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As soon as I finish the last page, I immediately turn to page one and begin again; and have been doing so for almost fifteen years. With each reading, I come to a better understanding of the meaning in the Laws of Creation. If only every person could attain the sense of peace and happiness I have found in this most wonderful explanation of why we are here and where we are going! Thank you, Abd-ru-shin!

The great work "In The Light of Truth The Grail Message",shows how we human beings are to live in this world. As one goes through its contents you are able with an open heart to percive the enormous love the Almighty Father has given us. One is able to understand why we are living in this prensent day confusion, and how we can retrace our steps back onto the right road again.

Any one who truely seeks for the truth of Life, death and also the reason of our whole existence would find the answers in the pages of the Grail Message.

I wish every one the strenght to grasp this saving life belt thrown to us from on High and to be able to follow the advice given for his/her salvation.

bye.

This is the only book that I have read (and I have read many many many) that has explained THE TRUE GOD and my purpose for being on this earth. Thank you for your love of mankind.

Insight into Who and What we are and Where we came from I have read this book in English as well as in it's original language, German. It is truely a book of wisdom explaining the nature of our existance, setting right where religions have gone wrong... The author does not bring a new religion with his words, he removes the blinders bestowed upon us by our own foolish conceptions which prohibit us from understanding life, which in turn forces us into blind faith or mere frustration. He challenges the reader to turn blind faith into conviction that comes from knowlege and understanding alone. The author Abd-Ru-Shin sheds light onto christian subjects like The Antichrist, The Creation of Man,Marriage, Man and his Free Will,Beauty of the Peoples,etc.just to name a few, but he also gives insight into the important role women play in creation,life after death,elemental beings, as well as the Millennium. If I was given the option to own only one book, this would be the book of my choice for the reason that the human spirit excists beyond our earthly life and this book shows what that existance truely consists of and guides mankind into knowledge about themselves and the position they hold in Creation.

Without any shadow of doubt, there is no other book like ''In the Light of Truth''. The author, Abdruschin, is certainly the promise that Jesus made to mankind. Jesus did not say that he himself would come back, but the Son of Man would come to teach and to judge. Deep in my soul, I am sure this is the last hope for all of us.

This book will shake you out of our self-created indolence and superficiality. It offers an explanation to every conceivable problem in existence today and goes further by giving insights and clear examples of how to live aright so as to bring clarity and beauty into our lives and our world. After reading this book, it is only sad that it is still relatively unknown. The author himself is the fulfilment of promises made long ago which can be found by clear thinking people who belong to any of the major religious movements.

This is truly an exceptional book that is worth more than its cost. Step by step it removes all the disillusionment that man has had of Creation in all these centuries. Every false conception is revealed and true Light comes to the fore as the explanations given in this book project a perfect picture of Creation as it is and always has been. To all this who get this book, it will be the shining light and guiding staff that will lead them out of all the present-day chaos. It is indeed my Book of the Millenium.

I have read this book in English as well as in it's original language, German. It is truely a book of wisdom explaining the nature of our existance, setting right where religions have gone wrong... The author does not bring a new religion with his words, he removes the blinders bestowed upon us by our own foolish conceptions which prohibit us from understanding life, which in turn forces us into blind faith or mere frustration. He challenges the reader to turn blind faith into conviction that comes from knowlege and understanding alone. The author Abd-Ru-Shin sheds light onto christian subjects like The Antichrist, The Creation of Man,Marriage, Man and his Free Will,Beauty of the Peoples,etc.just to name a few, but he also gives insight into the important role women play in creation,life after death,elemental beings, as well as the Millennium. If I was given the option to own only one book, this would be the book of my choice for the reason that the human spirit excists beyond our earthly life and this book shows what that existance truely consists of and guides mankind into knowledge about themselves and the position they hold in Creation.

This is the companion book to Panzer Aces, which I must admit I did like a little better than this one. Never the less, this is a great book that describes hundreds of encounters, both small and large in a very exciting and intersting fashion. It is now one of my favorites.

For once, there is a book on the German point of view. Action packed and believable battle scenes galore! A must have!

This book is action packed with true stories from German Vets. The action ranges from Frozen hell of the Eastern front to slowing the Allied advance in the West. From the Iron cross second class to the Knights cross with Oakleaves... These men risked everything for there comrades, family and country! For a low price this book is a steal! Great buy!!...

