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The daring, revolutionary NASA that sent Neil Armstrong to the moon has lost its meteoric vision, says journalist and space enthusiast Greg Klerkx. NASA, he contends, has devolved from a pioneer of space exploration into a factionalized bureaucracy focused primarily on its own survival. And as a result, humans haven’t ventured beyond Earth orbit for three decades. Klerkx argues that after its wildly successful Apollo program, NASA clung fiercely to the spotlight by creating a government-sheltered monopoly with a few Big Aerospace companies. Although committed in theory to supporting commercial spaceflight, in practice it smothered vital private-sector innovation. In striking descriptions of space milestones spanning the golden 1960s Space Age and the 2003 Columbia tragedy, Klerkx exposes the “real” NASA and envisions exciting public-private cooperation that could send humans back to the moon and beyond.

• Sales Rank: #3860833 in Books
• Published on: 2005-01-11
• Released on: 2005-01-11
• Original language: English
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In this sprawling and sometimes polemical account, Klerkx, formerly associated with the SETI Institute, excoriates what he sees as NASA's present-day loss of vision. During the Apollo program, NASA's goal was manned space exploration. But over the last 29 years, the agency has scaled down its vision, content to send unmanned missions to the other planets and keep human beings in earth orbit with the short-lived Skylab, the troubled shuttle fleet and the "money-gobbling" International Space Station. Klerkx draws out some of the threads in the tangled web that connects the perpetually feuding NASA fiefdoms, NASA's major suppliers (and major congressional contributors), like Boeing, and the politicians who write the checks. He believes that private-sector entrepreneurs will wrest future space exploration away from the self-serving NASA bureaucracy, which too often views space in terms of military and strategic applications. Klerkx presents the nouveaux riches businessmen investing millions in space-related projects, like Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Elon Musk, founder of Paypal, as well as eccentric visionaries like Robert Zubrin and his Mars Society. The Columbia disaster hangs over Klerkx's tale like a dark shadow.. Some readers may think Klerkx is still under the spell of his boyhood dream of being an astronaut and giving short shrift to arguments against human space exploration. But readers who share Klerkx's dream will be captivated by his vision of what needs to be done to resume manned space flights and of what humankind is capable of achieving.
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What happened to the promising Space Age of 30 years ago? Klerkx offers a compelling if biased critique of NASA and its benefactors in Lost in Space. He delves into insider politics, showing how NASA bows to its major suppliers and congressional contributors. The result? Instead of Klerkx's claimed colonies on Mars, we have an unfinished, increasingly costly space station. The narrative generally flows well, even with some confusing acronyms, heavy financial issues, and erroneous history. The bigger issue is Klerkx's bias. Although he researched NASA's competitors and focused on two private endeavors, he did not interview NASA officials, weakening his indictment of the agency. Still, he's largely correct about the direction of our current Space Age efforts: spend your down payment on that Mars home elsewhere.

Copyright © 2004 Phillips & Nelson Media, Inc.

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Wedded to the space shuttle and the International Space Station, NASA long ago lost its Apollo-era elan. Klerkx is familiar with the organization because of his work with the search-for-extraterrestrial-intelligence program. Here he rambles through a variety of explanations for the dissipation of NASA's ability to excite public interest in its space programs. He interviews a number of dissatisfied employees, often ex-NASA engineers with entrepreneurial schemes. Inevitably, a tone of exasperation creeps into Klerkx's presentation, but more of lamentation than condemnation. Describing numerous examples of the conflict between private enterprise and NASA, Klerkx shows how NASA's institutional resistance to the commercialization of human space flight is a fundamental impediment to re-energizing the space program. NASA is, after all, a government bureaucracy beholden to congressional barons and its client contractors--a classic example of a Washington iron triangle that upholds the status quo rather than the public interest. Chock-full of interesting activity in the so-called alternative-space community, Klerkx's situation report, while critical, does possess enough optimism to encourage space enthusiasts. Gilbert Taylor
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7 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Capitalizing on Columbia
By Eric B. Smith
When I purchased this book, I expected another viewpoint on the NASA culture that contributed to the Columbia accident. This is not that type of book. I suspect that this book was in the works well before 01 February 2003. The timing of the book's publication, however, was not an accident.

Mr. Klerkx has an ax to grind. In summary, the book is pro-private rocket launches, pro-space tourism, and pro-manned Mars mission. Which means the book uses 355 pages to show how NASA is not the proper government agency to sponsor and support such activities. Some very neat parallels are drawn between the early commercial aviation industry and the X Prize and SpaceShipOne. Unfortunately, the story always comes back around to bashing NASA, its current and recent leadership, and the current presidential administration.

Read this book only if you want to see some NASA bashing. If you want to learn about private efforts to reach space and the effort to prepare for manned travel to Mars, find a different book.

6 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Pointed Ax-Grinding
By Robert I. Hedges
When I purchased this book, I expected a thoughtful analysis of managerial and oversight failure. I am supremely disappointed to report that in this book NASA can do no right. I approached this book with my own opinions: NASA has lost focus, has lost funding, and has lost the technological edge. Much of this has been due to political hacks running their pet pork through NASA and ignoring NASA's real mission, all the while cutting funding for programs to levels where virtually nothing can be effectively accomplished. I wouldn't say that Klerkx disagrees with that point of view per se; he does appear, however, to have a major ax to grind with management.

In the view of Klerkx, it is time for NASA to let loose the reins of manned spaceflight, and allow private corporations go into space on their own. He presents his case that NASA stifles competition at every juncture while making his claims of incredible capitalistic prosperity in space. What he then goes on to claim, in an irresolvable paradox, is that NASA needs free market competition in manned spaceflight, but that because the required investment is so huge, no private company could afford it. His solution involves privatizing the shuttle and ISS. So let me see if I have this straight...he wants the US to foot the bill to develop manned spaceflight capabilities, but then just give it away? He doesn't say it quite that bluntly, but a large portion of the book details essentially that viewpoint.

He tends to vilify many NASA managers, some deservedly (like Dan Goldin), and some not. He also embraces some of the most arrogant and obnoxious of all the alternative space gurus, particularly the seemingly insufferable Robert Zubrin, although to his credit, he does adequately detail the personality conflicts that go everywhere Zubrin goes. He also adulates the Space Hab on Devon Island as doing extremely valuable research for Mars preparation. It may be fun to dress up in toy spacesuits and ride ATVs around in the arctic mud, but I hate to break it to you, Greg: Mars isn't like Devon Island, and this is basically Space Camp for ubernerds.

High on my list of issues with the book is the willingness to accept any data presented by the alternative space movement while simultaneously disregarding much of NASA's data. He repeats the mantra of low cost access to space endorsed by the alternative space movement that a truly low-cost, reusable vehicle is feasible, with claims of costs as low as $500-$1,000/lb for orbital insertion, versus $3,000/lb on a disposable launcher and $10,000/lb on the shuttle. I guess he wasn't paying attention in the early 1970s when the Nixon, Ford, and especially Carter administrations were preaching this exact same miracle of cost effectiveness for the shuttle.

