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Bedtime Erotica for Freaks (like me) is written in the same distinctive style that has won Lexy many loyal fans but these stories are for sexual connoisseurs. Don’t let the word â€~Freaks’ put you off – it is simply a description of people who find eroticism in the 'unusual' like Lexy herself. This book starts off with a bang in Vanessa, a woman who lives out all her sexual fantasies and the no-holds-barred action continues until the very last page! Amanda, enslaves the man of her dreams while in disguise. Geraldine, a prostitute, has seen and done it all, she is going through the motions until Tiffany brings the joy back into her jaded existence. Indra ignores the basic rule of her job as a chatline operator and ventures into forbidden territory with a client. Nectar is too much woman for one man, so she has two. Antonia has a voracious sexual appetite that must be fed constantly and Samantha uses her sexual expertise to wreck as many homes as she can. These stories of women who follow their sexual destinies and damn everyone else will entice and titillate.
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Bedtime Erotica for Freaks (Like me).......2007-10-13
This book will give you evey angle from sexual enjoyment. If you like sex stories, this book is there for you!!!!!
Waste of money!.......2007-08-14
This book was the most poorly written, poorly edited book I have read in a long time - maybe forever! This author should read a few REAL erotica authors, like Emma Holly and Lora Leigh.
This book was such a disappointment and such a WASTE OF MONEY!. I love erotica. However, this was just trash. I could only read about 1/2 of the book. Then I threw it away! I would never give this book to someone. I would be insulting their intelligence. For those who thought this book was good - do yourself a favor and read some Emma Holly or Lora Leigh and find out what erotic fantasies are really about!
Not thrilled.......2007-07-31
This just isn't a book I could get into. The prose is littered with italics for emphasis and I found that very annoying. Also Harper's personal commentary at the ends of the stories was annoying, too.
This IS erotica, but there's MUCH better stuff out there. I recommend any of the "Best Women's Erotica" books or anything by Pretty Things Press over this drivel.
?.......2007-06-02
The author is definately black and is from the UK. I wasn't quite expecting that, but the book was HOT none the less. Just some of the slang and spelling was different. Bedtime Erotica, also by the same author was a tad bit better, if I had to choose one, I'd pick Bedtime Erotica over this, or just get both like I did. I don't think you'll be disappointed.
review.......2007-06-01
The book was okay, not as good as a Zane novel but okay none the less.
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In the Deep South of the 1950s, journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross the color line. Using medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he exchanged his privileged life as a Southern white man for the disenfranchised world of an unemployed black man. His audacious, still chillingly relevant eyewitness history is a work about race and humanity-that in this new millennium still has something important to say to every American.
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Deep Tension.......2007-08-04
John Howard Griffin is a man of deep thought and deep feelings. He wants to know what it's like to be separated from a priviledged world. As his skins becomes darker and darker, the less respected he becomes. He no longer is able to find a bathroom or even a glass of water because of the way he was "born." People treat him like a slave. This book will convert you into a person who speaks out for Negros, even today. You will no longer be able to tolerate racial jokes.
But what about Nat King Cole?.......2007-07-28
Read for the first time in the early 1960's when the only contact we had with Black people in Small Town, Wisconsin, was an occasional Nat King Cole record, this book had a profound affect on me. It was the only book I ever read, flipped back, immediately, to the beginning and read again, so great was it's impact. Griffin's story of his encounters with Southern Whites (first as a White Man and then as a Black) in the days of segregation really opened my eyes to a kind of behavior with which I, as a young reader, was not familiar. While it's for certain that racism in Northern Wisconsin existed,it took the form of the "out of sight,out of mind" variety (but God forbid that they ever got any farther north than Milwaukee...). It was not mentioned, but it was there simmering. Griffin's expose, for me, knocked any practice of racism, benign or otherwise, flat on its ass; it made very real the kind of hateful hypocrisy that lies behind an otherwise respectful U.S. of A. citizenry. As I traveled through the South with Griffin, I began to feel the same sense of revulsion the author feels; how could such a thing be? To my young mind it was a mystery. Would Nat King Cole, who everybody loved, be treated like that? And so the seeds of empathy for the oppressed were planted within me (along with a dose of healthy skepticism regarding the nature of man). As I looked at the book again recently, I thought about how lucky I was to have read the book when I did; if I hadn't read it when I did, I might be a very different man today.
