Has anyone read John Irving's book "Churchill's War"?
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Wow! THAT'S mighty holier-than-thou! I am sure my grandfather never read it, but he fought in World War II for three years. Does that make him unfit to comment on the war?? Dillhole.
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Britain - Winston Churchill\ndate of birth: November 30, 1874\nDied on January 24, 1965.\n\nSon of Lord Randolph Churchill and an American mother, was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst. After a brief but eventful career in the army, he became a Conservative Member of Parliament in 1900.\n\nSoldier, politician and finally prime minister, Winston Churchill was one of Britain's greatest 20th-century heroes. Churchill fought with the British Army in India and Sudan, and as a journalist was captured in South Africa (where his dispatches from the Boer War first brought him to public prominence). He became a member of Parliament in 1900 and remained an MP for over 64 years.\n\nhttp://www.who2.com/winstonchurchill.html\nhttp://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/1953/churchill-bio.html\n\nGermany - Adolf Hitler\nDate of Birth: April 20 1889\nDied on April 30, 1945\n\nFounder and leader of the Nazi Party, Reich Chancellor and guiding spirit of the Third Reich from 1933 to 1945, Head of State and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria, on 20 April 1889. The son of a fifty-two-year-old Austrian customs official, Alois Schickelgruber Hitler, and his third wife, a young peasant girl, Klara Poelzl, both from the backwoods of lower Austria, the young Hitler was a resentful, discontented child. Moody, lazy, of unstable temperament, he was deeply hostile towards his strict, authoritarian father and strongly attached to his indulgent, hard-working mother, whose death from cancer in December 1908 was a shattering blow to the adolescent Hitler.\n\nIn Vienna he acquired his first education in politics by studying the demagogic techniques of the popular Christian-social Mayor, Karl Lueger, and picked up the stereotyped, obsessive anti-Semitism with its brutal, violent sexual connotations and concern with the "purity of blood" that remained with him to the end of his career.\n\nhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/hitler.html\n\nUSA - Franklin Delano Roosevelt\nDate of Birth: January 30, 1882\nDied on April 12, 1945\n\n He was elected President in November 1932, to the first of four terms. By March there were 13,000,000 unemployed, and almost every bank was closed. In his first "hundred days," he proposed, and Congress enacted, a sweeping program to bring recovery to business and agriculture, relief to the unemployed and to those in danger of losing farms and homes, and reform, especially through the establishment of the Tennessee Valley Authority.\n\n In 1936 he was re-elected by a top-heavy margin. Feeling he was armed with a popular mandate, he sought legislation to enlarge the Supreme Court, which had been invalidating key New Deal measures. Roosevelt lost the Supreme Court battle, but a revolution in constitutional law took place. Thereafter the Government could legally regulate the economy.\n\nWhen the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Roosevelt directed organization of the Nation's manpower and resources for global war.\n\nAs the war drew to a close, Roosevelt's health deteriorated, and on April 12, 1945, while at Warm Springs, Georgia, he died of a cerebral hemorrhage.\n\nhttp://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/fr32.html\n\nItaly - Benito Mussolini\nDate of Birth July 29, 1883\nDied on April 1945\n\nBENITO MUSSOLINI, (1883-1945), Fascist dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1943. He centralized all power in himself as the leader (il duce) of the Fascist party and attempted to create an Italian empire, ultimately in alliance with HITLER's Germany. The defeat of Italian arms in WORLD WAR II  brought an end to his imperial dream and led to his downfall.\n\nMussolini was born in Predappio, near Forli, in Romagna, on July 29, 1883. His father, Alessandro, was a blacksmith, and his mother, Rosa, was a schoolteacher. Like his father, Benito became a fervent socialist.\n\nIn November 1914 he founded a new paper, Il Popolo d'Itali
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This is a tough one!  It looks as if this volume wasn't widely reviewed.  I search and searched using the ABELL (The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature) and couldn't even find one of the review that I knew existed.  This is probably because the citation below includes the Rock book in a comparative review with several other books.  You have probably already come across The New York Review of Books review by Gordon Craig "Making way for Hitler" in Volume 36, Number 15 · October 12, 1989.\n\nYou probably also found the review by Alex Danchev in Reviews in American History © 1990 The Johns Hopkins University Press titled "Tiger Shooting Together: The Grand Alliance in Embryo." It can be found online at http://www.jstor.org/view/00487511/dm980069/98p0096z/0.\n\nThe Rock volume was written in the waining years of the cold war and there is no doubt that the author will show influence and bias based on this context.  This is true for all historical periods and the impact that current thinking has on historical analysis.  Go with you gut and call the author on the bias just be sure to put his thoughts in the appropriate historical context.  We have the benefit of 20 years of hindsight since the writing of this volume.  Not to mention that Rock appears to have been at his prime 20 or 30 years before this book.\n\nGood luck!
