It was a good book, though boring at times.

Overall, this book was very good if true. And if so, this country was in deep trouble. I found it difficult to accept because of the lack of support of accusations. Neither side (F.B.I. and Summers)was able to support thier statements in the text.

The quality of the speakers in this collection varied. Some, like those by Fred Friendly and Tom Brokaw, were interesting and thought-provoking but the decline in talent from lecture to lecture was obvious - the last one was by conservative ideologue and media mogul Rupert Murdoch, defending sleeze (sp?) on TV. The editors also did a poor job - all they had to do was transcribe some speeches. The fact that they wound up with spelling and grammatical errors just goes to show how quickly this work was thrown together. My advice - read the offerings by Wicker, Chancellor, Friendly and Brokaw and skip the rest.

Here's a little excerpt from the book talking about communion:
"When the priest announces the tremendous words of consecration, he reaches up into the heavens, brings Christ down from His throne, and places Him upon our altar to be offered up again as the Victim for the sins of man. It is a power greater than that of Seraphim and Cherubim. The priest brings Christ down from heaven, and renders Him presenton our altar as the eternal Victim for the sins of man, not once but a thousand times! The priest speaks and lo! Christ, the eternal and omnipotent God, bows His head in humble obedience to the priest's command."
I ask you, "Who is more powerful, a priest or God?" Don't buy this book. Instead go here: ... and buy Preparing Catholics for Eternity. This book will change your life.

This book is an easy to understand explanation of the Roman Catholic Faith. Active Catholics as well as those looking to learn about the faith will find this book helpful and informative.

This is a good book for someone who wants to get an idea about philosophy in general - the only drawback is that its very boring, I had a hard time to get to page 400 (i know there's more), if you'r the kind of person that can read boring stuff and go on with it, then this one is for you.

This book has many beautiful pictures and reads easily. In history making, everyone selects what he finds most important or interesting. In my opinion, this book is written with an overall idealist bias (which I disagree with, I am theist), and a leftist perspective in the section on politics. I was in particular disappointed but the very short treatment of Aquinas, whose philosophy is "beyond the scope of this book." I wish Copleston had written a shorter history next to his monumental work, so that it would compete with this present book.

Boy was MI5 asleep at the wheel. It is really something that this level of KGB penetration could take place, especially in a government that was so focused on the issue of stopping the spread of communism. This book details the Blunt, Burgess, Philby, Maclean and Cairncross USSR spy ring inside the British intelligence services. This books main theme is trying to increase the roll one of the 5 spy's from one that has been traditionally thought of as a lower level pawn to one of the leader of the whole enterprise. The book basically unfolds as a biography of Blunt, instead of an overall review of the full ring. Blunt being the subject of the book, the author goes out of his way to increase his involvement in the spy ring thus increase the readers interested in the book. He does a good job here, both with the detailed history and the way Blunt interacted with the others in the spy ring. I just did not believe this book that fly's in the face of all the other literature on the topic. I was a little put off by all the detail of Blunt's best know personality trait, homosexuality

Regarding the telling of the story the author does a good job. The book was a bit jumpy, not the best construction of a story. It also tended to drag at times; the author did not have the skill to present a laundry list of facts in an interesting way. The author did do a very good job in documenting his sources. I have read a few books on this topic and this one would probably not be my first choice, I suggest Spy Catcher. This is a good book if you are deeply interested in the topic.

John Costello's premise in this book is that Anthony Blunt's role in the Soviet Cambridge spy ring was not a minor one but that Blunt was, in fact, the first man of the ring, the lead recruiter of the others including Burgess, Philby, Maclean and Cairncross. I found his theory plausible, yet not perfect, upon my first read of this book. However, Costello's premise is simply wrong, as the author himself admits in a footnote in his subsequent book Deadly Illusions, co-authored with Russian Intelligence Service press officer Oleg Tsarev in 1993. Deadly Illusions was based upon the post-cold war disclosures of the former KGB's files, particularly that of "defector" Alexander Orlov and those KGB files reveal that Philby, in fact, was the principal recruiter of the others in the ring.

Mask of Treachery serves several roles, as a biography of Blunt, as a history of Cambridge and the English upper classes in the 1930's and 1940's, and as a history of Soviet espionage in Britain. Setting aside the book's primary fault, it does provide a thorough biographical and historical view of Blunt and his surroundings. Costello clearly did very thorough research into the background of Blunt and the others at issue and does present a number of facts and anecdotes about the Cambridge Five that do not appear elsewhere in the numerous other sources on this topic. Additionally, Costello has taken very painstaking steps to provide the sources for his information, footnoting frequently throughout the work; Costello's concern for academic-level historical accuracy is in sharp contrast with that of the cursory, more sensationalistic and conclusory writings on this subject by British journalists such as Knightly, West, and Pincher.

Costello does make one interesting suggestion: that Guy Liddell, a senior officer in MI-5, might have been the elusive top level mole sought after by Peter Wright and Arthur Martin for so many years. There is some degree of plausibility to this theory - Liddell spent so much time socializing with Blunt and Burgess during years in which he was emotionally unstable that he could well have been a prime target for recruitment. Liddell also had access to some of the information that was allegedly leaked to the Soviets, although he probably retired too early from MI5 to fit all of the the major "serials" listed by Wright in his Spycatcher. Many of those in MI5 who knew Liddell vehemently denied any suggestions that he could have spied against Britain, but not much of substance has ever surfaced to support those statements of loyalty. If it were possible to obtain such information (perhaps in a decade or two from the old, as-yet unreleased KGB files) it would be curious to learn if there was another mole in MI5.

Ultimately, though, Costello falls into the same bad habit as his journalistic competitors in this field of espionage history: he develops an hypothesis, supports it with some facts, and thereafter treats his theory as the gospel, proven truth. Other specific criticisms of this book are that Costello spends too much time and too many pages describing the aesthetic influences on Blunt from his public school and his days at Cambridge, and spends a bit too much time on describing Blunt's homosexuality, which tend to drag on rather than provide useful, interesting information. Additionally, Costello's organization of this book is not the best, as he tends to change topics without a logical, relevant segui between them.

All in all, this is a mildly important work for serious historians of Soviet espionage in Britain, but readers must keep in mind that Costello simply made a serious overestimation as to Blunt's importance in the Cambridge ring.

Overall, it is easy book to read but you could really tell that each chapter was written by a different person. Some chapters are good but others are really poor. The end of the chapter tests were way too easy compared to the actual test. It has an incredible number of mistakes and typos especially in the calculation of subnet masking. I went round in circles and wasted so much time trying to figure out why I could never get a question correct. I think this book has a second edition that I hope is better. Avoid this book and you will be a much happier person.

OK! I know there are a lot of mistakes...especially for the beginner like me...I am really confused by this book because of its unnecessary mistakes...but, I really like the chapter 2...it's very easy to understand the ARP...IP or ICMP..However, I got confused on the chapter 5 with the wrong route table...Man, I hope it would be better when it come to the second edition!

I am using this book to upgrade my TCP/IP 3.5 to TCP/IP 4.0. I am already a CNE, NCIP, and MCSE. I'm working towards my MCSE+I. This book is a first print (or close to) of a TECHNICAL book. It will have errors! On New Riders' web site, they have a page with corrections which you can print out. I used these corrections as I went through the book. The CONTENT of this book is great and on target. I give four stars because I know from my past education, experience and my knowledge of what is expected on the exam that is book is key! Minus one star for the errors which DON'T affect the content due to the corrections page, but hopefully will be gone in the next print. MCP Magazine also did ratings on the best TCP/IP study book and THIS BOOK WON!