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As this hands-on book demonstrates, anyone with a pencil, a sketchbook and the will to learn can achieve amazing drawings simply by focusing on the fundamentals.
Centered around a range of popular landscape subjects, including trees, seascapes and farmland, 20 practical drawing exercises lead artists through basic techniques while providing simple methods for mastering challenging landscape elements.
Each exercise breaks down a finished drawing into six simple steps that give artists the opportunity to follow the drawing step-by-step from beginning to end.
Exercises feature a range of drawing media, including charcoal, chalk, pastel, colored pencil, pen and ink and watercolor. In addition, artists will find ample tips, suggestions and explanations to help them avoid mistakes and build their skills quickly.
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This exciting title in the "Draw and Sketch" series shows readers how to render any animal they see with skill and accuracy. David Boys starts by providing an overview of basic equipment, guidelines for getting into the right frame of mind to draw, and hints for finding the right subject matter.
Next, readers will learn how to see any animal as a whole shape, rather than as a collection of individual details. Boys also provides instructions for getting proportions right.
Anatomy, fur, feathers and other details follow, along with more complex issues, such as light, shade, backgrounds, reflections and color. Specific exercises will help readers learn these various skills as they draw big cats, camels, pelicans, monkeys, penguins, elephants, deer and more.
David Boys has a Master's degree from the Royal College of Art, London. He has been an artist and illustrator for the London Zoo since 1985 and a lecturer at the Royal College of Art since 1989. He has exhibited his work at a number of prestigious institutions including the Natural History Museum and the Society of Wildlife Artists. He lives in Kent, England.
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Lucy Watson provides beginning artists with the fundamentals they need to render realistic, skillful drawings of people. She begins with an easy-to-follow overview of anatomy, then simplifies the challenging elements of perspective. Step-by- step exercises enable readers to learn as they draw, ensuring that every lesson is fun and gratifying.
Watson takes readers to the next level with clear, concise guidelines for rendering mass, volume, light and tone. They'll also find invaluable tips and techniques for working with color and developing a composition.
Finally, the book focuses on rendering accurate features, with guidelines for heads, eyes, noses, mouths, ears, hair, hands and feet.
Lucy Watson graduated from Central Saint Martin's College of Art & Design in London, England, with an undergraduate degree in Fine Art and a Masters in Advanced Printmaking. Highly experienced in all media, she makes her living as a freelance painter and illustrator. Her drawing, prints, and paintings have been exhibited at prestigious venues all over Europe. Lucy is the author of The Artist's Sketchbook. She lives in Kent, England.
Customer Reviews:
This is STRANGE. Watson has a similar book out same year???.......2004-06-29
"Draw and Sketch Figures: Sketch with Confidence in 6 Steps or less" by Lucy Watson 2003:
This book is odd, because Watson just authored "Life Drawing Class" published 2003 as well (and reviewed here on Amazon also). Two books published in the same year, on essentially the same subject. This is STRANGE, for the implication must be that either book was inadequate in the first place, or both books are erratic and desperate attempts to give good art instruction in the hopes that one actually will.
The promise of "6 Steps" is gimmicky and misleading. Considering the author's additional qualification of "...OR LESS" in the title. I mean, Come on! This is basic and beginning sketching. So is it "SIX LESSONS", or is it FIVE? If the author does NOT know what business does the author have teaching? I believe a horse can count to SIX. This kind of mental indecision and vagueness suggests that the author loves to read his own "expansive" wordings, and hear his own grandiose intonations, in spite of the fact that his words lack specific meaning.
Just as in Watson's previously reviewed book, this one commits the cardinal sin of giving COLOR instruction half way through, and at only 112 pages to start with, the buyer can be assured that this book is very, VERY short on good, useful, drawing instruction. Just one more hastily slapped together book of "beginning" instruction at a rip-off price.
