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Dark Horse Six is a remarkable book. Written by a fighting Battalion CO, the book gives insights into our Korean War Marines from rifleman to Regimental commander, from planners to assault troops, from grunt to MAG close air support.

I was on Wantuck, APD 125, when we picked up I/3/5 at Pusan and took them into the assault at Green Beach at Inchon. The book gave me insights into many questions I have had for 57 years.

One thing that always bothered me was why I/3/5 seemed to be conducting a little Boot Camp during the 5 days we had them aboard. Another was why, over the years, I've met many veterans from G/3/5 and H/3/5, but never any of the troops that I helped carry into the assault on our LCVPs. I now realize I/3/5 badly needed their basic weapons re-familiarization. They had been in the reserves, driving buses or pumping gas only two months before being thrown into an infantry company and facing and defeating NK veterans on Wolmi-do. And they continued to face and defeat them at the Han and at Seoul. And they went on to face 12 Chinese divisions at Chosen. About 76 days after we assaulted Inchon, a bare 20 of those 200 Marines we debarked were still standing.

Dark Horse Six gives similar insights into the ordeal of G/3/5 and H/3/5; into the battle for survival of Division Recon Company; into the desperate seconds when Corsairs flew just overhead, pouring supporting fire and napalm on almost overwhelming enemy forces only yards away; into the crisis moments when life or death decisions were made and paid for by the lives of ordinary men.

We are so fortunate that Col. Taplett managed to get Dark Horse Six printed before he died. If you care about our magnificent Marine Corps, if you care about any of our sons and brothers in any of our military services who defend our nation with their lives, you will be entranced by Dark Horse Six. If you can find a copy.

Semper Fi and GO NAVY!
Bert Kortegaard
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Dark Horse Six, is the combat memoir of Colonel Robert D. Taplett. He was the commander of one of the USMC's most famed battalions, the 3rd Battalion of the 5th Marine Regiment, during the first year of fighting in Korea. His battalion's radio call sign during the bitter fighting against the Chinese was Dark Horse. After 50 years he has decided to tell his story. He wants the deeds of his Marine's put into the record. The mistakes of combat, planning and egos are here as well. His experience was on the front lines, not theorizing behind some desk. THIS IS A WARRIOR'S STORY!

Welshman Jones Griffiths is one of the world's foremost photojounralists, and it's hard to believe that this is first book in since his highly influential 1971 work "Vietnam, Inc." This collection opens with a six striking early portraits from Wales and England in the 1950s-60s. The most memorable is of a litlte boy about to smash a large rock on top of a pian aso left in a scrap heap. These represent his budding career taking shots in his spare time, and are remarkable for the amount of expression he is able to capture, whether it's on the faces of weary coal miners, wary schoolchildren, or waiting mourners.

Following a laudatory introduction by New Yorker writer Murray Sayle, the bulk of the book is comprised of Jones Griffiths' international work, undertaken as a member (and president) of the presitgious Magnum photographers cooperative. His photography is informed by a strong sense of compassion and empathy for the victims of opression and war. The compositions are strong and many of the images are loaded with stark symbolism. From the very front of the book we get shots of a fat white missionary in knee high socks standing amidst natives in New Guinea, scantily clad European tourists lounging with drinks by a river in Gambia, a white Rhodesian golfer considering her shot with three black caddies and the African savannah in the background.

His series of ten photos from Northern Ireland in the early '70s is loaded with surreal and striking images: a soldier crouches behind a wall in a garden while a woman mows the lawn right behind him; another soldier is prone behind sandbags on a street while women push strollers past him; one of the best portraits in the book is of a grim-faced paratrooper reloads a CS gun. A middle section is scattered with a hodgepodge of images from around the world from the 60s to the early 90s. The book ends with forty images from Vietnam and Camodia, most of which are from his three years there during the war and also appear in Vietnam, Inc.

Defintely a must have for anyone interested in photojournalism.

