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A Different Take..

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Reviewed: 11-10-24

What sets this story apart is its wide in scope, and yet very personal telling the story of battles and moreover the European bias toward their colonial armies as partners. This gives the reader a better understanding how the empires of the West (Britain and France) couldn't return to their pre-war state.

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War is Hard, Peace not much easier.

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Reviewed: 11-10-24

I look at this as the third installment of an ongoing story of the miracle that is the United States. Coming from Lincoln's death and continuing with the Reconstruction and expansion into the West its more of detail of what we should know from school. Survival of the nation, and its growth to a continent sized empire was always an evolving vision.

To understand what's being explored it helped me to look up the geography of the areas mentioned in Wikipedia maps. I'm sure having a print copy I would be doing the same from illustrations (I assume) are in the book.

I found the intonation of this reader a bit harder to follow than the earlier "Impending Crisis" and "What God Have Wrought" but perhaps that's just me.

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Are You Equal to the Challenge?

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Reviewed: 11-10-24

Traversing the sea in the 18th century comes to life, and hanging on the edge of death at every moment for the crew once they're thrown down, Shod by a Whale. What's hardest is imagine is keeping your spirits up already knowing the odds. It helped they were so young, I'm not sure I could have stayed disciplined to the task. Further, after coming through this many of the survivors returned to the profession.

Having read Endurance by Hillenbrand I can say this story is equally frightening. In 1820 no one is looking for your downed vessel.

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A Country to Be Saved, if its not Destroyed

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Reviewed: 10-11-24

The miracle of this chapter of American history is not who wins the war, but that the country survived at all. Operating beyond the constitution and seeing families taking opposing sides and no end in sight its easy to see how the leadership would lose hope. The loss of life is just incredible, showing too that even for a just cause no war should be entered lightly.

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An unavoidable tragedy

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Reviewed: 09-16-24

Even knowing the collapse is coming, its clear many tried to head off the disaster. Of course no war is short and easy. In the case here the loss of life and property are greater than anyone expected. Compromise, had already failed and too many reasonable men (Clay, Webster, et al) had passed new heroes stepped forward, even Davis who had opposed Lincoln.

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A Fight Beyond Hope

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Reviewed: 08-19-24

The casual observer of the war in the pacific goes: Pearl Harbor, Midway and finally the Atomic Bomb in lieu of invasion. Those opening months, before the Navy strike back in the Doliitle Raid the combined forces of America and its allies were fighting a desperate battle that all knew they would give their lives in the coming loss. Finally its clear too why MacArthur was awarded the MoH, not for military brilliance but diplomatic skill in keeping the Phillipino's in the fight, not going over to the Japanese.

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No passion, no product

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Reviewed: 08-15-24

The single greatest takeaway here is software, and in this study entertainment software is bone crushing work and always more than imagined or budgeted for at onset. Its not to be undertaken without commitment and even today greatness can be achieved with a small team.

Or you can strive for years and end up with nothing. No promises.

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There's more than one side to the story.

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Reviewed: 06-30-24

Most fans of the story of radios development in the 20th century have had Tom Lewis Empire of the air to work from that piece from 1991 paints a picture most sympathetic to Armstrong it makes he the focus of the story as much his inventions.

Not spending much time on DeForest (who's accomplishments are generally recognized as significant but limited) tthis tome argues s that Sarnoff made the right decisions concerning FM and unfortunately his relationship with Armstrong suffered.

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An ungracious victory

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Reviewed: 06-26-24

My previous standard for the telling of this story had been Tolen's last 100 days or the last battle by Ryan but the story here is equally rich and provides personal insight after victory.

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Hands-on, there's no substitute.

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Reviewed: 06-25-24

In considering any programming task its best to dive in, and keystroke. The strength of this book is it restricts any chapter to a few key points and has exercises in each. Its a good way to start and doesn't assume depth of UNIX or scripting. If you've handled the DOS prompt you can learn from this book.

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