The illustrations are, as in Watson's other book, stiff, lifeless, and inarticulate. With a list price of $19.99, "Draw and Sketch Figures" is going to give "Drawing On The Right Side of My Ambition" some competition in wallet-gouging. So I wonder if the author or publisher would mind if you offered a payment like this:
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25 Nifty Dinosaurs to Draw
Manufacturer: Lowell House
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Travel back in time to the prehistoric age as you learn how to draw both herbivores and carnivores from the mighty to the miniature in 25 Nifty Dinosaurs to Draw. You'll read an informative introduction about each fascinating creature, from the awesome Apatosaurus to the vicious Velociraptor. The simple instructions and step-by-step illustrations will have you drawing dinosaurs like a pro in no time.
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Buildings (Draw & Sketch)
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Get ready to capture history in Draw the Titanic. Read all about the Titanic's maiden voyage and last night at sea as you lear to re-create this "unsinkable" ship and many other fascinating illulstrations, from Capt Edward Smith to Alvin the small submarine that helped locate the wreckage.
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ASIN: 0300086490 |
Customer Reviews:
highlights from the Met costume collection.......2003-02-08
The Metropolitan Museum in New York has one of the world's great textile and costume collections. This book celebrates the new acquisitions of the costume collection throughout the 1990's.
This is essentially a picture book that is a recommended addition to anyone who collects books on costume. All illustrations are in colour and there are some lovely photos of items like an English Mantua and petticoat c1708, a hand painted robe a la francaise c1740, an embroidered robe a la polonaise c1780, a man's wool suit with gold bullion braid c1760 and more modern gowns such as dresses by Vivienne Westwood and Christian Lacroix as well as 2 gowns owned by Princess Diana.
A visually beautiful book that makes you glad that such wonderful costumes have been preserved and published so we can all enjoy them even if we can't visit the museum.
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Moving from the White House to the B-52 cockpits to the missile sites and POW camps of Hanoi, The Eleven Days of Christmas is a gripping tale of heroism and incompetence in a battle whose political and military legacy is still a matter of controversy.
Customer Reviews:
Real SAC operations.......2007-10-01
This is a totally accurate view of the B-52 bomber operations leading up to and during the bombing of Hanoi. It shows what the bomber pilots were feeling and how SAC screwed up life for them. Totally real; I was there too.
An excellent book.......2006-03-19
I am very impressed with this book. It is a combination of history, great story telling, and analysis of the huge air battle fought over N. Vietnam during Nixon's "Christmas bombing." And if you like the mighty B-52, its even better.
It gives a brief background of SAC, and how LeMay's thinking carried over into the Vietnam War. He was, like anyone, flawed at times, and he left SAC in something of a tight spot. It only did things one way. Flexibility was lacking when it would have been very helpful. The bombers over North Vietnam did things in a set pattern, and that went back to SAC, and the days of LeMay. Someone should have been able to look ahead, and change the path of the bombers as they left their bomb runs.
It also gives the reader a good look at the bureaucratic bungling, micro-management, and political thinking which increased the losses of the B-52 crews. That is hardly new in war. It still hurts and frustrates to have to see the results. Lives could have been saved with a realistic response from those who should have known better. Careers can end up being more important than lives. Too bad it has to happen in the military, where some wonderful people risk so much for their country.
This was a huge, and terribly dangerous undertaking. The B-52 crews flew into some very tough air defenses, and risked a great deal to help bring the U.S. involvement in Vietnam to an end. One cannot help but wish it had been done years before. Think of the lives and heartache decisive action could have saved.
It also made me miss the good qualities of Nixon--and yes, he had them. The man was willing to show great courage when he finally unleashed the B-52s, and let them do their work. If only it had been done much, much sooner.
A great read--techinical details which interest and add, political backgrouind which is useful, and a damned good story as well. First rate.
