VETERANS: The Last Survivors of the Great War

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Using the veterans' own words and photographs, the book brings to life a mixture of their excitement of embarkation for France, their unbound optimism and courage, the agony of the trenches, and numbing fear of going over the top. The fight for survival, the long ordeal of those who were wounded and the ever present grief caused by appalling loss and waste of life make for compelling reading.

The veterans give us first hand accounts of stark honesty, as they describe in many cases more freely than ever before about experiences which have lived with them for over 80 years.

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Veterans, The Last Survivors of The Great War.......2006-07-17

Like other books by Richard Van Emden, this collection was totally enjoyable. The author, similar to Brown, Macdonald, Arthur and others, has the great ability to allow the reader to nearly experience the Great War through the eyes of those who fought it. The emotions, fears, feelings of those soldiers and civilians are captured in a magnificent way in this book.

A Priceless Memory & Testament ........2002-09-06

Having watched the television documentary series, reading the book was a welcome addition and a possession that I will always treasure.

As the years go by, these veterans now in their 90's and many aged 100 plus, are becoming fewer and fewer.

Their experiences so excellently documented here are a fitting epitaph to those no longer able to tell their incredible stories.

The vivid recollections of the experiences in the trenches, at the front, going over the top and seeing so many of their comrades slaughtered are heart-rending.

The individual accounts of these heroes portrayed here relate to one of the most catastrophic and traumatic conflicts in history. A conflict that will soon be beyond living memory. These personal stories are a priceless memory and testament of what occurred in order that we might live in freedom.

Veterans: The Last Survivors of the Great War.......2000-06-03

With the dawning of the new century, the memories of the Great War will be just that. The authors of "Veterans: The Last Survivors of the Great War" have painstakingly sought out those remaining men and women who fought in World War I, and uses their words and memories to paint the picture of the reality of the experience.

The memories are grouped by chapters which makes it easy to use for quick reference or personal interest. Each chapter contains stories, quotations, and memories from soldiers who fought in the trenches, nurses, or those who waited at home. Each chapter incorporates a variety of memories, not just soldier's memories.

As the horror of that War may fade in our memories, this book will serve to remind us of what was endured by so many as told in their own words.

Last survivors of the (American) Revolution: in the misty memories of six centenarians recorded in 1864, the great war lives again.: An article from: The Loyalist Gazette
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Last survivors of the (American) Revolution: in the misty memories of six centenarians recorded in 1864, the great war lives again.: An article from: The Loyalist Gazette
Elias Brewster Hillard
Manufacturer: United Empire Loyalists' Association
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0008GTLKG
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from The Loyalist Gazette, published by United Empire Loyalists' Association on March 22, 2000. The length of the article is 4174 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Last survivors of the (American) Revolution: in the misty memories of six centenarians recorded in 1864, the great war lives again.
Author: Elias Brewster Hillard
Publication: The Loyalist Gazette (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2000
Publisher: United Empire Loyalists' Association
Volume: 38 Issue: 1 Page: 12-16

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Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys
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Great book from a great astronaut

one of the best of the genre

Best book written by an astronaut, period

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Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys
Michael Collins
Manufacturer: Cooper Square Press
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ASIN: 081541028X

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NASA astronaut Michael Collins was the first man to walk in space and also piloted the first manned craft to land on the moon.

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great book.......2007-09-10

I read this when it was first published, and read it again twice. It's wonderful - it gives you a sense of what the astronaut program was like, what it was intended to do, and what it did. And above all, a great appreciation for pioneers - anyone who's willing to go into the unknown.

Great book from a great astronaut.......2007-08-09

It's been many years since I read this book as I purchased it shortly after it was initially published in paperback. As I remember and I have to promise myself to reread it, this really is one of the finest if not the finest book written by an astronaut. It really showed me what it was like to be part of the crew of the first landing mission to the moon even though it was "only" from the perspective of the guy who got to stay in orbit while Armstrong and Aldrin got all the glory from the surface of the moon. I really believed that Collins really was comfortable with that role and never expected to get a landing assignment down the road.