Another theme permeating the book is that "normal" people should fly in space at a reasonable cost. Towards the end of the book, he even espouses the view that shuttle passengers don't really need training to go into orbit with the convoluted reasoning that 777 passengers don't need to know how to fly the plane in an emergency. That's true: of course neither do the shuttle payload specialists know how to fly the orbiter. At a half-billion dollars per launch, I think it is only responsible of NASA to expect that everyone onboard is put to some productive use. (This goes hand in glove with the adulation of Dennis Tito that runs throughout the book.)

The closing chapter is the weakest of the bunch, a trend which other reviewers have also noted. It essentially combines a lot of platitudes about the future with no concrete recommendations on how to help NASA (though there are a few pie in the sky theories aired.) There are lots of things I would like to take NASA to task for, notably the huge lack of focus in the shuttle and ISS, but at least I am willing to admit that NASA has strengths too, a virtually unimaginable concept to Klerkx. Only in the last pages of the book among much adulation for the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute does the real motivation of Klerkx become evident. In a passage dealing with the cancellation of the DC-X (which actually was a shame) he laments that the Stockholm Institute claims that in 2001 the governments of the world spent $772 billion on defense (although many institutions not as politically far left estimate a much lower figure.) Klerkx is dismayed that US spending allegedly accounts for a third of that, and laments this waste (without mentioning, of course, that the US provides about three quarters of all the world's peacekeeping forces.) His true colors as an anti-government, anti-military leftist become apparent, and make his vehemently anti-NASA stance then appear for what it is. The best illustration is the following passage which speaks for itself: "It may well be that one of the best, and most optimistically subversive, uses of military spending is to pursue better, cheaper and more reliable spacecraft. After all, the $60 million the military spent on the DC-X...kept at least $60 million from being spent on bombs." It finally all makes sense: Klerkx spends the whole book railing on government based development programs, then complaining when they are cancelled; the truth is he wants the government to pay for the development and hardware, and then give it all away. I'm sorry Mr. Klerkx: the real world doesn't work that way. (Heaven forbid the military would have anything to do with it, after all they only sponsored most of the programs, including the shuttle in part.)

The book gets two stars for presenting some interesting information, but if I had to do it over again I would have never bought this book or wasted my time reading it. NASA has problems, but none are as big as the holes in this book.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
A Condemnation of NASA and a Celebration of Private Space Ventures
By Roger D. Launius
Greg Klerkx, a journalist who has covered NASA at times, offers in "Lost in Space" a quirky, idiosyncratic perspective on the U.S. space effort. It is one of several works that periodically appear taking NASA to the woodshed for failures, both real and perceived, that have prevented the accomplishment of a grand vision of space exploration. Of course, that "grand vision" is highly idiosyncratic and Klerkx's vision is certainly idiosyncratic as well. For Greg Klerkx, the grand vision of space exploration should lead to a renaissance for our species as we become a multiplanetary species, but it has been subverted by the military-industrial complex, government bureaucrats, and small minded politicians.

For Greg Klerkx, NASA is little more than a poorly-run government bureaucracy more concerned with self-preservation than in extending the space frontier. He invokes conspiracies too often to explain what has happened in spaceflight since the Apollo program, and condemns the relationship between NASA and its predominant contractors. Klerkx celebrates the private space entrepreneurs who have been pursuing the X-Prize, the Mars Society's analogue for Martian habitats at Devon Island, and MirCorps' efforts to privatize the Mir space station in the 2000 time frame. Through those efforts, Klerkx believes, NASA's monopoly on space activities may end. And it cannot come too soon for the author of "Lost in Space."

"Lost in Space" represents the view of a small but vocal group of space advocates who bemoan the current state of space activities in the United States. Brought up on the promises of Apollo in the 1960s, Moon habitats and space stations where tourists could travel, and possibilities for an endless frontier beyond Earth, these folks lament what might have been. Greg Klerkx offers a voice to their distemper.

Without question, "Lost in Space" is remarkably one-sided. NASA is neither so sinister nor as self-interested as the author believes. As presented here, NASA can do essentially nothing right but Klerkx's prowse seems to celebrate the alternative space community as incapable of doing no wrong.

"Lost in Space" presents a passionate discussion, sometimes fascinating and illuminating, but also carping and repetitive. It is certainly far from balanced. I recognize that balance was not necessarily Klerkx's objective and I agree with many of his criticisms of NASA, but sometimes his zeal to indict the space agency overreaches his evidence. As a challenge to the status quo this is an eloquent addition to the literature. Just don't take it as the final word on the subject.

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The complexity and range of Robert Louis Stevenson’s short fiction reveals his genius perhaps more than any other medium. Here, leading Stevenson scholar Barry Menikoff arranges and introduces the complete selection of Stevenson’s brilliant stories, including the famed masterpiece Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, as well as “The Beach of Falesá” and Stevenson’s previously uncollected stories. Arthur Conan Doyle has written that “[Stevenson’s] short stories are certain to retain their position in English literature. His serious rivals are few indeed.”

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The complexity and range of Robert Louis Stevenson's short fiction reveals his genius perhaps more than any other medium. Here, leading Stevenson scholar Barry Menikoff arranges and introduces the complete selection of Stevenson's brilliant stories, including the famed masterpiece "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, as well as "The Beach of Falesa" and Stevenson's previously uncollected stories. Arthur Conan Doyle has written that "[Stevenson's] short stories are certain to retain their position in English literature. His serious rivals are few indeed."
This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes explanatory notes, a Scots' Glossary, and a unique appendix dedicated to Stevenson's influence on the "Oxford English Dictionary.

About the Author
Barry Menikoff is a professor of English and American literature at the University of Hawaii and one of the world’s leading authorities on Robert Louis Stevenson. He also edited the Modern Library Paperback Classics edition of Kidnapped.

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Chapter 1

New Arabian Nights
The Suicide Club
Story of the Young Man with the Cream Tarts

During his residence in London, the accomplished Prince Florizel of Bohemia gained the affection of all classes by the seduction of his manner and by a well-considered generosity. He was a remarkable man even by what was known of him; and that was but a small part of what he actually did. Although of a placid temper in ordinary circumstances, and accustomed to take the world with as much philosophy as any ploughman, the Prince of Bohemia was not without a taste for ways of life more adventurous and eccentric than that to which he was destined by his birth. Now and then, when he fell into a low humour, when there was no laughable play to witness in any of the London theatres, and when the season of the year was unsuitable to those field sports in which he excelled all competitors, he would summon his confidant and Master of the Horse, Colonel Geraldine, and bid him prepare himself against an evening ramble. The Master of the Horse was a young officer of a brave and even temerarious disposition. He greeted the news with delight, and hastened to make ready. Long practice and a varied acquaintance of life had given him a singular facility in disguise; he could adapt not only his face and bearing, but his voice and almost his thoughts, to those of any rank, character, or nation; and in this way he diverted attention from the Prince, and sometimes gained admission for the pair into strange societies. The civil authorities were never taken into the secret of these adventures; the imperturbable courage of the one and the ready invention and chivalrous devotion of the other had brought them through a score of dangerous passes; and they grew in confidence as time went on.

