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Top Customer Reviews: The Vikings and ...
BORING, BORING, BORING
To be just, this in spite of, an author a point that Viking warfare has not been full stop or remarkable in any way coffins one and ossia a reliance in his ships of longitude as it gave them the enormous goodness in of the terms of mobilities and left to do unexpected strikes. It has said of another way,, has had no such thing as 'Viking warfare' except ways very looked to direct warfare by means of everything of North Europe, comprising Inghilterra, Country of Galles and Ireland. Tip in detail that they were generally more interested plunders and esoft' objective, with the churches and the monasteries that is particularly prised, more than attacking well has defended some. Besides, one of some goodnesses of this book in a one of Halsall is that has the section in of the ships and naval warfare. Another goodness, of course, is that it is published the decade later.
While ossia the lovely book , is also difficult to read. It is frequently descriptive more than analytical and often also law like the compilation, date it join impression that an author there is crammed in like this content to the equal that could, sometimes in a cost of a clarity of his narrative. A the question has associated is that an author in time tries to speak some theses of leading authors but without fully presenting them. A corollary is that to follow his line of has thought, can require know of then is informing to. This can be problematic in time for the book that belongs to the collection that is aimed purportedly in a like this-called 'general reader' and is a main reason to estimate this book four stars, ossia slightly less than Guy Halsall rid in spite of a last when being older and no like this comprehensible.
1. One and-the book is the disaster . Some maps can not be missing and is main in a sample of INTERIOR of the LOOK. A map is lateralmente and calm can does not turn if yours using the computer (perhaps in the Kindle). A ebook costs almost as well as the hard copy and is certainly overpriced so that it is. Purportedly an original edition was has organised better. Skyhorse The editors apparently specialises in of the cutting corners.
2. For in fact content, can take the decent copy any fact for Skyhorse, an indication would be 4 STARS . A book is excellent for this investigation to do and well has noted. For those with the random interest in a subject, this rids is not for you.
3. A the serious question is that an author informs to the number of commitments, but a reference is so only to that applies to this section of a book. If you are not familiarised with a battle or seat his examination is almost worthless. Possibly it has had the section or the chapter that details that is known roughly each one that like this of these battles helps a lot of. Although has material of good reference in your library, like some books of encyclopaedic type in of the Mediaeval battles, will not cover a majority of these. So many, when another mentions like a cavalry can be been deployed in so much and like this battles or some another facet of a battle, really does not mean the plot if yours any familiar with a chance. Like an example will mention a known good chair of Parigi in 884-885 in two or three chapters but if this chair is not to know your certainly does not mean too much says calm in a situate a Vikings could not have had like a lot of men so many in a saga, and then to somewhere more mentions arms to seat sure can be be use. It is the question More the add when it covers chance like a chair of the anger and few sources mention anything in the spent there and calm so only said one or two things in a chair without background.
Some there is complained a lot of some discharges to content some enemies of a Vikings, but concealed is not the question - is a title ! He the good work in covering several appearances of as Vikings and his war of enemy focused, in spite of some weaknesses have mentioned. Again, ossia for which want to or require something lovely scholar and have the good fund. If your just looking for the history of one was and the one who past, this is not a book for you. If yours interested in as and reason the things was done probably and one researches a later, then a book is Very Good.
The line speaks frequently and at length a difficulty with sources and, for implication, a difficulty with sure current views of some subjects. It is good to listen the writer that says is not going besides his sources and reasons feels can no.
Peter Morris in an Age of Arthur says that several sources are to be believed reasons the audience of the contemporary writer would have known yes was wrong and a writer the nave known the. The line done a chance that some writers have been influenced for a need to look literary, familiar with classical Latin, has loved to return the interior seen Christian, was familiarised with classical texts in several subjects, has loved to please some noble, and in several ways have had reasons to be a lot totally attentive. And some the contemporary sources are writing the earliest sources. Like this, the line is provisional where is pertinent.
