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The Everything Parent's Guide to Raising Boys: A Complete Handbook to Develop Confidence, Promote Self-esteem, And Improve Communication (Everything: Parenting and Family)
Cheryl L. Erwin Manufacturer: Adams Media Corporation ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1593375875 |
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Defining manhood in today's world is hard-and it's made raising boys even harder. Faced with conflicting images of what it means to be a man, boys need all the help they can get from their parents as they strive to become young men.Customer Reviews:
Raising Twin Sons.......2006-12-02
Halfway finished and learning from this book!.......2006-08-14
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Northwest Passage
Kenneth Roberts Manufacturer: Down East Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0892725427 |
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The exploits of Major Rogers during the French & Indian War. An enormous tale in every sense of the word.Customer Reviews:
Northwest Passage.......2007-06-13
How did I miss this for so long?.......2006-01-06
Better in Context.......2005-04-15
The Master Unsurpassed.......2003-06-22
I've read all of Roberts' books, and have a first edition of OLIVER WISWELL purchased for $3.00 from a used bookstore with an original newspaper review that had been tucked inside the book by the original purchaser. The review is of the novel itself, and after reading that review from more than 60 years ago, it is very apparent over the years the very high and well-deserved reputation of Roberts has not diminished.
My recommendation is: read them. Read them all !! You will never find finer writing or an author with a keener appreciation of his subject matter and the period about which he writes than Kenneth Roberts. All of Roberts' books should be reprinted, again and again, as they were when they were first published (check the frontispieces to see how many times his novels have been re-printed over the years --- it's astounding!). Every person who reads Roberts becomes a devotee and a reader for life, and every one to whom you loan a copy of any of his novels will then be someone with whom you can share the pure pleasure of having read a Kenneth Roberts novel, and there are many of us out there. Welcome to the astounding, incredible world that will soon be at your fingertips!
A journey into the forgotten past.......2002-12-24
Beginning in the mid-1930s, Roberts wrote a series of brilliant but erratic historical novels about America in the late 1700s, set in his beloved Maine or in neighboring Boston and Portsmouth, NH. "Northwest Passage" (which was serialized by the Post) was his masterpiece and the most popular book in America for two years during the 1930s, although it's barely remembered today (or, if remembered, known only as the source for a mediocre Spencer Tracy movie of the same name).
The book is the story of a real person, Major Robert Rogers, a miltary leader from pre-Revolutionary America whose unit, Rogers' Rangers, was America's first to fight "Indian-style" (in other words, to fight battles the way we fight them today). Rogers' great success in warfare led to him becoming one of the colonies' first published authors, a star in London, and later the royal governor of Michilimackinac (the fort at the tip of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan ... and the land westward), but his unwillingness to join with pluderers who wanted to loot the British and colonial treasuries in the name of the Crown led to his arrest and unwarranted disgrace ... and to his ultimate decision to side with the British during the American Revolution, like Roberts' other main hero, Benedict Arnold ("Arundel" and "Rabble in Arms").
This novel is made up of two very different but intricately-plotted books. Book 1, which ranges in place from Harvard College to the British Army during the French and Indian Wars and the New England art world, tells the story of a young man, Langdon Towne, who becomes Rogers' personal secretary during Rogers' Rangers' expedition to destroy the town of St. Francis, home of the native group most hostile to the New England settlers. Book 2, which begins in London, crosses back to upstate Michigan and the Dakota lands, and then returns to London, tells the story of Towne's advancement as an artist and his involvement with Rogers' plan to discover the Northwest Passage.
The reason that this book rates 4 stars instead of 5 has to do with a writing issue that must be mentioned. Roberts' friend Booth Tarkington served as "editor" of the first three-quarters of the book, and the Roberts-Tarkington prose is stellar. However, under severe time pressure to finish the second half of the book (due to its smash-hit status), Roberts wrote the last quarter without Tarkington's help, and the change in writing quality is jarring -- especially as it comes right during the most historically-important and dramatically-important section of the book, Rogers' betrayal by his Northwest Passage expedition commanders and by his British and American enemies. Roberts had offered Tarkington co-writing credit, which Tarkington refused, but this justaposition of styles shows just how critical Tarkington's help was. The plot continues smoothly, though, even if the writing doesn't.