Great before, Great again.......2007-06-05
I read this book as a teenager many years ago, and my teenage son is reading it now. I re-read it with him and it's as great today as it was then!
Olga, Artemio, Mariela, and Marisol's reviews.......2007-05-30
The book Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin is about how the author, John Howard Griffin, goes from being a white, honorable journalist to a black journalist. He transforms through a series of aid medication and dye. He changes his color pigment from white to black. In the book, he transforms completely. He keeps a diary on his daily experiences, experiences hard to imagine. The diary documents his experiences as a black male trying to survive the crucial racist reality in the Deep South in the late decade of the 1950's and early 1960's. He transforms from a man who is able to get what he wants when he wants it, to someone who faces restrictions when going into places and doing what he wants.
This book is an excellent way to show people of the United States the crucial reality of, not only the experiences of a black male, but of the whole entire ethnic group. I think this book is an excellent way to portray and show racism at a first glance. John knows the risk he is taking when he decides to go undercover as a black male in the Deep South, but he still goes ahead and does it. The truth is very harsh, but he still writes it. He opens a discussion among people of this crucial reality: that Blacks face discrimination in the simplest forms of life. He opens up the dormant eyes of every American in the country. This is an excellent book. -by Olga
The book Black Like Me talks about a lot of discrimination. John Howard Griffin is the author and he writes about himself and the reasons why he changed from white to black. He wanted to be black and he decides to change how he looks and go to other places where nobody will know him. When he is black, he tests racism because he isn't like the other white people. The racism in the book Black Like Me is against black people for how they look.
The book makes me question why people discriminate against other people. Everyone is human, everyone has feelings and everyone should have the same rights in this world. When he is white he is able to do what ever he wants and when he is black, he is restricted from doing a lot of things. People look at him differently for how he looks. People make racist comments and he feels bad for why people are like that. -by Artemio
The book Black Like Me is very interesting. It is about a white man named John Howard Griffin that wants to change his skin color to black. He changes his white skin color to black because he wants to experience how black people were treated around 1959. It is something brave to do, because when he changes his color he goes through a lot of discrimination. He actually feels how other people from a different race are treated so badly.
John Griffin is a businessman but he is no one when he changes his skin color. He has a wife and kids that he loves very much. He leaves that behind for some time just to feel how black people are treated. He is known as a black person and it goes really badly because he can't do what he would do if he was a white man. After being black, he finally realizes it is not easy being a black person. He feels bad for blacks; he can't believe they are treated so badly.
In my opinion this book is very interesting. This book shows a good example of racism. It also shows that there are white people that care about black people because of what John Griffin did. John Griffin is a man that understands what black people were going through and it was something brave for him to do.
These are three examples from the book that support my personal statement. One of them is that John Griffin tells his friend about what he is going to do with his color skin. His friend says he is crazy but John doesn't care. He still does it. Second, when John changes his color, people treat him badly but there are actually other people that help him out. The third example is that John has to get used to being black because he can't do what he used to do when he was a white person. These are my three examples that support my personal statement. -By Mariela
The book Black Like Me is about John Howard Griffin, the author, and his life. It all starts by him wanting to change his skin color through treatment/medication. He wants to change his color to a black person because he wants to see how people from his opposite color are treated. While he is living like a black person, he sees many differences between when he was white and then black. When Griffin was first white, he could go anywhere he wanted like fancy restaurants, sit on the buses with no trouble and stop where he wanted. He could also change checks into money. When Griffin changes his color to black, he can't sit in the park comfortably without being criticized by a white person. He is discriminated against, and he can't change a check into cash like he could when he was white. The main idea in this book Black Like Me is that black people are and were discriminated against currently and in the late 1950s while doing the same acts that white people do.
