Great read, if taken slightly tongue in cheek. Remember he was a spy and while he does much to reveal the inadequacies of the German military machine and extol that of the British, he was a man used to lying and deceiving. His view of 'truth' might just differ from yours and his whole account is best viewed sceptically. There is a lot that does not ring true. The coincidence of him being invited to the very party where the very man assigned to hunt for him is present. It makes good, exciting reading. Is it true? How could a man who was German pass himself off to establishment Englishmen as their fellow countryman and it not be noticed? His accent and use of English must have been exceptionally good. Americans could be fooled but the English? Highly unlikely. I think there is some truth in the book but he has, for artistic reasons done substantial embellishing. I agree with the other reviewer, it would make a great film or short TV series. Lots of uglier sides to life shown, high drama and comedy thrown in. We should seach for an historical perspective though to get a more rounded out picture of the man and what he really did. I would really recommend the book-I read it in a day and a half and was so sad when it finished. A very satisfying read, leaving you wanting more of the same.

This is a real gem of a book. It was recommended to me by a friend and the very next day I found a 1938 Penguin Edition staring out at me in the second-hand book store. For the 50cents it cost me, it was one of the best reads in my life.

Von Rintelen was a German Naval Officer in WWI and was one of those cobbled together in desperate times to work on espionage eassignments all over the world. Speaking either North American or British English, he could disguise himself effortlessly as a businessman interested in buying armaments for the western allies in New York. While America was still neutral Von Rintelen planted bombs on transports and munitions ships, disseminated false imformation, and even organised his own labour union (inviting US congressmen to speak at some of its conventions) all usually with the help of disgruntled Irish Americans wanting to help cripple the English war effort. All the while he established a string of false companies to buy and trade in NY.

The vignettes are incredible and worthy of a hollywood thriller. He ends up at a hotel party in Massachussets and finds out that the British Naval Attache assigned to look for him is attending the same party that night. Von Rintelen, decides right away to join the party and introduces himself to the British Attache as .... of all people... a British Naval Commander sent from London on special assignment to apprehend this Von Rintelen chap! (Really himself). Of course without instantaneous email or transfer of pictures over the wire, the British Attache has no idea that he is indeed talking with Von Rintelen (hillarious!), while Von Rentilin, over drinks, proceeds to draw out all the information British Naval Intelligence know on hilself.

He was eventually arrested in the Channel while on a Dutch Liner heading back to the country disguised as a Swiss National.

This is WWI and the ruthlessness of later wars is not present. His opponents are mainly honourable "genetlman" where he enjoys the commraderie of other English Officers whilst in confinement in England. His first glimpse of "democracy" happens when he is shipped back to the US as common spy (despite the fact that this may have been technically illegal under international law --- even at the time) and incarcerated in Atlanta until 1921. That he only got 4 years for espionage and sabotage is a interesting indication how far the US has come: in 1917 they gave German Spies 4 years and in 2002 they are executing teenagers and the mentally handicaped for capital crimes -- progress?

His descriptions of Southern Jails is also interesting and his empathy with the criminals is an interesting refrain for this German gentleman.

A highly interesting and fast paced book that should be made into a movie.

Interesting story of Europe dragging America into war. The final chapter on his imprisonment until long after all other POWs were freed and the harshness of southern prisons.

English - English dictionary is useful for English leaners.
(especially don't use English)
I bought it last year because one of my friends recommended it.
I wanted to buy "Cambridge" dictionary but he said that
the words of in "Cambridge" is difficult.
So if I want to find some words, I have to find another words.
The words of "longman dictionary" consist of 2,000words.
So you don't have to find another words.
And I can see some cultural and social background of America.
(Even famous actor, singer).
In p.785~804, I could know about 'Colours and their Associations',
'American life of each decades', 'Education', 'Festivals and Special Days',
'Government', 'Holidays', 'Law', 'Pubs', 'Shakespear's Plays',
'Wedding'

It is useful for me but for advanced leaners,
it may not so good because explanation of word is not specific.^^

This dictionary has almost all the words teachers and advanced students of English need to look up, including 15,000 encyclopedic and culturally significant words and have been helping foreign students like me comprehend English more easily since first published 1992.

