As a member of the 578th Engr(C) Bn of the 40th Div from the time it was activated thru Korea It brought back a lot of memories . The author is to be congratulated on his accurate story of the National Guard units in the "Forgotten War" It makes one that much more prouder to have served in a Guard outfit......

As a former member of the 45th Division I found this book an excellent source of information about our Division. It gives a history of the 40th and 45th reactivation by Congress and a chronicle of events from that point to all that transpired in Korea.

It is a hard cover book, consisting of 300 pages, 28 illustrations and 9 maps that brings back long lost memories of what happened to me some 48 years ago...

For anyone who was a member of a National Guard outfit during these years, it is well worth reading.

The National Guard, for the whole of the twentieth century, has been a vital component of American military efforts in times of crisis. This is nowhere better illustrated than in the Korean War, where individuals and units were rushed in to plug holes in Allied lines from the start, often with little notice and sometimes woefully untrained and under-equipped. Their presence may well have been the decisive element in preventing total Red success.
Their story, from truck drivers to infantrymen, is thoroughly researched and well told here with oral histories, good maps, useful appendices, and a generous index.. The only flaw noted is the oddly popular error misnaming the National Guard facility as "Fort Robinson, Arkansas". It was, and remains, Camp Robinson. This does not detract seriously from this highly valuable work, which fills a gap in the history of the Korean War and the essential role of the citizen-soldier.

(The "score" rating is an ineradicable feature of the page. This reviewer does not "score" books.)

I love this book, it's so adorable and beautiful, Susan Herbert is a great artist, I admire her a lot. You see wonderful pictures of cats playing roles of some of Shakespeare plays. It's a great book for kids and also for adult too.:) If you love cats your going to love this book.

This is the most adorable book I have ever seen! The pictures of the cats in the different Shakespearean plays are so well drawn and the colors are wonderful. I use this book when teaching students about Shakespeare because it seems to help when they can see verses in pictures and the fact that it is cats playing the parts makes it even more enjoyable!

Schoenfeldt masterfully combines a sophisticated literary analysis with the cultural prevalence of humoral medicine to provide real insight into the ways that people experienced and expressed their identities in early modern England. His book is well written, well considered, and should be well received. Hooray!

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I love the "World of Art" series. It is definitely published with the artist and art student in mind. You get a lot of art at an affordable price. Most art books in this price range are thin volumes of washed-out color and dismal black and white, with a sprinkling of superficial text. Their subject is usually limited to the handful of artists that are wildly popular with the public, such as the impressionists. Not this series!

"A Concise History of Modern Painting" is especially well-packed, with 500 illustrations, 118 of them in excellent color. Pages are semi-slick so the art reproduces well. The plates are very well planned. Thumbing through the book, you get the feeling of color, color, color! Black-and-white plates are reserved for drawings (graphite, ink, charcoal), prints, and a few sculptures. All of these are well-suited to reproduction in black and white (although there is also a 43-page appendix, "a pictorial survey of modern painting", featuring 6-8 black-and-white illustrations per page). "A Concise History of Modern Painting" discusses artists who work within styles the author describes as specifically modern (as distinguished from earlier periods). It focuses on ideas, works and movements. All illustrations are chosen within that context. (Realistic artists are not represented.)

The book includes text references, a bibliography, a list of works reproduced, and an index. It's a 6"x8" paperback edition, about an inch thick--a good size for packing. The binding is glued, not sewn, but it seems durable, and I think it will last. I carry mine on trips, though I haven't had it long enough to see how well it wears. I discovered the "World of Art" series while travelling and bought several titles. They're the best art books at this price I've ever found.

John Keats (5934-0, $19.95) adds to the research guides in the 'Major Poets' series, blending a biography with extracts of major critical essays examining the poet's works. New to the Major Short Story Writers series ($19.95 each) is D. H. Lawrence (5947-2) and Henry James (5943-X), which use similar approaches to examine the major themes and ideas of each writer. All are recommended as basic library acquisitions.

This book was my guide during my study at College for International Management. It gives an excellent overview of how to write correct english papers (letters, memo's, reports etc.), it is a must for anyone who is serious about business writing.

