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For Generations the Sioux have regarded the Black Hills (Paha Sapa) as a shrine to the lightning and thunder of the gods, and journey there to get their lodge poles and medicines. To the white man, however, the Black Hills were a source of wealth, first in minerals, later tourism. Black Hills Summer is the story of a contemporary Indian movement to regain rights to the Hills.

Caves of Paha Sapa,: And other findings of Dr. Knows-It

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Caves of Paha Sapa,: And other findings of Dr. Knows-It
Joyce Fossen
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Paha Sapa (The Black Hills);: A novel
R. H Abbott
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Paha Sapa: A cultural resource overview of the Black Hills National Forest, South Dakota and Wyoming

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Paha Sapa: A cultural resource overview of the Black Hills National Forest, South Dakota and Wyoming
E. Steve Cassells
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Paha Sapa: Black Hills
Gladys Bensimon , and Sheila Martin-Berry
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Eleven-year-old Sarah Levy was a city girl, a Brooklyn girl. he modern wonders of the 1920s were all around her there, and she could not imagine a better place to live. But her life was changed by a telegram that took her family across the country to a starkly different land and lifestyle in South Dakota. Suddenly Sarah finds herself coming of age in a landscape that could not be more foreign to her. On her grandparents' farm, the land they loved, Sarah finds a friend, a Sioux Indian girl named Wicincala. Through the mystical adventures they share, Sarah learns lessons in life, love, loyalty, and forgiveness, that are larger than time itself.

Robert in a forbidden land: The story about the first white boy in the Black Hills : the Paha Sapa of the Indians

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Robert in a forbidden land: The story about the first white boy in the Black Hills : the Paha Sapa of the Indians
Mary Frances Sanders
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My Paha Sapa project to preserve the Black Hills of South Dakota, U.S.N.A

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My Paha Sapa project to preserve the Black Hills of South Dakota, U.S.N.A
Keith E Coxe
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Paha Sapa: Notes on the cultural resources of the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming

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Paha Sapa: Notes on the cultural resources of the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming
E. Steve Cassells
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Concise and to the point

Authoritative Work on the Yom Kipur War

useful but emphasis syrian front

A brilliant but yet sobering read about a pivotal conflict.

Detailed Account Of Israel's Greatest War

The War of Atonement: The Inside Story of the Yom Kippur War (Greenhill Military)
Chaim Herzog
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Campaign 118: The Yom Kippur War 1973 (1) The Golan Heights

ASIN: 1853675695

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This is the authoritative account of the Israeli Army's performance in the bitter Yom Kippur War of 1973 and it is being reissued on the 30th anniversary of that conflict. The origins of the war in the turbulent history of competing powers in the Middle East are fully explored, as are the build-up of Arab forces that almost caught Israel by surprise, and the realization of the Israeli leadership that they would once again have to fight against overwhelming odds for the survival of their state. A gripping narrative of the conflict itself, punctuated by first-hand accounts and interviews with combatants, The War of Atonement is full of drama and tales of inspirational bravery. An analysis of the political implications of the conflict brings this epic tale to a close. For this edition Chaim Herzog's son, Colonel Michael Herzog, has written an Introduction which places the book in the context of his father's achievements and gives a revealing insight of the man himself. This is the most comprehensive work on a conflict that has had major implications for our own troubled times.

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Concise and to the point.......2007-07-25

Of all the volumes on the 73 war, this one perhaps is the most informative picture of the overall war in a small package. Although not going into extreme detail of any particular front or aspect of the war, it does touch on all of them. Unfortunately, this overall review, does come at the expense of making the book somewhat dryer read than many of the excellent first hand accounts of the people actually invovled in the fighting. If someone really wants a detailed look at the war, the definitive work is yet to be written, although their are a number of books that give detailed examinations of particular theaters of the struggle - especially the battle for the Golan Heights.

The author has been critisized for being biased. Given his role as an Israeli cabinet member, a certain amount of bias should not be a surprise to anyone reading the book, realizing it's written from the Israeli perspective. However given the fact that the book is admittedly written from the Israeli side, it's actually relatively objective in its examination - much more so than anything likely to be written from the Arab side. An example of a more Arab view of the war would be Edgar O' Balance's No Victor, No Vanquished.