Really great book.

one of the best of the genre.......2007-07-18

This is a great first hand peek behind the people with 'The Right Stuff.' The book is very balanced, chatty (& sometimes catty), instructive, technical and humorous. Collins is a natural storyteller with an eye for the absurd and the ridiculous. It will please space buffs and non-space buffs alike. Collins puts a real human slant on the epic of the race to the moon which is infinitely more fascinating than the cardboard one-dimensional heroes we were presented with by the media in the sixties.

Best book written by an astronaut, period.......2007-05-10

Michael Collins' "Carrying the Fire" is the best first-person account written by a Gemini/Apollo-era astronaut. Collins' narrative is told from a layman's perspective and does a great job of explaining the more complex aspects of lunar spaceflight in terms all can understand.

Collins also portrays his, in my opinion, major contributions to the space program and personal abilities in a very humble, almost self-deprecating fashion; all an unusual trait for an astronaut. There is a striking comparison between Collins' descriptions of his own endeavors and abilities and those by other authors, such as Deke Slayton in "Deke" or Gene Cernan in "Last Man on the Moon".

I read this for the first time over 20 years ago, and continue to take it off the shelf from time to time. It's easily one of my top five favorite non-fiction titles.

Factual errors.......2007-03-28

One major error was related to the fact that Mike refers to Cliff Charlesworth's team as the White Team. In fact, the White Team was run by the lead Flight Director, Gene Kranz. Cliff ran the Green Team.

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Benchmark Against Which all Others are Still Rated

Carrying the Fire
Michael Collins
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus And Giroux
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000E3DE0Q

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Benchmark Against Which all Others are Still Rated.......2006-12-28

The original and - after 30-plus years - still the best of the astronaut auto-biographies (and bios). Put simply, it is the benchmark against which all subsequent astro bios are measured. Only Cunningham's "All American Boys" and in the last year Mullane's "Riding Rockets" come close, but "Carrying the Fire" is still by far the best book.

I have either read or hold copies of all the astro biographies, and "Carrying the Fire" is my favourite. Written in Collins' modest, self-deprecating style, the book is an excellent account of the human emotions - as well as the technical detail - of two extraordinary spaceflights. Collins was clearly a gifted person - as Walter Cunningham would later write in "The All American Boys", Collins was clearly a more capable test pilot than he gave himself credit for in his own book, but he also had a touch of poet in him. He tells the story of waiting to board Apollo 11 on the morning of 16 July 1969, and closing one eye to see only the launch tower and spacecraft and then closing the other eye to see nothing but the Atlantic Ocean and the Florida beaches - "the Florida that Ponce de Leon would have seen" centuries before. A very thoughful juxtaposition from a man no doubt nervously waiting to board a spacecraft on man's first moon landing attempt.

He also writes candidly of his emotional roller coaster journey leading up to Apollo 11 - especially the disappointment and uncertainty surrounding spinal surgery in 1968 which cost him a seat on the first mission around the Moon (Apollo 8) but which resulted in a seat on the first landing mission. He wrote of the irony of his journey along the highway to the San Antonio, Texas hospital, which if followed on to California ended at the plant where "iron men" asembled the Apollo spacecraft, but which in his case stopped short, where he ended up in major surgery, possibly which his Air Force and NASA careers at an end.

I have never met Collins, but through his book I am sure I would have liked him, not only as a boyhood hero of mine but also as an honest story-teller, and one who has a fabulously clear and captivating writing style.
I must have read this book 20 times, and every time I find something different. It is a refreshing book of one man's amazing journey and the almost accidental role he considers he played in history.

This book comes recommended in a way that no other book about the US space program does. I have given it 5 stars, but it deserves 6, 7 or 8.

An essential book for anyone - everyone - interested in the astronauts.

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Carrying the Fire
Michael Collins
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Carrying the Fire

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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1550821873

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When NASA space-craft are launched in a blaze of burning rocket fuel, the astronauts on board are seen metaphorically as "carrying the fire" from the known to the unknown world. The same can be said for each volume of Canadian Fiction Magazine.