I thought this book was interesting. I liked learning about John Howard Griffin's opinions/thoughts/experiences in his life. He goes through being black and seeing how blacks are treated. At the same time, I think he is the kind of guy that didn't judge people based on color. He cared about everybody, no matter what. For him, everybody is family. When Griffin was white he could go to fancy restaurants, stay in nice hotels, and have a great time outside without being discriminated against. After Griffin's medication darkens his color, he has to get comfortable with the reality that blacks get treated differently. John Howard Griffin was white and wanted to see from his own perspective how black people were treated. -by Marisol
Must read.......2007-04-16
Almost too incredible to believe, I couldn't put Black Like Me down. I read it in high school and again about seven years later. I appreciated it even more the second time. Highly recommended!
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Paperback Signet Complete and Unabridged 16th Big Printing Author John Griffin changes his appearance to find out what it is really like to be a Negro in the Deep South today.
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A Worthy Read for a Detailed Analysis of Black Like Me.......2000-07-14
For those interested in Griffin's experiment which became the book, BLACK LIKE ME, Bonazzi's book is an insightful resource. He gives additional sources and background material that describe the influences and personal inner journey that lead him to the BLACK LIKE ME experience and beyond. If you stick with the book to the end you will receive a glimpse into the deeply spiritual orientation which motivated Griffin's life work. This book is an important contribution to the understanding of BLACK LIKE ME, which in itself is significant enough to need re-reading for the 21st century.
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This American classic has been corrected from the original manuscripts and indexed, featuring historic photographs and an extensive biographical afterword.
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Chicken--both the bird and the food--has played multiple roles in the lives of African American women from the slavery era to the present. It has provided food and a source of income for their families, shaped a distinctive culture, and helped women define and exert themselves in racist and hostile environments. Psyche A. Williams-Forson examines the complexity of black women's legacies using food as a form of cultural work. While acknowledging the negative interpretations of black culture associated with chicken imagery, Williams-Forson focuses her analysis on the ways black women have forged their own self-definitions and relationships to the "gospel bird."
Exploring material ranging from personal interviews to the comedy of Chris Rock, from commercial advertisements to the art of Kara Walker, and from cookbooks to literature, Williams-Forson considers how black women arrive at degrees of self-definition and self-reliance using certain foods. She demonstrates how they defy conventional representations of blackness in relationship to these foods and exercise influence through food preparation and distribution. Understanding these phenomena clarifies how present interpretations of blacks and chicken are rooted in a past that is fraught with both racism and agency. The traditions and practices of feminism, Williams-Forson argues, are inherent in the foods women prepare and serve.
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An original and grounbreaking study.......2007-08-21
I am truly surprised that nobody else has submitted a review of this book! It certainly deserves to be widely read as an original contribution to African-American studies, to food studies in general, to cultural studies, and most importantly, by anyone who wants to understand how sterotyping works as part of the process of oppression. I also learned a great deal about what 'signifying' means, and how it can be used as an analytical tool.
This is not a perfect book. Sometimes I found it moved to quickly from the general to the specific and vice versa. But Williams-Forson has taken a really tough topic - the way Chicken has been attached to African American women, and she treats it with sensitivity, creativity, wit and an eclectic set of tools from literature, social science and history. In the process she gets to the heart of how stereotypes cut in a lot of different directions; they reveal weaknesses and strengths, solidarities and divisions. She is not interested in passive victimology, nor does she ignore the violence and pain of slavery and prejudice.
The result is a book which really does teach you something new about the Black experience. It is the opening, I hope, of a new generation of black history which shakes off some of the old narratives which have served their purposes, and gets into really complex terrain. I look forward to more complex counterpoint with the work being done in the Caribbean and on the Black experience elsewhere in the Americas. I will certainly be using this book in the classroom, and I hope it gets the broader readership it deserves!