Authoritative Work on the Yom Kipur War.......2006-11-05

The 1973 Yom Kippur War left in it's wake shattered illusions , an escalation in the energy crisis and a reshaped poltiical situation in the Middle East.

This work , originally written two years after the Yom Kippur War , by one of Israel's foremost millitary analysts and later President of Israel, traces the roots of the war to the Six Day War , and gives a detailed analysis of the war on two fronts , the Northern Front , in the Golan against the Syrian attackers (aided by auxiliaries from Iraq, Jordan , Morocco , Saudi Arabia . Kuwait and Cuba among others) and the Southern Front , in the Sinai , against the Egyptian invaders.

The author , in tracing the conflict from the 1967 Six Day War , illustrates how the Soviet Union instigated the war , arming the Arabs , falsely advising the Syrians about the concentrations of Israeli troops on their borders , playing down the escalation in the United Nations and heavily arming Syria , Egypt and Iraq , egging them on to a war of anihilation against Israel.

Herzog details the backdrop to the war with the reality that Israel was faced with:
"As Arab hysteria rose and the Arab media promised the Israeli population - men , women and children - destruction and anihilation in the most brutal manner , the horrors of the Nazi holocaust rose to the fore in Jewish consciousness. The Jewish people knew that these where not mere words , recalling how many nations nurtured on the tenets of Christianity had either participated in the previous bloody massacres or had looked on. And indeed the world looked on , petrified , incapable of taking action".

Herzog details how Israel's extraordinary victory in the Six Day War lulled that nation into a false sense of security. The War of Attrition (1969-1970) by Egypt against Israel. The very magnitude of the Arab defeat in the Six Day War , with it's damaging implications for Arab pride , self-respect and honour set the stage for the next war , points out the author , detaling Nasser's resolve that "what was taken by force must be returned by force". The Soviet Union rebuilt the armed might of Egypt , Syria and Iraq , with the latest weapons and equipment , continually urging the Arabs into another war with Israel.
The author details the political machinations of the Soviet Union and Arab powers leading to the war , and reveals the shocking fact that Israel knew several days before the war that a massive Arab attack was imminent on Yom Kippur but miscalculated the hour , believing it would be four hours later then when it actually took place.

The author details how "the inherent strength and resilience of the people of Israel was revealed in the stark , grim and tragic days at the outset of the war , when fighting back against overwhelming odds , they overcame the initial setbacks and achieved millitary success."
He sizes up in his opinion the strengths and weaknesses of Israel's foremost Generals in the conflict such as Moshe Dayan , David Elazar , Shmuel Gonen , Ariel Sharon , Chaim Bar Lev and Raful Eitan. Finally he detailed the political implications of the war.
Looking at his comments today about perfidious role of the Soviet Union in encouraging the Arabs not to compromise with Israel , and egging them on to belligerance , one realizes that although the Soviet Union is no more , Communist rule having collapsed in that part of the world , it's role has been overtaken by others with an implacable hostility to Israel, including Red China ,and the South African led Non Aligned Movement , which continue the Marxist inspired hatred of Israel , originally created by the Soviets.
Finally Herzog reminds us how Israel has never been the elment to block peace moves and that the basic problem continues to be Arab insistence that Israel has no right to exist (today backed up by the international hard left).
"Only when Arab actions indicate a willingness to modify their atttitude to the basic issue of the existance of the State of Israel will it be possible for Israel make concessions."
Unfortunately the failed Oslo process proved that the Arabs only saw the agreement of Arab rule of the disputed territories as an intitial stage in the road to Israel's destruction.
Those on the international Left who encourage the Arab dream of Israel's destruction , only make genuine peace more unrealizable.
The Israeli people desperately want peace and always have wanted peace , but must fight to
survive and avoid a second holocaust.
If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence.