One evening in March they were driven by a sharp fall of sleet into an Oyster Bar in the immediate neighbourhood of Leicester Square. Colonel Geraldine was dressed and painted to represent a person connected with the Press in reduced circumstances; while the Prince had, as usual, travestied his appearance by the addition of false whiskers and a pair of large adhesive eyebrows. These lent him a shaggy and weather-beaten air, which, for one of his urbanity, formed the most impenetrable disguise. Thus equipped, the commander and his satellite sipped their brandy and soda in security.

The bar was full of guests, male and female; but though more than one of these offered to fall into talk with our adventurers, none of them promised to grow interesting upon a nearer acquaintance. There was nothing present but the lees of London and the commonplace of disrespectability; and the Prince had already fallen to yawning, and was beginning to grow weary of the whole excursion, when the swing doors were pushed violently open, and a young man, followed by a couple of commissionaires, entered the bar. Each of the commissionaires carried a large dish of cream tarts under a cover, which they at once removed; and the young man made the round of the company, and pressed these confections upon everyone's acceptance with an exaggerated courtesy. Sometimes his offer was laughingly accepted; sometimes it was firmly, or even harshly, rejected. In these latter cases the newcomer always ate the tart himself, with some more or less humorous commentary.

At last he accosted Prince Florizel.

"Sir," said he, with a profound obeisance, proffering the tart at the same time between his thumb and forefinger, "will you so far honour an entire stranger? I can answer for the quality of the pastry, having eaten two dozen and three of them myself since five o'clock."

"I am in the habit," replied the Prince, "of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered."

"The spirit, sir," returned the young man, with another bow, "is one of mockery."

"Mockery?" repeated Florizel. "And whom do you propose to mock?"

"I am not here to expound my philosophy," replied the other, "but to distribute these cream tarts. If I mention that I heartily include myself in the ridicule of the transaction, I hope you will consider honour satisfied and condescend. If not, you will constrain me to eat my twenty-eighth, and I own to being weary of the exercise."

"You touch me," said the Prince, "and I have all the will in the world to rescue you from this dilemma, but upon one condition. If my friend and I eat your cakes-for which we have neither of us any natural inclination-we shall expect you to join us at supper by way of recompense."

The young man seemed to reflect.

"I have still several dozen upon hand," he said at last; "and that will make it necessary for me to visit several more bars before my great affair is concluded. This will take some time; and if you are hungry--"

The Prince interrupted him with a polite gesture.

"My friend and I will accompany you," he said; "for we have already a deep interest in your very agreeable mode of passing an evening. And now that the preliminaries of peace are settled, allow me to sign the treaty for both."

And the Prince swallowed the tart with the best grace imaginable.

"It is delicious," said he.

"I perceive you are a connoisseur," replied the young man.

Colonel Geraldine likewise did honour to the pastry; and everyone in that bar having now either accepted or refused his delicacies, the young man with the cream tarts led the way to another and similar establishment. The two commissionaires, who seemed to have grown accustomed to their absurd employment, followed immediately after; and the Prince and the Colonel brought up the rear, arm in arm, and smiling to each other as they went. In this order the company visited two other taverns, where scenes were enacted of a like nature to that already described-some refusing, some accepting, the favours of this vagabond hospitality, and the young man himself eating each rejected tart.

On leaving the third saloon the young man counted his store. There were but nine remaining, three in one tray and six in the other.

"Gentlemen," said he, addressing himself to his two new followers, "I am unwilling to delay your supper. I am positively sure you must be hungry. I feel that I owe you a special consideration. And on this great day for me, when I am closing a career of folly by my most conspicuously silly action, I wish to behave handsomely to all who give me countenance. Gentlemen, you shall wait no longer. Although my constitution is shattered by previous excesses, at the risk of my life I liquidate the suspensory condition."

With these words he crushed the nine remaining tarts into his mouth, and swallowed them at a single movement each. Then, turning to the commissionaires, he gave them a couple of sovereigns.

"I have to thank you," said he, "for your extraordinary patience."

And he dismissed them with a bow apiece. For some seconds he stood looking at the purse from which he had just paid his assistants, then, with a laugh, he tossed it into the middle of the street, and signified his readiness for supper.

In a small French restaurant in Soho, which had enjoyed an exaggerated reputation for some little while, but had already begun to be forgotten, and in a private room up two pair of stairs, the three companions made a very elegant supper, and drank three or four bottles of champagne, talking the while upon indifferent subjects. The young man was fluent and gay, but he laughed louder than was natural in a person of polite breeding; his hands trembled violently, and his voice took sudden and surprising inflections, which seemed to be independent of his will. The dessert had been cleared away, and all three had lighted their cigars, when the Prince addressed him in these words:

"You will, I am sure, pardon my curiosity. What I have seen of you has greatly pleased but even more puzzled me. And though I should be loth to seem indiscreet, I must tell you that my friend and I are persons very well worthy to be entrusted with a secret. We have many of our own, which we are continually revealing to improper ears. And if, as I suppose, your story is a silly one, you need have no delicacy with us, who are two of the silliest men in England. My name is Godall, Theophilus Godall; my friend is Major Alfred Hammersmith-or at least, such is the name by which he chooses to be known. We pass our lives entirely in the search for extravagant adventures; and there is no extravagance with which we are not capable of sympathy."

"I like you, Mr. Godall," returned the young man; "you inspire me with a natural confidence; and I have not the slightest objection to your friend the Major, whom I take to be a nobleman in masquerade. At least, I am sure he is no soldier."

The Colonel smiled at this compliment to the perfection of his art; and the young man went on in a more animated manner.

"There is every reason why I should not tell you my story. Perhaps that is just the reason why I am going to do so. At least, you seem so well prepared to hear a tale of silliness that I cannot find it in my heart to disappoint you. My name, in spite of your example, I shall keep to myself. My age is not essential to the narrative. I am descended from my ancestors by ordinary generation, and from them I inherited the very eligible human tenement which I still occupy and a fortune of three hundred pounds a year. I suppose they also handed on to me a harebrain humour, which it has been my chief delight to indulge. I received a good education. I can play the violin nearly well enough to earn money in the orchestra of a penny gaff, but not quite. The same remark applies to the flute and the French horn. I learned enough of whist to lose about a hundred a year at that scientific game. My acquaintance with French was sufficient to enable me to squander money in Paris with almost the same facility as in London. In short, I am a person full of manly accomplishments. I have had every sort of adventure, including a duel about nothing. Only two months ago I met a young lady exactly suited to my taste in mind and body; I found my heart melt; I saw that I had come upon my fate at last, and was in the way to fall in love. But when I came to reckon up what remained to me of my capital, I found it amounted to something less than four hundred pounds! I ask you fairly-can a man who respects himself fall in love on four hundred pounds? I concluded, certainly not; left the presence of my charmer, and slightly accelerating my usual rate of expenditure, came this morning to my last eighty pounds. This I divided into two equal parts; forty I reserved for a particular purpose; the remaining forty I was to dissipate before the night. I have passed a very entertaining day, and played many farces besides that of the cream tarts which procured me the advantage of your acquaintance; for I was determined, as I told you, to bring a foolish career to a still more foolish conclusion; and when you saw me throw my purse into the street, the forty pounds were at an end. Now you know me as well as I know myself: a fool but consistent in his folly; and, as I will ask you to believe, neither a whimperer nor a coward."

