21-07-2013, 05:59 PM
For some reason ,"Ride the Hand Grenade" has never been a slogan in the annals of Military History.
But a hand grenade is exactly what this new book by Thurston Clarke is. It WILL GO best-seller possibly number one.
This book is really surprising the hell out of me. I cannot believe some of the things in here.
There are also, next to the "good shrapnel" a fair amount of "bad Shrapnel" which is very misleading. It is narrative history and not 1000 pages so that vignette-happy approach is going to lead to vast-oversimplification. Which can be forgivable if it serves to open new curiosities in the reader, but it can also by too pat when it offers oversimplifications about such complex stuff as the August '63 Vietnam cables.
It is the best of doorways, it is the worst of doorways. This book is opportunity and it will hit an amazing number of eyeballs. Please get on it now. A great way to introduce new readers to the best material. http://www.amazon.com/dp/159420425X/?tag...g0uc35k1_e
But a hand grenade is exactly what this new book by Thurston Clarke is. It WILL GO best-seller possibly number one.
This book is really surprising the hell out of me. I cannot believe some of the things in here.
There are also, next to the "good shrapnel" a fair amount of "bad Shrapnel" which is very misleading. It is narrative history and not 1000 pages so that vignette-happy approach is going to lead to vast-oversimplification. Which can be forgivable if it serves to open new curiosities in the reader, but it can also by too pat when it offers oversimplifications about such complex stuff as the August '63 Vietnam cables.
It is the best of doorways, it is the worst of doorways. This book is opportunity and it will hit an amazing number of eyeballs. Please get on it now. A great way to introduce new readers to the best material. http://www.amazon.com/dp/159420425X/?tag...g0uc35k1_e