If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel.

useful but emphasis syrian front.......2003-09-14

The most amazing war fought by the Israelis agains their neighboors was the Yom Kippur war when the Israeli army, in the first few days of the war, suffered enormous losses in armor and aircraft. For many it was a trauma, when the undefeated IDF and IAF seemed impotent to arab aggression. For Egypt it marked the popular triumph over thier hated enemy. Harzog, former president of Israel, was on hand to be an eyewitness as the events unfolded. THis is his study of the conflict. It is throrough and he gives an unbiased account of the many israeli actors who fought the war, men like generals Aden and Sharon and the prime minister Golda. The downside of the book is that it appears to emphasize the Syrian front far to much. The Syrian offensive, like the Egyption one, took the ISraelis by suprise when it was not defeated in the first day. But the Syrian front was not, in my opinion, the most important theater of the conflict. THe large egyptian army(we must remmember Egypt and Nasser had been ISraels principal antagonist since 1948) and the fighting near the suez was the most important and where the war was decided(when Sharon brilliantly crossed the canal and encircled the Egyption third army). So this is a fair account of the war, their are other books. Aden(Bren) wrote a book about his experiences in the Sinai, as well as Sharons 'Warrior'(autobiography) and the book 'Two of Clock war' appears to be well written although not lenghty. Their is also at least one other book entitled 'the Yom Kippur War' that is a very professional, although critical of Sharon, account of the war.

A brilliant but yet sobering read about a pivotal conflict........2002-10-15

October 1973. The Yom Kippur War. Few people will be ignorant of this conflict when Egypt and Syria carried out their surprise attack upon the Israelis at the most Holy time in the Jewish calendar, when the Israeli forces were at their most vulnerable due to religious observance.

As I had just begun my own military training in my own country, I remember wondering if the conflict would expand and include our own military due to the sabre-rattling of the super-powers as the Israelis turned initial defeat into eventual victory.

I have read a number of accounts of that historic conflict since then, but few come close to this account by Major General Chaim Herzog.

It's recent re-release is most welcome. The author's articulate and extremely well written record and analysis is a worthy addition to anyone's library. Some might find it controversial and expect it to be biased due to the author's own nationality. I did not find this.

Instead I found this to be a brilliant account of unbelievable bravery in the face of heavily outnumbered forces, self-sacrifice and incredible counter-attacks. The author describes how early Egyptian and Syrian advances which threatened the very existence of the Jewish state, were thwarted and repulsed. Advances that subsequently turned into a retreat which saw Israeli forces within artillery range of the Syrian capital Damascus and well on the road to the Egyptian capital Cairo.

This is not all about the `glamour and glory' of an Israeli victory. Far from it. It endeavours to tell the real story, as much as possible the full story of the war with all it's successes, omissions and failures. It is also the story of a people in possibly their greatest hour of challenge in present day history.

The Arab media had promised it's masses that the entire Israeli population, men, women and children, would be subject to destruction and annihilation in the most brutal manner. With the horrors of the holocaust being only recent memories, those Israelis who took these threats seriously must have been horrified.

The outset of the war and initial Israeli losses have been subject to a variety of claims surrounding poor intelligence etc.. The impotence of the UN and the super-powers in preventing this conflict is there for all to see, as is the shadow of a potential nuclear catastrophe resulting from the super-powers' involvement towards the end. Notable is the fact that whilst the Egyptian and Syrian attacks were in full swing, there was little movement towards enforcing any ceasefire. Yet when the roles were reversed, the world bent over backwards to ensure a ceasefire was adhered to.

It is also notable that Chaim Herzog, even a quarter of a century ago, makes reference in this book to the phased plan of the Arab nations towards destroying Israel involving an initial withdrawal by the Jewish state to the 1967 borders.

(Ring any bells pertaining to present day politics ?)

Notably also is the authors remarks of that time to the effect that the civilian populations in the region will become exposed to no less a degree than the military forces in any future war. We need only look around us now to see the veracity in his remarks.

Read this book to see what, if any lessons have been learnt by either side, and how the world reacted at different stages of the conflict. It is a sobering read and will open your eyes, not only to the military situation in the Middle East in 1973, but to the attitude of the nations and a present day scenario which threatens similar conflicts in the future.

Detailed Account Of Israel's Greatest War.......2000-03-21

This book gives a comprehensive account of the war through the IDF's eyes. The author gives us the overall tactical history of the war, in addition to many stirring accounts of individual acts of bravery. Highly recommended for those who are interested in historical accounts of warfare.

Anthropology, or, The science of man: in its bearing on war and slavery, and on arguments from the Bible, marriage, God, death, retribution, atonement ... a series of letters to a friend in England

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Anthropology, or, The science of man: in its bearing on war and slavery, and on arguments from the Bible, marriage, God, death, retribution, atonement ... a series of letters to a friend in England
Henry Clarke Wright
Manufacturer: Cornell University Library
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This volume is produced from digital images from the Cornell University Library Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection

The Atonement of John Brooks: The Story of the True Johnny "Reb" Who Did Not Come Marching Home.

