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Everybody Eats Well in Belgium Cookbook

24 reviews
Ruth Van Waerebeek, Maria Robbins

Workman Publishing Company, 1996

Authentic
I am a Belgian living in the US and I bought this book in 1996. I vouched for it being authentic and still representative of how people cook today. Even busy families know that sitting together at the table at the end of the day is a great way to unwind and to strengthen the body and mind. They value the time to listen to each other while eating slowly (no tv or other distractions). My friends ...

The Guns of Victory: A Soldier's Eve View, Belgium, Holland, and Germany, 1944-45

10 reviews
George Blackburn

McClelland & Stewart, 1996

Brilliant Final Volume Of A Superb WW II Trilogy!
In this, the concluding chapter of Canadian war veteran George G. Blackburn's superb three-volume eyewitness history of our northern neighbor's involvement in the war in Europe, we find a truly stunning successor to the previous two volumes. As with "The Guns Of Normandy" volume, we discover a masterful narrative punctuating the combination of dramatic life and death struggles contrasted with ...

The Dead of Winter: How Battlefield Investigators, WWII Veterans, and Forensic Scientists Solved the Mystery ...

11 reviews
Bill Warnock

Chamberlain Bros., 2005

Exceptional!
This brilliantly written story follows the efforts of a group of people who dedicated themselves to locating the lost remains of the men who served with the 99th Infantry Division at the Battle of the bulge. THE DEAD OF WINTER begins with an introduction of two Belgian artifact hunters, Jean-Louis Seel and Jean-Philippe Speder who, in 1988, stumbled upon the remains and dog tags of an American ...

Brew Like a Monk: Trappist, Abbey, and Strong Belgian Ales and How to Brew Them

16 reviews
Stan Hieronymus

Brewers Publications, 2005

A Conversation around the Fire
Imagine that you-an experienced homebrewer-got to gather around a fire with some folks who had years of experience brewing versions of your favorite beer style. It would be hard to have a bad time, harder still not to come away a better brewer for it. This friendly, if somewhat disorderly book is just that conversation. I love the complexity and depth of belgian strong beers. Occasionally, by ...

Alamo in the Ardennes: The Untold Story of the American Soldiers Who Made the Defense of Bastogne Possible

18 reviews
John C. McManus

Wiley, 2007

Alamo in the Ardennes
Having just returned from Belgium to study the Battle of the Bulge, I wish I had read this before going as I passed through this area by way of the Skyline Drive without realizing the fighting which took place there by the 28th Division. A great volume to add to my W.W.II collection.

Eyewitness Travel Guide to Amsterdam

20 reviews
DK Publishing, DK Travel Writers

DK Travel, 1999

Great Travel Guide, Beautiful Coffee Table Book!
. Summary: Every Dorling Kindersley Guide has been a great and interesting book... and delightful to have and use, even if you are not traveling to that location, but are only interested in learning more! The Guides are well organized in a logical and easy to follow manner. They are beautifully illustrated, well developed with accurate information (it is unusual for hotel and restaurant ...

Frozen in Time: The Enduring Legacy of the 1961 U.S. Figure Skating Team

26 reviews
Nikki Nichols

Emmis Books, 2005

A friend remembered.....
I truly enjoyed this book. One of my best childhood friends died in the 1961 plane crash, her name was Laurence Owen. This book brought back many memories of a wonderful young girl taken far to soon. I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves Figure Skating. It gives insight to many of the wonderful people who died on that February day.

Amsterdam: A Traveler's Literary Companion

8 reviews

Whereabouts Press, 2001

Amsterdam for Readers
Anyone who has ever visited Amsterdam knows the curious magic of that city, its canal-lined streets, polyglot population, and unconventional mores. But few are aware of Amsterdam's rich literary life. Manfred Wolf brilliantly redresses that cultural gap in Amsterdam, A Traveler's Literary Companion. In what may be the best in an excellent series, Wolf, Professor of English at San Francisco State ...

Battle of the Bulge, then and now

10 reviews
Jean-Paul Pallud

Battle of Britain Prints International, 1989

In the Footsteps of the Combatants-History Relived!
As the title states, the objective of the Then and Now series is to bring history alive for the reader and traveler. In addition to the historical text, scenes depicted in actual combat movie film or still footage from both American and German forces are studied. The place where the film was taken is identified and another photo showing what the scene looks like today is juxtaposed along side the ...

The Deadliest Art (Provence)

8 reviews
Norman Bogner

Forge Books, 2001

Review of Deadliest Art & To Die In Provence
Some might have said that Norman Bogner was playing bad poker and attempting to draw to an inside straight when he wrote `To Die In Provence' in 1998. After all, he was a writer of mainstream fiction -- Seventh Avenue, The Madonna Complex, California Dreamers, among others - and the Provence book is a mystery. But after you read it you find it is much more than a mystery. The major characters, ...