From the Vietnamese point of view.......2006-02-09
Throughout the years I've read so many books written in English about the Vietnam War and I notice that they all so biased in favor of the U.S in virtually every aspect. From the Vietnamese point of view, this operation is called "Dien Bien Phu Tren Khong", which means "Dien Bien Phu in the air". This is a great victory for the Vietnamese side because they were able to force the U.S to agree to the demand that the Vietnamese had been demanded throughout the entire war, the demand was to withdraw all troops from Vietnam before any peace deal could be sign, other than that, the fighting would be carried on indefinitely. In 1972, the U.S agreed to the demand of the North Vietnamese that's why the North agreed to sign the peace deal. According to Vietnamese sources and eyewitnesses on the ground during this campaign, there were a total of 31 B-52 bombers that were shot down, not the 15 like the U.S or English sources have been claiming throughout the years and a combined total of 81 aircrafts were shot down. North Vietnam shot a total of around 540 missiles, not 1200 and at the end of the 11th day, missiles reinforcement was coming in masses from the city of Haiphong and it is not the myth that the North was running out of missiles. Furthermore, the total combined numbers of Migs fighters of the North throughout the war never exceeded 200 so it was impossible for the North to lose "hundreds" of aircrafts in air-to-air combat against the U.S that so many English-written sources have been claiming. In fact, the total number of Migs lost during the entire war including operational losses is believed to be no more than 50 because at the beginning of this Christmas bombing, the North still had around 150-160 Migs fighters left. I think history has to be examined from both sides, not just from the English-written sources only.
Great book.......2005-11-24
I thought the book was great. Just because we lost a few B-52's during the first couple of days of bombing Hanoi, it made me want to jump out of my seat and continue it. Clearly the research and planning for this mission should have been better. I was also amazed out how the Secretary of Defense at the time dragged his feet when the President ordered the bombing! If Nixon were un-obstructed, I think he could have ended the war sooner and with greater returns than what happend after the Xmas bombings over Hanoi. A must read book.
How Air Force Generals covered their butts........2005-10-24
This is a great read. I read this book in less than 24 hours because it was so interesting. Michel did a great job of detailing the Christmas bombing campaign of 1972. The B-52s (or BUFFs)were sent to take the war to the North Vietnamese. The target was Hanoi and Haiphong. The campaign covered only 11 days. THe North Vietnamese and their SA-2s and Fan Song radar shot down 15 BUFFs.
What is so interesting is how the SAC generals made lots of mistakes and then covered them up. The centralized approach to the war by SAC sounded like they were imitating Soviet generals. This centralized approach had a lot to do with how SAC was structured. Also interesting was the sharp turn following the bombing run. The bomber crews did this because we always did it this way. However this turn made the radar jamming inoperable during this activity. The first four nights of the bombing run were predictable and it was like a line of ants going to a picnic. The North Vietnamese practiced their skill at lining the missles up and shooting at the opportune time. The lack of missles was the only thing preventing more losses to the USAF BUFFs. General Sullivan commanding the Thailand base was the only one who voiced his opinion of these bad tactics. Once the losses were high, his voice was heard. He was subsequently put on the slow track and later retired.
This is a good book. Lots of great information on this last battle of the Vietnam War. The one thing distracting about this book is the poor grammar used throughout it. This book needed a good proof reader and unfornately this was not done well. However, the information and story within this book more than made up for this deficit.
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Drawing on memories from his World War II service days and his army-sponsored trips to Korea and Vietnam, comics innovator Will Eisner put together Last Day in Vietnam, a six-story collection that reveals the strange feelings that arise in soldiers during wartime. From the long, rollicking title story to the somber, bureaucratic cautionary tale "A Purple Heart for George," Eisner consistently finds new angles on old material, while maintaining the mainstream position that war, though ridiculous, must be fought when necessary. The sepia tones of the stories and interspersed photos of Korea and Vietnam add gravity to the already weighty tales, but the book never becomes heavy-handed. Last Day in Vietnam is impressive work from an artist with an impressive record. --Rob Lightner
Book Description
Dark Horse is proud to present the newest graphic novel by Will Eisner, one of comics` pioneers and inarguably the medium`s first maverick creator! Last Day in Vietnam is Eisner`s memoir of stories about soldiers who are engaged not only in the daily hostilities of war but also in larger, more personal combat. During Eisner`s years in the military, and particularly during the many field trips he made for P.S. Magazine, he observed camp life at close range. Some of the stories in this novel are comical, some heartrending, some frightening, yet all display the incredible insight into humanity characteristic of Eisner`s entire oeuvre. The first edition of this 2x11 graphic novel will feature a full-color cover painted by the artist, with a matte and spot-gloss finish, interior cover flaps, and special sepia-colored ink printed on high-quality antique paper.
