Shadow The Books

I am privilidged to actually know the author. War is a terrible thing, and Traugott brings the personal touches of how he overcomes bitter feelings to accept Christ and begin a life of service to the King!

Very uplifting book highlighting the redemptive nature of Gods plan for the life of a young boy raised in the Hitler Youth Movement. It also offers an historical perspective on the days of Hitler-era Germany and the often overlooked fact that not all who were part of the elite German SS were there by their own accord. The book is historically accurate but also entertaining - easy to read but hard to put down.

Since our schools no longer teach AMERICAN history, this is a great read for people of all ages (especially children)that gives a glimpse of our country from it's earliest days and the horrendous hardships the men, women and children faced to live in freedom, not only for themselves but for those who would come after them.

I really love this book. The very first story that I read was about a criminal who saved the life of George Washington. It is a very entertaining way to learn about the American Revolution because it is like you are learning about these events first hand. Also the story about Admiral Peter Parker's Drawers is just halarious. I am so glad my parents got it for me for christmas. I had to point out to my mom where the book was at Barnes and Noble. It was hiding behind another book. She totally accused me of hidding it. Still I am glad I got it because there were only four copies left.

This is a beautifully illustrated and compelling conversation, that is both instructive and entertaining. Plumb challenges us to confront ourselves, our country, and our world through the lens of The Human Shadow. It's a great read.

Intelligent and engaging! Plumb's voice makes her subject both thought-provoking and down to earth. I would definitely recommend this for anyone from teenagers on up!

This is my second book by Mr. Leib. I find him to be a great author and holds not only the war,but America in context of the 60's. There is no doubt to any of us that lived through that era that the war, the country, and our people were surely at risk. America as we knew it had to change and luckily it did. Let us hope that history will not repeat that era. I will read all his books as his insight is great.

When read with it predecessor, Liebs "The Fire Dream", this book provides the best of worst of the Vietnam War in a moving account of the life of a soldier as seen through the eyes of a man who wants to live and let live yet is forced to kill. I have never read a more realistic account of what it was like to be there and am doubtful that I ever will.

The stories in this collection push the reader to the extreme edge of darkness--and sometimes beyond. Valley of the Shadow is not for the squeamish or weak of heart. Characterized by a highly visual style, every story builds to a dark, often disturbing crescendo. Stories are carefully crafted, and main characters are generally well developed.

The short stories in Dr. Logsdon's collection are at times disturbing and at times horrific but always enjoyable. Set primarily in Las Vegas, Oregon, and Southern Idaho, the stories follow characters from all walks of life--strippers, college professors, spinsters, hit men, rednecks, impressionable teenagers, and more. More significantly, though, most of these characters have reached a crisis point in their lives and must decide forevermore on the fate of their souls...

A very strong Christian ethic informs the imagery and the themes set forth here, and not by accident. Dr. Logsdon is intent on showing the spiritual side of the crises that the characters undergo and in so doing places a great importance on the soul as the agent of choice as well as the object of the forces fighting within each character. If the characters choose to uphold their faith in God and listen to the warnings of their souls, they are saved, even if they are killed. But if the characters choose to be faithless and ignore the warnings, then perdition awaits them.

Dr. Logsdon also injects some very dark humor in his stories, most noticeably in "Dog-Fightin' Fool," "Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John," "Naughty Jane Austen," and "The Night Uncle Willy's Car Caught on Fire on the I-95." But in all these stories, the reader is bound to be intrigued by the struggles each character must face. I heartily recommend this collection for serious readers of dark, horror-laced fiction.

Do you know whats in Kate's head .It's not just her brain but, peoples voices. Kate fear's when she hear's terrifying voices in her head. She must learn to control the voices in her head before they take over. This story really had me scared.When my mom called me I thought I was hearing vioces too. It was a very good story.I was enjoying this waiting to see what happened next. I read the story like a book because it was so long. It was a cool and scary. It made me feel like was there and I wanted to keep reading it.That was the coolest book Ive ever read.

One day, Kate hears voices while she's in the graveyard putting flowers on her grandmother's grave. It was her sickly mother's request; she fulfilled it before she went to school after her visit to her mother's hospital bed. Of course she just thinks that the whispers are someone talking, since the halls are really hollow and you can hear just about anything from the graves. Well, when the days pass by she starts to hear phone conversations that talk about things that haven't happened yet, so she goes and talks to her mom, who is recovering from her illness. That same night, though, Kate hears a phone conversation that reveals a terrifying future.

Justin has gotten brand new shoes because of some random `contest' at the sneaker store -- but what he doesn't know is that even though the shoes might be really cool, what they do is not cool at all. When some incidents happens, such as when Justin's neighbor's car is covered in yellow paint, he finds that the bottom of his shoe is covered in YELLOW PAINT!!! Then some days pass and he locks his shoes in his closet -- he's sure that someone has been taking his shoes and committing these unreasonable crimes. Then he figures out that it's the shoes themselves doing the crimes! When he's had enough of the shoes, he decides to take them to the dumpster and just throw them out for good -- but something very weird happens that might just put Justin's life in jeopardy!

Tim is over at his grandmother's house while his parents are away. He's exploring on a very nice warm day, and comes across a beautiful orchard full of apples. He's just sitting there, having a good time, when his neighbor comes out and tells him to leave. Furious, the neighbor comes barging into his house and tells Tim and his grandmother that if he's over at the orchard one more time they're going to have the worst time of their life. Tim gets so mad that the next day he goes over and does some damage to the orchard. After his satisfaction was complete, he took an apple and started munching on it. The next day, he feels sick -- and some very weird things start happening.