This was a book that once you started reading it was very hard to put down. The book follows about a dozen highly decorated German soldiers on their fighting experiences during World War II. Most of the fighting deals on the Eastern front. This book is backed full of "in your face" combat at close quarters. When reading these experiences, one is amazed that anyone could survive such brutal combat conditions. A must read for the serious student of World War II infantry fighting.

I began reading Doris Drucker's book, thinking I would see if I enjoyed it. I did not put it down until I finished it. Wow . My son picked it up and had the same reaction. It is a fascinating portrait of a moment and place in time. I felt I was there, in her aristocratic setting watching the details of Germany and England in the 30s; and then to see America in the 40s and 50s through her eyes was entertaining. I often found myself laughing with her incredible sense of humor.

Doris Drucker's autobiography gives us the sharpest possible sense of social change from old Europe to modern America. Her aristocratic mother's daily, and Sunday, authority over and care of her household staff reached across a class line drawn more precisely with far greater subtlety than that between a Scarlett O'Hara and her black maid. Mrs. Drucker's understanding of domestic work and working rules is sharpened by her cosmopolitan insight over the most stable region of Germany on the one hand and the most inventive regions of California. An expert in patent law who holds patents on her own inventions, Doris Drucker's vigorous life(tennis three times a week) and her large family of gifted daughters and a son provide her with intimate outposts for comparing today's world of radical change with her childhood in which human fences were firm as stone walls.

Not only is the account of the author's peripatetic life absolutely engrossing, her use of language delights throughout. The story is told with the feistiness and sly humor of a survivor-- I cheered for her all the way. Despite her deceptively simple style, the author has the guts to use vocabulary mere mortals only read about ( morganatic wives anyone?) A real treat for biography lovers!

Anni Puckett, PhD

Doris Drucker's memoir chronicles a life whose early years were framed by war but whose concerns were those of most young German women her age--school, dating, and, in her case, establishing her independence from a contolling family and social structure. Beautifully written, economical but also eloquent in expression, the book moves at a brisk pace, rewarding the reader with deft and witty observations and reminding us that even during the most tumultuous periods of history, daily life somehow goes on. Drucker is an extraordinary woman who, one guesses, would scoff at such a thought. Her story is told with care but wholly without the sentimentality and pretentious self-indulgence that so often plague the genre. Her mother (one of whose early admonitions became the book's title) is a character of epic proportions, and this relationship provides some of the book's most heatbreaking, and also most hilarious, moments. Drucker's is that rare memoir that sheds light on a society and historical period while never losing its highly personal, indeed idiosyncratic, individuality. This is a fascinating and wonderfully rewarding book.

Irish Secrets: German Espionage In Wartime Ireland 1939-01945 by Mark M. Hull (Assistant Professor of History, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri) is a 383-page exploration of why World War II German intelligence basically failed in the Irish State, and offers the documented view that the german effort represented a genuine menace to the Allies (including Northern Ireland) as well as the wartime neutrality of the Irish Republic. So much more than a stodgy historical study, Professor Hull offers the reader a truly gripping and comprehensive account of the intelligence war in Ireland and showcases the story of a brilliant, creative, and ultimately successful Irish Military Intelligence in waging a counter-espionage campaign that would overwhelm the German intelligence operations. Strongly recommended for personal and academic World War II Military Studies collections, Trust Yourself To Transform Your Body draws upon newly released intelligence files in several countries, in-depth interviews Professor Hull was able to conduct with surviving participants, and other previously unpublished primary sources.

It's not often that a history book comes along that catches my interest. When first starting to read "Irish Secrets," I thought I would be in for another historical timeline reading. As I kept reading, I was captured with the informative and humorous, yet tragic stories. Mark Hull has put real-life incidents together to tell the truth, whether liked or not. You do not get lost in the first chapter with the events occuring out of place, instead, you are given an understanding of the German Intelligence Service and the tools used to achieve an ultimate outcome of events. For Example: agent basic training, radio transmission secrets, secret inks, a coding system, and the people that were chosen.