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Black Like Kyra, White Like Me: A Concept Book (An Albert Whitman Prairie Book)
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Great book.......2006-01-31
This book is awesome! It takes a fair and critical look at the social circumstances many African American's find themselves in when they move into a predominately white neighborhood.
My only disappointment is that the Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity agency didn't start an investigation into the Kirk's plight. It would have been an open and shut case.
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Black Like Me
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company
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Never hesitant to explore new territory, Fred Wilson, in a major solo exhibition at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, displays his growing interest in the medium of glass. He has taken the title of the exhibition, Black Like Me, from John Howard Griffinis groundbreaking 1961 book of the same name. A white civil-rights activist, Griffin dyed his skin black and traveled throughout the South to directly understand the nature of racial prejudice. Wilson, invited in 2002 to be an artist-in-residence at the Philchuck Glass School in Washington State, began to work in the medium, leading to his extensive use of it as the United Statesi representative for the 2003 Venice Biennale. Known for incorporating found objects into his art as a vehicle for cultural and institutional critique, Wilson takes a new, more personal, introspective direction in his exploration of racial and ethnic marginalization.
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This classic and inspiring account of the progress of the 7th Armoured Division from the sands of North Africa to the cold of wintery Holland and the mud of a German springtime. Based on official records, and written by one of the division's key officers, this book is an outstanding testament to the officers and men of an astonishing unit. The division's reputation was born in the desert. It first went into action against the Italians in 1940 and then, subsequently, fought Rommel's Afrika Korps in Montgomery's successful Western Desert campaign. It was during this period of intense fighting that the division won its affectionate nickname of Desert Rats. From there the division was transported to Italy and, later, Normandy and from then on was almost constantly in battle until the end of the war. The Desert Rats was written with official support, and with the help of most of the division's senior officers, and the author has been able to provide a unique insight into the workings of a formidable unit. The book stands testament to the unique morale of the division and is an enduring story of difficulties overcome. Major-General Verney served as a tank brigade commander in World War II and went on to command 7th Armoured Division in Normandy in 1944.
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Tim Moreman examines the creation and deployment of British 8th Army, probably the most famous military formation raised by the British during World War II. Formed in September 1941 from the Western Desert Force, it went on to wage a lengthy, hard-fought campaign against German and Italian troops across the deserts of North Africa. It was composed of British and Commonwealth troops - as well as smaller numbers of French and Polish troops. Additionally, a variety of specialized elite forces came under its umbrella including the Special Air Service, Popski's Private Army and the Long Range Desert Group. This book will provide a fascinating insight into these unconventional troops who became the inspiration for today's Special Forces. It was also the first Allied army to rely on close air support; a revolutionary, war-winning tactic that would shaped combined forces strategy throughout the rest of the war.
The Desert War was unlike any other fought by the British Army. The hot, dusty, and unforgiving climate and environment in which its troops lived, moved, and fought was almost as troublesome as the enemy. During its two-year period of service in North Africa, 8th Army underwent major changes in organization, equipment, and training to adapt it to the terrain. Discover the difficulties of desert warfare and how these were overcome by the 8th Army to defeat Rommel and become masters of the desert.
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Follows Conventional British Historiography .......2007-09-04
Tim Moreman's second volume in Osprey's Battle Order series, Desert Rats: the British 8th Army in North Africa 1941-43, is a fairly conventional look at that famous fighting force. While the author does a fairly good job packing a lot of data into a small space, he doesn't make much effort to get off the well-worth path created by a previous generation of British historians on the Desert War and readers may fail to see any unique value that justifies its purchase. At any rate, this is a nice companion volume to the earlier (and better done) volume on the Afrika Korps and many readers will probably regard them as a matched set.
