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The Rough Guide to India 6 (Rough Guide Travel Guides)

8 reviews
Nick Edwards, Devdan Sen, ...

Rough Guides, 2005

Best guidebook for India
This is the best guidebook I know of for India. I used it on my recent trip and found it overall to have excellent, in-depth information, great info for putting things in cultural/historical context, and detailed, accurate maps. In my opinion it blows Lonely Planet out of the water. Several Indian guesthouse owners and the man at the tourist desk in Varanasi (who has worked there for 25 years) ...

The Lady and the Tigers: Remembering the Flying Tigers of World War II

9 reviews
Olga Greenlaw

AuthorHouse, 2002

AVG/SILVERPLATE
Since I have a number of books and P-40B models(1st,2nd,&3rd Squadrons)I found that this book completed my research on the FLYING TIGERS.Other volumes delt with aircraft,markings,combat,and only touched briefly on Harvey and Olga Greenlaw.She filled in the void.I should have liked to have met them both.My home town is Los Angeles and I was in the Air Force(Korean War). She was must have been ...

Michael's War: A Story of the Irish Republican Army

5 reviews

ASJA Press, 2007

Don't miss this book!
MICHAEL'S WAR is a serious literary work. It is also a page-turner, an exciting adventure yarn--and a warm-hearted love story--and a sound perspective of the tangled history of the Irish struggle for freedom. The characters are memorable and believable--and like so much Irish literature, the narrative sings. Finally, it is the heritage of Daniel Ford, its author. In a word, I loved it. The ...

Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942

7 reviews
Daniel Ford

HarperCollins|Smithsonian Books, 2007

The truth about a legend
The American Volunteer Group (AVG), aka The Flying Tigers, are legendary. What young boy growing up in the 1940s and 50s has not been enthralled with John Wayne and the movie, Flying Tigers ? Great stuff. Most Americans believe the AVG was fighting the Japanese months, if not years, before Pearl Harbor. The truth is a little more prosaic. They flew their first combat mission 3 days after Pearl ...

Remains (a story of the Flying Tigers)

7 reviews
Daniel Ford

AuthorHouse, 2000

cracking good yarn about the Flying Tigers
I was a great fan of Daniel Ford's history of the Flying Tigers, and because of that I checked out his novel about college students in the 1960s--"Now Comes Theodora" which I'm glad to see is back in print. So naturally I was excited to hear that he'd combined his two great talents, writing fiction and writing about military aviation. Here's a novel about the Flying Tigers. The whole cast is ...

Living in Praise: Worshipping and Knowing God
David F. Ford, Daniel W. Hardy

Baker Academic, 2005

The desire to praise and celebrate is universal. Worshippers do extraordinary things and sacrifice for what they praise, and the dynamics set in motion help shape history. Although the movement of praise runs through all the great issues of life, knowledge, and theology, it is best fulfilled in praise to God. Drawing on examples from the Bible to modern times, the authors thoroughly analyze the concept of praise throughout Christian history ...

The Last Raid: How World War II ended, August 1945, 2008

While the Japanese war cabinet argued about whether to surrender, and on what terms, the U.S. Army Strategic Air Force on Guam and Tinian geared up for a thousand-plane raid upon the Empire. It was the last raid of World War II. This monograph, which first appeared in Air&Space magazine, tells the story of those momentous forty-eight hours. About 4,500 words.

The Fourteen-Minute Marcel Proust: Everyone's guide to the greatest novel ever written

1 review, 2008

in search of Proust
I started reading "Swann's Way" on at least two occasions before a friend challenged me to join him in reading the whole of "Remembrance of Things Past," as Proust's masterpiece was then known. We got through it in about a year. I read it again--and out loud!--to my wife over the course of two winters. Years later, when Penguin came out with a new translation, I knew I'd have to read the book ...

Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and the American Volunteer Group

21 reviews
Daniel Ford

Smithsonian Books, 1995

Gen.Chennault and the AVG by Daniel Ford
An excellent book based on fact about Gen. Chennault and the men and WOMAN that made up the Flying Tigers. Very enjoyable reading and I could hardly put it down.

The Rough Guide to Egypt 6 (Rough Guide Travel Guides)

6 reviews
Dan Richardson, Daniel Jacobs, ...