From the whole tone of the young man's statement it was plain that he harboured very bitter and contemptuous thoughts about himself. His auditors were led to imagine that his love affair was nearer his heart than he admitted, and that he had a design on his own life. The farce of the cream tarts began to have very much the air of a tragedy in disguise.

"Why, is this not odd," broke out Geraldine, giving a look to Prince Florizel, "that we three fellows should have met by the merest accident in so large a wilderness as London, and should be so nearly in the same condition?"

"How?" cried the young man. "Are you, too, ruined? Is this supper a folly like my cream tarts? Has the devil brought three of his own together for a last carouse?"

"The devil, depend upon it, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing," returned Prince Florizel; "and I am so much touched by this coincidence, that, although we are not entirely in the same case, I am going to put an end to the disparity. Let your heroic treatment of the last cream tarts be my example."

So saying, the Prince drew out his purse and took from it a small bundle of bank-notes.

"You see, I was a week or so behind you, but I mean to catch you up and come neck and neck into the winningpost," he continued. "This," laying one of the notes upon the table, "will suffice for the bill. As for the rest--"

He tossed them into the fire, and they went up the chimney in a single blaze.

The young man tried to catch his arm, but as the table was between them his interference came too late.

"Unhappy man," he cried, "you should not have burned them all! You should have kept forty pounds."

"Forty pounds!" repeated the Prince. "Why, in heaven's name, forty pounds?"

"Why not eighty?" cried the Colonel; "for to my certain knowledge there must have been a hundred in the bundle."

"It was only forty pounds he needed," said the young man gloomily. "But without them there is no admission. The rule is strict. Forty pounds for each. Accursed life, where a man cannot even die without money!"

The Prince and the Colonel exchanged glances.

"Explain yourself," said the latter. "I have still a pocketbook tolerably well lined, and I need not say how readily I should share my wealth with Godall. But I must know to what end: you must certainly tell us what you mean."

The young man seemed to awaken; he looked uneasily from one to the other, and his face flushed deeply.

"You are not fooling me?" he asked. "You are indeed ruined men like me?"

"Indeed, I am for my part," replied the Colonel.

"And for mine," said the Prince, "I have given you proof. Who but a ruined man would throw his notes into the fire? The action speaks for itself."

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This volume brings together all Stevenson's short stories and novellas. Yes, it doesn't have his full-length works such as The Black Arrow, Kidnapped, Treasure Island, etc., but I disagree with the reviewer who gave it two stars on that account. As far as I know, in common usage, the term "stories" means short stories, and doesn't encompass "novels."

I've read "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" more times than I can remember, and never tire of it. Nothing else in this volume is quite as memorable--there's a reason Jekyll and Hyde is his best-known work. But Stevenson is one of the great stylists of the English language, and the rest of the stories are just as superbly written. Many of the stories are comic, many are action-packed, and all are eminently enjoyable. I particularly like "The Bottle Imp" and "Will o'the Mill." The introduction by Barry Menikoff provides an appreciative analysis of Stevenson's work, and the notes to each story are helpful.

This edition is preferable to The Complete Short Stories Of Robert Louis Stevenson: With A Selection Of The Best Short Novels, edited by Charles Neider. The latter is a good bit more expensive, while inexplicably leaving out a number of stories.

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Stevenson: a genius. Very engaging, very smart. If you're new to Stevenson, start with Jekyll & Hyde.
The book: Good paper quality, and binding. Not the best in the world, but very good value for the money.
I bought it as a present, and liked it so much I bought it for myself too :)
In short, a must if you're interested in 19th century fiction.

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I'm currently reading this book and I've really enjoyed it so far. I thought I'd take a look on here to see what other people thought, and to my surprise, there were no reviews. Well, I'm here to fix that.

I picked this up mainly because I wanted to read Jeckyll & Hyde, which turned out to be an entertaining (and also thought provoking) tale. I've read several of the other short stories over the past few weeks, and they're all well done. If you're even a little interested in Stevenson, I recommend taking a look at this edition. You get a great price, plenty of stories, and a cool-looking cover to boot--can't beat it!

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Civilization might have been spared much of the damage suffered in the world wars this century if the influence of Clausewitz's On War  had been blended with and balanced by a knowledge of Sun-tzu's The Art of Warfare.  --B.H. Liddel Hart

For two thousand years, Sun-tzu's The Art of Warfare was the indispensable volume of warcraft. Although his work is the first known analysis of war and warfare, Sun-tzu struck upon a thoroughly modern concept: "The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."        Karl von Clausewitz, the canny military theorist who famously declared that war is a continuation of politics by other means, also claims paternity of the notion "total war."   His is the magnum opus of the era of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic vars.

Now these two great military minds are made to share the same tent, metaphorically speaking, in The Book of War. What a bivouac it is, and what a conversation into the night.

Military writer Ralph Peters has written a new Introduction for this Modern Library edition.

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Civilization might have been spared much of the damage suffered in the world wars this century if the influence of Clausewitz's "On War had been blended with and balanced by a knowledge of Sun-tzu's "The Art of Warfare. --B.H. Liddel Hart
For two thousand years, Sun-tzu's The Art of Warfare was the indispensable volume of warcraft. Although his work is the first known analysis of war and warfare, Sun-tzu struck upon a thoroughly modern concept: "The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." Karl von Clausewitz, the canny military theorist who famously declared that war is a continuation of politics by other means, also claims paternity of the notion "total war." His is the magnum opus of the era of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic vars.
Now these two great military minds are made to share the same tent, metaphorically speaking, in The Book of War. What a bivouac it is, and what a conversation into the night.
Military writer Ralph Peters has written a new Introduction for this Modern Library edition.

About the Author
Sun-tzu lived in China in the fourth century B.C., serving as a court minister during the "Warring States" period. He delivered his pronouncements about war over the course of his career, but his words were recorded by other hands. Karl Von Clausewitz (1780-1831) was a Prussian soldier who fought in the Moscow campaigns of 1812 and 1813. He spent over a dozen years writing On War, dying before his book saw publication in 1832.

Ralph Peters is a retired army officer and the author of a noted book on strategy, Fighting for the Future: Will American Triumph?  He is also the author of the novels  The Devil's Garden and Traitor.

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THE SEEKER AND THE SAGE

Ralph Peters

This book allies humankind's two most powerful works on warfare. Distant in time, space, and culture, Karl von Clausewitz and Sun-tzu offer dueling visions, with the Prussian appalled by fantasies of bloodless war and the Chinese crying that bloodless victory is the acme of generalship, and with Clausewitz anxious to increase military effectiveness, while Sun-tzu pleads, cleverly, for military restraint. Such discord assures their relevance to our time.

There is also plentiful agreement between Clausewitz's On War and Sun-tzu's The Art of Warfare, from their mutual vilification of heads of state who attempt to micro-manage distant battles to their similar emphasis on the key role of the commander. In the end-and I speak as a soldier, after decades of consideration--these two books complete each other, like a perfect couple formed of opposites. Between them, the two texts cover myriad aspects of the human experience of war-as well as reflecting the temperaments of their divergent civilizations. Clausewitz, the Western man, sought the grail of knowledge and found the pursuit endless, bottomless, and obsessive, while the Eastern sage who wrote down the sayings attributed to Sun-tzu polished what he knew until it shone. Each attained the universal, transcending personality and the particularity of experience. In the study of warfare, they have no peers, and these works remain the brightest lanterns we have to light our darkest endeavor.

