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Edward Said is one of the most celebrated cultural critics of the postwar world. Of his many books of literary, political, and philosophical criticism, Orientalism--a brilliant analysis of how Europe came to dominate the Orient through the creation of the myth of the exotic East--and the monumental Culture and Imperialism are the best known. His books have redefined readers' understanding of the impact of European imperialism upon the shape of modern culture. Said's career as a thinker spans literature, politics, music, philosophy, and history. As a dispossessed Palestinian growing up in the Middle East and subsequently living in the USA, he has witnessed the impact of the Second World War upon the Arab world, the dissolution of Palestine and the birth of Israel, the rise of Nasser and the PLO, the Lebanese Civil War, and the faltering peace process of the 1990s. As a result, the publication of Said's memoirs, Out of Place, is a particularly significant event. The book offers a fascinating account of the personal development of a critic and thinker who has straddled the divide between East and West, and in the process has redefined Western perceptions of the East and of the plight of Palestinian people.
However, as the title suggests, Said's memoir is a far more ambivalent and at times personally painful account of his early years in Palestine, Egypt, and Lebanon, as well as the often paralyzing embrace of his loving but overbearing parents. Said's memoirs are powerfully informed by his sense of personally, geographically, and linguistically "always being out of place." Born to Christian parents and caught between expressing himself in Arabic, English, and French, he evokes a vivid, but often very unhappy, portrait of growing up in Cairo and Lebanon under the crushing weight of his emotionally intense and ambitious family. The early sections of the book paint a poignant picture of the oppressive regime established over the awkward, painfully uncertain young Edward by his loving mother and expectant, unforgiving father, both of whom cast the longest emotional shadows over the book. Those expecting an account of Said's subsequent intellectual development will be disappointed; apart from the final 50 pages, which deal with Said's education at Princeton and Harvard, Out of Place is, as Said himself says, primarily "a record of an essentially lost or forgotten world, my early life." It is this carefully disclosed record that accounts for Said's deeply ambivalent relationship with both his family and the Palestinian cause. Composed in the light of serious illness, Out of Place is an elegantly written reflection on a life that has movingly come to terms with "being not quite right and out of place." --Jerry Brotton, Amazon.co.uk
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From one of the most important intellectuals of our time comes an extraordinary story of exile and a celebration of an irrecoverable past. A fatal medical diagnosis in 1991 convinced Edward Said that he should leave a record of where he was born and spent his childhood, and so with this memoir he rediscovers the lost Arab world of his early years in Palestine, Lebanon, and Egypt.
Said writes with great passion and wit about his family and his friends from his birthplace in Jerusalem, schools in Cairo, and summers in the mountains above Beirut, to boarding school and college in the United States, revealing an unimaginable world of rich, colorful characters and exotic eastern landscapes. Underscoring all is the confusion of identity the young Said experienced as he came to terms with the dissonance of being an American citizen, a Christian and a Palestinian, and, ultimately, an outsider. Richly detailed, moving, often profound,
Out of Place depicts a young man's coming of age and the genesis of a great modern thinker.
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Before Orientalism . . ........2007-09-16
It's one thing to write a warts-and-all memoir, but this one seems at times to be all warts - at least as far as it goes, to Said's early years as a young man, when he was still a graduate student at Harvard. During those 25 or so years, Said represents himself as being a mostly hapless loner, with a record of troublemaking and lack of self-discipline, compounded by a confused identity as a Christian Palestinian growing up in Cairo and spending long summers with his family in Lebanon. For readers looking for the origins of the man who became known as an exponent of Orientalism, he's here, but they certainly have to connect all the dots for themselves. There are only hints of the scholar and critic Said would become.
Heavily under the influence of his parents during all these years, Said devotes considerable time to a portrayal of both of them, his father a successful, demanding, and emotionally remote businessman, his mother a constant solace to him but almost willfully manipulative. Their worried and oppressive presence continually erodes his confidence in his abilities, while making him even more deeply dependent on them. Sent to America for his education at the age of 15, his isolation is intensified and his "otherness" keeps him at a distance from peers who might have provided companionship and support. Meanwhile, the protected world he has known gradually disappears as political realities (the establishment of Israel, the rise of Nasser, the 1967 war, the civil war in Lebanon) make of him finally a man without a homeland.
