This was the first book on Java that I bought and it provided a reasonable introduction to the language. There were lots of details about Java that it did not cover and I did not find it well organised for reference, so it was not long before I found myself buying other books on Java to make up for these problems. Still, as an introduction it is quite approachable and it certainly communicates the authors' enthusiasm for the topic

It says "Hooked on Java", you will be. It's subtitled "Creating Hot Web Sites With Java Applets", with this book in hand, you can. This is one of those books that you keep on the desk while you are building your pages. Even though it is written by Java experts, the basics are never overlooked. A fair amount of sample code and example HTML pages are incorporated in the book, with lots more available on the included CD.

This book fits its short description on the cover perfectly. "Creating Hot Web Sites with Java Applets." It describes the process, and the ideas behind Java, and also the integration of Java into web pages. In short, the book fit its purpose perfectly. I was disapointed in the description of Java programming at the end of the book, and when I had mastered the integration of Java into my web pages, I was still longing for more.

This is billed as the history of Moeller Van Den Bruck, the man who's book "The Third Reich", inspired Hitler.

While this book had some potential it falls down on the lack of basic material. Stan Lauryssens reveals in the last pages that all of Moeller Van Den Bruck's papers were destroyed at the end of WWII. This explains the structure of the rest of the book - a brief guide to the world in which van den Bruck lived and died. The result is that you only get brief glimpses of the man who was supposed to be the centre of this book.

It's also my opinion that Lauryssens also takes Otto Strasser (the so-called Anti-Hitler Nazi) altogether too much on his word.

Yet for all of this, it is an interesting book to read. For anyone interested in Weimar and what happened to it, it's worth a look.

I am not a book reviewer. I am not a great historian either. But I am a reader, an anybody, "interested" in history rather than a history scholar. I had (and still have) not read the book "The Third Reich" by Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, so I did not know first hand what to expect here.

Bottom line: This book is a study in character. It is not the biography of just one man (AMVB), but two: AH as well. Brilliantly, maybe even unconciously, this work reveals what I believe the difference was beetween AH and the rest of the people of his time, as exemplified by AMVB. The ideas between AMVB and AH did apparently not differ very much, yet the personalities do: human bevavior, "morals", versus absolute wild and barbaric, in-human ruthlessness. AH could kill a lifelong friend without loosing a second of sleep over it, AMVB was plagued by depression (consience?) and killed himself. History (and politics) is all about character, not about philosophies. The story of AMVB puzzles, it is tragic drama of classical a stature. The picturesque and minutely detailed szene descriptions capture the readers imagination, the reader literally lives through early 20th century Berlin and Vienna. Yet, it this, this all to human picturesque in stories about AH that could easily make one forget what a mass murderer he really was. This is the danger of such a book. It tells a story from eyewitness accounts (O Strasser, a black shirt!) and personal (the authors) imagination; it describes the philosophy of the absolut inhuman from a perspective all too human; hence it cannot claim to be objective or entirely truthful. It can only tell a story, like a novel writer does. It is work of fiction in an unfictious world. A puzzling story, yes, but how much of it should we really believe?