Carrying the Fire an Astronaut's Journey

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Carrying the Fire an Astronaut's Journey
Michael Collins
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Carrying The Fire - An Astronaut's Autobiography

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Carrying The Fire - An Astronaut's Autobiography
Michael Collins
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Carrying the Fire An Astonaut's Journeys

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Carrying the Fire An Astonaut's Journeys
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Carrying the Fire, An Astronauts Journey
Michael Collins
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Michael Collins
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CARRYING THE FIRE.(Brief Article)(Poem): An article from: Poetry

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CARRYING THE FIRE.(Brief Article)(Poem): An article from: Poetry
David Wagoner
Manufacturer: Modern Poetry Association
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This digital document is an article from Poetry, published by Modern Poetry Association on April 1, 2001. The length of the article is 316 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: CARRYING THE FIRE.(Brief Article)(Poem)
Author: David Wagoner
Publication: Poetry (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2001
Publisher: Modern Poetry Association
Volume: 178 Issue: 1 Page: 4

Article Type: Brief Article, Poem

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How to Learn the Alexander Technique: A Manual for Students
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An Excellent Student Resource

Good if you have an Alexader specialist nearby, otherwise...

a wonderful supplement to taking lessons

Not worth the reading.

The nearest thing to a "do-it-yourself" book.

How to Learn the Alexander Technique: A Manual for Students
Barbara Conable
Manufacturer: Andover Press (OR)
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ASIN: 0962259543

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A primer for students of the Alexander Technique, a well-known method for improving freedom and ease of movement and physical coordination. This book provides the first authoritative account of William Conable's concept, Body Mapping, the study of how our ideas about our bodies affect our experience and movement. This concept is integrated with a lucid explanation of the Alexander Technique that clarifies and simplifies the task of teaching and learning the Techique.

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An Excellent Student Resource.......2007-03-20

To learn the Alexander technique, you need a teacher. You CANNOT learn it from a book. The technique involves communication of a kinesthetic sense from the teacher to the student through hands-on learning. With that said, this book is a valuable resource to a serious student who already has, or would like to find a teacher. The sections on body-mapping are particularly useful, and can be applied even if one is not studying the Alexander technique.

Body mapping is a practice predicated on the concept that we have concepts of our bodies, body maps, that do not accurately reflect our anatomy. Consequently, when we try to move, we often try to move in ways that we are not constructed to move. By changing our maps of our bodies to accurately reflect our anatomy, we can move and exist in the world with much greater efficiency and ease.

Good if you have an Alexader specialist nearby, otherwise..........2004-02-21

That's a very interesting book, where you can learn about the importance of knowing your body in order to know how to use it. It can be very helpful if you intend to take Alexander Technique lessons. I bought the book because I thought this was THE book where you can learn something about the technique without taking lessons. That is not the case. The main problem is that Alexander was a fantastic pioneer on the field of sommatics but did not have the conceptual skills to transform its fantastic intuitions in an easily explainable system. If you do not have an Alexander teacher nearby you you should try Feldenkrais book Awareness Through Movement book.

a wonderful supplement to taking lessons.......2001-10-13

I feel moved to respond to some of the reviews below, which seem to me to judge the book more in terms of what it is not, rather than what it is. This is an excellent book to read *as* you're taking lessons; the book provides a wonderful companion to your ongoing learning, offering some fascinating insights on body perception and habits of movement, insights that have stuck with me half a decade after I first read the book. It's a great book to browse through, reading chapters as they relate to your interests. What the book is *not* is an introduction for absolute beginners who've not heard of the technique before; it is intended for people who have taken or will take Alexander lessons, and in this it succeeds admirably.

Not worth the reading........2001-09-25

The auther seems to think it more important to be witty and wordy then to try to convey information. The book was painful to read.

The nearest thing to a "do-it-yourself" book........1999-02-09

There seems to be a lot of controversy about whether someone can learn the Alexander Technique without a teacher. My own experience started with taking lessons from a teacher, but I've met several people who learned quite a bit on their own - not just learned it intellectually (which doensn't do much good anyway) but also were able to apply what they had learned to improve their posture, coordation and balance in very concrete ways.

"How to Learn the Alexander Technique" is a great starting-out place for anyone who's interested in the process but either doesn't have a teacher or would prefer to do as much on their own as possible. But it would be unfair to dismiss the usefulness of the Alexander Technique if you don't succeed. After all, most people have lessons in learning how to drive a car and so it's not surprising if you end up needing at least some lessons in learning how to "drive" yourself in a better way.