Rough Guides, 2005

Saves money big time
I went to Egypt in February 2006 with my wife and our two boys (5 and 2.5 years). Although we took a package tour to Hurghada, we actually overnighted there only three nights of the eleven we were in Egypt. The rest we spent moving around (Cairo, Luxor, Aswan, busses, train, cruise ship, jeep). For the whole trip we spent around 1000 USD plus the package. We could have easily spent twice as ...

The Only War We've Got: Early Days in South Vietnam

5 reviews

Authors Choice Press, 2008

Did you ever wonder how the war began?
This is an amazing book. Before Vietnam became a household word, Ford bought a ticket to Saigon so he could see the war for himself. There were only a few Americans in Vietnam at the time, reporters and advisors and helo crews--no combat troops tho they all saw combat from time to time, including Ford. He goes on an armored invasion of a seashore town, slogs through the jungle with Vietnamese ...

Open City #12: Equivocal Landscape
Thomas Beller, Daniel Pinchbeck, ...

Grove Press, Open City Books, 2001

The most important new literary journal to emerge since Granta, Open City has published some of the best work by major writers and artists such as Mary Gaitskill, Denis Johnson, Jeff Koons, David Foster Wallace, Irvine Welsh, Terry Southern, Patrick McCabe, Sam Lipsyte, and David Berman. Edited by the writers Thomas Beller and Daniel Pinchbeck, and originally published by the late Robert Bingham, writing from Open City has been included in many ...

The Cult of the Atom: The Secret Papers of the Atomic Energy Commission

1 review
Daniel F Ford

Simon & Schuster, 1984

frightening account of the inner workings of Government
The Cult of the Atom is a frightening look at the inner workings of the Atomic Energy Commission, and it's successor, the Department of Energy. Very well researched, the author takes us on a journey of special interests, accidents, incidents, and the growing pains of a multi-zillion dollar industry. If evver you wondered about which side of the nuclear reactor debate to be on, this book will ...

Winesburg, Ohio
Sherwood Anderson

Caedmon, 2002

A timeless collection of short stories about an imaginary small town, unified by the presence of Winesburg Eagle reporter George Willard, Winesburg, Ohio is, as H.L. Mencken said upon it's publication in 1919, "...vivid, so full of insight, so shiningly life-like and glowing, that the book is lifted into a category all its own." Presented here by the leading lights of modern American letters, Winesburg, Ohio reverberates with the passion of ...

Blindness and Brain Plasticity in Navigation and Object Perception

Lawrence Erlbaum, 2007

Research into the development of sensory structures in the brains of blind or visually-impaired individuals has opened a window into important ways in which the mind works. In these individuals, the part of the brain that is usually devoted to processing visual information is given over to increased processing of the touch and hearing sense. This demonstration of brain plasticity is of great importance to cognitive neuroscientists and cognitive ...

Glen Edwards: The Diary of a Bomber Pilot

1 review

Warbird's Forum, 2008

captivating
The hardcover edition of Glen Edwards: The Diary of a Bomber Pilot was published by Smithsonian Institution Press in 1999 and was reviewed on Amazon in these words: "This book is nothing short of captivating. The author provides brief explanatory narratives to connect entries from Edwards' diaries, beginning with flight training, then combat in North Africa, and the early post-war years in ...

Incident at Muc Wa. A Novel of War in Southeast Asia.
Daniel Ford

Publisher Unknown, 1967

Incident at Muc Wa: A Novel of War in Southeast Asia

7 reviews
Daniel Ford

Backinprint.com, 2000

Extremely Satisfying Early Account
Ok, even though this happens to be a fictional account, and the names and places are completely fake, the description of events is extremely eerie and just plain dead-on for what became Vietnam. The book came out at a time when the war was still believed to be winnable, but Ford gives us an honest look at the unwinnable situation of Muc Wa, and what it did to its ever-loving and overwhelmed young ...

Glen Edwards: The Diary of a Bomber Pilot

5 reviews
Daniel Ford; Glen Edwards

Smithsonian Books, 1998

A fascinating portrait of an American hero.
This book is nothing short of captivating. The author provides brief explanatory narratives to connect entries from Edwards' diaries, beginning with flight training, then combat in North Africa, and the early post-war years in America. Just ferrying his airplane from the States to North Africa was a big adventure, considering the rather primitive nature of navigation aids and weather ...

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