It features as below like the title; English Language - 80,000 words and phrases all the words you need to read English books and newspapers - Clear, direct definitions using the Longman 2000-word Defining Vocabulary - Natural, helpful examples based on real texts - Equal coverage of British and American vocabulary Culture - Over 15,000 cultural and encyclopedic entries - More than 400 cultural notes at entries such as Declaration of Independence and lawyer - Fully illustrated, including over 30 pages of color photos, maps and drawings, which bring the world of English to life

I'm sure this dictionary is the most comprehensive dictionary available and help you gets to the heart of the English Language.

This dictionary has almost all the words teachers and advanced students of English need to look up, including 15,000 encyclopedic and culturally significant words and have been helping foreign students like me comprehend English more easily since first published 1992.

It features as below like the title; English Language - 80,000 words and phrases all the words you need to read English books and newspapers - Clear, direct definitions using the Longman 2000-word Defining Vocabulary - Natural, helpful examples based on real texts - Equal coverage of British and American vocabulary Culture - Over 15,000 cultural and encyclopedic entries - More than 400 cultural notes at entries such as Declaration of Independence and lawyer - Fully illustrated, including over 30 pages of color photos, maps and drawings, which bring the world of English to life

I'm sure this dictionary is the most comprehensive dictionary available and help you gets to the heart of the English Language.

Charlie,the work horse was retired by his master who said Charlie was too old to work. In fact, everybody said he was too old. Everyone, that is, except Charlie. He is lonely in his pasture where nothing grows but thistles and chickweed. He is bored and hungry. He remembers the old days when he used to get treats from the tavern cook, Birdie, and escapes from his pasture each day at five o'clock to return to the inn. There he finds that he can still be useful and important, even though he no longer can pull wagons or a plow.

This was my favorite childhood story and I recently told my college roommate about it. As a wonderful gift to me she ordered the book as my Christmas present. I was so happy I cried. This is a wonderful story. Lighthearted and inspiring, I recommend it to any young child in your life, and you might want to read it yourself.

This was my favorite book as a child, and I've been waiting years for it to come back into print so I can give copies to all the children on my gift list. (I'm lucky enough to have an old hardback edition of my own.) For young readers (especially the horse-crazy ones) on your gift list.

This is a REALLY good book. I'd reccomend it to anyone. I would have given it 5 stars but I did notice a slight glitch. The characters overlooked a small detail that could have helped them alot. But it wasn't a big deal. Most people who aren't realy into trek wouldn't notice the problem. I would recomend this book to anyone even if their not a huge trek fan.

The Rings of Tautee is not your run of the mill save the inhabitants story. It has one big difference. This exciting story by Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch has Kirk transporting hundreds of people from a dying civilization. The scenes that make this one stand out? The ones where he struggles with the Prime Directive and his classmate and friend, Captain Bogle. The Klingons join in this rescue with great reluctance. It's not another shoot from the hip Jim Kirk here. I have always said he's not the space cowboy that the next generation always claimed he was. Just as Picard has finesse in negotiation; Jim also has the ability to seek out a peaceful resolution without firing a phaser.

This is the first Star Trek book that I've ever read. It's well written and has a wonderfully creative plot. Having watched the show, I can easily identify with all the characters. The comment about the bridge having no seat belts, especially when they could be so helpful, is especially good (I've always wondered myself). Reading this allows Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the others live on beyond even their years. I'm going to buy the "Invasion" series now

Welcome to the basis of the Day of Honor. Read about how Kirk's unorthodox thinking and Kor's honor and reason save a Klingon colony from total annihilation. A must read for all fans of the Star Trek universe.

This is one of the best Star Trek books I've ever read, and I've read many. It is action-oriented, but has plenty going on behind the action for those who don't read Star Trek purely for action. I'm not generally a fan of Klingons, although I'm finally beginning to accept them as protagonists, so if I speak highly of this book, understand that that's an extremely high recommendation; it isn't as though it's coming from somebody who loves any book focusing on Klingons and their culture.

If you're a fan of Klingons, this one can't miss. If you're a Kirk fan, you'll love it. One could quibble, and suggest that the relationship between Kirk and the Klingon commander is too congenial for the time period in which the book is set, but that would be an EXTREMELY picky quibble.