Phillip Jones Griffiths is one of the greatest living photographers today. This is no small achievement, and can only be clearly understood examining his photographs.
Griffiths is probably best known for his book "Vietnam, Inc." (many of those photographs are included in this edition) but many of his greatest are contained in this superb volume, including some images of the weary, haunted faces of the children of Wales, his birthplace.
Being Welsh, and on the recieving end of British expansionism, Griffiths clearly sympathises (and rightly so) with the Vietnamise civilians (on the recieving end of French AND American expansionism)whose pleading expressions demonstrate clearly how much Americans were "helping" them evade the "evil grip of communism".
If I were to own ONE book of photographs, I would without hesitation choose this volume, for it's images are not only an important documentation of one of the darkest pieces of American history, but an amazing and invaluable work of art.

This book was a little bit more exciting than the first, My Father's World. The detail in this book is not overlooked by the authors. The characters show strong Christian values and at the same time show weaknesses, as we all have. It makes the characters seem very real and almost concrete. I recommend this book highly! The authors keep the book going, drawing you into it more and more. It was hard to put down! Enjoy!

Michael Phillips and Judith Pella have worked together well to tell the believable story of a girl and her spiritual growth. This book, which immediately follows MY FATHER'S WORLD is one of a series chronicling the life of Corrie Belle Hollister. The inner thoughts and feelings of this young woman are sensitively expressed. One can easily become absorbed in the adventurous tales involving Corrie and her siblings. I would highly recommend this book as a realistic representation of how, with careful guidance and love, a young person can be lead to a close and mature relationship with God. It truly touched and inspired me.

This book is such an eye opener! I can't believe how these two men are able to help society with such an emotional topic. Soon as I picked up the book I could not put it down. This is a book that you must read. It would be great for students, parents, and therapists. I even bought a book for my mother, and she thought it was such a good book to have she bought 5 copies for my family members. Listen! just buy the book, if I'm wrong you can email, and I'll buy the book back (of corse at a 90% off discount). Serious it is a great book, and I wish the Authors nothing but success.

This book provides great case examples of the author's assessment of people who display sexually deviant behavior! The core content sections following each chapter provide very useful tools and examples of styles of questionning during assessments as well as for use in case practice for professionals. Once I started reading this book I found the information so compelling that I only put it down to go to sleep! I finished it the next morning. This is a very useful book for anyone working with families and children! I strongly recommend this book for resource information as well as practical tools!

HAVE YOU EVER LISTENED TO SOMEONE PRAY AND ACTUALLY "FELT" AS IF GOD WAS STANDING RIGHT THERE LISTENING?

THAT'S THE WAY I FEEL WHEN I READ THIS BOOK - IT'S ALMOST AS IF GOD IS TURNING THE PAGES.

THIS IS NOT LIGHT READING, NOR IS IT FILLED WITH CLICHES. FOR THE READER WHO WANTS IN-DEPTH REALITY ON THE PERSON OF GOD INTERSPERSED WITH SOME OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL POETRY IMAGINABLE, THIS IS ON MY ALL-TIME FAVORITE LIST. DO YOURSELF A FAVOR!

It took me quite awhile to get through this book only because it was very thought provoking. I would read a small section and then sit and reflect on it. Even though I disagreed on a few issues, it was worth the read to reflect on another opinion and solidify my own. I feel I drew closer to God. Having read the poems introducing the chapters, I now want to read other MacDonald poems. I also liked the connections at the end of each chapter to MacDonald's fiction.

Classical, playful, sensual, and erotic combined in a single unique book that you will enjoy and interpret differently every time you open it up.

Tim Phillips is a thinking man's photographer. The central idea behind this work is so simple, yet so pregnant with feeling. There is something about a beautiful, naked girl prancing about in the murky labyrinth of the night that inspires a distinct sense of tension. Her glowing, naked body stands in stark contrast to the blackness surrounding her. Feelings of beauty and desire mix with those of fear and repulsion. And it's this incongruity that propels the entire work. It's fascinating.

This book brought back so many childhood memories! I loved how Mr. Greenleaf kept the old Irish charm with the modern revision. Great Job! My nieces and nephews couldn't get enough of the stories and kept asking me to read them again. I also really like the artwork of Mr. Quigley. I definately look forward to any future works of Mr. Greenleaf. A definate MUST HAVE!!!!