Customer Reviews:
Interesting work..........2007-09-26
I'm a huge Will Eisner fan and have loved his Comics and Sequential art books along with his graphic novels, (Dropsie Avenue, The Spirit collections, etc.). This is a very good work, but doesn't seem to rank in depth to the other graphic novels that Eisner produced in either scope or artistic achievement. I have always been fascinated with the Vietnam war, so I was eager to pick this up, and I'm glad I did, but I doubt that anyone other than a dedicated Will Eisner fan would find much interest in this.
Vignettes of rear echelon warriors.......2007-08-15
As the introduction for this books indicates, Will Eisner used his graphic talents to educate US armed forces in three conflicts -- WWII, Korea and Vietnam. His work in this small but impressive volume is mostly taken from Korea and Vietnam, and touches on peripheral stories of these conflicts. "Last Day in Vietnam" follows Eisner's guide to the war, a stocky, macho rearguard major who is suddenly confronted with fear on his last day "in country". "A Purple Heart for George" tells the tale of a young soldier who is bellicose when drunk and of the file clerks who try to keep him out of combat. "The Periphery" is about journalists -- those who "report" from the comfort of a Saigon café and those who return from hotter areas. "The Casualty" is about a wounded GI reminiscing about his Vietnamese lover and the pain she brought him. And "A Dull Day in Korea" tells the story of a bored GI on the DMZ in Korea, who has a loaded rifle but no enemy to shoot at.
Each tale is told with Eisner's trademark brevity. The entire book can be read in less than half an hour. This leads to some disappointment as each of these too-brief stories ends. Some tales are a bit too comic-bookish for my taste -- a few too many situations are resolved by a characters facing out at the reader with a "so, what are you gonna do?" quizzical gesture. One story, about a soldir who loves killing, ends with a too-easy comic reversal.
But as with all of Eisner's work, the images and stories stay with you long after you put the book down.While this is not my favorite Eisner work (check out the "Contract with God" trilogy) it is good stuff and worth a look.
Eisner true-to-life ordeal during war time; allegory; good.......2003-09-18
"Last day in Vietnam", the graphic novel by Will Eisner. This book constituted a series of short stories. An anthology. However, peering through the same wavelenght, it is indicative to another denotation-- a collections of short stories gleaned from factual encounters by the author, during those indelible memories of his life of actually in more than one war. The book title, explicitly pinpointing to the feature story that runs from the opening pages & as well endowed with the most abundant pages, with 32-page allotment.
"The last day in Vietnam", the installment, was one of best anthologies played out in this graphic novel, along with the poignant last anthology. This feature was told with a first-person narrative technique. As one of the military authority escorting a press agent, whose whole individual per se, in no way & none anyhow, could be chance upon by the readers, to their war camp. In short, the military man was chattering to akin in front to a virtual hand-held camera. The artwork veritably confirmed this take, clearly depicted this proposition.
Overall, "the last day in Vietnam" feature is a prolific, little short anecdote. Although, I suspect, it is obligatory to re-read the story more than once like I did, to contemplate what the author, Will Eisner, furnishing to say. A slightly suspenseful & chilling effort.
In my perspective, this book is not one of the author best of endeavors. However, the stories constituted here are wholly allegorical in nature, they are symphathetic & relatable in real life. The core genre of these stories are pertinent to war. More than once, Will Eisner was indeed drafted & participated with other novice draftees, as he was hurled into the horizon of war to fight for his mother country.The whole presented here are pleasant, heartwarming, some funny, some tragedic. This book was crafted during the latter years in the 1990's.