One more point: in researching and writing this book, Roberts uncovered (after two years of searching, and just before publication of Book 2) the actual court-marshal transcripts of the two court-marshals with which Rogers was involved, which were believed to have been destroyed by Rogers' enemies -- and both supported Roberts' sympathetic treatment of Rogers. Thus, not only was this book incredibly popular, but it was significant for historical research as well. What more can you ask from one book?
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Robert Rogers of the Rangers
John R. Cuneo Manufacturer: Eagle Publishing Corporation. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0931933463 |
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Journals of Robert Rogers of the Rangers
Robert Rogers Manufacturer: Leonaur Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1846770025 |
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'The thrilling true account of a famous woodsman, scout & guerilla leader during the formative years of the American Nation' In the evocative pages of Rogers own journal we are taken through a landscape of dark untrodden forest where danger from hostile Indians and the French Army threaten every step. Famous exploits of guerilla warfare are graphically told, including battles and ambushes on America's lakes, the devastating 'Fight on Snowshoes' and the raid against the Abanakee's village at St, Francis, recounted across time by Rogers himself.
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To Fight With Intrepidity: The Complete History of the U.S. Army Rangers 1622 to Present
John D. Lock Manufacturer: Pocket ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0671015281 |
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Ranger qualified Lieutenant Colonel John Lock provides the first complete chronicle of the elite U.S. Army Rangers in this second, revised edition.Customer Reviews:
Intriguing and Inspiring story.......2007-01-28
LTC Lock reveals lessons for today's light infantry.......2000-08-13
LTC Lock in his book reveals an aspect of light infantry operations we simply do not understand today with our men turned into pack mules with "100 pounds of lightweight equipment". Read his accounts of Roger's Rangers and you will see a light infantry that could "fly" on its feet through the woods and outfight the Indians. The recent film, "Last of the Mohicans" best captures this capability. This was a Ranger infantry that was willing to use unusual mobility means, also---boats, ice skates, snow shoes, living off the land--all to get that mobility edge over the enemy. In WWII, Darby used speed-marches and carts to carry mortars/ammo to close on enemies rapidly to gain surprise/violence of action. Merrill's Marauders used mules to carry 75mm pack howitzers and supplies to penetrate deep into the jungles of Burma and take Myitkyina airfield from the jungle-seasoned Japanese. In Five major (WALAWBUM, SHADUZUP, INKANGAHTAWNG, NHPUM GA, & MYITKYINA) and thirty minor engagements, they defeated the veteran soldiers of the Japanese 18th Division (Conquerors of Singapore and Malaya) who vastly outnumbered the Marauders. Always moving to the rear of the main forces of the Japanese, the Marauders completely disrupted the enemy supply and communication lines, and climaxed their behind the lines operations with the capture of Myitkyina Airfield, the only all-weather airfield in Northern Burma.
Theese lessons need to be applied to today's light infantry that is still over-looking the capability modern mountain bikes and carts with oversized tires could give an Airborne Ranger-type force to close on an enemy after insertion out of detection range by parachute/airlanding aircraft.
My only fault with the book is that it doesn't clearly lay-out the roles/missions dilemma current Ranger infantry is in---it really has 2 types of missions:
1.) on one hand its America's shock troops storming defended high-value targets alone or as a spearhead for other troops (WWII Commando mindset),
2.)on the other, it has to be able to "Range" across the land as light infantry for days at a time to raid/recon (traditional Ranger missions).