It is a good, good, good book. Many of Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch books are on the top of my favorite books list because they are entertaining, humorous and thought-provoking.

In my opinion, Treaty's Law is the best Day of Honor book. As a matter of fact Treaty's Law is my favorite Day of Honor book. I admit I was disapoointed by the other three books.

I also liked reading the Day of Honor book for kids entitled Honor Bound (DS9's young adult).

This is quick read, but well worth it. On occasion the editor lacks detail, but the content is very useful for anyone seeking a greater grasp of life as an Oglalas Sioux.

The story of the rediscovery of The Autobiography Of Red Cloud is told in the introduction. Though much edited, the narrative derives from talks between Red Cloud and Samuel Deon, an old trader friend, recounted to Charles Allen, contemporary postmaster at Pine Ridge. The Autobiography Of Red Cloud spans the life experiences of Red Cloud up to 1865-66, the time when the Oglala chose the war path against whites. Written in the third person and otherwise heavily edited, The Autobiography Of Red Cloud tells much of Oglala life and war practices prior to 1865. These reminiscences detail Red Cloud's experience in war with his Tribe's traditional enemies - Shoshones, Pawnees, Arikaras, Arapaho, and Crow. A vivid picture of Lakota plains life at the height of glory days emerges. The high regard for honorable battle with a worthy adversary, the daily and seasonal patterns and activities of the tribe and many daring exploits establish the foundation for Red Cloud's well deserved reputation as war leader. A picture of a shrewd, astute man with uncanny timing emerges. Also delineated like a war bonnet is the habit of command, not always easily held among the Lakota. Another of Red Cloud's demonstrated skills is the ability to analyze a natural setting and then use it to tactical advantage, as well as to predict the plans and moves of his enemy. The sometimes close relationship between enemy tribes is richly described or inferred. To read The Autobiography Of Red Cloud is to have some experience of that 200 plus year old life of the Plains Indians - hunting buffalo, riding and stealing horses, following the game in season, etc. that so briefly held full flower before white settlement took over. In the aftermath even today, it will be a valuable mirror to the world of the culture, the nation, and the man.

Nancy Lorraine Reviewer

The Euro is an interesting example of an important kind of project, which can be termed a 'mass update project.' The Euro, like the Year 2000, requires updates to thousands of applications at the same time. Patrick O'Beirne's new book is of great interest to the software and project management communities. It discusses many aspects of the Euro, and covers both the business and technical implications. U.S. managers and executives will find the book very useful as a primer on the Euro itself, and as a guide to how to handle mass update projects.

Patrick O'Briene's book fills a critical need at a critical time. If you think Y2K was difficult, the IT side of the euro is far more complicated, intertwined as it is with all the essential parts of a business - from accounts to marketing and sales. Yet there are a great many business opportunities from euro conversion as well as many, many traps into which the unwary can fall. Read Patrick's book if you want gain some real insights into this change and save yourself a lot of time 're-inventing' your own wheel.

Replacing European currencies with the euro has been a political decision, but euroland businesses now face their own decision-making process to ensure pricing, accounting and information systems are euro-compliant by 2002. Patrick O'Beirne's encyclopaedic new book raises the questions businesses need to ask themselves and offers solutions in terms of practical business strategies. Not only is this an essential guide for the information systems specialist introducing company-wide data, and the

accountant tackling problems of conversion, it will help other businesses disciplines recognise the impact euro conversion will have on their activities too.

The River is Mine: A refreshing splash of foolhardy pioneer derring-do. Based on the diary of one member of the party, we join the band of suicical explorers plunging blindly down uncharted waters with high hopes of succeeding either in making the headlines of history or the obits.

Ardian Gill's The River Is Mine is a superbly crafted novel of John Wesley Powell's 1869 exploration of the Green and Colorado rivers and the Grand Canyon. Vibrantly and vividly told, embracing both the expedition's hardships and the majesty of the Grand Canyon itself, The River Is Mine is a highly recommended, powerful presented, and emotionally involving fictionalization which is accurately based on a genuine historical episode of 19th Century American exploration.