Like teaching me in Benning, the logistical is a key and the line spends time that does a mathematics. The generals have discovered on some millenia that if some types of logistical say you can a lot of something , can no. And he like this spends treats it good to time directly on spending capacity, qualified of load of several animals and carts and streets, rations, and indirectly when it signals out of difficulty an or another campaign there has been because of logistical subjects. This zone of his writing can not be the one who a reader that looks for the action finds to interest. But, in a real world, say when will have action and when no.
Differs with an earlier description in that a coverage of campaigns other villages and the armies attack me like this useful. It offers context and contrast. Besides, like the picture of as the things were both inside Northwestern Europe and far afield, ossia useful although a reader does not think is totally on point.
Of then thinks that knows roughly that a Nordic has thought in Valhalla, has been surprised to find like scanty some sources and the references were, and as confusing and contradictory was. As well as possibly informing to something more totally. If, to do an analogy, the interior of historical one thousand quinientos the years gathers to the cosmology structured that late-Twentieth soldate of Century have thought of a afterlife, he basing so only in a poem "Fiddler Green" and his occasional references, this would be infinitely better sourcing that in fact have for Valhalla. They are sure diverse random occurences of a mysterious "calm See you on a zone of drop, bro," or " it sees calm in a point of rally," it could be fact in. "Final PCS" it could it has to that be discarded like this entirely useless.
The line mentions the number to time that a Vikings was interested often in of the soft aims. A dead plunderer enjoys any spoils. This can apply more than smaller, unremarked raids. When Viking The armies have directed for Viking king or other remarkable struggled, was mainly to take or defend territory that does his very different of the his no-Viking contemporaries. This in spite of, some of some main campaigns looked how were raids writ big. If, in that received the one who suffices Danegeld, a Danes is home state, a line blurs among conventional war of a time and chance of the manually armed flight gigantic.
Is convenient to read this book in Kindle with clean access to the equal that can look for any number of subjects some references of author which can be new to a reader, or so that a reader can love additional details. There are a lot of occasions.
A good book immensely resourced and lovely reading for any any one sees further some operatic agreements and some soap operas with spades at present in writings.
Top Customer Reviews: Grey Wolf, Grey ...
A 5th lacking star purely why a number of typos firmly increases, with a final two chapters that requires some interpretation partorisca decode names, etc. A harm.
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John Jauert
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A book contains the plot of dialogue that the doubt is 100 attentive, and to good sure an author has taken the little poetic licence in re-creating roughly of some chances, but for one the majority of part has found a text believable and credible. A material is the good mix of military experiences and more personal, and resist near like the reasonable look in life for the Or-crew of Boat.
While no really called a book pell-compulsory', has resisted my interest, and has given to feel he for both a boredom and sheer terror of life in the Or-Boat. For one the majority of part, some stays of book in a 'grunt' level- no the plot of info in Or-tactical to Bounce or strategies in attacking traffic of trader or escaping of destroyers of enemy. More than a text has been centred around day-to-chance of day of a crew.
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Probably a question a big plus has had with a book was that it had read other books in a subject same, and like this some of a material was some pocolos soyundane' so only reasons had seen the prime. If this had been a prime minister , or so only, book of this gender I bed, I active estimated it probably main.
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To good sure the good book to lose you in the few hours of life the different time. Some of some histories can dip your hair on embroiders, and give the good feels to a terror of life in the Or-boat. It would have liked him it has liked another material covered- like this tactical of real attack, but recognise that an author had limited probably reason the material was available his.
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An efficiency of German torpedoes, compared with a sad history of defective USN torpedoes for a first pair of years with which Pearl the port is frustrating to read, this in spite of clearly attentive.
Top Customer Reviews: The Battle for ...
Top Customer Reviews: Dunkirk: The ...
An author, Joshua Levine, was a consultor historical partorisca a film, and mentions the pair of some historical liberties that a film has taken partorisca cinematic purpose. Also it explains at length a purpose of a different timelines has used in a film, and also a total lack of Germans. Simply place, both are like a storyline would be resembled those that mediate at the same time.
