Journey Not The Arrival Matters: An Autobiography Of The Years 1939 To 1969

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The author's account of World War II, his wife's death, and his political and literary activities. "A splendid ending to one of the most remarkable literary achievements of our time" (New York Times Book Review). Index; photographs.

The Journey Not The Arrival Matters - An Autobiography Of The Years 1939 To 1969

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The Journey Not The Arrival Matters - An Autobiography Of The Years 1939 To 1969
Leonard Woolf
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The Journey Not the Arrival Matters An Autobiography of the Years 1939 to 1969
Leonard Woolf
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The Journey Not the Arrival Matters an Autobiography of the Years 1939 to 1969
Leonard Woolf
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The journey, not the arrival matters;: An autobiography of the years, 1939-1969

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The journey, not the arrival matters;: An autobiography of the years, 1939-1969
Leonard Woolf
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Her back to the wall, the vampiric sorceress Antigone Baines must uncover those responsible for an attempt on the unlife of Prince Calebros and her own exile from the Tremere Pyramid. As she gathers up the shards of the conspiracy known as the Conventicle, Antigone must discern who can be trusted and forge that remnant into a weapon that might save her and her regent. Time is running out, however, and if she cannot find vindication in the judgment of the living, she musk seek it in the redemption of her dead.

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A great case study in how to ignore genre........2005-10-20

It would be nice if the author for a clan novel would actually take the time to read the Clanbook before attempting a novel. They're not that long. One of my ST's put it best: clan novels are written by people who wanted to do something and the ST's told them 'no'. While I haven't read other clan novels -- that would certainly be the case with this trilogy.

The characters in the novel are not interesting enough to care much about. The liberties taken with the characters of Sturbridge and Dorfman are not only unbelieveable but out-of-genre. So far as I can tell, most of the Thaum the characters use aren't even recorded in WW VtM or MET books. As mentioned many times before the plots never actually end except for perhaps the one that is the least interesting.

The In-Genre Tremere Pyramid is replaced by a bunch of positions that don't exist in any version of the Clanbook I've seen. The Astors are less frightening than most of the characters in the story and mostly appear to be incompetent. Dorfman is called a Lord instead of a Pontifex. There's little-to-no emphasis on the seige mentality of the Tremere -- especially in a "War Chantry" that has been fighting the Sabbat for years. I probably could go on and on.

In short, it is a mistake to call this a Tremere clan novel. The author's made up inventions that he calls Tremere bear only a scant resemblence to the Tremere described by WW. I'm not sure if the author, the editors or both are to blame for such a horrible rendering. I wasn't expecting high fiction but this was a travesty.

No luck for the Tremere.......2004-04-13

I like the Tremere, with their dedication, pentagrams and toughness. Therefore, I don't like this trilogy, which does not do them justice in any way. In fact, it doesn't do justice to the kindred at all. How hard is it to remember the most basic aspects of undead life in the WoD? And yet, the author gives us vamps that drink beer, one kindred that wakes up in the middle of the day and watches television because he can't sleep, one kindred that stays up to watch over his wounded master all day with not as much as a hint to what a trial that would be, vamps that are afraid to drown, vamps being lovers, vamps that heal ordinary wounds just like regular humans do ... oh, how sad.

And really, who cares about the "children down the well"? The author but noone else. There are enough freakish monsters in the WoD as it is, and if you can't use those to fill a book but have to make up new ones, then you're not a good author. The children show up in the Tremere clannovel where no reader wants them and where they are never explained, and they show up here too, then disappear for no good reason. They just provide us with gross images of bloated body parts, again and again and again.

And when did Tremere become a sisterhood? Regent Sturbridge refers to her underlings as her "daughters" several times -- where are the men? Oh, some show up, but it is clear they are just an exception to the general rule, which is that this War Chantry is a Women's Chantry. How odd. How unrealistic. How unexplained. Perhaps it fulfills some fantasy of the author's, but I remain unimpressed.

As others have pointed out, the author fails to finish his plots. He is unable to make something out of Aisling Sturbridge's visit to Vienna, and he is unable to even give an explanation to the bombing! Incredible! The one thing you were dead sure had to be explained, and we get nothing! And the arch villain walks away, no bad guy is punished, and the heroine dies. Wow. Talk about a waste of our time and money.

