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Letter Writing
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Letter writingLetter writing

LETTER WRITING is a very useful art for it is, indeed, impossible to conceive of a human being who does not at all feel the necessity of writing letters to friends, relatives, officers, strangers or businessmen.
 
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Tags: relatives, friends, writingletters, officers, strangers, Letter, thenecessity
Operation Napoleon
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Operation NapoleonOperation Napoleon

It's 1945: a German bomber flies over Iceland in a blizzard; the crew have lost their way and eventually crash on the Vatnajokull glacier, the largest in Europe. Puzzlingly, there are both German and American officers on board. One of the senior German officers claims that their best chance of survival is to try to walk to the nearest farm and sets off, a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist. He soon disappears into the white vastness. 1999, mid-winter, and the US Army is secretively trying to remove an aeroplane from the Vatnajokull glacier. By coincidence two young Icelanders become involved - but will pay with their lives.  
 
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Officers and Gentlemen
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Officers and GentlemenOfficers and Gentlemen

Officers and Gentlemen is the second book of the trilogy. It first appeared in 1955, three years after its predecessor. Critics immediately noticed its more sombre tone, which is partly attributable to the absence of Apthorpe. They also admired the awesome account of the Battle of Crete, an account which did not soften the debacle which that struggle became. It did not shirk the utter inadequacy of the British forces under pressure.
An often very funny book.... Every bit as good as Men at Arms, whose splendid characterizations and fine writing led many in 1952 to predict that its author had begun the best English fictional account of World War II.
 
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Snow Blind (Monkeewrench Series) (Audiobook)
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Snow Blind (Monkeewrench Series) (Audiobook, MP3)Snow Blind (Monkeewrench Series) (Audiobook, MP3)

With the holidays over and the long cold winter looming, January can be a bleak month in Minneapolis. So what better way to bring a little cheer to the good people of the city than by sponsoring an old-fashioned snowman-building contest? In a matter of hours, a local park is filled with the innocent laughter of children and their frosty creations. But things take an awful turn when the dead bodies of police officers are discovered inside two of the snowmen - sending the entire department and Detectives Magozzi and Rolseth on high alert.
 
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Tags: officers, discovered, inside, snowmen, police, Blind, Series, Audiobook, Monkeewrench, awful
Roman Military Clothing (1) 100 BC - AD 200
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Roman Military Clothing (1) 100 BC - AD 200Roman Military Clothing (1) 100 BC - AD 200

The armour and weapons of Rome's legionaries and auxiliaries have been the subject of intense research and speculation, and much has been published - but almost nothing on the actual clothing of Imperial soldiers. In this first part of a rigorous study of the literary, sculptural, pictorial and archaeological evidence, a specialist author/artist examines the clues which enable us to attempt reconstructions of tunics, cloaks, footwear and other items worn by officers and men all over the empire, from the late Republic to c.200 AD. His text is illustrated with meticulous drawings of surviving relief sculptures - particularly soldiers' gravestones - and eight striking colour plates.
 
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Tags: soldiers, officers, empire, Republic, meticulous, Clothing, Roman, Military, footwear