British, German, French and Belgian leaderships pocolos after a chance, and down some years have all has used a Dunkirk history partorisca his political purposes. An author explains this sake.
Where was a RAF? This is to explain patiently also... One reasoning that it is that they could not be seen struggling a Luftwaffe on some beaches, precisely reasons struggled elsewhere, or that a Luftwaffe has averted a Dunkirk zone when a RAF has done visit brief been due to some questions of the row of critical fuel has faced the aerodromes have flown of.
A final chapter is poured in a doing of a film, a cinematography, some visual effects (mostly in cameras, any CGI), and a fusion. All these are linked to a historical context.
One a lot enjoyable book.
In spite of, the good bed.
Top Customer Reviews: Sink the ...
For one requiring more information, this is not a book. Law like the novel, but gives an overview of a fight for Atlantic in Second world-wide War. Ossia An easy bed this in spite of.
Enjoyed it really!
Has to that be read!
Is CSF and wants to read one of his books, tries something more.
A clue is in an Introduction where is to say that it was published previously like ome Last New Days of a Bismark'. Any one looks for having done a unedited precis of an original and the past is was like this for Forester. I seat that one it law editor Essentials - took for the walk.
Top Customer Reviews: The Silent Deep: ...
Has inhaled This book along roughly the service of submarine of Big Bretagna as it WW2 to a present. It is dense, scholar, and superbly has researched. A Silent Deep house mostly on development of the program of nuclear submarine of Big Bretagna in the extraordinary detail that gives some ideas of reader to some fights among a USN and RN, a politics and RN, and much more, concealed so only is resulting known now.
Fantastic bed for serious naval history buffs, a navies of a world, and political junkies.
Recommends to all interested in a subject.
Ossia A history of a long game. It is immensely more secretive and some bets are immeasurably main. In the world of theorists of conspiracy and wild speculation roughly secrecy, ossia the book that dips is gone in of the things partorisca detail add which can not finalise like the estaca of Youtube for an end of a day.
Is the long book to do justice to a contributo enormous some frames of Service of the Submarine to ensure that some rests of United Kingdom in some strategic forefront of world-wide subjects. As We 'punch on ours weighed in a world? Ossia A zone where remain of Big Bretagna in an upper distribution of a Prime minister League.
Thoroughly Recommended.
A book is a lot of-paced, although occasionally it is noticeable when an author writes a chapter and another another. It concealed it is not also say that one is the worse writer that another, so only different fashions.
A section in a Falkland War, perhaps been due to his 'Hot War' character, particularly interested, and that directs to transmit a human element of a campaign of submarine as well as an operational. Some missions of the cold war also involved in spite of some restrictions of a Law of Official Secrets. For this reason the operational history after a cold War felt the writing of has bitten, but a thorough look to a successor of Trident has on fact for him. Some facts of sure authors one the majority of a cooperation of a Real Navy and his second look all raisin to access to all the parts of service of submarine.
Is difficult to find failure with this book, although the little more the maps would have helped when describing roughly of some operations. This averts, is interested in a politics of a nuclear deterrent, a postwar history of a Service of Submarine or a development of such technologically has advanced pieces of crew, then this book would owe that answer all (or at least the majority) of your questions.
A cat and game of mouse this is to be touch is gone in one North Atlantic is fascinating. I have maintained all sure.
Is like this in a politics to take some submarines have built likes build and operating a subs.
A politics has bitten is quell'has bitten long, but a rest is a lot good.
Looks such the long time fact, but is fact so only 30 years (obviously hotting on again, but ossia another history ).
The looks is was an old university or book of library but in conditioning a lot good.
Some slighty glued info papers in the map that required to be take a lot attentively but no really @@subject for me, so only the estetic the smallest question.
Has been thrilled by some accounts of some meetings of cold war go in Soviet subs and Real Navy underwater where our submarines were generally much calmer and better operated that some Soviet some. Consistently Real Navy I nuclear submarines were shadowing and simulating attacks in of the Russians subs a whole time while his occupants were blissfully subconsci - averts of an odd collision.