The last story is one of the best, if not the best composed here. It was a story of a draftee who was a recidivist of a drunkard, hankering to vault from working a desk job to a full-blown military combatant, one who will actually tread into the wilderness & shall brazenly endures a real-life nightmare amidst with others. His friends, like a clockwork, doggingly showed earnest concern for his person by frequently like a ritual, tearing off his application to shift duty. However, one day his colleague, unfortunately, did not salvaged this inopportune circumstance, thus, their worst fear came to life.
This particular short yarn turned out, surprisingly, a poignant & fulfilling story. They were as well evocative, pleasant & allegorical. It portrayed to us the unrevealed dimensions of war. Superior story.
Will Eisner, one of the pioneers who help shaped the tumultuous maelstrom of the graphic novel industry. His name is a legend in the comicworld. I muse,in my opinion, as a token of appreciation, buying a copy from each one of us like this particular book, shall certainly reciprocated to "the man" whose cinch to become one of the legendary names in the industry for decades to come, as a homage.
The size of the book is appproximately, 8.5" X ll" (width to lengh), virtually commensurating to an oversized graphic novel book. The paper quality is sepia tone (light brown color), good thickness & coarse paper, softcover & inked (drawn) in brown color, 80 pages. Overall, good production quality.
If you will like this book, perhaps you will also love other graphic novels I'm extremely fond of. Such as "To the heart of the storm" by Will Eisner; A Jew in communist Prague vol. 1-3 softcover by Vittorio Giardino; "Age of bronze" by Eric Shanower; "Four women" by Sam Kieth; "Batman: Absolution" by J.M. DeMatteis; "Green Lantern: Willworld" by J.M. DeMatteis.
An astounding book to buy & add to your collections.
Highly recommended !
Very enjoyable graphic novel.......2001-05-10
Not his best but among the best in general. If zou like Eisner you cannot miss this...
Book Description
Charles Henderson, Marine Corps veteran and author, chronicles the final days of America's involvement in Vietnam through the voices of those who were there-and those who would never be heard again.
On January 17, 1973, the Paris Peace Accords concluded America's involvement in Vietnam, supposedly ending decades of bloodshed. What took place, however, was far from peaceful-as the combined forces of the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong launched an all-out offensive to end the war with complete victory over the beleaguered south.
Here, culled from extensive interviews and research, are harrowing, never-before revealed accounts from people of every level and involvement in the Vietnam War-NVA and Viet Cong soldiers, U.S. embassy personnel, guerilla commanders, civilians, generals, double-agents, and leaders from both sides, including former president Gerald Ford and North Vietnamese military commander General Tran Van Tra.
From the impending invasion from the north, to the gut-wrenching hours before the fall of Saigon when a brave pilot defied orders and rescued the last five Marines from the roof of the U.S. embassy, this is the Vietnam War as it was: raw, brutal, tragic-and haunting to this very day.
Customer Reviews:
As history goes, it's a good historical novel.......2007-03-29
I make that rather pungent judgment on the basis of errors of omission and commission by the author. In the former category, we have a complete absence of maps, photographs, and footnotes. For me, leaving those things out of a military history is inexplicable and inexcusable. Why couldn't the author have included diagrams or maps of the Embassy Compound, Saigon, and Vietnam? How in the world can a reader be expected to follow the narrative? The absence of photographs is just as bad. The fall of South Vietnam and the end of the Vietnam War were profoundly photogenic events. Why couldn't the author have provided a few of the iconic images from that time (having just one picture on the cover of the book does not cut it)? Why couldn't he have provided photographs of all the people he interviewed for the book. And the absence of footnotes and endnotes is galling. I know that they are a pain to have to include, but how else can a reader determine what sources shaped the book?
In the latter category (omission), there is an even more grievous error. Like a lot of popular histories, the book includes lengthy conversations between individuals that feature in it. How could the author reconstruct these? A few might have been televised, but what about the rest? How can the author quote word for word what was said at an event that took places thirty years ago? Even for the ones that he was present at, how could he do this? I served in the military, and I have trouble remembering single sentences from conversations from just fifteen years ago under fairly memorable circumstances as well. The obvious conclusion --absent detailed notes explaining why entire conversations are reproduced-- is that the conversations were "reconstructed." They may be the gist of what was said, but having the gist of something does not entitle the author of any history to create dialog from it.