These two missions are different and require different mindsets and equipment---and this is why TF Ranger in Somalia did not have armored fighting vehicles--because it was not seen as appropriate for "Rangers to do mech" if one was defining the unit by traditional roles/missions. However, shock troops need shock action and that means Armored Fighting Vehicles (AFVs) and shielded men, which Rangers lead the U.S. military by employing for the first time rifle-caliber resstant body armor and having the physical conditioning and willingness to take Soldier's load risks to go into battle with it. AFVs are not popular in the minds of some Rangers, but its necessary to successfully perform shock action missions in urbanized terrain. Other elite units in the world can ride AFVs without their image suffering. Walking is not always the best way to "range" across the battlefield, as Ranger gun-jeeps, RSOVs (Land Rovers) and HMMWVs attest from combat in Iran (Desert 1), Grenada (airlanded from C-130s), Panama (parachute air-dropped) and Iraq (Desert Storm). But these are unarmored vehicles not up to the task of advancing in the face of concentrated enemies and their fire. LTC Lock in his superb chapter on the Mogadishu raid expertly outlines why Rangers should have had armored vehicles and that they would have prevented 1-18 men dying that day. His Somalia chapter is as good as Bowden's entire book, "Blackhawk Down!" and in some ways better---because it doesn't mince words and gets to the point that AFVs were needed in the force structure.
If America's light infantry forces would look back via LTC Lock's fine book into its methodology of Roger's Rangers; it will find the mindset needed to make it the most mobile and hardest-hitting infantry on earth that can range across the terrain quick enough to defeat the stalemate sensors and optics will create against a slower moving force. If these forces will understand that as Col Daniel Bolger states in Death Ground: America's Infantry in battle: "Ranger tabs don't stop bullets", and accept a modest number of air-droppable and helicopter transportable light tracked AFVs into its force structure for its own organic shielded mobility and heavy firepower, it will have learned well from its Somalian ordeals and be ready to lead the way! into the 21st century.
Review from a Ranger perspective.......2000-03-31
Valuable information, but a ghodawful prose style.......2000-01-27
A great book on what it means to be brave.......1999-10-23
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Journals of Major Robert Rogers
Manufacturer: Corinth Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000CZ3VFO |
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Journals by the commander of the British "Rogers' Rangers" from 1755-1761. Originally published in 1765.
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Journals of Major Robert Rogers (Great Americana)
Robert Rogers Manufacturer: Readex Microprint ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007EIA7E |
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New Jersey in the French and Indian Wars, 1755-1761 (The journals of Major Robert Rogers)
Robert Rogers Manufacturer: The New Jersey Frontier guard, Captain Richard Gardiner's Co. 1756] ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006QKTB8 |
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Robert Rogers and the Rangers
John R. Cuneo Manufacturer: Oxford University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000JWW66U |
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Robert Rogers: Rogers' Rangers and the French and Indian War (The Library of American Lives and Times)
Jennifer Quasha Manufacturer: PowerPlus Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0823957314 |
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The life of Robert Rogers of "Rogers' Rules for Ranging".......2004-11-24
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Rogers' Rangers
Augustus Lynch Mason Manufacturer: Prepared by the staff of the Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007EDT16 |
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Encyclopedia of Western Atlantic Shipwrecks and Sunken Treasure
Victoria Sandz Manufacturer: McFarland & Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 078642902X |
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From aerial survey to zoology, Part I of this two-part encyclopedia covers all aspects of underwater archeology, treasure hunting and salvaging. For example, entries are included for different types of artifacts, notable treasure hunters, the various salvaging equipment, and techniques in mapping and excavating. Part II covers the shipwrecks themselves, dividing them into 13 geographical categories. Beginning with the northernmost category (Canada) and ending with the southernmost (South America), every known shipwreck--both identified and unidentified--receives an entry in alphabetical order under its appropriate geographical category. Entries are by name, such as Andrea Gail, Titanic, and Queen Ann's Revenge. Unidentified is used when a shipwreckÂ’s name remains unknown. Entries give the nationality (e.g., Spanish, British, American), type (schooner, frigate, brig are three), function (examples: slave transportation, piracy, fishing), location and history of the shipwreck.
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Encyclopedia of Sunken Treasure
John Wright Manufacturer: Michael O'Mara Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1854799088 |
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For centuries men have been driven to acts of bravery heroism and foolishness by the idea of secret hoards of gold silver and jewels lost beneath the sea. is a comprehensive guide to this treasure covering every important treasure ship lost from the 16th century onwards. Details are given of each vessel's treasure the ship's sinking and where possible the location of the wreck.
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Exploring Science in the Food Lab
Carol Byrd-Bredbenner Manufacturer: Goodheart-Wilcox Publisher ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1566377196 |
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