Whoever wrote the rave review must have been a good, faithful friend

I found this book a must have on my china painting bookshelf. It has a load of technical instructions to compliment the veriety of methods used from standard, relief, lustres, glass and others mixed with to create different finishes. This book is for creative painters ready to explore some of the possibilities introduced bu it.

The goal of a comprehensive history of the air war in China was certainly laudable. At an anecdotal level, it is quite engaging, and as noted in a prior review, could serve well as a source for valuable selected fragments for a more serious, more even, historical effort.

For me, the book failed as a history largely because too much information is taken at face value (e.g. American Kill claims) and insufficient verification (I submit that any serious attempt at documenting the events of WW2 cannot ignore a thorough examination of relevent survivng records of ALL parties). Typical of this is the perpetuation of the Zero vs the AVG myth.

What I found most troubling, however, was author indulging in somewhat jingoistic remarks concerning the Japanese and their capabilities. One such example was the description of an incident wherein a P-40 was rammed by a "Zero", after which the author gratuitously remarked that that was "the only sure way a Zero could knock down a Curtiss fighter." (Having recently had the pleasure to briefly discuss the P-40 with Tex Hill, I'm sure he'd disagree). While forgivable in a contemporary account, such editorializing really detracts from the overall work - particularly a half-century later. If you are looking for a work on the CBI airwar against Japan equal to the standard set by such US/Japan airwar authors as John Lundstrom, you will be most disappointed. Not Recommended.

This is a very odd book, apparently the result of a collaboration between a military history buff and a ghost writer. I wouldn't recommend it at all, except that there are some good interviews with Flying Tiger vets including Tex Hill. (I used some excerpts in my own history of the Flying Tigers.) Typical of the early confusion about Japanese aircraft, there's a photo of Hill with a "Zero" fighter--which is very definitely a Nakajima Ki-43, called "Oscar" by Allied pilots.

This book is best at providing numbers and addresses for the various companies that do mods. Because the book is a bit old some of the data is not helpful.Many of the chapters are just reprinted articles from magazines.

getting the best out of yourths demand that the adult refrain from cutting them short. close up remphasises and I support that youngsters need guidance and thgey deserve it

I ordered the book after all the research. Editorial notes had misleading information about audio cassettes included. No cassettes are included. What is the point of buying this book without audio. It is meaningless.

This isn't a cookbook; this is the author's attempt to preach Rosicrucian mysticism to her readers, for the recipes are at best a peripheral concern. One nagging, recurrent theme throughout Wanda Sue Parrott's book is her belief that the indulgence of one's intuition is superior to the development of one's intellect; more irritating than that, however, are her frequent, hypocritical entreaties that the reader, in her eyes a prospective "kitchen magician", be a "teacher" and not a "preacher", when it's quite obvious that the reader's "conversion" is the author's single-minded goal. If you're interested in nineteenth-century American cuisine, this is not the book for you.