Ultimately, I think the best place to get a deeper understanding of the Technique is from Alexander's own books. But a very good first step is the Conables' book, "Body Learning" by Gelb and "Fitness Without Stress" by Rickover. Also a book called "Freedom to Change" by Jones.

How to Learn the Alexander Technique : A Manual for Students
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How to Learn the Alexander Technique : A Manual for Students
Barbara; Conable, William Conable
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With 50 recipes and 8 pages of full-color photographs by Micheal McLaughlin.

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Short cookbook, but interesting recipes.......2007-02-11

Rosie Daley is probably as well known for serving as "Oprah's Chef" as for her own work. In an Introduction, Oprah Winfrey notes (page xi): "I once believed that eating healthy meant eating food that was missing something--TASTE." Then, at a spa where she went, she experienced the meals of Rosie Daley. Of that experience, Winfrey said (page xi): "This new way of eating very low fat, low sugar, low salt. . .has made such a difference in my life."

This short work includes recipes for soups, salads, pasta, entrees, vegetables, and desserts. One of the things that I really like seeing is no salt among the ingredients and low fat ingredients as part of recipes. For instance, on page 69, she provides her recipe for pizza sauce. No salt, no sugar. Just tomato paste, tomato puree, and, for some zest, red paper flakes, oregano, basil, and thyme. On pages 86-87, there is an interesting recipe for Peppered Tuna Nicoise. Lots of ingredients--including wasabi and ginger for some kick. However, instructions are pretty straightforward.

Finally, an interesting potato dish--Roasted Mustard Potatoes. As with the items already mentioned, a little spiciness is included, with chili powder and cayenne pepper. Pretty easy to make and a potato dish with a bit of pizzazz.

The main problem for me is that there are so few recipes. However, what is included has some interesting and fairly easy to make items.

Oprah knows her stuff, as usual.......2006-12-10

My family and I used this cookbook last year after we got it for Christmas. I have to say, we began with trepidation, wanting to do everything "right" but pretty soon we were laughing and having a good time. The results were yummy. The food was tasty and we had a bunch of fun making it. After that first experiment, I served some stuff to my book club, announcing "Here are Oprah's Favorites." The only thing missing was Oprah.

Especially like the salad and pasta dishes. Well worth the money. I don't understand the "bland" remarks other reviewers have made.

Healthy but kind of bland and some errors.......2006-01-08

The recipes I tried were the unfried french fries, unfried crabcakes, and unfried chicken. All were rather bland and needed modifications. The yogurt idea with the unfried chicken was good but it turned out a bit dry and somewhat bland. Maybe less oven time and more spices. The french fries were good but needed a bit more seasoning. The crab cakes needed more egg in order to hold together and were quite dry and tasteless. I like the healthy ideas behind the recipes but they just need more flavor. I probably won't try many more of the recipes given how the first three I tried turned out.

Not good for non-cooks.......2005-01-03

While I overall liked this book, as a 'non-cook,' I sometimes found it hard to follow. If my cooking skills were at a much higher level, I think I would have thoroughly enjoyed it.

Terrible!.......2003-03-22

I just threw away my copy of this cookbook after yet another disgusting dish. The pictures are pretty but that's about it. All the other negative reviews have summed it up. Do not buy this book. It was a great disappointment!

In the Kitchen with Rosie: Oprah's Favorite Recipes

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In the Kitchen with Rosie: Oprah's Favorite Recipes
Rose Daley
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In the Kitchen With Rosie "Oprah's Favorite Recipes" (Rosie Daley)
Rosie Daley
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In the Kitchen with Rosie : Oprah's Favorite Recipes
Rosie Daley
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IN THE KITCHEN WITH ROSIE OPRAHS FAVORITE RECIPES
Rosie Daley
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In the Kitchen With Rosie, Oprah; S Favorite Recipes.
Rosie. Daley
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In the Kitchen With Rosie: Oprah's Favorite Recipes
Rosie Daley
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In the Kitchen With Rosie: Oprah's Favorite Recipes
Rosie Daley
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In the Kitchen with Rosie: Oprah's Favorite Recipes
Rosie Daley
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In the Kitchen With Rosie "Oprah's Favorite Recipes" (Rosie Daley)
Rosie Daley
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