VOICES is a total thriller all the way to the end. These were three of the scariest stories I have read, and I give this book an absolute 5 stars!

Reviewed by: Spreeha

Book was received quickly and in better than expected condition. Fully satisfactory.

I would recommend the biography of W. Eugene Smith, Shadow and Substance: The Life and Work of an American Photographer to anyone interested in the life and times of this photographer. I felt that the author drew a picture of a driven, artist who had a sense of public right and wrong. From this book, I learned that whether or not he led a life that I would want my children to emulate, his sense of outrage towards social injustices were larger than his personal being. And, he presented his stories "up close" and personal. After reading the book, the photo essays became even more revolutionary and engaging. Smith becomes real. Enjoy.

You will be challenged to think. Verge takes a tremendous foundation story and builds a book that will challenge your thoughts and traditions. Verge is direct with his thoughts and ties them to scripture. Good read by a bold writer.

This book is laced with scripture as the author challenges the things you have been taught in the church. The opening story catches you right off and prepares you for the rest of your reading. If you want non-fiction spiritual warfare, but also challenging teaching from a well studied author, this book is a must.

"War In The Shadow Of Auschwitz" by John Wiernicki.
Subtitled: "Memoirs Of A Polish Resistance Fighter And survivor Of the Death Camps". Syracuse University Press, 2001.

In the dry September of 1939, Janusz Wiernicki was a young cadet who had just completed his freshman year at the Military Academy in Lwów, Poland. If the weather had been wet, the German 1939 invasion would have been slowed down, but it was a dry September. The first 88 pages narrate the rapid defeat of Poland and the shock experienced by this young boy as his entire world disintegrates.

His options rapidly diminish. He can not stay at the "manor" of his family; (the Irish would consider his family part of the "Landed Class"). In the woods, he becomes part of a loose organization of Polish Army guerrillas ...Resistance Fighters ... who, it appears, spend their time wandering aimlessly from place to place. There is one "fire fight" where both Germans and Poles take casualties, but, interestingly, most of the time, Janusz is assessing the charms of the various young ladies he encounters. Youth will overcome!

Janusz Wiernicki goes home on leave to visit his relatives and is arrested by the Gestapo as he is just about to return to the Resistance Fighters. Janusz was not successful in hiding his second set of forged identity papers.

The remainder of the book, some 169 pages (or 66%) deals with the witness of Janusz Wiernicki to the inhumanity of the Nazi Germans towards the Poles, towards anyone Slavic, towards the Jews, towards Nazi defined "Untermensch". The author recounts how enforced starvation in the prison camps made food the chief subject of discussion, with the complementary issue being the avoidance of rigorous labor which would hasten starvation. Perhaps Wiernicki survived because his Grandmother was able to send him food packages.

In one instance, Wiernicki used his Grandmother's food to procure a pair of contraband binoculars. Then, the author recounts how he used the binoculars to watch as Hungarian Jews were offloaded from the trains, sorted into the immediate death line and into the line where they would live for a short while more, and the horror of seeing families being sent, left to death, while some were sent, right to life. This eye-witness account is horrifying, but is the heart of this book.

As the war winds down, Wiernicki and his fellow inmates are made to trek from Auschwitz to Buchenwald. At the very end, (of the book and the war), Janusz runs away from the line of prisoners trudging along. The German guards shoot but miss him. He runs and runs. He describes taking a pistol from a young German soldier, a dead young soldier in the side car of a motorcycle. Then he meets with a vehicle bearing the white star of the American Army. Witness.

A non-Jew, author John Wiernicki was a Polish partisan and political prisoner who vividly recalls his experienced during World War II and the horrors of being incarcerated in the Auschwitz concentration camp. It was in 1943 that Wernicke as a Polish underground fighter was captured and beaten by the Gestapo, then shipped to Auschwitz. A Gentile, Wernicke's chilling memoir graphically details "life" in that infamous death camp, along with his personal battle to survive both physically and morally in the face of the utter evil that was the Nazi "Final Solution" for its enemies. Especially in the face of current efforts at anti-Semitic revisionism, War In The Shadow Of Auschwitz is a critically important and welcome contribution to the growing library of Holocaust Studies, as well as being recommended for World War II European theater reading lists and reference collections.

It seems strange to me that such an interesting book should be out of print. This is a collection of essays on various aspects of warfare as it is described in the Book of Mormon. One of the problems people have in reading the book is the preconceptions they bring to it and it causes them to not be able to read closely what the Book of Mormon says for itself. The papers in this book were given at a 1989 symposium on the subject that was widely attended.

While problems remain, it is most interesting how much more that the kind of warfare described in the Book of Mormon, its seasonality, the kinds of weapons and armor described, and so forth, fit much better into what we know about Mesoamerica than the world of the Bible or Joseph Smith's time. Needless to say, aspects of history that Joseph Smith could not have known.

In my view, whatever can help the reader actually see what the Book of Mormon says for itself rather than what others have claimed for it, the better. Hugh Nibley began this with his "Approach to the Book of Mormon" decades ago, and I am glad that careful scholars are helping us think all this through today.

True, the real significance of the Book of Mormon is to testify of Christ and to affirm spiritual truths. However, the more clearly we read the book, the more likely it is that we can see those important truths.

THis is an excellent collection of essays concerning warfare in the book of mormon and I'm sad to learn that this book is out of print. If you're interested in the book of mormon and want some logical verification of its authenticity then this book is definitely worth a look.