After a short introduction describing the 8th Army's creation in September 1941 and its combat mission, the author moves into an 18-page section on unit organization. Although the author provides a large number of line and block charts on units from division down to battalion, he provides relatively little data on the number of personnel and weapons authorized. Furthermore, while he does provide 8th Army charts for November 1941, May 1942 and November 1942 (the last, on pp. 73, is mis-labeled as July 1942), he does not list constituent brigades in each division or important corps-level artillery and engineer units. Unlike other Osprey Battle Orders books, such as the one on the Afrika Korps, the author actually provides very little information on the core component units in the 8th Army. Some allied units, such as the Greek 1st Brigade which fought at El Alamein, are never mentioned and the Polish Carpathian Brigade gets only a nod. This failure to provide a detailed organizational study is the biggest weakness of this volume.
The author then provides a 14-page section on doctrine and training, noting the pernicious effects of faulty pre-war training on British tactical performance in the desert. This is a very well-written section and the closest that comes to a reflective look at what went right and what went wrong for the British in North Africa. Particularly interesting are the author's description of the British creation of maneuver training areas in Egypt and the lengthy period required to train replacements arriving from England. A short section follows on weapons, focusing on infantry equipment, tanks and artillery - useful for novices to this subject. A 7-page section on C3I is also a bit of an eye opener, in that British tactical communications in North Africa were apparently pretty awful and greatly hindered coordinated operations, although the author also uses German sources to point to a rigid British style of issuing overly-directive orders. The volume also has 9 maps (the Mediterranean theater of war; North Africa; Operation Crusader - 3 maps; the Battle of Gazala; the Battle of Alam Halfa; the Battle of the Mareth Line; the Battle of Wadi Akarit), a bibliography and a list of abbreviations used.
The 28-page section on combat operations, focusing on Crusader, Gazala, Alam Halfa, Mareth Line and Wadi Akarit is the heart of the volume. This section is interesting and well-written, but doesn't seem to tie it all together into a coherent theory of how 8th Army evolved from a fairly amateurish colonial-era army into a modernized, combined-arms force, as Niall J. Barr did in 2005 with Pendulum of War. Indeed, Barr's book is not even mentioned in the bibliography and the author doesn't say a word about the string of abortive British infantry brigade attacks prior to Alam Halfa. Indeed, much of the narrative in this volume is similar to the type of writing we saw 30 years ago in Purnell's History of the Second World War, without benefit of more recent research. For example, not once does the author detail the evolution of British artillery tactics, including the TOT mission and the corps-level "stonk," that greatly increased British firepower at El Alamein. British improvements in engineers - which would make a big difference on D-Day - are also over-looked. The conventional view - to look mostly at tanks, infantry and anti-tank guns - just doesn't do justice to the 8th Army. Readers may also detect two annoying biases on the part of the author: a tendency to treat the Germans as ten feet tall and a tendency to lionize Montgomery at the expense of all the previous commanders of 8th Army. The Germans made plenty of mistakes in the Desert War, but here the author tends to make them look nearly invincible. Also, Montgomery certainly made big contributions to the improvement of 8th Army, but this author seems to suggest that nothing prior to Monty mattered much, which is far from the truth and slanderous to Wavell and Auchinleck.
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Desert Rats at war
George Forty
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The new 'Spearhead' series is designed to look at the cutting edge of war, dealing with units capable of operating completely independently in the forefront of battle. Each volume in the series examines the chosen unit's origins and history, its organization and order of battle, its battle history theater by theatrer, its insignia and its markings. Also covered are biographies of the most important commanders of each unit. Each title ends with an assessment of unit effectiveness - as seen by the unit itself, by its opponents and the light of more recent historical research. The books also include a detailed reference section with a critical bibliography, a listing of relevant museums and web sites, information about reenactment groups and memorials.