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I've read the Book and parts of it are true.  Most good authors mingle fact and fiction.  It makes for a good read.  I've also read Digital Fortress, Deception Point, and Angels & Demons.  So when The DaVinci Code was issured, I was eager to read it, and I did 3 years ago.\n\nHe poses many good scenareos about how history may have been.  If you look back, most accepted history has been written by the dominant society of the time.  Other histories are destroyed along with the culture that lost.  A good example would be the Inqisition where people were tortured for not believing the way the Church said they should.  Take a look at what has happened to Scotland and Ireland when the British took over.\nAfganistan, Somalia, etc etc.  Only difference now is we have CNN and other news agencies looking in on things.   Why was the Library of Alexandria really burned down?\n\nBasically all Dan Brown has done is show us a different way to look at religion and it's history.\n\nI think this recent brouha over the book is fear that organized religion will lose it's influence and power.  Look at the religious uproar in Iraq.  The Sunnis and Sh'ite groups.  Everyone is right and everyone is wrong.\n\nRemember, it's just a book, a book of fiction in fact.  A really good read.
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I have.\n\nA very good book if you are into esoteric history.\n\nIf you are a Freemason, don't read it--for some reason it seems to really upset them.
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This book is Harper Lee's masterpiece. I like the symbolism it inculdes very much. Are you a good reader? Did you read the Da Vinci Code? Tell me what you think about it.
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I am amazed that this question was asked. I thought the book too obscure to be noticed in this day and age. \n\nI loved it. A bit convoluted but brilliant. It has the potential to be a fantastic movie but it has to be done to match its brothers. Peter Jackson is a must here.
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Query - have any of you read the book, or looked at the plan? It's clever, not perfect but at least it's something more than Sally Struthers standing there teary-eyed and saying "think of the children!"\n\nI'm inclined to think this plan is worth a shot. Yes, it'd be nice if Bono and Jolie would put their money where their mouths are, but it seems a far better use of tax dollars spent on foreign aid to render it through programs that actually do something rather than funnel it through dubious government entities that allow a great deal of siphoning off the top by corrupt leaders.\n\nOr we could just allow Malthusian processes to take care of it through war, famine and pestilence. Not that these don't impact us. Famine drives up the prices of crops. Pestilence, well, we now have HIV which may have been caught and contained far sooner if there was a public health infrastructure in place, and hemorrhagic fevers native to many of these regions are the stuff of nightmares. Then there's war, but I don't think I need to remind you how many situations the military has gotten into after the humanitarian portion of the mission collapsed. I think it's simply cheaper in the long-run to try to ameliorate poverty rather than deal with it's aftermath, but it's as much your tax money as it is mine, so we'll see the exit polls.
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I also want to know who has read that book
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The book is actually called "Behold a Pale Horse."  You can buy it at any major bookstore, and probably some not-so-major ones as well.  It was written by someone in the intel community from what I recall.  I'm not sure, though, as it has been a long time since I saw the book.
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This book is a classic enthnographic text that needs to be read by all those who are interested in revealling the social forces that shapes our lives as a people living under this last state of Capitalism, that others call a Globalised world. Even though Paul Willis was looking at Working class kids in England, I have found the application of his methodology applicable even in the context of a post Apartheid state like South Africa where we talk of the "historically disadvantaged learner" as an eupermism for the same phenomenon that Willis has studies.\n\nNice light reading matter there.
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It is a good book, perhaps co-authored with Henry Morris, Mr. Creation. I think it is worth of your time.\n\nIn the Beginning God created heavens and earth.\nGod gives you air to breathe and sunshine to enjoy.\nGod gives you water to drink and food to eat.\nGod gives you a wonderful body and sound mind, to live.\nGod loves you, and you are precious to Him.\nSon of God died on the Cross to save us from condemnation.\nJesus’ love is boundless and everlasting.\nWe have the hope of Heaven through Jesus.\nLife therefore has fantastic and glorious future!
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I have the book.  I've read the book.  It is non-fiction.  It is a book about serious spiritual warfare.  I have no reason to disbelieve any of it.  I believe Rebecca's experiences are so "severe," because she had dabbled in the occult before she became a Christian.  In other words, she opened herself up to the troubles she has faced.\n\nI do not believe what you will read in this book will be a typical representation of what most Christians will face, spiritual-warfare-speaking, in their lifetimes.  But those who've been involved in witchcraft, the occult, etc. prior to becoming a Christian already have Satan's full attention.  And he does NOT like to lose a good servant.  So he tries to get them back any way he can.  Rebecca is one of those people.\n\nBe prepared for nightmares if you read the book.
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Here ya go:\n\nhttp://www.churchill.navy.mil/bioco.htm
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Check here:\n\nhttp://www.novedge.com/Book_Show.asp?ASIN=0071361057
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Not really although I have read In Cold Blood by Truman Capote which is great and am planning to read Caleb Carr's The Alienist
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No i havent but here's some links to customer reviews on amazon and barnes and noble (you have to scroll down to see them) Hope this helps!\n\nhttp://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=yh7svqWCkt&isbn=0375412018&itm=1\n\nhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375412018/sr=8-1/qid=1139864943/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-5358171-8958453?%5Fencoding=UTF8