Focusing as it does on the years of his youth and young manhood, the story makes an interesting contrast with Israeli writer Amos Oz's memoir, "A Tale of Love and Darkness." Each is a very personal, self-critical story written late in life (Said was dying of cancer) retrieving an inchoate self from the past and reconstructing the origins from which both men emerged in later life to pursue an almost unpredictable career.
A story of Palestinian displacement.......2006-02-10
Not only this Edward Said autobiography is breath-taking in its style, it narrates the story of every Palestinian who displaced after the creation of the State of Israel in 1948.
Unlike the other Said works, this one is personal in which Said recounts his memories since childhood: His early days as a boy in Jerusalem, his school in Egypt, his college and adult life in the US and his family gatherings since he was a little kid.
Said's wit imposes itself as he discovers the origins of his name, how his grandmother used to call him Edwad (without the R) and how his father used to shop everyday at the nearby grocer during their summer stay in the village of Dhour Shweir in Lebanon even when the Said house did not need any missing items.
This book can be easily mistaken for a novel but Said makes sure to capture his disorientation, after he and his family loose the sense of home, and puts it in context.
The bottom line message of Said, after his long stay away from his Palestinian homeland and in the US, was that he couldn't find his identity their after. With Arabs, he felt American while among Americans he felt Arab. After his death, Said - a Palestinian-American feeling always out of place - had willed that he be buried in Dhour Shweir in Lebanon, perhaps to illustrate how Palestinians, whether alive or dead, will always be displaced.
Honest and insightful.......2006-01-31
Edward Said is famous for being a Palestinian and being a leading polemist on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Visciously anti-Israel he has caused many scnadals and was a renowned thinker. His memoir, written when he was sick, is insightful a true tale of what the Palestinian Arab elite looked like on the eve of the 1948 war. Said was born in Jerusalem, according to him, and was raised in Egypt, with a nanny and drivers, his father was American and had served in WWI, both his families came from Baptist protestant and Anglican backgrounds. His father made good money in Egypt in a stationary business, employing many of the diverse people that lived there then, including Armenians, Greeks, Copts and Jews. Today that community isd gone, as is the elite neigborhood where Said grew up and the private schools he attended. Said was in Jerusalem in Talbieh during 1948. He recalls the war and its aftermath. He also writes about Lebanon, about the village where he stayed there and travelling in the Middle East as a young boy. His was a life of luxury, a life that was 'destroyed' by 1948. His uncle was murdered by the Egyptian police for being a communist. His parents didnt talk politics, he makes up for that.
An interesting work, helpful for anyone interested in what the Palestinian Arab elite looked like in the 1930s.
Seth J. Frantzman
The Right Place!.......2005-12-07
"With so many dissonances in my life I have learned actually to prefer being not quite right and out of place." This last line in Edward W. Said's memoir Out of Place is a fitting end to book that takes the reader on a journey from his childhood full of uncertainties and anxieties about being different, to embracing individualism at the end of Said's painful, yet privileged life. Said's memoir is chronologically dated from his childhood to the present, but interwoven amongst his life are stories about his family, colleagues, friends, and even himself that juxtaposition him in such a way that sometimes it is hard to follow how old or where Said is. Central to his memoir are Said's parents: His mother who demands his unconditional love, while often cruelly pointing out his faults and throwing wrenches into his relationships with his four sisters and girlfriends. His father starts out as a shadowy and silent, yet dominant presence in his youth. As Said grows though, their relationship becomes more interactive. This paradoxal relationship is demonstrated through his father's actions: paying for his son's elaborate trips to Europe, prep schools in Cairo, Beirut, Princeton, and Harvard, but chastising him for spending sixpence on a program to a play they once attended. Said's memory for his youth is astounding, remembering details of his schools, people he encountered, and descriptions of places he visited as if he wrote them down in stored away journals (he does not mention that he kept any journals), While Said is part Palestinian and grew up pre and post Israel, he often comments on the subject very fleetingly, or at least he seems not to want to go into the subject, suggesting only slightly of him being disgruntled with the situation. Said grew up in Cairo during the pre-WWII period, a time in Cairo he successfully describes as a romantic place for foreigners and is ruled under British sovereignty. In comparison to Tobias Wolfe's This Boy's Life, Out of Place depicts a Christian, part Palestinian, part Syrian male growing up in Cairo Egypt and vacationing around the Mediterranean and the Middle east while enjoying a privileged life of schooling and living Initially Said depicted himself as a misfit, but eventually growing into a strong intellectual who observed the great changes of Islamic culture during the 20th century.