The British 7th Armoured Division will be remembered best by its small red shoulder flash that depicted Jaculus Orientalis-the Greater Egyptian Jerboa. Hardy, highly mobile and most at home in the desert, the human Desert Rats proved masters of desert fighting- as have their modern day descendants, the 7th Armoured Brigade, now operating in Iraq. As part of O'Connor's Western Desert Force, the Desert Rats helped to destroy the Italian forces that had started the war in the Western Desert-the Italian Tenth Army being completely defeated at Beda Fomm 5-7 February 1941; then they fought toe-to-toe with Rommel's feared Deutsches Afrika Korps in a seesaw campaign that ended in May 1943 with the surrender of Axis forces in North Africa. Next they were involved in one of the major amphibious landings of the war in Europe as part of the US Fifth Army at Salerno, fighting on northwards through Italy, until withdrawn back to UK, to take part in the Second Front as a vital component of the spearhead of British forces in Normandy, landing at Arromanches on 7 June 1944. They had to learn new skills in the close French bocage countryside, so different to the limitless space of the desert. And they did so the hard way with heavy losses at Villers-Bocage. From then on the division was hardly ever out of action: advancing across Europe from Lisieux in France through Belgium where it relieved Ghent and, finally, on to northern Germany where it took the surrender of Hamburg. These tough troops were then honored by being chosen to go to Berlin to take part in the great Victory Parade of 1945.For all those interested in military history, the new 'Spearhead' series is an excellent account of each of the individual units. Written by acknowledged experts in the subject, each volume is a detailed account of the development and operational record of some of the most famous military units in history.
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Have you seen a saguaro cactus? It looks lonely, standing in the dry, dry desert. But actually the saguaro is a haven for a whole community of creatures - some cute, some creepy, all of them fascinating! The renowned educator-author uses an entertaining, repetitive rhyme that culminates in successful learning. Includes "field notes" and resources.
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Love Fredericks' books.......2006-01-15
Got 3 of this author's childrens' books. This is another great one that builds on the rhymes and repeats them. Beautifully illustrated.
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The Desert Rat: The Remarkable Story of Aileen Coleman
Annette Adams
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The Book You Won't Be Able to Put Down.......2006-01-12
This book is extraordinary! Two American women travel to Jordan
and become close friends with the Bedouin desert people, who
are slow to trust anyone. They start a hospital and achieve many
miracles because of God's help.
The writing is extremely well done and the author tells excellent
stories about the Bedouins. If you are interested in working
with people overseas who need help, this book is essential to
read. I found it to be one of the best books that I have ever
read. Don't miss reading this book.
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The Shield and the Sabre: The Desert Rats in the Gulf 1990-01
Nigel Pearce
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Churchill's Desert Rats: From Normandy to Berlin With the 7th Armoured Division
Patrick Delaforce
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'No division has contributed more to the downfall of the Axis Powers and to the total defeat of Germany. The Desert Rats saw service in the Middle East when Italy declared war on Britian in 1940. They fought with great distinction all through the long campaign which culminated in the victory of Alamein. They took a leading part in the pursuit of Rommel's defeated forces and in the final breakthrough to Tunis. The division was the first British Armoured Division to land in Europe when it took part in the assault landing at Salerno. It served through the Italian campaign till brought back to England early in 1944 to prepare the great assault on Western Europe.' So wrote the GOC of the Desert Rats, Major General L.O. Lyne, in Berlin during the Allied victory parades. The Desert Rats, the 7th Armoured Division, wore its famous insignia of the jerboa, the long-tailed rodent, with pride. The 7th, the most famous British formation of the Second World War, was Winston Churchill's favorite. Patrick Delaforce presents numerous first-hand accounts of the terrible struggle in Normandy including Operations 'Goodwood' and 'Bluecoat' and of the break-out and great 'Swan' to liberate all northern France and Belgium. He describes the taking of Ghent, and the long months of fighting in the Peel country in the Netherlands; Operation 'Blackcock', the crossing of the Rhine and the advance through Germany; the capture of Hamburg, and the Allies' final triumphant entry into Berlin.
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Desert Rats: The British 4 and 7 Armoured Brigades, Wwii to Today (Power Series)
Hans Halberstadt
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