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01-26-2006, 04:09 PM
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Simple what book are you reading right now?
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01-26-2006, 04:22 PM
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#2 | | Your ad here. ;)
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Country:  | Knights of Bushido: A Short History Of Japanese War Crimes
by Lord Russell of Liverpool
I am about 1/4 of the way through it. Quite a good book.
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01-26-2006, 04:27 PM
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01-26-2006, 04:32 PM
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#4 | | Your ad here. ;)
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Country: | I will say though that there are parts that are difficult to read. The horrors inflicted on the Chinese and the allied POWs were pure evil. It has increased my appreciation for the guys that fought in the Pacific, all of the allies. But while the POWs were mistreated on a horrendous scale, the Coolies that were essentially slaves faired even worse.
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01-26-2006, 04:39 PM
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Country:  | Unfortunately, I'm reading Molecular Cell Biology by Lodish et al for my exam tomorrow
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01-26-2006, 04:40 PM
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#6 | | Your ad here. ;)
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Country: | Sorry, MM, but I thnk my book might be a bit more interesting. 
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01-26-2006, 04:44 PM
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#7 | | the old Sage
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Country: | Nachtjäger volume 2 by D. Wiiliams, still going through his mistakes. JG 300 volume 1 still only about 3/4rs of the way through.
working on one of my own books and typing out letters to veterans
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01-26-2006, 04:46 PM
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Country: | I bet Evan that it is grim, I read a few years ago a great book on German war crimes. It was deeply disturbing and I mean deeply and I am very used to war crimes, etc. This book made me really wonder how could one human do such a thing to another human. I am sure your book is very much the same. Very sad that anyone had to suffer like that. War is war, torture is totally different and evil. You read books like this and you learn what real evil is, evil is just a word to most people and they don't understand what it really means until you read what some of these people did to other fellow human beings.
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01-26-2006, 05:12 PM
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Country: | Flyboys by James Bradley, concerning the murder and execution of several American Naval Aviators on Chichi Jima....
Finished up the JG 300 Vol I book last weekend.... Sooo much information in that book.... Cant wait for the translated Vol II to come out....
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01-26-2006, 05:25 PM
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Country:  | Just finished "Spitfires Over Darwin" excellent book about the Spitfire involvement in the air war over Northern Australia in 1943.
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01-26-2006, 05:29 PM
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Country: | side note just released in England is Scale Aircraft Modelling with Neil Pages Dora 9 article: many pics and good text........
enjoy I am when it comes to the States
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01-26-2006, 06:26 PM
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01-26-2006, 06:49 PM
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| Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-1945, by Max Hastings
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01-26-2006, 07:24 PM
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01-27-2006, 05:13 AM
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#15 | | Your ad here. ;)
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Originally Posted by lesofprimus Flyboys by James Bradley, concerning the murder and execution of several American Naval Aviators on Chichi Jima....
Finished up the JG 300 Vol I book last weekend.... Sooo much information in that book.... Cant wait for the translated Vol II to come out.... | That's a good one. I read that one a couple of years ago. Unbelievable what those poor aviators went through.
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