Incredibly, the author is even sloppy enough to include the same dialogue twice: once in the U.S., and once in Vienna. Apparently he moved it from one part of the trilogy to another and forgot to delete it from its first spot. I have never seen that kind of ineptitude before, and I hope I'll never see it again.

In the beginning of the trilogy a computer reveals that the data about kindred arriving in NYC shows up as a complex Thaumaturgic symbol, which convinces two astute characters that some sneaky stuff is going on. Later on, the locale where the arrivals are greeted is blown up, and we eagerly await the unavoidable quest to reveal and punish the bad guys. And yet ... nothing. Then, the heroine is chased by the Inquisitors throughout the trilogy because ... what? She is surprised by seeing them the first time, jumps through a portal, and seals off the other end of it with a forbidden pentagram? Like, who cares? Is this a conflict worthy to build her story on? Shouldn't it be like, you know, something important instead?

Here's to hoping this author never writes for White Wolf again. God, how boring and primitive he makes his stories.

A bit of a letdown..........2002-09-03

For the most part I enjoyed the first two books, and was looking foward to how everything would tie together, but only one the the three subplots was really completed. Sorry, but if it's going to be continued in another series, then don't call it a trilogy. The story of who is behind things at the Fatherhouse is built up but never finished. The same goes to a lesser extent on the bomber of New York. Oh well...

Review of Widow's Might.......2002-07-11

The third and final novel of the Clan Novel Trilogy: Tremere, Eric Griffin pulls the stories together in supernatural proportions. Having read the first two books of the trilogy (Widow's Walk and Widow's Weeds) I was eager to finish the series. The author pulls together his knowledge of vampiric lore as pertains to Vampire the Masquerade in concluding the trilogy.
Eric Griffin is well known as being an author for White Wolf Publications. Griffin goes into explicit detail when describing setting, character thought process, and character development. Interesting character dialogue, combat, and supernatural prowess came together to make this not only a descriptive, but interesting novel. Plot development is excellent, although all the character introductions happened in the two novels prior. Without reading those first, one would be lost starting into this novel without having read the other two.
Not a stranger to Vampire the Masquerade, I did notice several small inaccurate descriptions such as vampires that do not have to breathe, being afraid of drowning. Maybe that is being a bit picky, but it is nice when authors know the background about what they are writing about. When writing this series, the story began to split from one tale with all the characters together, into three separate stories. Griffin concludes two of the three, however leaves you hanging on the third, which I suspect, will come into play in another White Wolf novel.
In all, the novel was very descriptive, and concluded the series. Enough dialogue and action to keep the novel interesting as well as a fulfilled development in all areas made the novel well worth one's while.
James Collard

The Unkind Companion: Learning to Live with Loss (Widow's Might Trilogy)

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Outstanding grief resource--for victims and responders!
Much more than a great read!
This book touched my heart, soul and mind
Authentic and Personal
I have already given 4 copies of this book as gifts!!!

The Unkind Companion: Learning to Live with Loss (Widow's Might Trilogy)
Marlo Peddycord Francis
Manufacturer: Tate Publishing & Enterprises
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ASIN: 1602472653

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Outstanding grief resource--for victims and responders!.......2007-09-14

As a USAF chaplain, I was especially intrigued by Marlo's story. Her transparent rendering of the tragic events she survived will encourage many who are journeying through grief. This book is a quick read and is an ideal resource for those who have suffered a traumatic loss. Additionally, the book is a reminder to those of us in "helping professions" of the need for extreme sensitivity during our early responses. Grief is complicated...there aren't any easy answers. Marlo's book has the potential to encourage and educate readers during the darkest hours of their lives. The book receives my highest recommendation!

Much more than a great read!.......2007-08-21

This book ministered to my soul and spirit. I highly recommend it to anyone who has experienced loss in any area of life or knows someone who has. As a close family member of someone who recently lost her husband in the war, this book gave me such deeper insight to the emotions she must be experiencing yet at the same time - it helped me delve into those areas of my own life I still need to allow God to heal from different kinds of loss. I am looking forward with great expectation to the next books in the Widow's Might Trilogy.

This book touched my heart, soul and mind.......2007-08-14

The timing of a writing like this is divine, especially with our country at war. This book would benifit anyone who has lost a dear loved one. Reading this book touched my life and pulled at my emotions in a way that was...comforting. Being a military family we want to thank Marlo for her sincerity and for giving us a tool to pass on.

