The doctor's plot would make an interesting 30 page chapter in a larger book on Stalin's life, but there's just not enough material of interest for it to sustain a 300+ page book. There is quite a bit of repetition and tedious exploration of obscure documents and characters. The author demonstrates that the book is well researched, but in this case that does not translate into a well crafted story.

This book will change the way that anyone thinks about the doctors plot. It has new evidence to the poisoning of Stalin (probably by Beria) and also opens up documents lost in KGB archives since the death of Stalin. It is very well written and is worth the making of a movie for because of all the newly unveiled plot sequences. For example- General Vlasik was questioned by KGB because they thought all the people with lines next to their names in his address book were spies. It turns out that he changed all of his many lovers names to their masculine form (which is very easy in Russian) so that his wife wouldn't know and he put lines next to their names so that he'd know which ones they were. Come on people that's great! But that's far from the best here. This has all of the correspondense between Timashuk and KGB higher-upers, all the interrogation files of the Jewish doctors, everything you could possibly want to know about the Doctor's Plot and don't get any of the other books on it. Trust me, they're all lies. This is the real deal.

This is a disturbing book that should not be read by pregnant women or anyone with a soft heart or weak stomach. The author explores the sick mentalities and daily realities behind the NAZI atrocities of WWII.

For intance, just paging through, I came across a scene where two men are driving a vanload of Jewish people, who are slowly being asphyxiated. The men chitchat and drive, occasionally daring to check the progress of their work through window behind them. They have to drive for a period of time so that the carbon monoxide fills the van slowly, so that the people go to sleep before they die. If the people are asphyxiated rapidly, they tend to die in grotesque poses that disturb the soldiers who must unload the van afterwards.

Grisly, isn't? Perhaps this sort of story should be forgotten, not retold and refreshed for another generation of readers. This book is upsetting and you should consider wisely before opening it.

Also, it helps to be acquainted with the German language. The seven stories contained in this volume are in English, but are peppered with German names and phrases throughout.

This Book, while covering a lot of ground only touches on each subject. The writing style is very terse, and generally left me more confused about a subject than before I began. In short, I found the delphi manuals more helpful

I have 10 books on Delphi, this is by far the worst. Nothing else even comes close. This book has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. I've had it for a year and have yet to find anything useful in it. This was my first Delphi book and I got roped in by all the pretty screen snapshots. Yes, it has a pretty face, but nothing of any substance whatsoever.

This book is without any depth at all. Pick any topic and it just summarizes what's in the Borland manuals. And it doesn't do a good job at that either.

The cover has a title saying it's "The Most Complete Reference". I think that must have been a typo. It should have read "The Most InComplete Reference". It also has "Special Edition" on the cover in large italic letters. Lordie! I wonder what the standard edition must have been like.

It has very very few code examples for you to learn Delphi programming. It goes on chapter after chapter showing you the various windows in the Delphi IDE and a brief summary of what it does.

The appendix has 167 pages of useless tables that the average person would never use. I suspect they added this in order to make the book look larger than what it really is. You could read this book from cover to cover and I doubt you could learn to program a single thing in Delphi. The only redeeming feature of this book is the CD-Rom which makes for a good coaster for your coffee mug.

This book will suck an incredible $49.99 (USD) out of your pocket. If you see this book lying on the floor in a book store, don't pick it up. To borrow a line from Monty Python, "Run away! Run away! Run away!"

I haven't used this book much so I can't speak for it's overall quality. I would like to point out a significant error in the text which calls that quality into question. On page 363 it is stated that "A custom suppied constructor does not allocate memory" which is false. It also goes on to give an example which uses a constructor just for initializing an already existing object. An ordinary procedure would sufficed for this. In other words the author missed the point of the constructor keyword: it allows for custom methods which both create and initialize objects.