The Western text embraces war's necessity, while the Eastern one despairs of its inevitability, but they are united by the recognition that the human remains at the heart of each combat encounter and every campaign. Each holds a flank in our approach to war: Clausewitz is the apostle of the relentless will, convinced there is no substitute for victory, while Sun-tzu seems a closet pacifist, wary of victory's hollowness. The first sought to sharpen the sword, the second to restrain it. The Prussian saw the power of the armed mass, while the Chinese pitied the suffering of the common man. Sun-tzu believed that the outcome of a campaign was predictable, but Clausewitz insisted that, although the odds can be improved, risk is inherent in warfare. This debate across millennia continues today, and placing these two works together highlights the strengths and weaknesses-and the inestimable value--of each book.

Each must be read. No cram notes will do, and summaries badly serve their genius. Clausewitz appears difficult, only to yield a hard, thrilling clarity; while Sun-tzu, a quick swallow, takes a lifetime to digest. One text is long, the other appealingly short. Both are inexhaustible.

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28 of 29 people found the following review helpful.
The starting places for understanding strategy and war
By Dianne Roberts
If you had to name the two most fundamental works on the nature of war Clausewitz and Sun Tzu would immediately come to mind. Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War would perhaps be the only other text nipping on the heels of the two included in here. Providing both in one book is a great idea. The superb editing of the texts and the inclusion of a cogent introduction by Ralph Peters makes this a truly valuable collection to anyone who wishes to understand war and the strategies that guide how it is fought.

Both Sun Tzu's and Clausewitz's texts are presented "unabridged" (in as much as Sun Tzu's work, actually a collection of writers over a good period of time, can be), and with some additional chapters that explains the context of the times in which both were written. This makes this book one of the "purest" examples a reader can obtain of both these influential texts. All of this copious thought from two very different civilizations and very disparate times is neatly prefaced by an insightful introduction by Ralph Peters entitled the "Seeker and the Sage" that is also recreated in his book "Beyond Terror." Whereas Sun Tzu is relatively simple to read (although its simplicity of writing belies its sophistication of thought and it cannot practically be processed as quickly as it can be read) Clausewitz is almost impossible to read, especially in its unabridged form, without some explanation first. Clausewitz's "On War" was never finished, indeed war can never be understood by the finite mental powers of any single individual. It is instead more along the lines of a long kept notebook of a "seeker" who never stopped trying to explore and understand his subject, with some preparation into eventual book form before his premature death. Clausewitz did not solely reside in the halls of theory and academia either, but was a field and staff officer deeply steeped in Prussian military tradition who fought Napoleon personally, both for the Prussians and the Russians, and who also suffered a two year incarceration by French forces. With the bitter taste of experience his work is directed towards soldiers who had seen war, the only people he felt stood any chance of even beginning to grasp its nature. His writing is in the thick, difficult to navigate manner of his time (definitely not fun reading) but it is also surprisingly passionate and vividly poetic. Although a heavy slog to read he is not leaden.

While Sun Tzu is the easier read, Clausewitz's thought will be the most readily accessible to a westerner. It is written in a very explanatory and exploratory manner, of someone trying to progress linearly through the nature of war. His "conclusions" (if an unfinished work can have any) are unrelenting: War is the imposition of your will upon another by means of force; war boils ineluctably down to the destruction of the enemy's forces, his means to resist; there is a trinity between the government, people, and military forces of a nation-state, and if you break that trinity you will break your opponent's ability to fight; War is the realm of friction, fog, and chance, there is no riskier endeavor in human history and none more subject to the unplanned for and unforeseeable intervention of fate. Clausewitz examines his subject in excruciating breadth and detail, which has falsely lead some to cast his entire work as outdated when only large, but by far not the most significant, portions of it are anachronistic to the form on Napoleonic warfare in 19th century continental Europe, such as sections on the use of Cavalry and on forest or mountain fighting. It would be a grave mistake to ignore his wider lessons on war, or to ignore his especially brilliant sections on the nature of leadership in warfare and the interaction between his trinity of government, people, and military forces.

Whereas Clausewitz has a heavy emphasis on the use of Strategy to plan engagements to destroy your enemy's forces, Sun Tzu has an alternative focus which at first blush seems rather contradictory, the use of strategy to destroy your enemy's plan, preferably without fighting. But this comes down to the same breaking of your enemy's trinity that Clausewitz touches upon. Nor is it pacific as some have claimed, but, as Ralph Peters points out, an Eastern inversion of "war is politics by other means" to "politics is war by other means." Sun Tzu, Peter's Sage to Clausewitz Seeker, is in reality a collection of wisdom from multiple sources over a long period of time. These gems of thought are not explained like Clausewitz but simply stated, giving them the element of easy acceptance but difficult comprehension. Given their compendium nature they also frequently contradict on a superficial level, because the context of how each was derived and when each is best applied is left out. But Sun Tzu is a work of brilliance equal to, and possibly superior, to Clausewitz. Possibly superior if for no other reason than it, through the influence of such recent military strategist as Col. John Boyd, has likely had more influence on the recent design and execution of US military operations than Clausewitz.

The major differences between the content of Clausewitz and Sun Tzu in the end are not disagreements on the nature of war. Whereas Sun Tzu attempts to emphasize the ability to break your enemy's trinity with avoiding an engagement of forces (a realization of Clausewitz's friction and chance inherent in conflict and that the commitment of forces inevitably reduces power and strategic flexibility) Clausewitz despairs of these possibilities and thus gives them short shrift. For in the paradoxical logical of Strategy, if your side feels it can best impose its will by avoiding armed conflict your opponent should realize this and decide his best chance of imposing his will is by forcing it.

A highly recommended book.

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By Chris Bassford
This is a really nice pairing of two superior texts--i.e., the most scrupulous and accurate translation of Carl von Clausewitz's famous, crucially important theoretical work ON WAR and the most modern and complete text of Sun Tzu's ART OF WAR. Both are introduced by the always entertaining and well informed modern soldier-scholar Ralph Peters. Roger Ames' edition of Sun Tzu is based on superb scholarship, including study of the ancient Sun Tzu texts--containing previously missing material--unearthed by archaeologists in China. The translation of Clausewitz is the one done by German literary scholar Otto Jolles at the University of Chicago in 1943. The un-military Jolles' primary motivation in doing this translation was to avoid being drafted by the US Army for World War II, so he had no military-theoretical biases or personal axes to grind. He was, however, highly literate in the German of Clausewitz's era (he was a specialist on Schiller) and his British father-in-law (also an academic) worked to polish Jolles' English. Indeed, the only accurate criticism made of this translation concerns the erroneous spelling of Clausewitz's first name with a 'K'--a decision almost certainly made not by Jolles but by the publishers to emphasize Clausewitz's German-ness. One can, however, criticize the writer of the book's back cover: Clausewitz did not use the term "total war," was not the author of that concept as it was applied in the 20th century, and would have sneered at the total-war theorists' inversion of the relationship between policy and strategy. General Erich Ludendorff, one of the principal authors of total-war thinking, clearly articulated the nature of the contradiction between Clausewitz's ideas and his own. Jolles' translation is consistently more precise than the more commonly used Howard/Paret translation (Princeton, 1976), though both versions are uneven. While the latter is often praised, I suspect that most of those who claim it to be "more readable" are comparing it to the ancient (1873) Graham translation, not to the superior but hard-to-find Jolles version. In any case, readability at the expense of accuracy is a poor trade.