Authentic and Personal.......2007-08-06

This is such an authentic and personal book. It will help anyone who is struggling with loss, even if it is not the loss of a spouse. I highly recommend this book to those with fresh wounds who need to begin the healing process.

I have already given 4 copies of this book as gifts!!!.......2007-07-31

Marlo's compelling story of her own journey through the valley of grief and mourning offers hope and encouragment to those who are traveling a similar road. This books reads as if you are sitting with Marlo in her kitchen over a cup of coffee as she tells her story. You will laugh with her and cry with her as she shares her life and her heart. I highly recommend this book not only to those who have experienced loss, but to anyone who appreciates stories of love, faith, and redemption.

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The Widow's Might
E. Paul Braxton
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The Widow's Might
Dr. Cherie J. Brown
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Neither, Death, Devastation, Destruction, Desertion, nor Divorce can destroy us when we learn the Power of God s Might. God uses the lives of Biblical Widows to instruct us in His ability to deliver us. While discussing these Godly women, she shares the pain and victory relating to the deaths of her late husbands. Her prayer and hope is that you will gain strength and grow in the Lord, who is the Widows Might. Jesus is your strength and after all, It s all about Him! Forward by Pastor Ramsey It is like the proverbial elephant in the room. And of all the fine specialty ministries that exist today, no one has truly spoken clearly and passionately about the spiritual, emotional and very personal effects of widowhood. When we say until death do us part, the thought that we may have to someday bury the love of our lives is the farthest thing from our minds. But sadly enough, if the Lord delays His coming, widowhood is not only possible it is quite probable. In this thoughtful, provocative, and extremely insightful book, Dr. Brown expresses a compassionate bedside manner as she provides us a road map for facing life after one of its most tender terminal points: death of a spouse. May this book bring you insight, and if necessary, help you heal from the permanency of your widowhood. But more importantly, my prayer is that you will discover The Widow s Might. Thank you Dr. Brown! The world has been waiting for this book.

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The Widow's Might
Jan Thompson
Manufacturer: Tate Outloud
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The Widow's Might
L. P. Horton Lord , and S. P. Lord
Manufacturer: Xlibris Corporation
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A poignant, but humorous tale, The Widow¿s Might takes Natalie Horvath, a suddenly widowed young woman, on an adventure where she encounters three men who will unwittingly change her life forever. Like David versus Goliath this naïve, beautiful woman develops the inner fortitude needed to embark on a courageous adventure. The unrelenting spotlight of the mass media forces her to choose between the security she craves and the justice that is due others.

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What a Story
Inspiring and caring story
A wonderful Southern story where love ultimately triumphs

A Widow's Might
Carolyn Ellis Lipscomb
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What a Story.......2000-04-30

A Widow's Might is a remarkable story about a remarkable lady. We need more role models especially in today's world. The hardships this woman went through show that faith, determination, and dedication can still win over the greatest obstacles.

Inspiring and caring story.......2000-04-06

The Ellis' family story demonstrates the value and strength of love, dedication to family and perseverance. It is an inspiration to see these traits rewarded. This story would make a wonderful movie!

A wonderful Southern story where love ultimately triumphs.......1999-11-18

The story of A Widow's Might gives us all a glimpse of the dynamics of a small Southern town and its inhabitants. As in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, there are characters, good, bad and "different". This story is a love story, in a most unconvential sense. If you enjoy a sweet short read and an ample helping of Southern hospitality, or, if you are an Auburn University alum, you will certainly want to add this little book to your library. Well done, Mrs. Lipscomb, well done!

The Widow's Might - Inspirational Stories of Courage and Hope

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The Widow's Might - Inspirational Stories of Courage and Hope
Ann Bennion Brown
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ASIN: 0882908251

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And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites . . . Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in than all they which have cast into the treasury: For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had. - Mark 12:42 -- 44 One of the most devastating trials life can deal is the loss of a spouse. Women around the world are faced with this tragedy, and yet their battle goes largely unnoticed. They often feel alone, forgotten, and abandoned, left to bear the weight of their world without the help of the one they need most. And yet, through time and tribulations, many come to understand that no matter what happens, they will never truly be forsaken. In The Widow's Might, Ann B. Brown recognizes and celebrates the courage displayed by widows as they face the pain of death and loss and find within themselves the strength to overcome.