I am not educated with this part of history. Frankly, I find it boring in the classroom, but not with "Irish Secrets." You will get to know the people and feel their half achievements and full loss. You will go to Ireland and have landed in the wrong area only to come upon a long hike through the roads, I believe the gent walked about 70 miles...of which he was dressed out of sorts! He is very easily spotted as a foreigner - not too well planned. You'll have illicit affairs, entrapment, thrilling escapes and ultimately see the inside of a jail cell.

This book is beyond a doubt, one of its own kind and should be read for the classroom, but also for pleasure! A simple "Spies Like Us" all the way humor. The classroom reading list should include "Irish Secrets" for scholars to learn a bit of forgotten history and enjoy a well written bit of work on the authors part. Irish Secrets is very well written and thorough in its recalling of a time went wrong. I enjoyed the book from start to finish and urge others to do the same.

This book has amazing insight into the realms of Irish and German espionage history. I found the reading to be thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining. Dr. Mark Hull brings a bit of humor into a subject that is difficult to entertain. I have never been an advent reader of any type of historical writings and found that once I started reading, I honestly felt capitivated by the reconstruction of history in this book. Unlike most history books, Dr. Hull has brought to life a writing that is serious in depth of subject, yet could be viewed world wide on a theatre screen as thoroughly enjoyable (James'Bond anyone?).

I would recommend this book for a history class or just for the enjoyment of sitting down on the sofa with a good book and a cup of wine for a relaxing evening at home.

Irish Secrets provides a stunning insight into a now forgotten aspect of the Second World War - Nazi Germany's secret overtures to neutral Ireland, 1939-1945. Berlin sent a "dirty dozen" agents by parachute and U-boat to Ireland, whose wartime leader, Eamon de Valera, was striving to maintain strict neutrality in the face of strong pressure to join the war (mainly from British Premier, Winston Churchill).
Mark Hull, a professor of modern history at St. Louis University, has produced the most detailed study of the agents sent to Ireland by Germany. They included a German circus weight-lifter, an Indian and two South Africans. Most were en route for missions in England, but all were caught and incarcerated in Athlone army camp in the Irish midlands (luckily for them because they would have faced executiion if discovered in wartime Britain).
The most colourful agent by far was Dr Hermann Goertz, who parachuted into Ireland just north of Dublin in 1940. Goertz was wearing his Luftwaffe uniform and medals in the mistaken belief that he would be shot if caught in civilian attire. Goertz who was in his 50s and a First World War veteran, asked a startled Irish farmer if he had landed in Northern Ireland by mistake. The farmer asked the German agent "You wouldn't happen to know Ballivor?" (the nearest village), at which point the conversation abruptly halted as Goertz went on the run.
As Professor Hull points out, Goertz had the most success among the German agents, remaining at large for 18 months. But it's believed that the Irish Army deliberately kept him on a long leash, checking all those with whom he came in contact, including the German ambasador, Dr Eduard Hempel.
Goertz was unsuited to a spying mission, however, and spent his time in prison writing love stories, practising suicide drills, and dreaming about taking over the leadership of the IRA (Irish Republican Army). After his post-war release, he was so alarmed at the prospect of being repatriated to Allied-controlled Germany (he feared he would be tortured to death by the Russians) that he took a cyanide pill and died instantly, in 1947.
Professor Hull's book - which is destined to become a standard work of historical reference - will prove an invaluable read for anyone intersted in recent Irish history, Ireland's historical links with Germany and, in particular, Nazi Germany's attitude to Europe's neutral states (which included Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden and Turkey).
It is noteworthy that the foreword for Irish Secrets was written by none other than Enno Stephan (the former head of German Radio's French-language service), whose 1963 book "Spies in Ireland" did much of the spadework on this fascinating topic.

(Dr David O'Donoghue, Dublin, Ireland).

To my mind, Oswald Boelcke has always been the most fascinating German fighter pilot of World War I. Boelcke's achievements as an astute tactician, masterful fighter leader and top-scoring ace far outshone those of his most apt student, von Richtofen. Greg VanWyngarden examines the career of this pivotal figure along with the Boelcke Squadron in this insightful and entertaining volume from Osprey, #26 in their 'Aviation Elite Units' series.