Evocative, interesting memoir.......2005-11-24
I am a fan of the late Edward Said's work as a cultural critic and I admire his politics and morals so it was interesting to read his brief autobiography. As a brilliant world-traveler of considerable literary and musical talent who took a brave stand on a number of highly controversial issues, Said is a kind of romantic figure in a way, and the book is beautifully written. It has a feeling of bittersweetness since it is written after Said was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Despite the sadness, Said manages to find much meaning, light and beauty in his life and I was particularly touched by the love and forgiveness he has for his parents. His parents are truly fascinating and they possess a larger than life presence in his book that makes you feel you know them personally. Although they are deeply flawed, like everyone is, Said has a certain emotional maturity with which he is able to acknowledge his deep love for them and make that love real for the reader.
He also brings forth the scenery of his youth, from Palestine to Cairo to Lebanon to America, with vivid detail, so that you learn a lot about those places from WWII to the early fifties. He's a funny iconoclast who brilliantly and subversively finds a way to always be in some kind of trouble, which I identified with. I also liked that he instinctively rebelled against the arbitrary rules of a dying colonial order, and then later, against the arbitrary rules of New England private school, and then a stuffy, aristocratic, anti-Semitic, elitist '50s Princeton. A product of stuffy private schools myself, I could identify with some of his experiences.
Unfortunately I guess my only objections were, although I highly recommend the book to readers and really liked it, were that he stopped so early in his life, when it would have been fascinating to learn more. I guess that's actually an endorcement since it shows how much I loved his writing. The only other critique I'd make is that he is reading his current perspective back on his experiences; i.e., being disgusted with the British teachers he had in Cairo as a kind of subversive rebellion of the sub-Alterns. I'm sure there was that there, since he did-memorably-feel "out of place", but some of it is just adolescents naturally rebel against the self-importance of authority figures, whether there is an ethnic/political dimension or not.
I did like the way he covered his identity as a Palestinian, though. He managed to be completely opposed to anti-Semitism and have Jewish friends but stand up boldly and I think with amazing courage against an extremely powerful and well-organized Zionist lobby, so organized and alert that they find the time and energy to obsess over a good man and true humanist like Said, trying (and failing) to "expose" him as a fraud. I admire him greatly and really appreciate that he understands and sympathizes with the historical plight of Jews, but doesn't think that makes what happened to him ok. Basically, his place of birth was stolen and he was forced out of it, and I have to agree with him, there is no difference between that and the equally abhorrent forced resettlement in South Africa of "natives".
Although I'm a Jewish girl I was never raised with any idea that I was supposed to have natural Zionist inclinations of any kind, and therefore it was only through learning the Palestinian cause that I ever had any inkling of what the moral implications were there. When I did find out what the issue was about and researched what people around me thought, I found out things I didn't want to know about certain friends and family's positions on the topic, but in the case of the family members closest to me, they agreed with me-probably why I was open to the Palestinean argument in the first place. My mother for instance was always anti-Zionist.
And honestly, it does terrify me that I probably wouldn't have ever heard about their displacement and oppression if I hadn't gotten involved with far leftist causes. Because no one in this country hears about it and just gets the stereotypical "insane terrorists" image many would do well to read this story of a Christian Arab who lost his home and family property and because he said anything about it was attacked. Not that it would have been any more ok if he was Muslim, obviously, but it goes to show that it's a far more complex situation than the press ever shows us. Can you imagine, the Israeli government bulldozed a young woman trying to prevent forced displacement of a family, and we didn't hear about it?