Widow's Might: A Survival Guide to Investing

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Widow's Might: A Survival Guide to Investing
Margaret Woods Allen
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The widow's might: Three plays
Ned Conquest
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In contrast to the brusque, standoffish Stalin, Leningrad party chief and Politburo member Sergei Kirov was charismatic and approachable--a real muzhnik, or man of the people. His rise through the ranks of the communist party to become the prize orator of Stalin's regime was aided by his popularity and his devotion to the cause. The question of who killed Kirov has perplexed Russian bureaucrats and historians alike since the apparent murder took place in December 1934. Although the Stalin regime immediately accused and brutally killed alleged suspects--and then used the murders as a catalyst for massive purges of its enemies--lack of definitive evidence continues to shroud the case in mystery and keeps it rife with speculation to this day. In Who Killed Kirov? The Kremlin's Greatest Mystery, Amy Knight draws on compelling new evidence and presents the most convincing account to date of the Kirov murder and the momentous events surrounding it.

In order fully to understand the murder, according to Knight, the reader must learn what kind of man Kirov was, how he rose to power within the Soviet political system, and how Stalin came to dominate that system. Consequently, she devotes much of the book to Kirov's personal story, his role in forging the Bolshevik regime, and his relationships with key party leaders. Although Kirov's murder and its tragic aftermath remain the narrative's focal point, Knight successfully broadens her readers' understanding of the entire Stalinist era.

A research associate at George Washington University and author of two additional studies of Russian politics, Knight supplements her 270-page study with maps, illustrations, chronologies, a glossary of names, diagrams of the Soviet political hierarchy, and ample notes. Well researched and thoroughly documented, Who Killed Kirov? remains accessible to the general reader. --Bertina Loeffler Sedlack

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An exciting analysis of Russia's crime of the century, the assassination of Stalin's greatest rival.

The 1934 murder of the charismatic politician Sergei Kirov sparked Stalin's brutal purges, and speculation about it still fascinates the Russians. Who killed Kirov, and why? In Russia, conspiracy theories about Kirov have abounded, and scholars throughout the world have tackled various pieces of the story--but definitive evidence has eluded them. Now Amy Knight has combed the recently opened Russian archives to reconstruct this fascinating crime and analyze its effect on the Russian people. The result is at once an intriguing murder mystery and a major piece of scholarship that sheds new light on the terrors of Stalin.

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Best for the casual reader.......2001-06-14

It should be clear from the sensational title that Knight's book is aimed at those with but a casual interest in Russian history. A scan of the reviews submitted bears that out; it appears that those with great familiarity with Russian history pan the book, while those with passing knowledge rave about it.

I agree with all those who take exception to the title; this is more a biography of Kirov than it is a "whodunnit?" Knight's treatment of Kirov's life and times is dry at times but adequate. When she turns her attention to the murder itself, the book begins to take hold. Knight lays out a great many facts, and shows what inferences can be drawn from those facts, and yet her leap from those inferences to her conclusion remains unsatisfying. For example, she quotes Trotsky's initial reaction to the murder; Trotsky was of the view that Stalin did not order the killing, but would sure as heck take advantage of it. Knight says Trotsky was wrong, but her arguments as to why are unconvincing.

A Good Read.......2000-07-17

Despite a slow start, and having to get used to the author's somewhat patronizing writing style, I enjoyed the book and found myself thinking about it for days after I finished reading it. I had known that Kirov was something of a maverick in the context of a Soviet leader, however I had no idea he was so outspoken in his speeches, letters, etc. towards Stalin. Granted his hands were by no means clean, however he appears to have had more of a " human face " and connection with the poeple than most of his contemporaries. Asking the question " Who benefited from his Death ? ", there is only one answer: Stalin. Not only was a potential ( and very popular ) opponent eliminated, it also gave Stalin the opporuntity to decimate the Lenningrad party officialdom, and also to do away with Zinoviev, Kamenev et al.

I was surprised Ms Knight made no real reference to the fact that Nikolaev, with neither emotional nor physical training in assasination, was able to not only calmly shoot a man to death accurately, but do it close enough to more than liklely have his brains splattered across his ( Nikolaev's ) face. The manner in which Kirov was murdered, a single bullet in the back of the head / neck is almost exactly the method used by the NKVD during their executions.

