Textbook is a good summary of all types of foot and ankle surgery, but it tends to get overly wordy and bogged down with some of the history behind many of the surgical procedures. Book is also heavily politically weighted to make some procedures look very positive and other procedures to look like they should never be performed. Overall, I think it could have been better written, but if you can sift through all the triteness of the text, it is a valuable tool to understanding most of the facets of foot surgery.

There is no other "one book to read" about the subject than this one. Excellent.

Mr. Foot did extensive research before writing the book. Its a good book to read if u want to read the nuclear history and development of the weapons in South Asia. Although the author leans highly toward the Indian case and tries to white wash any and all of their acts, a criitcally aware reader can easily see through it. Recomended to all.

Foot's central subject in Dr Strangelove I presume is India and Pakistan, and the events which led to the 1998 nuclear tests. His key assertion is that the spread of nuclear weapons beyond former USSR to countries like India and Pakistan has its roots in a tragic misjudgment by the US, UK and others at the height of the Cold War, of the true political aims of the non-aligned nations. India may not have kow towed to the US as a regional ally, as Pakistan did, but the neither did she seek the backing of the USSR - and certainly not of her aggressor to the north, communist China. Like the best histories, Dr Strangelove is more than a trip down memory lane - it explains the present. India, as Foot carefully charts, sought to safety in the international rule of law, and attempted - a sort of Sweden of the South - to act as honest broker in a heated international climate where the world bungled its way to the brink of destruction too many times. The US 'logic' which met these activities was, put simply, 'If you are not unquestioningly for us, you must be dead-set against.' A view surely contradicted by the crowds who greeted Eisenhower on his 1958 visit - where he was feted as the leader of the same liberal America which had just defeated fascism. Still, it was an indifferent world which noted the Chinese Invasion of Goa in 1962, and India's diplomatic and military weakness weighed on Prime Minister Nehru's mind to his dying day. International indifference to India's welfare, Foot argues, played its own part in pushing India, and other country's to seek the 'safety' of a nuclear umbrella of its own.

Throughout Dr Strangelove Foot quotes from the worryingly simplistic series of briefs which shaped the post-war world: a case in point is Eisenhower's brief on Kashmir, "The bulk of whose population is Muslim, like Pakistan's. It is controlled by India, a Hindu nation, and heated feelings remain from the bloody skirmishes between Indians and Pakistanis for control." Foot's own contention that, "India could offer better safety and protection for Muslims than Pakistan itself." could form the basis of an entirely separate, not to say controversial, text. Still, Foot clearly knows India, and her post-war leaders well, and like many born into a colonial world, he has a grasp of the tensions and personalities involved which any front-bencher, including the current Foreign Secretary, clearly struggle to match.

As background to the story of the Indian sub-continent, Dr Strangelove deals with a number of subjects. There are over-lengthy attempts to correct the 'misconceptions' surrounding the Labour party and CND's unilateralist thinking of 1983, and Foot's description of his and Denis Healey's trips abroad are made to sound like shuttle diplomacy, with a centrality to historical events, which they clearly did not have. Lengthy quotes from old CND newsletters are, on balance marginally less useful than Foot's insights into regional power politics. He goes on to do better though.

Aside from events on the Indian sub-continent, the direct link Foot makes between the failure of the official nuclear powers to meaningfully promote any kind of disarmament and the proliferation of the weapons world-wide is the most convincing theme of Dr Strangelove. As Foot recalls, in the early `80s, fresh Cruise and Pershing programmes were being commissioned by Nato as the Salt II agreement was being ratified. And he has a point - the original proliferation of the weapons has impacted on our own more complex world. When countries like Belarus have 36 warheads, managing the balance of power becomes a trickier act - a point better recognised in recent James Bond screen plays than by the topically inactive George Robertson.

Where I wanted a clearer steer from Dr Strangelove was on the future prospects of a safer nuclear world, and here Foot is weaker - a little too taken up with the past. Inspection is key to any level of disarmament, and he enthuses over the achievements of the UN inspectors' work in Iraq. The UN Charter and the creaking structures of the UN, as Foot points out, remain the best way forward for a safer world. But otherwise, his sources are a little old. CND, for example, is clearly an inadequate standard bearer in the 1990s, even for Foot's brand of decency. Dr Strangelove is essentially a history, but like all the best histories, is a tool for comprehending the present.

The Foot Soldiers: Volume I is a fairly standard coming-of-age/hero's-quest story, but Krueger makes it work by making the characters multi-dimensional; they all have faults, they're not quite sure what heroism is about, they don't always make smart decisions. One character starts a relationship with one of the enemy that could be redemptive, but could just as easily compromise the heroes - as it does a few times in this story. Krueger also does well by emphasizing the effect of the heroes - the Foot Soldiers - on the other previously-helpless citizens they try to protect; the Soldiers give people hope, but they also change the old order of things, which scares some people.

Each chapter is introduced by a short text piece, and it's actually those text pieces I found most compelling. That's no knock on Mike Oeming's art, which is different from the style Oeming uses these days on books like POWERS -- a little less inspired by current animation, but no less effective, especially on facial expressions. But the text pieces have a certain sense of dread about them, a heaviness of feeling; the narrator seems weighed down by failure and despair in a way that doesn't quite come through in the pages of the main story - it adds a layer of complexity that the comics chapters don't quite have. I hope that in future volumes Krueger works those elements into the story and starts paying off the hints he's dropping here. If he does, and I believe he will, FOOT SOLDIERS will turn out to be a comics saga well worth reading.

This tiny book is an excellent analysis and assessment of Hazlitt's work (arguably the most unfairly negelected of writers -- something like Priestley is nowadays). Priestley oultines to what extent Hazlitt had an impact on his own writing and unfortuneatlely praises him at the expense of the "Angry Young Men" whom he unfairly maligns as being primarily negative in tone. This book is an excellent introduction to an unjustly forgotten genius, but for a better notion of the man's worth, read his essays, and only look at this book AFTER reading Hazlitt himself.