We're definitely going to miss Said in the intellectual world as a forthright moral voice who was unafraid to speak up for what was right. I hope more people come forward to take his place, because we need people who are not anti-Semitic, but true human rights advocates, to plead the Palestinean cause to the world.
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When my Daughter and two of her children were murdered, I became possessed with a monster of deep red-hot rage and I descended into a bottomless black hole of despair. However, this is not a story about my grief nor is it about how my loved ones spent the last moments of their lives in fear and anguish. This is the story of how my father in heaven reached out to me in spite of my rebellion and showered his love on me. I only wish I were eloquent enough to describe the enormity of his love and grace. If you are grieving or know some one who is going through grief, it is my prayer that my story will be a blessing to you and bring glory to the Lord.
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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.
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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03
Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.
Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19
Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.
Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09
There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.
For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.
Very Interesting.......2007-03-07
It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.
History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10
Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.
I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.
Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.
Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.
I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.
This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.
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- a good memoir to read if you want more information on the Vietnam War
- The war in Vietnam
- Wolff Is a Master Storyteller--Period!
- Gave me valuable insight and focus into a confusing part of my own life.
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In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War
Tobias Wolff
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In This Boy's Life Tobias Wolf created an unforgettable memoir of an American childhood. Now he gives us a precisely and sometimes pitilessly remembered account of his young manhood - a young manhood that become entangled in the tragic adventure that was Vietnam. Mordantly funny, searingly honest,
In Pharoah's Army is a war memoir in the tradition of George Orwell and Michael Herr.
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Whether he is evoking the blind carnage of the Tet offensive, the theatrics of his fellow Americans, or the unraveling of his own illusions, Wolff brings to this work the same uncanny eye for detail, pitiless candor and mordant wit that made This Boy's Life a modern classic.
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a good memoir to read if you want more information on the Vietnam War.......2007-08-29
I read the back of this book and got very interested in it. I have read a few other books about the Vietnam War and this book was mentioned. It was a good experience reading this book from the man's point of view. I really felt like I was there with him and his platoon--in the mud, in the gungle, in a helecopter--where ever the author was.
The war in Vietnam.......2007-08-27
Wolff manages to bring the war in Vietnam into focus with sharply observed events from his tour there. As merciless with himself as he is with the entire US effort, he shows us just how foreign Vietnam was and still is for us, how brutish our presence was even when well meaning, and how doomed it was, probably from the start.
Wolff Is a Master Storyteller--Period!.......2007-04-02
I've said it before and I'll keep saying it--if you are not reading Tobias Wolff you are only cheating yourself. The man simply does not write anything less than absolutely mesmerizing. I assure you, that is not an exaggeration.
This latest work of Wolff's I've read is called In Pharaoh's Army. It is a memoir offering us what lead to his taking part in the Vietnam War, his actual tour, and then the aftermath. Now having read all of Wolff's work, I purposefully saved this one for last because I mistakenly believed I'd like it the least.
I loved this book. Those of us born after the war have a notion of what Vietnam was like thanks to Hollywood movies, but Wolff gives us a totally different perspective, though no less horrific. Wolff's memoir deals with the one thing nobody likes to talk about too much--fear. He was afraid to go. He was afraid while he was there. And when he got back, he was afraid of what he'd become. Wolff is not a weak man, you'll gather that from his recounts, he simply does not bother to hide the fact that he was counting down the minutes until he got home, and he just wanted to stay alive.
Each of Wolff's chapters are like mini-stories, and they each offer the hilarity, absurdity, and sometimes tragedy of his life during that time. I was surprised at how much of the book is spent leading up to his deployment and then his eventual return. I'd say only half of the book actually deals with his actual time in Vietnam.
As I've said, I've never experienced anything like this book and I completely recommend you read it if you are interested in either Wolff himself, the Vietnam War, or in the form and style of a masterly rendered memoir.
Please, do us both a favor--read something by Tobias Wolff.
