving them feeling hopeless and seeking emotional connection鈥攁nd somehow bringing all of it together in a way that makes sense.

The author succeeds in the end, but it鈥檚 a slow start. The opening chapter jumps from character to character, announcing the pattern of the novel along with the major characters: Rob and Eva, a married couple living outside of London who set off on separate journeys, Rob by train, Eva by car; Ella, the daughter of a haughty politician named Charles Butters who wants her to become a doctor; a young man who wakes up in a jail or a hospital, he鈥檚 not sure which nor how he got there.

It鈥檚 all too much at once, yet not enough. You don鈥檛 find out where Rob and Eva are going or why until they get to their destinations too many pages later. Perhaps the author thought that dragging it out would make the story intriguing, but I would have liked to learn early on that Eva is on a quest to find their estranged son, Sam, who is now in his mid twenties and has been gone from her and Rob鈥檚 lives for five years.

How the story is told is frequently frustrating. Eva鈥檚 quest continues and eventually she succeeds in locating Sam. He is in a hospital and she and Rob go to visit him. Given the buildup (we are now halfway into the novel), one would expect an intense and dramatic scene of their reunion. But after the parents and their son exchange of hugs, the reader follows Rob and Eva out the door, leaving an inexplicable gap that is only partly filled when they later talk about the meeting and that they learned Sam suffers from a bi-polar disorder. Why wasn鈥檛 this important meeting dramatized? Instead, the author leaves you hanging, and this kind of omission happens more than once.

The deux chevaux manages to gain full power in the latter half of the story. I found Rob and Eva to be sympathetic, relatable characters. So too Sam and Ella, whose lives entwine after they establish their own identities. The Renault two banger takes you to a touching and satisfying conclusion, one that explains the title.

The storytelling has shortcomings, but the author adds sunshine to the pages from her refuge in southern France. ...more

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