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The Atonement of John Brooks: The Story of the True Johnny "Reb" Who Did Not Come Marching Home.
James Louis Head
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Cliche-ridden and boring...
How We Come To Believe Who We Are . . .
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Not an easy read - but well worth the efforts
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Carter Clay
Elizabeth Evans
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"This is before the accident. No one is dead yet." Elizabeth Evans begins her debut novel, Carter Clay, with a prologue so chilling it's hard to imagine she'll be able to maintain the high-octane tension for another 400 pages. That she does is a testament both to her prose and to the power of her central characters: 12-year-old Jersey Alitz, her maternal grandmother, M.B., and the title character, a Vietnam veteran who is the catalyst for both tragedy and transformation.

The novel begins with a horrific accident in which Jersey is severely injured, her mother, Katherine, brain-damaged, and her father killed. The driver is Carter Clay, 42 years old and with "the face of a choirboy." This man has been sober for just a year, ever since his near-fatal stabbing while he was homeless in Sarasota, Florida. Having been given a second chance at life, he has religiously attended AA meetings, and has even come to believe that his craving for alcohol has diminished to manageable proportions: "Suffice it to say that Carter did not understand this appearance of diminution to be largely a feature of distance, as with a great warship that might be covered by the tip of your little finger when the vessel sits on the far horizon."

Then a minor accident sends him to a hospital, where a painkiller is prescribed to him that triggers those old cravings. Before long he is on a collision course, literally and spiritually, with the Alitz family. In the aftermath of the hit-and-run, M.B. reluctantly agrees to care for her injured daughter and granddaughter but soon finds she won't have to do it alone: Carter has decided he must make reparation by caring for his victims himself. But as his obsession with doing right by Katherine and Jersey grows, he may be doing more harm than good. Elizabeth Evans builds this complex and compelling tale with an authority many veteran novelists would envy. --Alix Wilber

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"This is before the accident. No one is dead yet. Blood circulates just as it should, two ounces per pump of the heart."

So begins the extraordinary story of Carter Clay, a Vietnam veteran at loose ends. Drunk and driving a van down a Florida highway, Clay smashes into the Alitz family: Joe and Katherine, distinguished paleontologists, ad their daughter, Jersey. Joe is killed, Katherine and Jersey are seriously injured. In an attempt to redeem himself while still concealing his culpability, Clay becomes a questionable caretaker of Katherine and Jersey's damaged lives. He obtains a job as an aide at the hospital where Katherine and Jersey initially receive care. When Katherine's retired mother assumes reluctant responsibility for the pair, Clay further insinuates himself into their lives--imposing upon precocious Jersey and addled Katherine the baggage of his past and his haphazard faith in God. Suspenseful, psychologically complex, and inhabited by characters that will haunt your memory long after you have turned the last page, Carter Clay is a magnificent novel--a finely wrought tale of the frailty of identity and the possibility of redemption.

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Cliche-ridden and boring..........2001-10-16

One wonders about the accolade-strewn editorial reviews and the less-than-stellar reviews from the real readers. How original to delve deep into the psyche of the alchoholic Vietnam vet! ...and with a tendency to consistently digress from any noticeable plot with uninteresting, tangential forays. I believe that I have read more interesting phone books.

How We Come To Believe Who We Are . . ........2000-06-13

What makes us who we are? Are we simply our physical being, the sum of our actions, or who we wish to be? Elizabeth Evans takes these questions on while delivering an entertaining and suspenseful novel. The tragic consequences of people lying to others, God, and even themselves about who they are drive this story forward as protagonist Jersey must deal with her own identity issues: Is she still her mother's daughter and is her mother still the same person after their horrifying accident. Wanting the best for this amazing young girl as she struggles with the failings of the adults around her kept me intensely interested until the last sentence. This book is also a wonderful illustration of how religion and faith, when misunderstood and misused, can be a weapon of destruction.

Ooops... The Author Forgot One Thing..........2000-05-04

... a plot. This is one of the most appalling, atrocious books I've ever read. It is slow moving, the characters are terribly stereotypical, the setting isn't developed at all, and the utter, complete lack of plot makes me very happy that the pages of this book are recyclable. Another huge mistake was the addition of letters written by a certain character acting as complete chapters. These are the most sleep-inducing chapters of the entire book, as nobody is really interested in reading letters from an old woman to her dead lover. Put this book down before you have the chance to pick it up.