Boelcke scored 40 kills from August 1915 to October 1916. More importantly he created and codified the basic tactics for air combat and put those tactics to great effect when he commanded Jagdstaffel 2 beginning in August 1916. As Jasta 2 CO he nurtured von Richtofen and other pilots, developing them into first-rate fighter pilots and leaders. His death in a mid-air stunned his squadron - and the nation - but Jasta 2 labored on, often under inferior commanders, to eventually score 336 victories by war's end, second only to the Red Baron's Jasta 11. It lost 35 pilots in return.

The glory days of Boelcke's reign and the subsequent uneven combat history of Jasta 2 are well-covered in VanWyngarden's book. Since it deals with a squadron rather than a group or wing, this Osprey book can devote more space to the inner workings of the unit, which makes for fascinating reading. For example, I was unaware that super-ace Boelcke was an asthmatic(!) and suffered so badly from it that he was sometimes unable to fly. Another interesting tidbit: a Jasta 2 pilot - Otto Bernert - was the first fighter pilot on EITHER side to be credited with five kills in a single day. Yet more fascinating, little-known history: Jasta 2 pilot Werner Voss was so disgusted with the leadership of one of Boelcke's successors that he filed a formal complaint to higher command, an unheard-of breach of protocol that got him booted from the squadron.

All of the preceding along with coverage of Jasta 2's combats make for a delightful read. Then too VanWyngarden's book features 125 vintage black and white photographs of Boelcke & Co., the fighters they flew, crashed aircraft, etc. and 11 pages of color sideviews by Harry Dempsey.

JAGDSTAFFEL 2 BOELCKE is one of the best Osprey titles to come along in some time. It sheds considerable light on this prestigious fighting unit and its most famous commander, a man who was literally a legend in his own time. Highly recommended.

A very good book. Very entertaining and informative at the same time. Again the color plates are very useful to a modeler.

Very well written,excellent artwork and pictures. Fits in well with other books in this series(Aviation Elite Units) Would recommend it to anyone who likes World War I aviation.

The author has written another exciting book illustrated with wonderful photos and exceptional color profiles. This is the gripping true story of one of the first German fighter units of WWI, and one of the greatest. It was lead by one of the great aces of all time, Oswald Boelcke, who was an exceptional teacher of fighter pilots as well as a great example. The Red Baron got his start in this unit and, taught and inspired by Boelcke, became a legend. This book tells how the Red Baron got his start. The text, full of first-hand combat stories, gives the essential history of this unit's highs and lows. Very engaging and enjoyable to read, and a must for historians and modelers.

"Josef Albers: to Open Eyes" by F.A.Horowitz and B. Danilowitz is not only a review into the life and work of a great complex artist and teacher. It also signals the end of a debatable era called "postmodernism" whose glitz, pomp and kitsch we have been witnessing universally since Tom Wolfe's pamphlet "From Bauhaus to Our House". "Josef Albers: to Open Eyes" also gives hope to the rediscovery of relevance. This elaborate study deserves to be part of the curriculum of the future art generation in its defining process.
Frank R Schmidt, Princeton, NJ

What a mammoth yet intriguing and masterful study of the brilliantly talented Josef Albers! This book has many substantial insights, but I was personally fascinated with the depth of passion that Albers demonstrated both for his art and his pedagogy. Fred Horowitz has elegantly evoked the ways that Albers sought to "open" the eyes of his students, so they could "bring the conscious mind to bear on the task at hand" and take risks as they became "creative, self-reliant, [and] independent."

Josef Albers: To Open Eyes by Frederick A. Horowitz and Brenda Danilowitz, is a beautiful, magnificent book about this internationally eminent artist, teacher of art, and theorist of design and color. It simply could not be better.

Brenda Danilowitz, Chief Curator of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Bethany, Connecticut, writes about the biography of Albers, 64 pages, while Frederick A. Horowitz, a former student of Albers at Yale, who taught a The University of Michigan School of Art & Design in Ann Arbor and at Washtenaw Community College, devotes 181 pages to Albers as teacher of design, drawing, color and painting. An additional 34 pages cover Notes, Bibliography, Sources, Illustrations and Index. To find out what made Albers such a unique and revered teacher Frederick Horowitz interviewed a total of 160 students at Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, Yale and Harvard as well as 9 of his professional colleagues.