Fort Eben Emael: The Key to Hitler's Victory in the West (Fortress)

7 reviews
Simon Dunstan

Osprey Publishing, 2005

Ain't no holt what caint be broke!
A wrestling coach of old was said to tell his wrestlers that there was no escape-proof lock, hold, or other technique in his sport. The same is true of military operations. Eban Emael was said to be impregnable--I forgot; was it politicians or newspapermen who made that claim? Germany exploited new techniques of war to conquer this Belgian fortress, and the Belgian Army appears to have ...

In Flanders fields;: The 1917 campaign

8 reviews
Leon Wolff

Ballantine Books, 1964

Take you back to a war now almost forgotton
I've read this book twice the last time being over ten years ago and its haunting images of slaughter on the battle are still vivid in my mind. Although I had read All Is Quiet On The Western Front previously, I was not prepared for what I read here- the senselessness of the killing was unimaginable. How in the world could General Haig (the British commander) and Field Marshall Foch (the ...

Spring Of The Ram (House of Niccolo, Book II)

7 reviews
Dorothy Dunnett

Knopf, 1988

Get Me on the Next Flight to Trabzond......
That was my reaction after reading this superb sequel to Niccolo Rising. Dunnett's blend of intricate plotting and historical depth is amazing. Here she concentrates on the little known period immediately after the conquest of Constantinople, when the Byzantine empire struggled to survive in a corner of the Black Sea. Their allies are possible more dangerous than their enemies, making a ...

A Tour of the Bulge Battlefield

8 reviews
William Cavanagh

Pen and Sword, 2001

A TOUR OF THE BULGE BATTLEFIELD
This is a must read for anyone interested in the history of the Battle of The Bulge. Will Cavanagh's latest book is a fascinating account of the battle. Take a ride in the Tiger Tanks of Kampfgruppe Pieper, feel the enthusiasm as they go on the counter offensive. Stand with the exhausted Americans, feel their terror and dread as they defend against the onslaught. All this is accomplished through ...

Mandie and the Mysterious Fisherman (Mandie, Book 19)

8 reviews
Lois Gladys Leppard

Bethany House Publishers, 1992

Great great great great!
This is a wonderful Mandie book. I put off reading it for a while, but then i did and i couldn't put it down! I read it in less than 2 days! The next country that Mandie, Jonathan, Celia, Senator Morton, and Mrs. Taft are scheduled to visit is Antwerp, Belgium. Once there, they find that a painting has been stolen from an art museum, and the thief cannot be found. Furthermore, Mandie and her ...

Panther vs Sherman: Battle of the Bulge 1944 (Duel)

6 reviews
Steven Zaloga

Osprey Publishing, 2008

Full of insights and the best of the Osprey "duel" series so far
In this readable, carefully-researched book, author Steven Zaloga carefully picks apart the conventional view that the Panther was superior to the Sherman. To begin with, the primary role of tanks was not tank-to-tank combat. When tank duels occurred they were decided more by who got the first shot than by gun power or armor protection. By late 1944, American crews generally had an edge in ...

Degas Must Have Loved a Dancer

6 reviews
Krista Madsen

Livingston Press (AL), 2003

Marvelous Madsen
Krista Madsen has a provocative voice on paper. Her work's a pleasure to read. Great debut book.

Paris - Lille - Brussels: The Bradt Guide to Eurostar Destinations

6 reviews
Laurence Phillips

Bradt Travel Guides, 2002

Hilarious, a great read!
I laughed out loud It is a long time since I have enjoyed a travel book so much that I laughed out loud. However, I have found myself smiling and chuckling on the metro each day since I picked up this hugely enjoyable read. The author provides us with plenty of invaluable tips on where to go and how to get there, with hundreds of restaurant and site reviews. But the great thing about this book is ...

Cheese

7 reviews
Willem Elsschot, Paul Vincent

Granta Books, 2002

Delectable!
Willem Elsschot was the pseudonym of Alfons De Ridder, who is widely considered a giant in Flemish literature. All of his works are very concise and "Cheese" is no different. Within a mere 126 pages, Elsschot humorously recounts the tale of Frans Laarmans, an ordinary clerk, who tries his hand vainly at the cheese business. Laarmans is a clerk with General Marine and Shipbuilding Company and is ...

Race of Scorpions

8 reviews
Dorothy Dunnett

Vintage, 1999

my review
On this, the third chapter in the Niccolo series, we fin Nicholas has been "kidnapped" by the 'presumptuous' King of Cyprus who is actually trying to recover his kingdom from his sister. Nicholas is able to help the king and at the same time obtain franchises in his dye works and sugar fields. He meets with Katelina, the mother of his only child, only to lose her once more after they reconcile. ...

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