It is difficult to know how "generosity" might better be investigated as a critical bellwether than by this most generous of thinkers, William Flesch, whose expansive intellect readily welcomes disparate poetical figures to a "fire-warm'd lodge" of his own making. Occupying a paradigmatic position vis-a-vis hedonism, Flesch challenges the privileged space of Western intellectual practice in denying the figure of the sucking vortex the power of his critical imprimatur. My friend recommended this book to me, and although I was skeptical, since, being a "science" man, I don't read much literary criticism, I thought *The Heart of Generosity* was really readable. The power of Flesch's overwhelming images and amazing insights into a wide variety of interesting topics mesmerized me, as it did my friends and colleagues at work.

Here's a little something about Guilty of Everything, the autobiography of the legendary Herbert E. Huncke ... . The full manuscript of Guilty of Everthing kicked about for 2 decades. It was once known as his "confessions." Raymond Foye of Hanuman Books published this first installment of Guilty in 1987 with the assistance of co-publisher Francesco Clemente in a small run, a now scarce edition. In 1988 Huncke met young Paragon House editor Don Kennison in New York City who took on the manuscript and into it breathed new life, preparing and shaping it with Mr. Huncke into the 1990 publication by Paragon. This event secured Herbert Huncke's place in the Beat bibliography and brought him steady fame in the last years of his life. Although this remarkable book had a brief success and two hardcover printings, it never made paperback and is now out-of-print. There are slight text variations from the excerpt done by Hanuman, so both editions are absolutely essential for both collector and reader.

There are few authors I feel everyone should read but no matter who you are Herbert Huncke should be read. He is one of the best storytellers/writers I have had the privilege of reading. His stories of sex, streets, drugs, life and friends bring a humanity to what may be considered by many obscure, degenerate, or just plain disgusting, but Huncke's stories I believe are non of these. They are filled with love, beauty, pain and always truth. He takes the reader into a world they don't always want to enter but when the story is finished we are glad we made the journey and had someone like Huncke by our side as a companion.

Herbert Huncke was the true beat. As WS Burroughs wrote, in The Herbert Huncke Reader, "Huncke had adventures and misadventures that were not available to middle-class, comparatively wealthy college people like...me....Huncke had extraordinary experiences that were quite genuine." The sad true is that Huncke was the type that Burroughs wrote about, but didn't like much. He was real. Burroughs was living on trust-fund money for decades (remember that the $200 a month WSB received from family in the 1950s was equal to thousands of dollars a month now-not a bad way to live). Huncke lived the life that others wrote about, but never live. While Burroughs ate steak and drank fine booze, Huncke was still wandering around Times Square. Read the original beat. He makes the other 'beat' writers seem like the middle-class dilatants that many of them were. Huncke never fought for the fame, the fortune, and the boys. He was just a "junkie on the prow." This book is truly hip.

Previously known for using the word "beat" to the fullest, thus inspiring Kerouac for an appropriation of a very hip literary movement, there was more to Huncke than just a "jive" talker. As we know, Huncke was a full time junky (what a rhyme!) who had more of an affect on Burroughs than any other beat writer. Likewise, Huncke spent most of his life helping out on the Burroughs' cannabis farm and taking care of Bill's wife Joan who harnessed a difficult benny habit. In Huncke's early years, growing up in Massachusetts and NYC, he used to entertain the boys at local cafeterias with his succinct yet street jargon-fulled stories; clearly he had a talent for story telling. This story-telling is pretty much what makes up the Herbert Huncke Reader. Starting with Huncke's journal, Herbert gets his feet wet with short-story writing, particularly focusing on introspective work-outs and clever anecdotes. Then the books moves to The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, another introspective composition altho mainly concentrating on structural pieces depicting street life, hanging with the beats, and drugs. Next to Reader introduces Guilty of Everything, a comprehensive series of interviews plus outtakes from other journals. Finally the book closes with Previously Uncollected Material, the chapter says it all. Sometimes moving other times raw and scatological, Huncke writes with a unique style that is easy to comprehend and is inspiring. Although not as transcendent as his contempoaries (Burroughs, Ginsberg, Corso), Huncke's writing should not overlooked as "writings of a drug addict," or "a subordinate Beatnik." Huncke did have talent (most notably with recitations) and has definitely worked to the fullest by publishing what he could, despite his painful heroin addiction and ostracization. In my opinion he's a second Neal Cassady (more of a inspiring icon) and definitely had a major affect on the foremost Beat's writings despite his own sparse collection; that's why I think this Reader is important.