Albers was first a student and then a member of the faculty of the original Bauhaus in Germany. When Hitler took over Germany in 1933 and the faculty, led by Mies van der Rohe, closed the Bauhaus, Albers came to the U.S. to teach, first at Black Mountain College in North Carolina and then, beginning in 1950, at Yale as Head of the Department of Design. By 1962 Yale University awarded him an honorary Doctorate at the same time she similarly honored President John F. Kennedy and former Secretary of State Dean Acheson.

Albers experimented with color relationships in the form of nested squares of color. His great dedication resulted in a retrospective exhibition of his oeuvre at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, an honor only rarely given to a living artist. Another retrospective was organized in 1988 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

At Yale all first-year graduate students in architecture, undergraduates majoring in architecture and design, and all students in design took Albers' courses in color and in drawing, while his basic design course was meant for undergraduates majoring in architecture.

Albers had a wide influence on generations of artists, architecture and design. The book makes it eminently clear why Albers was as influential a teacher as he was and why his courses and theories became the basis of art teaching all over the United States.

The text of this truly remarkable book is very informative and well written. The illustrations are superlative, carefully chosen and in many instances unique, not available anywhere else since they come from the Albers Foundation. I counted 284 illustrations, 103 in color.

By describing the life and artful work of Josef Albers this book demonstrates to teachers and lovers of art at all levels how to impart a life-long desire to experiment with fundamental principles of art and with novel materials to create new objects of art.

Many people may not know that Josef Albers played a large part in revolutionizing teaching art in the 20th Century. Many people do not know how many 2oth century artists lives were in some way affected by his teaching--either directly or indirectly.

It is surprising that it has taken this long for a book on the remarkable teaching career of Josef Albers to appear, but here it finally is. Fred Horowitz and Brenda Danilowitz do a superb job of bringing the pedagogical thinking of perhaps the greatest 20th century art educator to life as well giving us a clear picture of the teacher himself. If this is the only book you ever read on teaching art you will give yourself the greatest gift possible.

The explanations and analysis of individual projects in four foundations courses, are coherent and represent the meat of this remarkable book. Plentiful fine illustrations from the Albers Foundation Archives, the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College make clear the descriptions of the problems and the reasons Albers found these to be indispensible in developing visual thinking--in opening eyes.

The choice of type weight, spacing, margin widths, and the light value of the ink may make reading the text a little difficult, but you should persevere--because real gold lies within the text. This is not just a book for the pictures!!

The publishers should take note, however, that Josef Albers as a designer would have deplored the way the layout and typography makes the reading a difficult task. I wonder whether the book designers took the trouble to read the text, or if they might benefited from some of the basic lessons imparted in Albers' famous Design courses.

I hope that with the publishing of this book, the vital lessons that Albers made the core of his life teaching will once again be brought alive and vigorous into the Foundations classrooms of colleges and art schools worldwide.

My book club got hold of this and we devoured it in 3 or 4 days, agreeing that all of us cried at the same point (for the right reasons!) and smiled wryly for much of the rest of the time.

There are some well-studied digs at the incompetence and inhumanity of both British wartime military intelligence and the the Waffen SS and some valid questions about justice and the suitability of happy endings (in real life and film). This is, I think, a literary historical drama-cum-thriller, if there is such a genre. Some of the passages are extremely moving and very apt for the subject matter, which is the completely believable route from unemployment to faux-stardom, albeit seemingly for the 'dark side' (the Waffen SS).

It is worth reading, especially if you are interested in a slice of life hidden within the mess of the Second World War, and then the magical jump to Hollywood that follows.

It's 1938 and English actor Abe Goldstein is offered the chance to star in a movie. The problem is the movie is to be shot in Germany - and the Nazi's have started their campaign against Jews that includes humiliations, discriminations, round-ups, and eventually - the death camps. "Julies" is a novel that begins in pre-war London, continues with the conditions of Nazi Germany, and culminates in the Hollywood of the 1960s. A highly recommended addition to community library fiction collections and personal reading lists, this is story of obsession, survival, love, and the movies. Brian Allen Levine is an novelist who writes with originality and an engaging style that is as entertaining as it is compelling from beginning to end.

