Customer Review: I first read this book when I was about eleven, over thirty years later I bought it again, and the story was just as amazing to me as an adult as it was when I was a child. Jan's story has to be read to believed.
Customer Review: The story itself is interesting and exciting, and I enjoyed the accompanying insights into life and travel in the arctic. The author narrates well, but almost manages to spoil it with an intolerably smug, condescending attitude towards the "eskimos", which he probably mistakes for a kind of colonial... more info
Customer Review: This is about the British effort to provide boats to move people between England (from the Shetland Isles) to Norway and back. Primarily agents, guns, and supplies to Norway and agents at risk back out. The author writes well and he does a good job of telling the stories of what the Norwegians... more info
Customer Review: "Waterloo: A Near Run Thing" by David Howarth.
Phoenix Paperback, London, Orion Books Ltd, 1968 and paperback in 2003. In a large chain bookstore, I noticed this paperback in the "History" section near the World War II offerings; the book made me recall my European History professor who... more info
Customer Review: So many books about famous battles are written about the strategies used. They are very high level, like "this general moved his armies here and this general moved his armies there". David Howarth tells this story from the perspective of the men who actually fought the battles, which makes the... more info
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