So that's why I think this book amounts to being a historical novel. Novels, after all, don't have endnotes, footnotes, pictures, and much of what happens in them may reflect actual history but is not that history itself.
Bottom line: I think there undoubtedly books about the momentous days of "Cruel April" that do not have the manifest faults that this book has.
Required Reading.......2006-03-29
Overall impression--Wow! A real tour de force. The Vietnam War was complicated, and writing a book about it is like trying to write a flow diagram for a large plate of spaghetti. And yet, Henderson has done it--at least as far as the end game goes. I give it an enthusiastic five stars.
Why required reading? As George Santayana said, "Those who cannot remember the past are destined to repeat it." And we might be repeating that history today with George Bush's so-called war on terrorism. You can't really answer that question unless you have something from the recent past to compare it with. Goodnight Saigon makes for a fine litmus test.
There are some books that are meant to be read once and discarded (e.g., the typical Stephen King novel), some that are meant to be read multiple times at differenct times in your life (e.g., Huckleberry Finn), and some that are meant to be studied (e.g., Hamlet.) Henderson's work falls somewhere between read-multiple-times and studied.
The most profound thing about the book is the Interview Notes wherein Henderson details the many players--American and both Vietnams--he interviewed first hand. It punctuates the fact that these people were real and these things happened and none of this should ever be forgotten.
Some comments on the other reviews:
No maps--true, the book could have used some maps. On the other hand, it is very easy these days to download and print a map from the Internet. Try the site at www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/vietnam/maps.htm, or for even more detail, try Jim Henthorn's excellent site at www.nexus.net/~911gfx/sea-ao.html. To do less is just plain lazy. And to mark Henderson down for this oversight is to obscure his more important achievement, the enormous body of research he collected in order to tell this tale.
The 'unended' sub-plot of LTC Tran Van Toan--See p. 302. (Also in the index) LTC Tran made it, his force of 450 men intact, and was assimilated into the defense of Saigon Under RVN Marine Corps commandant, General Bui The Lan.
--Ejner Fulsang, author of A Knavish Piece of Work, www.AarhusPublishing.com.
Great book, well written, fast moving.......2005-12-20
A great book which reviews the closing days of the Vietman conflict. The author interviews military, political leaders, civilians and press from both sides. It's a fast moving piece with plenty of action.
The downside of the book is that there are no maps or photos of some of the US Marines discussed, which would have been useful in understanding where battles were located. I found a web site, which has photos and also gives additional information at
www.fallofsaigon.org. Great book!
Great Story With Major Malfunction.......2005-11-22
"Good Night Saigon" is an impressive work of military history. Whenever this reviewer believes he has read about the Indochina war from every conceivable angle, he is proven wrong-and wrong again. GNS offers yet one more insight to that protracted conflict. The author was a member of the last detachment of Marines to be extracted from the grounds of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon on April 30, 1975. The scope of GNS is far broader than one fateful day and therein lies its' strength. We are reminded-painfully- that South Vietnam fell apart from North to South. In March, President Thieu made the disastrous decision to abandon Military Regions I and II to the advancing North Vietnamese and concentrate on the defense of the capitol. Any semblance of an orderly withdrawal evaporated as waves of South Vietnamese, both ARVN and civilian, fled south in panicked droves. The sheer amount of supplies and materiel relinquished to the NVA was incalculable. Author Henderson has interviewed some 40 subjects with first hand knowledge of that simmering time. These include media correspondents, Vietnamese military (ARVN, VC and NVA), a Communist Party official, Vietnamese civilians, many U.S. military including a former USMC Commandant, and even Nguyen Cao Ky, former Premier of South Vietnam. That guy escaped a foundering Saigon piloting his own chopper! Thanks to their collective recollections and some skillful reconstructed dialog, the reader gets a grand feeling of doom as the country imploded. We learn that many South Vietnamese fought valiantly to the bitter