Triumph Reviews

This is one of several "Green Books" that gave me specific information on my father's activities in WW II. The book provides the authoritative source for the specific actions that took place in the Phillipines.

Each of the "Green Books" that cover areas my father was at are now part my "Heirloom Library" on his military history, that I plan to pass on to my son and granchild.

If you are a serviceman from the Philippines action, you should have this book as a tribute to yourself. Your family and friends should have and read this to understand why my generation, and laters, owe so much to you.

This book is particularly pertinent to my "Heirloom Library" since my grandson is half Filipino.

not just another feeble attempt at a restoration guide. this book is the definitive work. provided tremendous assistance to me in my mechanical strugles with a basket case bonneville restoration. still have to get your hands greasy!

This is an excellent book. It is well written, thorough, and well illustrated. Definitely worth the price to anyone interested in Triumph motorcyles or motorcycles in general. The author takes you on a historical tour of Triumph motorcycles from day one and brings you up to date (1997-publish date). There is a focus on the new generation Triumphs that are being built at John Bloor's Hinkley factory. You are given a 'virtual' tour of this factory and is processes, even introduced to special people that work there. You soon become aware that something very special is going on at this factory in England. And if you happen to own one of these new Triumphs, like myself, this book just re-enforces what you already know -- The Empire is Striking Back -- from Hinkley !

In her fourth collection of poetry the readers are once again consistently rewarded with elegant,deep and distinctive poems.The thin collection(26 short poems) is painlessly read but rather deeply felt. Another powerful output I can satisfyingly reread.

Dr. Menefee-Libey has clearly done his homework! His is an insightful and surprising look at the contemporary political scene. Anyone wanting to know why we get the leaders we do will be helped by a careful reading of this book. This is a must-read! I would encourage Dr. Menefee-Libey to begin immediately on a second book taking a close look at how the Reform Party is re-shaping campaigning.

"The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism" is an excellent reappraisal of urban politics in the early part of the 20th century. Connolly provides an exhaustive analysis of voting patterns - sometimes on a block by block basis - throughout the city of Boston. Connolly's approach (as well as research) dramatically moves forward our knowledge of precinct behavior, as well as ethnic association with particular issues. What's best about Connolly's book is that he relies less on inference and assumption that many authors who tackle this material do. Connolly's argument is predicated upon empirical evidence, and that alone is a refreshing break from much modern political history. For a better understanding of the period before Connolly's book picks up, one should read both Stephan Thernstrom's "The Other Bostonians" and Oscar Handlin's "Boston's Immigrants." Gerard Gamm's "The Making of New Deal Democrats: Voter Realignment in Boston, 1920-1940" is an fine continuation after the period with which Connolly is concerned.

This book documents the fact that the USA has deliberately killed more unarmed innocent civilians than any other country in history (including more than Nazi Germany). It also shows that the USA capitalist system is less efficient and far more cruel than other systems such as communism (the latter of which is shown to be unjustly vilified by the USA capitalist press), although the book also provides an alternative to both. It is written by someone who has experienced both communist and capitalist systems/repression (and who has a PhD in Finance).

Triumph of Goodwill is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the pivotal 1960 gubernatorial race in North Carolina and the ramifications of that election throughout the South and the rest of the nation. Told in great detail, here is the story of how racial moderate Terry Sanford won the Democratic nomination for governor against a patron of segregation Beverly Lake. The book also details Sanford's controversial decision to become the first Southern politician to endores John Kennedy for the presidency, a decison that was filled with potential peril for Sanford, but one that paid off handsomely for the eventual governor of North Carolina. Mixed into this work are behind the scenes stories of the 1960 campaign in North Carolina that give the reader a peek into how elections used to be conducted and also the beginnings of how they have become to be run in our present day. TV played a large part in the national election in 1960, but television also played an important role in the North Carolina governor's race that year, including what is thought to be the first-time live television broadcast of a candidate's political rallys. Triumph of Good Will is an excellent work, highly readable and highly recommended!

This is a very good book on Zuerich during one of its more turbulent and innovative periods. At this time (summer '98) the German version of this book "Geld und Geist - Zuerich im Zeitalter des Liberalismus" is still widely available.

I have recently read this book. If you are uncomfortable thinking outside the box or are afraid to think politically incorrect thoughts, then my advice is do not read this book. If, however, you are seriously interested in obtaining a much more accurate understanding of Adolf Hitler, what his actual aims were, what he actually said, and the context of both his rise to power and the causes of the second World War in Europe, then this book is an eye opener and definitely worth reading and sharing with others.

The book helps to counter the simplistic official history we all have been taught in school, which basically asserts that Hitler and the Germans were the embodiment of evil and had to be utterly destroyed to save the world. We are told of numerous German atrocities and outrages (many of which have been debunked) and never hear of the terrible crimes before, during, and after the war of the Communists. This official history is an attempt to justify Britain and America choosing to ally with Stalin's Soviet Union. Unfortunately for the world, they clearly sided with the greater of the two evils.

No one can persuasively argue that the world was better off with the outcome in Europe in 1945. Read this book and decide for yourself if what you have been taught is the whole truth. And, yes, it is timely because we are being fed more propaganda and misinformation to justify current wars to "save civilization".