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The Princeton Review realizes that acing the GRE Math Test is very different from getting straight A’s in school. We don't try to teach you everything there is to know about math–only the techniques you'll need to score higher on the test. There's a big difference. In Cracking the GRE Math Test, we'll teach you how to think like the test writers and

·Eliminate answer choices that look right but are planted to fool you
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This book includes one full-length practice GRE Math Test. All of our practice questions are like the ones you’ll see on the actual GRE Math Test, and we fully explain every solution.

• Sales Rank: #1473204 in Books
• Published on: 2002-09-17
• Released on: 2002-09-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 10.85" h x 1.12" w x 8.38" l,
• Binding: Paperback
• 464 pages

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The Princeton Review realizes that acing the GRE Math Test is very different from getting straight A's in school. We don't try to teach you everything there is to know about math–only the techniques you'll need to score higher on the test. There's a big difference. In Cracking the GRE Math Test, we'll teach you how to think like the test writers and

·Eliminate answer choices that look right but are planted to fool you
·Raise your score by focusing on the material most likely to appear on the test
·Test your knowledge with review questions for each math topic covered

This book includes one full-length practice GRE Math Test. All of our practice questions are like the ones you'll see on the actual GRE Math Test, and we fully explain every solution.

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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful.
good for refresh. but CURRENT ACUTAL GRE is MUCH harder
By Jun Won Lee
I reviewed this book more than 3 times before the exam.

After that, I felt somewhat confident about the exam.

but actual exam I took today(4/2, 2005) showed that

the real exam is much much harder than this well -writen

practice book. Some advanced topic, topology,real anaylsis,

abstract algrebra is way way hard. You better review or study with actual textbook.

DON'T prepare for the exam with ONLY THIS BOOK.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
very good prep book
By fh
I took the GRE math subject with this book as my only preparation. It prepared me well.
The book provides many examples. I recommend working through them, and comparing your answers with provided solutions. The book is short enough that you can work through it in a week, but comprehensive that it covers just about all the topics you will see on the Math subject test. It was in fact a good experience for me to review all the things I learned in college, and saw that there are a couple big themes and they all fit nicely together.
The book contains a few typos. Also, I didn't see any questions on the actual test from the topics covered in the last chapter (additional topics). But that could just be my particular test.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
very helpful
By Dima
Personally, I find all the books written by Steven Leduc extremely helpful. This book is not an exception. The topics are smoothly presented, and practice problems are very helpful. The candidate (for Math GRE, that is) will still need to get more practice in his/her weak areas even after reading this book. While this book is a great help, it should not be the only book used for GRE test preparation.

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Jayne Anne Phillips's reputation-making debut collection paved the way for a new generation of writers. Raved about by reviewers and embraced by the likes of Raymond Carver, Frank Conroy, Annie Dillard, and Nadine Gordimer, Black Tickets now stands as a classic.

With an uncanny ability to depict the lives of men and women who rarely register in our literature, Phillips writes stories that lay bare their suffering and joy. Here are the abused and the abandoned, the violent and the passive, the impoverished and the disenfranchised who populate the small towns and rural byways of the country. A patron of the arts reserves his fondest feeling for the one man who wants it least. A stripper, the daughter of a witch, escapes from poverty into another kind of violence. A young girl during the Depression is caught between the love of her crazy father and the no less powerful love of her sorrowful mother. These are great American stories that have earned a privileged place in our literature.

• Sales Rank: #319674 in Books
• Brand: Phillips, Jayne Anne
• Published on: 2001-09-11
• Released on: 2001-09-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.00" h x .60" w x 5.20" l, .51 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

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"Brilliant... Phillips is a virtuoso."
--Chicago Tribune Book World

"Extraordinary... Phillips shines brightly... This is a sweetheart of a book."
--John Irving, The New York Times Book Review

"[Phillips] knows how to write about the way dreams live with us... Genius is the word for her."
--The Boston Globe

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Jayne Anne Phillips's reputation-making debut collection paved the way for a new generation of writers. Raved about by reviewers and embraced by the likes of Raymond Carver, Frank Conroy, Annie Dillard, and Nadine Gordimer, Black Tickets" now stands as a classic.
With an uncanny ability to depict the lives of men and women who rarely register in our literature, Phillips writes stories that lay bare their suffering and joy. Here are the abused and the abandoned, the violent and the passive, the impoverished and the disenfranchised who populate the small towns and rural byways of the country. A patron of the arts reserves his fondest feeling for the one man who wants it least. A stripper, the daughter of a witch, escapes from poverty into another kind of violence. A young girl during the Depression is caught between the love of her crazy father and the no less powerful love of her sorrowful mother. These are great American stories that have earned a privileged place in our literature.

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"Brilliant... Phillips is a virtuoso."
--Chicago Tribune Book World

"Extraordinary... Phillips shines brightly... This is a sweetheart of a book."
--John Irving, The New York Times Book Review

"[Phillips] knows how to write about the way dreams live with us... Genius is the word for her."
--The Boston Globe

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Excellent!
By Kenny A. Chaffin
Excellent, Excellent book. Longer pieces interspersed with microfictions. And many are simply astounding ... Stripper, Sweethearts, The Patron, Slave...