Gave me valuable insight and focus into a confusing part of my own life........2007-01-03
The VietNam War, the politics, social uproar, confusion, riots, protests, etc. formed the background--on TV-- of my young teen years, yet since I was at the tail end of the baby boom, none of my peers were old enough to be drafted or enlist. I grew up feeling like "Viet Nam" was a bad movie I wandered into during the middle of and thought it would never end. I'd been too young to participate, but not too young to avoid a lingering and draining sense of guilt and anger.
Somehow,reading Wolff's book helped me look back at that period in my life and see more clearly, and helped me to put "Viet Nam" in a context and make use of the guilt by feeling gratitude for those who carried out their missions in spite of it all, and to use the anger to try to prevent our old men(and women)from sending more young men and women on a useless mission. (Looks like we're going down that road again, though).
Although it's not an absolute necessity, I think I understood Pharaoh's Army more deeply by having read This Boy's Life. As others have mentioned, Wolff's writing is lean, direct and honest. He has an ability to be objectively observant about himself.
Welcome home, SF..........2006-11-06
The intriguing title of Tobias's 'tour guide' captures the feel that fellow Nam combat vet Joe Haldeman also captured in his Sci Fi classic, and Vietnam War allegory, The Forever War.
In Joe's novel, the Government back on Earth were so far removed from the deep space battles that were daily occuring many light years away, that the absence of real-time command and control made the war a fiasco for the troops at the end of the line.
Likewise, if you talk to any Nam vets, the Vietnam War was being run by a totally out of touch (in every sense) Government that was attempting to run things from 12,000 miles away. The constant and erratic political interference with the tactical situation (Vietnam was never fought as a strategic war until the Linebacker II air campaign in December, 1972) seems to have reminded Tobias of the way the Egyptian Army of old became so remote from the commands of the Pharaoh that their war also felt pointless for the combat soldier in the field.
A wonderfully honest book, that examines the war up close, for good or for bad, and which is a welcome addition to the many fine books penned by combat vets and military nurses (please check out Army Nurse Susan O'Neill's magnificent Don't Mean Nothing) that really put you in the middle of war in all of its madness and futility.
Bravo.
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In Pharaohs Army Memories of a Lost War
Tobias Wolff
Manufacturer: Bloomsbury
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ASIN: 0747519196 |
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- Great Explanation of a Difficult Subject
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Armies of the Pharaohs (Trade Editions)
Mark Healy
Manufacturer: Osprey Publishing
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ASIN: 1855329395
Release Date: 1999-11-01 |
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This book is available in North America ONLY. If you live elsewhere in the world and would like to read this book, please see Elite 40: New Kingdom Egypt. This book is identical in content and price - only the cover differs. Builders of the Pyramids and most ancient of all the powers of the biblical world, the Egyptians remain one of history's most fascinating and enigmatic peoples. During the New Kingdom era, Egypt reached the peak of its power, wealth, and territory. Through the intensive military campaigns of Pharaoh Thutmose III (1490-1436 B.C.), Palestine, Syria, and the northern Euphrates area in Mesopotamia were all brought within the New Kingdom. Mark Healy outlines the history, organisation and dress of the New Kingdom Egyptians in this volume packed with accompanying illustrations and photographs, including 12 full page colour plates by the ever popular Angus McBride.
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Great Explanation of a Difficult Subject.......2002-09-16
The information on ancient Egyptian warfare is very elusive. One can go thru tons of texts without ever getting definite answers to specific questions. This book lays out the pharaonic army in the New Kingdom in great detail- troops, weapons, deployment, and even case studies from ancient inscriptions. This book is a must for anyone interested in military history, and/or ancient Egypt.
A scanty topic is finally pinned down.......2002-09-07
I found this book a pleasure to read as it described the aspects of warfare in ancient Egypt in a clear and consistant manner. Although a lot of work has to be done in this subject, this is definately a good start for any student or interested reader.
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In Pharaoh's Army
Manufacturer: Alfred A. Knopf
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In Pharaoh's Army
Tobias Wolff
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