Joseph greenleaf has updated this set of classical fairy stories without losing any of the flavor of the original. The illustrations are wonderful, the stories fun to hear or to read. My next suggestion to Mr. Greenleaf is that he produce a CD so that travelers can enjoy these wonderful tales while on the road.

Nutshell review - This is an excellent book covering the major sources of internet related crime and how to combat it. It covers causes, effects and concrete solutions. If you are concerned about internet related crime then this is a book for you.

This comprehensive book describes in great detail the state of internet crime today and what can be done about it. It gives a complete history that covers hacking and associated crimes beginning with the birth of the internet. In the dot Crime Manifesto, Dr. Hallam-Baker describes the advent and growth of crime on the internet in a way that only someone who has been there and observed it first hand is able to do.

It is well written with many illustrations that make it simpler to understand the difficult and often mind numbing tasks that are a part of the day to day combat known as internet security. One example of how the author gives scope to this complexity is found beginning on page 191. Here, Dr. Hallam-Baker gives an example of what type of man power would have been required to defend similar formations in the past. He starts by describing how the Great Wall of China was originally constructed and how it grew in size over a period of time as more and more invaders circumvented it. He also describes how difficult it was to defend. To quote him, "The wall could not prevent the raiding parties from entering China, but could stop them from escaping with the loot. It is one thing for a few hundred bandits to sneak over an unwatched stretch of wall in the middle of the night, but it is quite another to escape back over a fully guarded wall carrying large quantities of loot with an army in pursuit. - The conventional firewall configuration protects the internal network from external attack. Preventing attacks in the reverse direction reduces the value a captured machine to an attacker." This quote is just one example of how Dot Crime Manifesto surrounds current major issues about security and simplifies the processes that are required to protect systems from attack and penetration.

Dot crime manifesto goes on to describe the most popular processes hackers use to gain access to computer networks and the best ways to defend against them. A good example of the detail and knowledge conferred through Dot Crime Manifesto can be found on page 301. Here the author describes Applied Identity; "When employees require access to valuable assets to perform their jobs, employers need reliable means of controlling access and establishing accountability. Strong authentication is an essential requirement in both cases. - SAML was originally designed to meet the expanding needs of enterprise authentication, authorization, and accountability."

Dot Crime Manifesto also has detailed key points at the end of each chapter, which makes remembering the main points much easier.

Not only does this book include the various means to combat internet crime it includes wealth on information on the history of the internet and the crime it has spawned along the way.

I would highly recommend dot Crime Manifesto to anyone who may be studying for their security certifications or seeking an all-inclusive primer on the processes of internet crime and how to defend against them.

One of the best books I have ever read. It has all the elements of a future classic. The characters are well written and as the story goes on you become one of the characters. Scanlan can make you cry with the characters as they go through growing up and becoming adults, as well as showing what real friendship and love is all about.

The book was basically about friendship between three girls - Cassie, Aileen and Laura.

Once I started the book I found it hard to put it down.

The book covered the three girls' friendship over a period of time. Patricia Scanlan is one of my favoutite authors - I have read nearly all of her books and love them all.

I have been using Easy Grammar for over 3 years, now, and must conclude it is one of the very best ways to teach grammar. The Easy Grammar method takes a "different" approach, but once you allow it to sink in and shake off all your "old school" notions of "how" you learned grammar in the past, you get it!

I am now in my 4th year of teaching Easy Grammar to my own junior high and elementary kids. My 2 oldest boys not only understand their grammar, but enjoy it as well. The 2 younger ones continue to amaze me with their comprehension, too.

We have used Easy Grammar 34, 56, and the new version, 5. I am completely satisfied with and recommend all of them. I must say, though, the older versions by far are easier to understand and seem more thorough than the newest editions--especially when using Easy Grammar for the very first time. The newer versions are far more challenging, move along at a faster pace, and just take a lot more patience for both the student and the teacher.

As a homeschooling granny I have tried them all. Complete Book of Grammar & Punctuation, Our Mother Tongue, First Language Lessons for the Well Trained Mind and Painless Grammar to name a few.

The children just weren't getting it. When I began using Easy Grammar it was apparent the information actually begin to stick. I highly recommend this program to anyone.