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
An American Classic
By Vincent Czyz
I first read Black Tickets nearly 20 years ago and for me, as a young writer, stories such as "Gemcrack" bordered on revelatory. I don't think I'd ever before encountered a style quite like the one I saw there--heightened prose but with considerably more polish than other practitioners of heightened prose--say Jack Kerouac or Henry Miller--had managed to pull off. I was not surprised to discover that Jayne Anne began as a poet since it was the language of Black Tickets that attracted me first and foremost
In addition to the exquisitely crafted sentences, Phillips performs a rare feat: She not only writes in several distinct styles, she has mastered them all. Most stylists--authors known for their lyrical power--have a single signature way of writing. Phillips, however, displays an impressive command of vernacular, heightened prose, naturalism, and maybe one or two varieties of writing that fall somewhere in between.
While I have new admiration for stories such as "Gemcrack," I was nearly flattened by "El Paso." The imagery, the lyricism tempered by vernacular, the rhythm--as palpable as handholds in a rock face--the dialogue, and the vortical ending (forgive the neologism, but I can't think of anything else that fits) fuse seamlessly. Here's an exemplary sentence: "The light rolling now, leaked into the dark, ripples the skin of the dark and flies fly up in loose knots; low slow buzz in corners yellowed and pulled out by the light that rolls across the surfaces of things in yellow blocks." The reader sees the light as almost solid, the dark filling corners, sees the knotty flight patterns of flies, hears their lethargic buzz, and consequently feels the dusty melancholy and intimated squalor of this room.
Perhaps the most stunning verbal performance in "El Paso" belongs to Rita, who says "Them stars are just holes in the sky after all. And while I'm sleeping in that hot bed, everything I ever thought of having falls into em." In two sentences we experience most of the despair that so often accompanies existence, a despair that Hemingway, with the sharpness of an unexpected blow, staggered us with in "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place." Another admirable aspect of this sentence is the way it inverts the trite use of stars as symbols of beauty, so that we have a visceral experience of the futility that is like a bed of ash Rita has slept on her whole life. A brief confessional from Rita's boyfriend, Dude, is also illuminating: "By noon those days I was a walking fever ... and since I first saw her I come into the heat the place the heat like a bitch dog and lived with it." As in Rita's quote, the off grammar makes the writing more specific (to both to character and place), more intimate, less bookish, more real. The deliberate omission of commas makes Dude's words more urgent and brings the reader closer to Dude's inner turmoil--we're just about in his guts. The repetition of "heat" works toward the same effect but also marks the metamorphosis from weatherly heat to body heat--all buildup for Dude's declaration of resignation: "and [I] lived with it." The lines in this story, in their compactness, in the way their small openings admit the reader to much larger interiors, in their vividness, tend to have more in common with poetry, which heightens the dramatic intensity of the story.
Like Tillie Olsen's Tell Me a Riddle, Black Tickets was a classic the same year it was published, a book that in and of itself is certain to guarantee Phillips's place as one America's most distinguished writers.

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A jaw-dropping debut
By A Customer
These are staggeringly assured pieces and, as wonderful as her subsequent work has been, in some ways I don't think she's been able to top them. Marred only by an occasional tendency to use shocking subject matter for its own sake, these stories are punch-drunk on the precision and lush beauty of their own language. I don't think there is anyone currently writing in English whose prose is this gorgeous, or this gorgeously controlled. For me, she's like a female equivalent of Michael Ondaatje. Language to get lost in, but that never loses sight of the very human characters who use it, or whom it concerns.

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“I cannot go anywhere in America without people wanting to share their wartime experiences....The stories and the lessons have emerged from long-forgotten letters home, from reunions of old buddies and outfits, from unpublished diaries and home-published memoirs....As the stories in this album of memories remind us, it truly was an American experience, from the centers of power to the most humble corners of the land.”
—Tom Brokaw

In this beautiful American family album of stories from the Greatest Generation, the history of life as it was lived during the Depression and World War II comes alive and is preserved in people’s own words. Photographs and time lines also commemorate important dates and events. An Army Air Corps veteran who enlisted in 1941 at age seventeen writes to describe the Bataan Death March. A black nurse tells of her encounter with wartime segregation. Other members of the Greatest Generation describe their war—in such historic episodes as Guadalcanal, the D-Day invasion, the Battle of the Bulge, and Midway—as well as their lives on the home front. Starting with the Depression and Pearl Harbor, moving on through the war years in Europe, in the Pacific, and at home, this unique book preserves a people’s rich historical heritage and the legacy of a nation’s heroism in war and its courage in peace—in the shaping of their lives and of the world we have today.

• Sales Rank: #269158 in Books
• Brand: Brokaw, Tom
• Published on: 2002-04
• Released on: 2002-04-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.12" h x .77" w x 6.06" l, 1.08 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

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Tom Brokaw has turned his popular book The Greatest Generation into a trilogy. After that first success came The Greatest Generation Speaks. Now there's An Album of Memories, a collection of letters and photos sent to Brokaw by readers who grew up during the Depression and came of age during World War II.

An Album of Memories simply overflows with nostalgia. "We were privileged to grow up in a time when honor, truth, loyalty, duty, and patriotism were real and meant something," writes Robert Cromer. Another correspondent, Douglas G. Fish, describes his own wartime experience--and that of many others--with an elegant simplicity: "I went in the service as a boy and came out a man." There are poignant letters from the dead. One reader submitted this one, sent home in 1942: "Dear Mom, I got your package and Dot's letter today. Boy, the cookies were swell, all the boys send their thanks. Not a one of them was crushed either." Almost exactly a year later, the writer was killed on a bombing run. Another man shares "the last letter my father wrote, three days before he died." It reads: "Tomorrow is D-Day at Iwo Jima--right on Japan's front doorstep--we will go in and lay nets sometime during the assault.... I have faith in God to help us through to victory but am prepared to die for America and face our Lord if He so wills it." The son who sent this letter to Brokaw wasn't even born until after his father had been killed: "I read [this letter] every year on Memorial Day, cry a lot, and think of what a hero he was," he writes.

It's hard not to agree with that assessment, and it applies to so many of those who fought bravely in Europe or the Pacific, as well as those who maintained the home front. All of them have their say in this attractive volume. --John J. Miller

From Publishers Weekly
Ever since he released his tribute to The Greatest Generation, Brokaw has been inundated, happily, by a generous and appreciative outpouring of responses from those who built modern-day America. Their voices in his sequel, The Greatest Generation Speaks, triggered even more memories of the American experience in WWII. To honor both these additional stories and the new WWII memorial in Washington, D.C. (proceeds from the book will help fund it), Brokaw has compiled this new collection of letters and photos in an arrangement that is, appropriately, both familial and formal. Most of the selections were written by men who served in the armed forces, but Brokaw also includes letters from veterans' wives, children and grandchildren who have inherited a legacy they want to share. Brokaw divides the contributions into categories such as "The Great Depression," "The Home Front" and "The War in Europe," and provides a brief overview of each period. Although his historical introductions are somewhat simplistic accounts of well-known events, he does include more controversial information on the internment of Japanese-Americans and the racism within the armed forces. But the strength of this collection lies in the engrossing and evocative letters. They document the actual experiences of men and women who risked their lives and endured great hardships for what they strongly believed was a good cause. Women widowed by the war provide haunting memoirs of the young men they loved and lost. Running through the correspondence are the values of patriotism, self-sacrifice and courage under fire that so characterized this wartime generation. 90 b&w photos, time lines and maps. Agent, Ken Starr.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