This is Levine's first novel. A nicely written romantic thriller which holds the reader's attention, enhanced by sufficient historical detail to educate and hence add to the interest factor. It's a fast read, and would make a good companion on a long journey. It drags only slightly towards the end, stretches belief slightly on the romantic front,and leaves a few questions unanswered. It makes you wonder whether the story could be based on Levine's own life story. I gather he has now retired and is living in the South of France. Perhaps that is where the story really ends.

True story(?), romance, thriller, Nazi Germany - where's Mr. Spielberg?
When the film is made - surely soon - watch out for the man on the diving board at the SS villa retreat. He will play an important role. But who will play the part?

This is a superb book for a holiday or travel read: it spans pre-war London, Nazi Germany and 1960s Hollywood and posits an interesting 'what if' scenario: what if an English actor, a blond blue-eyed Jew, accepted a movie role in Germany just before WW2? How would he deal with the ensuing mayhem and loss of his fiancee? Help the Germans and die as a traitor, or maybe try something else...

The book would make a powerful, fast-moving film.

This biography is simply the best on the life and trials of Johannes Kepler.Anyone,who is exploring the field of astronomy,should invest their time in reading this great book.It's the fascinating story of a genius scientist having to deal with the heretical zeitgeist and relentless religious persecution of his times.Ironically,more from his own protestant leadership rather than the catholic church.Kepler was like the modern Socrates during this epoch leading to the Age of Reason. Kepler supported the Greek Copernican world model,which was in direct oppossion to the teachings of all christian-jewish European schools.Kepler did not want to 'drag the owls of knowledge to Athens',yet to bring their greek pagan wisdom to the heart of the European centers of learning.This is just an excellent book for any astute historian with a budding interest in the laws of the stars above us.

Although written in 1948, Caspar's biography is today still the most comprehensive attempt to portray the person of Kepler in a unified manner. This work reflects Caspar's lifetime of work dedicated to Kepler's many publications, manuscripts, and correspondences, and, thanks to additional citations made by editor Owen Gingerich, the reader may now find where nearly all of these passages derive from. Both the common reader and serious student may benefit from this book, for it combines Kepler's scientific studies with the deeply personal conflicts of an early modern genius. Caspar's biography is fundamental not only for studies made on Kepler, but also for the Scientific Revolution in general.

Like the other reviewers have said, this book is simply the best combination of an account of Kepler's life, theories, and works.

....about Kepler, you must have this book. Period.

Im a person who reads many books but doesnt write many reviews.Im writting this one in gratitude to the writer.Orinally I had trouble in choosing a book to read on Goring.A subject I found interesting and wanted to learn more about.Im pleased that this was the book I choose.Im pleased in the style and how well Leffland tells it.This is historical novel with great deal of facts but is told in a fictional way that I found more entertaining then alot of biographies.She did give me quite a feeling of what it was like in the Riech and in Germany at that time.She did such a good job of this I thought It would be only fair of me to take a minute of my time to write this.I have read a great amount of books on world war II and this is one of the best.

Leffland is an exquisite writer. This novel explores the humanity of a monster, the banality of evil personified. It is a very rich and enlightening journey that illuminates a life yet can not answer the mystery behind its horrifying outcome. The writing is superb, the character of H.G. richly ambiguous. As with any villain, there are more questions than answers, and Leffland beautifully dramatizes the puzzle of the nature of evil and how it can take root in the human soul.

If you are interested in German/European history, then get yourself a copy of this book. It seems to be out of print, and no I won't sell mine, but its still worth finding. Leffland took the approach of a historical novel because she felt that this was the best way of making you understand the times and how heroic Germans could be seduced by Nazism and Hitler. Leffland certainly researched her subject well enough to have written a biography of Georing, but this approach had to be more fun for her and her readers. Sure, its kind of a cop out approach when comparing this to Kershaw's biography of Hitler, but then Kershaw does not make me feel like a German caught up in the rush of the early 20's in Germany either.

Leffland brings the complexities of Hermann Goering to life with clarity and vivid detail. Her descriptions of Castle Veldenstein and Carinhall (Goering's estate named after his first wife) are fascinating, and are quite accurate, probably the best ever written. Although this novel is fiction, the bulk of the material is taken from exhaustively researched facts. (Leffland actually went to Germany to visit places in the book firsthand and met with Goering's relatives.) The Knight, Death and the Devil is a wonderfully tragic tale that can be savored like a fine wine.