Some accounts of a politics and process to try that/ it builds the nuclear submarines were less thrilling but to the still useful information likes them United Kingdom once again is debating if to renew our nuclear submarine deterrent.
Top Customer Reviews: Escape from the ...
Start with the WW 2 history in an active and successful captain and crew of a submarine Tang the one who suffers the 'incident' of entity with his last torpedo and without spoiling a history, final with an imprisonment of a surviving crew in the Japanese POW camp until final of war.
Ossia That it is has called generally the 'Page-turner' and can not disagree with that at all.
Has begun and has completed a book in the 24 period of now and has LOVED each minute of him.
An instinct of survival of this brave submariners is surprising and with the bit of regime and the plot of knowledge and ingenuity some have survived his incredible ordeal.
Brutal treatment for his Japanese captors has added a lot to his suffering and finally cost the enormous prize for a lot of the, so at the same time and in of the years to come.
My only tiny flu is an A lot of LONG, and in my mostly unnecessary opinion footnotes and the indication that eats respectively 32 and 15 pages this in spite of in spite of this forgivable 'cushioning' an author' way to write and the detail he absolutely riveting reading.
A lot HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
この本は自魚雷で雷撃された米潜水艦タングの、乗組員視点の資料です。
自魚雷での雷撃は他にも事例があったと記憶していますので、このテーマで研究しても
興味深いかもしれませんね。
通常の潜水艦戦史ならば撃沈してしまう所でおしまいなのですが、この資料では生き残った
乗組員が捕虜収容所で終戦を迎える所までちゃんとフォローしています。
大船(?)の捕虜収容所で、警備兵が前を歩く捕虜に対して頭を下げている写真、
捕虜が大喜びしている写真などが載ってます。
POWに関する資料としても興味深いですね。
Is hard to express that exactly claves in my alcohol, reason everything of does. These brave men have dared. Perhaps the history would owe that be taught more with books like this more than of the textbook, reason the much more real fact. It would want to go a museum sometime although I am sure he would be a travesía emotional, a would not forget never!
Until then, highly recommends to read books that action on some lives of those in service to our country that can any never be able to thank reason have gone now. This in spite of, can share some histories of these brave men and his families, can be adapted of a big cost our liberties come with and be appreciated more. Alex Kershaw has written other books and I slowly to read more to share with my edges those who love history also! I think the present of Alex to share these histories of the heroes a bit is wonderful to the equal that sometime forget the one who the this of true hero and is not in a society in that alive.
My deep plus thanks to all the one who have, is and do fault in some armed forces!
Top Customer Reviews: Running a Big Ship: ...
Top Customer Reviews: The Tinfish ...
A house is in some chances on board ship and ashore as we follow main character Signalman 'Group of pressure' Ludd. I have read the plot of naval fiction, and these histories really underline - partorisca dialogue and true atmosphere, realistic and gripping histories, and a right quantity of humour (especially Ludd is and some other marine' misadventures). A harm that these 3 histories are not more amply known and popular. I estimate him among one much more in this gender.
Highly recommended to readers with naval interests, or any to those who could like the really good history on sailor' life in RN during WW2 - rough in a better of time, but with real humanity among a hardship and peril.
Ronald Bassett Real Navy the service informs that has a lot of writing very roughly.
Has the comprehensible glossary of RN the expressions/of words of the sailor in a backside of a book, which will be useful for these unfamiliar with any of them.

University Librarian at Brigham Young University. Academic librarian with over 25 years' experience in research libraries and demonstrated expertise in the areas of scholarly communication, collection development, acquisitions, and library administration.
Popular, engaging speaker/author/consultant on topics related to the future of libraries and scholarly communication; past president of NASIG and of the Society for Scholarly Publishing.
Author of three books, including _Scholarly Communication: What Everyone Needs to Know_ (Oxford University Press, 2018).