end, notably General Le Min Dao, commander of the ARVN 18th Division. This reviewer now believes that not all Americans were on the same page. Ambassador Graham Martin's perversely stubborn denial of the impending ruin is monstrous and had to have impeded the evacuation. This being Vietnam, there are doses of black humor: Enterprising Marines swept the Tu Do Street bars of several prostitutes and loaded them on an Air Force C130 and safety. The young ladies faced certain death by a kangaroo court. And a Marine Lance Corporal who helped evacuate 4 suspicious young males, reported to a nearby officer: "Sir, I think I just sent 4 Viet Cong corporals to Guam". There remains the lingering confusion over the order to cease the evacuation. The riddle of how the command to terminate the mission was transmitted may never be solved but Henderson's detachment was stranded for hours till a USMC higher up intervened. GNS gives the impression that most friendly South Vietnamese were extracted. Other accounts paint another picture. That riddle too, may never be solved. The final word for GNS must be negative: My hardcover edition contained NO MAPS! The text mentions many South Vietnamese cities, bodies of water and highways. All were of strategic value. Why must the curious reader follow the action with a World Atlas? This reviewer is geographically sensitive and a served In Country with the 815th Army Engineers. The 815th built Highway 14 North and part of Highway 20. He knows his roads, but what are others to do? Why do publishers pinch pennies with such stupidity? WO Henderson has produced a 5 star work, which must be reduced in rank to 3 through no fault of his. GNS remains highly recommended but readers will need that Atlas handy. If this reviewer were still over there, he would say something smart like "I'm too short to read a book with no maps!"
Starts out great but.............2005-10-27
This book starts out great but after the first chapter or so, it starts to get too 'military strategy' for my taste. I also find out the book quite hard to follow as there are so many personalites involved and the amount of military jargon is quite substantial.
Customer Reviews:
An insightful and fun read for any child or parent.......2006-07-12
Very funny, very cute look at what happens when kids leave the nest. I loved the illustrations, very well done and the look and feel of the book overall was pleasant.
I purchased this for my mother and she loved it. I laughed out loud at many of the pages myself. Highly recommended for parents and children alike. I look foward to a second volume. Keep them coming!
Great Gift for parents.......2005-09-19
I'm the daughter of empty nest parents, and I can tell you that the observations Dr. Sundby made about "empty nest time" are SO true! Did my mom call me a million times to "just check in" when I went away to college? You bet! And, yes, I did have to walk her through setting up her new DVD player--on the telephone.
My dad always seemed to have business trips in "my neighborhood"--not that I minded, even though they were often two states away. The cartoons are great! In my freshman year, I received a care package almost as big as the one illustrated in the book--Kept my dorm floor afloat for a long time.
Although I've been away from home for a few years, I recently purchased the book for my folks. They loved it! Think this is a great book for kids to get their empty nest parents--it may. make life easier, not only for the parents, but for the kids too!"
R.G., A Nesting Who Left the Nest, New Haven, CT
"You Know You're an Empty Nester....".......2005-08-31
"You Know You're an Empty Nester When..." is a delightful and amusing read for parents who are facing an empty nest in the not too distant future. It has its poignant moments too. It's also a humorous look back for those who are "experienced" empty nesters. I thoroughly enjoyed my journey down memory lane, often laughing out loud at both the sentiments expressed and the cartoons. I recommend this book to all parents who will someday be empty nesters as well as those who are already empty nesters.
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- Greenwich Village 1963: Avant-Garde Performance and the Effervescent Body
- Help Is On Its Way: A True Story
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- Beyond the Cognitive Map: From Place Cells to Episodic Memory
- All About Medicare 2003
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Draw and Sketch Buildings: Sketch With Confidence in 6 Steps or Less (Quarto Book)
Landscape Drawing Step by Step
Pencil Magic: Landscape Drawing Techniques
Drawing Scenery: Landscapes and Seascapes
Drawing Landscapes