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Thanks in part to NBC news anchor Brokaw, the "greatest generation" will certainly not become the forgotten generation anytime soon. This sequel to The Greatest Generation Speaks uses the same format: letters written to Brokaw describing everything from domestic activities to life as a soldier in World War II. In this work, coverage begins with recollections of the Great Depression and then proceeds to the different theaters of the war. Coverage of the Dirty Thirties is slow and somewhat boring, with letters that run along the lines of, "Dear Tom, I had to wear my older sister's hand-me-downs and work evenings at the movie show. Thank You." However, once readers reach the war period, they will not be able to put the book down. Even more so than the rugged Depression era, it was World War II that made and molded this hardy generation. Especially touching are those letters that contain the evolution of a life, from depictions of boot camp and love and loneliness to horror and battle and, finally, death (copies of death and grave notices and sometimes letters written by soldiers who were friends of the deceased are included). One becomes almost part of the soldier's family. Some of the proceeds from book sales will go to the World War II Memorial in Washington, DC. Sure to hit the best sellers list (and hopefully the last in Brokaw's series), this book is essential for public libraries.
- Richard Nowicki, formerly with Emerson Vocational High, Buffalo, NY
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful.
�characteristically modest and yet quietly proud�
By taking a rest
I started reading this volume, which makes a trilogy of Mr. Brokaw's work on this generation of Americans, shortly after reading the latest update on the World War II Memorial in Washington D.C. I continue to be incensed over the fact that 56 years have passed since the war ended and there are groups who continue to attempt to stop the construction of this monument. Elsewhere I have read that we lose almost 4,000 veterans of this generation every month. The youngest are in their seventies. Who will be left when this colossal bureaucratic snafu is finally put to rest and all legal challenges cease? The Korean Memorial finally was built, and their Memorial honors the Veterans of Viet Nam. It's reprehensible that this monument has not been completed decades ago.
There have been only 3 reviews of this work and yet it resides on the top of the best-selling books in the nation. I wonder why the comments have to date been so few? Perhaps people believe they have said all they can say to thank Mr. Brokaw and his team that produced these books, and the generation that has been the topic. If that is the case, say again what you have said in the past, for these men and woman can never be thanked enough.
In many ways this is my favorite of the three books as the voices and stories come from an incredible range of people. A man from Germany who was a child in The Hitler Youth writes of his experiences with Americans. A Viet Nam Veteran writes with awe towards the commitment the participants of WWII made. And there are even letters that bring attention to men and woman who served in areas that did not receive the attention they were due by History or the books that have documented the war.
Please read of a Family who, "adopted", an American who was killed, created a memorial for him, and to this day are in touch with his Family. Listen to a conversation between two men who are veterans of the war, one from the USA and one from France. See if you can read it through without a tear.
There is no end to the thanks we owe to all Veterans of the wars this country fought. None of us today would have what we enjoy without their service. The world is far from perfect, black pilots and nurses fought for a country that segregated them as they fought the same war. Today racism is certainly not gone from this country, and that illuminates the importance of those who fought before they left, during the war, and when they came home. How can you possibly find superlatives appropriate to these people?
Mr. Brokaw and his team and all those veterans/families, that contributed to his books have raised the awareness of ideals that too often have to be sought out from obscurity from the, "ME", generations of today.
This trilogy is as important a literary work as has been written, and it deserves to be recognized as such. For such recognition not only honors those that created the work, but even more importantly it honors those that are the subjects of these books.
Thank you to Mr. Brokaw, my Father who enlisted on his 17th birthday, and all veterans wherever they are serving, or may have served.

29 of 31 people found the following review helpful.
The Many Honorable Dimensions of Sacrifice and Caring
By Donald Mitchell
This book brings the dangerous and trouble-laden world of the 1930s and 1940s to life in a remarkably vivid and compelling way. Almost every letter comes with a photograph or memorabilia that make you realize that many of the servicemen and women were just kids when they moved into their place in history. They wanted to fall in love, marry, and raise a nice family. But first they had to take on incredible risk on land, on the beaches, at sea, and in the air around the world in places that they had never heard of. If they didn't become injured or killed, they knew that it was just a quirk of fate that they did not. Everyone lost family members, friends, buddies, and heroes. If they worked as a medic, they saw more ravaged bodies than we can imagine. Many still bear the pain of their wounds today. Nightmares continue to haunt the dreams of many others. Yet most have spared their families the full horror of that experience. Through Mr. Brokaw's books, we can better imagine some of what it might have been like.
My Dad was pretty open about many of his experiences in the Eighth Air Force, but every so often a new one slips out. I suspect that even in these stories we are getting a censored version of what the actual experience was like. Dad did share the number of times that Luftwaffe bombs blew up part of his barracks (while he was sleeping there) and obliterated his sleeping area (when he was away on leave). What he remembered most searingly were the horrors of the shot-up crews returning from bombing runs over Europe (especially when they crashed in a ball of flames) and officers committing suicide by jumping off the top deck of his ship on the way home. As a youngster, I was terribly surprised and thrilled when former president Eisenhower came through our hometown and recognized my father in the crowd at the train station, and called Dad by name and rank. We had no inkling that Dad had met the president. Dad's response was simply that he had met a lot of the top brass, but he never told us any of their names.
Our family was lucky. My parents met because of the war, so my life was immeasurably influenced for the better. None of my father or mother's families were killed or physically injured in World War II. One uncle did experience shell shock as a teenager in the Battle of the Bulge, and had to avoid stressful situations for the rest of his life. From this book, I was able to imagine what it was like for families that were not so fortunate.
I was surprised to see that many of the veterans and their families had never been back to the battlegrounds and cemetaries. I asked Dad a number of years ago if he wanted to go back. He said he didn't care if he did or not (a typical Greatest Generation answer), but my Mother did. So my wife and I gave them a trip to England as a present. They had a ball, and saw many of the old sights. My Mother said that it seemed to do him a lot of good to see things back in peaceful circumstances. But there was no way that we could presuade him to go to France or Germany on the trip. He gave no reason. I suspect that the pain of the memories of those he had known who had died om bombing runs over that territory would have been too great for him.
Since then, I have attended a reunion of Dad's old unit, and was pleasantly surprised to see how much the men care for each other. I don't know of another man my father was ever close to after World War II, but here were dozens he knew well and liked. It was a side of him that I had never seen.
This book contains many memories like these. Often written by family members, the introduction then puts letters from the veteran into evidence at the court of history for us to experience.
You will be powerfully moved by the stories of sacrifice (whether from being POWs, lack of supplies, discrimination, or the chilling experience being exposed to grave danger), loss (families losing their only child, wives losing husbands after just becoming pregnant, and veterans losing their buddies), and willingness to serve (great efforts to volunteer when too young or too old, to volunteer for tough duty, and trying to help all and sundry). One of the most powerful for me was the description of the horrors of a concentration camp that was considered well kept by the Nazis in order to make a good impression on the Red Cross. Most moving for me was the sense of forgiveness that many veterans felt towards their former enemies.
If you know someone who served in World War II (whether a family member or not), I hope you will consider giving them this book and saying "thank you." After a few months have passed, ask them if they will tell you their story. If they will share, why not ask them if they would be willing to let you make copies of old letters and memorabilia so that you can send them to Mr. Brokaw? In this way, we can capture more of what happened then, honor these wonderful people, and pass on their legacy to generations yet unborn.
May the best and most important of these memories live forever!

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
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By Clint Hunter
Brokaw has certainly done his share to bring to the current generation the story of the generation which sacrificed and fought so gallantly in World War II. This is the third in a series of remembrances of those whom Brokaw called the greatest generation. The other two volumes are "The Greatest Generation" and "The Greatest Generation Speaks." These stories are for the most part told through letters home from those who were away on foreign soil and through letters written recently to Brokaw from those who lived through the experience. As in the other books in the series, these stories tell of heroism, courage, loss and disappointment, and triumph over tragedy. These stories are no more nor less important to the understanding of the human side of the conflict as those related in the previous books; however, even though each story is unique in its telling, those who have read either or both of the previous books will begin to find a sameness about this volume which comes from familiarity. That sense of having read much of this before somewhat diminished my enjoyment of the book. If, however, this is your first introduction to the triad, I believe that you will be touched deeply by the book's contents.

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