Not an easy read - but well worth the efforts.......2000-03-02

If you are looking for a quick read strictly for enjoyment, then this is not the book for you. However, if you want to really think and get involved in the minds of some very confused people suffering the consequences of inadvertent actions, or of victims of circumstance, then this will be an interesting experience for you.

A Thrilling, Heartrending Book.......1999-11-28

Elizabeth Evans takes the reader into the heart of her confused, desperate characters. The novel challenges the reader to think about what it means to be human...what it means to be "good." And if that makes it seem like this is a heavy book, keep in mind that it is also a book full of suspense and humor. Calling the Coen brothers: this would make a great follow-up to Fargo! I loved this book!

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Day of atonement
Max W Jacobs
Manufacturer: Vantage Press
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German Requiem: Poems of the War and the Atonement of a Third Reich Child

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German Requiem: Poems of the War and the Atonement of a Third Reich Child
Ted Hirschfield
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German Requiem recounts the haunting experience of war as seen through a child's eyes, the most vulnerable and impressionable witness to man's inhumanity to man. Each poem is the crystallized image of a particular experience cast into narrative poetic form and impelled by powerful emotion. The poems describe a psychic journey from loss and suffering, through the healing catharsis of art, which transmutes all grief into beauty.

A time for atonement: Canada's first national internment operations and the Ukrainian Canadians, 1914-1920

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The internment of Ukrainians in Canada during WWI
An account of Canada's first national internment operations.

A time for atonement: Canada's first national internment operations and the Ukrainian Canadians, 1914-1920
Lubomyr Y Luciuk
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The internment of Ukrainians in Canada during WWI.......2004-02-02

Of the 31 pages in this booklet, only eight consist of text--so this is but a very brief overview of the topic of the internment of Ukrainians by the Canadian Government. Essentially what happened was that the Government deemed several thousand male Ukrainians to be "Austrians" and placed them in camps under the auspices of being "prisoners of war"; many more were deemed to be "enemy aliens" and were therefore issued identification papers and required to report regularly to the police of NWMP. Unfortunately with a text so brief, the author is reduced to making generalizations with a minimum of references; one statement that struck me as needing further clarification was that the Ukrainians "joined the Canadian army in record numbers" by either "misrepresenting where they had been born" and/or using the name "Smith". Just what constitutes "record numbers" is not stated. I'm also inclined to believe that since many of these Ukrainians were recent immigrants, and their affection for the homeland still strong, many would have been reluctant to join an army that was allied with the nation (until 1917) that was oppressing their people. But I guess when one has a certain agenda, one sometimes has to create certain myths in the course of debunking others.

An account of Canada's first national internment operations........1999-01-08

A short account dealing with Canada's first national internment operations of 1914-20, and their adverse impact on the organized Ukrainian Canadian community. Described as "enemy aliens" under the notorious War Measures Act, many eastern Europeans, primarily Ukrainians, were rounded up and placed in 24 concentration camps spread across Canada's hinterlands. Their properties and valuables were looted, and some of that wealth remains in Ottawa's coffers to this day. In 1917 most Ukrainians living in Canada were also disenfranchized. Of late the community has asked for the Government of Canada to acknowledge this injustice and provide for the restitution of the confiscated wealth, as well as placing historical markers at each of the internment camp sites. This booklet provides a basic but very helpful and well illustrated introduction to this relatively unknown episode in Canadian history.

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THE WAR OF ATONEMENT

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The War of Atonement Milhemet Yom ha-Din

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The War of Atonement Milhemet Yom ha-Din
Chaim Herzog
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Good overview of this war

The War of Atonement, October, 1973
Chaim Herzog
Manufacturer: Little, Brown
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ASIN: 0316359009

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Good overview of this war.......2006-08-05

I read this book here in Brazil.I'm an agronomist, single 35 years old.I like to read books.
The Yom Kippur war in 1973 is, the subject of this book.This book is good.Many chapters, but this book isn't too long or boring.The best chapter talks about air and sea war.The failures of this book are small.If you want to read about Yom Kippur war, this is a good choice.

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