I marvel at the language I find in this narrative. It seems to move with the river and follow its powerful flow through a land that is both marvelous and frightening. Perhaps this clear, fluent language is the result of Mr. Gill's years of examining things through a camera lense and bringing images to light in darkrooms. Mr. Gill is obviously armed with the perfect vocabulary to write this book of men's actions on the big brown god full of dragons and sacred places where light and word converge to produce a beautiful narrative.

This book is first and foremost about color. Wesley Ferrell is a black man passing for white in New Orleans during the depression. I soon found myself wanting to protect his secret with him and getting nervous at various things that happened in the book

Wesley Ferrell is what I would term an antihero. He walks a fine line between being a criminal and a law-abiding citizen. He owns a couple of bars and a bordello, carries a gun and aswitchblade, and doesn't mind using them when the occasion calls for it. When a dirty cop is murdered, a mobster tells Ferrell he knows his secret and will reveal it to everybody if Ferrell doesn't find out who killed the cop. Of course Ferrell has no choice but to get involved.

I have a feeling we get to know Ferrell a lot better in the next book of the series.I had a tough time deciding how I felt about him in this book because there wasn't a lot of characterization except for his fear of being found out. His secret had made a loner out of him who trusted noone. It shaped his whole life and how he saw the world. One thing this book did for me was to reaffirm my belief of how stupid people have always been about color.

I had to laugh at one part where he is talking to a policeman and says, "You ain't got nothing on me, copper." I immediately pictured James Cagney playing the heavy. I'm looking forward to reading the sequel.

good imaging of New Orleans in the 30's. The plot gets somewhat similar to a soap opera but is still a classic and solid whodunnit

I've always wanted to visit New Orleans. Almost made it to a writers conference there a couple of years ago, but missed out at the last minute. Now I feel as if I've made up for that. (Though I still want to go in person.) New Orleans is a character in this novel. Both place and period are quickly established in the first paragraphs.--"The heavy downpour ended as suddenly as it had begun, leaving behind deep quiet and a multitude of glistening puddles. The newly born silence was quickly broken by the low-pitched growl of a long, dark Packard sedan that turned the corner at Washington Ave. and then headed north on Magazine Street. "The driver was feeling good. he'd just dropped seventy five dollars on FRench champagne and a blond whore who looked like Jean Harlow." Don't you just want to settle in and read on? The main character/sleuth is introduced in just as visual a way. "It was early afternoon as Wesley Farrell sat in his office upstairs from the nightclub he owned on Basin Street, flipping playing cards into an overturned hat on the floor......" We then hear about "the little wood-cabinet radio on his desk that softly played a number by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five Combo." Oh, I do like a writer who shows me where the character is and what he or she is doing! My inquiring mind abhors a vacuum. I like Wesley Farrell. He can hold his own in a fight, especially if he has the cold steel of his Solingen razor readily to hand, but he also thinks about things. He's passing for white at a time when it really mattered, but he's feeling increasingly uncomfortable about doing so. He is drawn into sleuthing when his great aunt Willi Mae Gautier insists he should find out what his young cousin Marcel Aristide is doing. She wants Wesley to stop Marcel before he gets in over his head. Wesley soon finds out it's a little late to be trying to save Marcel when Marcel is determined to dig himself in deeper, but he works at it and also takes on an investigation into the death of Chance Tartaglia--who'd got himself shot soon after he enjoyed that blond whore who looked like Jean Harlow. (I don't think that's a spoiler, it's right at the start.) It's not Wesley's idea to investigate, he's persuaded into it by a man named Ganns, who is not at all a nice man. Ganns has discovered Wesley Farrell's secret and threatens to expose it. The investigation takes Wesley into a lot of very interesting places, where he meets up with some very interesting, and often unpleasant people. He's a great character. He has a sort of love life, which isn't going too well in this story. Robert Skinner is a good writer and he brings his characters to life, even while he's killing them off! There are a lot of surprises in this book, and much satisfaction at the end. I liked it a lot. The next Wesley Farrell book is just out. I'm sure it will be just as intriguing. Respectfully submitted Margaret (Meg)Chittenden author of the Charlie Plato mystery series