Who doesn't know?.......2000-07-17

Unless as one writer suggests, new documentation with the credibility to give the information credence is introduced, this book offers very little in any event. There were some photographs that I had not seen in other books, and the floor plan and the alleged positioning of security was interesting. For this book to suggest this killing has the same mystery surrounding the Kennedy assassination is absurd.

There are many who believe that Kennedy was not solely the victim of Oswald, and while one can speculate who actually pulled the trigger in the case of the murder of Kirov, it is the less important part of the incident, what Soviet History might have been under Kirov is the story.

Kirov embodied many things that Stalin did not and could not emulate; he was charismatic, "The People" truly liked the man, and he was not the disfigured paranoid maniac that was Stalin. When the fateful vote took place and Kirov had clearly become a rival to Stalin's power, it was only a question of how soon he would die, and how large the purge that followed his death would be. It would indeed be massive, for how else was Stalin to show how devastated and full of revenge he was, for the death of his "friend" Kirov? Stalin had no friends.

Stalin wanted Kirov dead, he ordered the killing, and whether the NKVD, or as is likely the poor guy they picked up and pinned it on actually did the killing, the killer is secondary. The story here is that Stalin could carry out the hit on Kirov, knowing he would be suspect number one, and further being 100% confident that no individual or group would accuse him, that is part of the interesting History here. The bloodbath that followed was just Stalin getting rid of more of his "enemies" real or mostly imagined.

If there were a book written for the purpose of identifying every killer Stalin employed, the number of books would run into the tens of millions. The fact that he could kill on such an unprecedented scale, that he could remain in control, that he managed to always have enough believers/supporters/future victims to back him is what fascinates. Kirov may have been the marquee kill of Stalin's reign, but he was just that, one more body

I would like to read a well written historically based work of fiction that posits what would have happened had Kirov not been killed, what if Stalin was blamed, what if Kirov took control of the former USSR. That is where the interest lies.

The title of this book is bordering on misleading. Nothing inside the book is as intriguing as the question asked on the cover wishes you to believe.

What's wrong with Occam's Razor?.......2000-02-21

Anyone interested in Soviet history will be interested in this book. The author has produced a readable and competent account of Kirov's life, gathers and surveys what has been written on the mystery of his death, and provides interesting photographs and a map of the 3rd floor of the Smolny where the killing took place.

Unfortunately she dismisses - almost casually, as did Conquest - what is the most simple, and therefore most probable, explanation of the reason for the killing.

Of course, we all like a mystery, and most people at the time not in the know were convinced there must be a plot behind it, as the author records, due to the consequences they foresaw, even if not in their total enormity and savagery. However, while the book was published in 1999, it does not refer to an article published in the London Guardian on 23.5.98 which reports from Moscow on a certain Yuri Zhukov who says he has seen the 74 volumes of NKVD files on the Kirov case in the course of writing a book on the Russian VIP bodyguard service. He says the files show that Kirov was a philanderer who arranged assignations in his Kshesinskaya Palace residence, that he was having an affair with Milda Draule, the wife of the assassin Leonid Nikolayev, that she was in the vicinity at the time of the killing (being interviewed by NKVD within 15 minutes), that Borisov was not Kirov's bodyguard but deputy chief of security at Smolny, and that the real bodyguard was outside the building because he knew his master was having an assignation.

Of course all this may be a fabrication; I am contacting the Guardian correspondent with a view to finding out more. However, I am not an expert in Soviet history, so I cannot go back to the alleged source in Russia. But I was very disappointed to find that there was no mention of Zhukov in the book's index, and that what is apparently the true, if banal, explanation of the murder is so easily discounted.

A misleading title.......2000-01-10

If this book carried a proper title, like "A Stalinist Life," or something like that, it would probably be read only by a handful of people. That would be a shame, because the book is valuable as a rich biography of a Stalinist cadre and as a readable and informative entry into a difficult period of modern history. But as a key to the mystery of Kirov's assassination, or even as a contribution to the literature on that murder, the book is a huge disappointment. It does not merit the great trumpeting about that it has received. In the absence of incontrovertible evidence, Knight has to fall back on a "solution" that is actually pretty standard fare: if Stalin did not inspire the murder, he fully took advantage of it. Amen and thank you very much. Even the reconstruction of the murder itself is thin and shoddy, and for that, if perhaps not for the clear political design imputed to Stalin, one still cannot do much better than Conquest's older book on the subject.

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