TobakkoNacht - The Story Review

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(More customer reviews)i would like to see this author.s other work available on kindle. thje anti smokers brain.

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On one dark night in 1938, just days after Adolf Hitler consolidated his hold on the German Reichstag, twelve hours of terror descended upon the Jewish population of Berlin and other large German cities. Jewish ghetto districts saw entire blocks of store windows smashed, synagogues burned to the ground, hundreds of Jewish men killed with thousands more arrested for defending their families and properties, and Jewish women and children raped and battered. Hitler's Aryan gangs intended to teach the 'vermin' a lesson they'd never forget. That night has come down in history to us as "The Night of Broken Glass" . . . Kristallnacht. TobakkoNacht -The Story! is not meant in any way to detract from the horror of that night. On the contrary, while writing it and sharing it with others I discovered how sadly Kristallnacht itself has been forgotten by far too many. Perhaps this story will help remind some of that history. TobakkoNacht! is divided into six short parts spaced over 10,000 years. Each part is very different not only in content but also in writing style. This is deliberate and will hopefully prove to be as enjoyable to read as it was chilling to write. Note: this Kindle edition consists of a 7,500 word political science fiction novelette, a postscript, and “bonus materials" consisting of a much shorter science fiction piece, “Breathers," and three chapters (“Hate," “The True Costs," and “Truth, Lies, and Ice Cream") from my previous full-length non-fiction book, "Dissecting Antismokers Brains." It is not a full-length book but at 20,000 words it is a respectable and thought-provoking read.

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Yellow Smoke: The Future of Land Warfare for America's Military (Role Of American Military) Review

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(More customer reviews)MG Scales is one of the great military thinkers of the modern age, and this book reflects the vast effort of thought he has put into military problems during his career. His thesis, that in limited-objectives warfare, technology enabled firepower is the key way to destroy the enemy, and that close-combat maneuver forces are for 'findin' em and fixin' em.' To some degree, I agree with his thesis, but note that my personal experiences in Iraq taught me that A) clese combat with the insurgents is the most efficient way to inflict mass casualties on the insurgents; B) the insurgent's capability of hiding themselves in the populace prevents the use of massed fires and target detection, not to mention the politically unpalatable possibility of collateral casualties. As usual, MG Scales writes well, and thoroughly understands his subject.

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Days of Smoke Review

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(More customer reviews)As a child Hans Udet spent hours listening to his Uncle Ernst spin stories about flying for Germany in WWI. His tales heavily influenced Hans' love of aviation and his political views. After enlisting as a pilot in Hitler's air force, Hans quickly moved through the ranks, becoming an ace.
Assigned to duty during the Spanish Civil War, Hans rescues a woman from attack by a Storm Trooper. Though Rachel was Jewish, Hans nonetheless found himself falling in love with her, in the process gaining a reputation among the Storm Troopers as a Jew-lover. Though he was a loyal warrior of the Fatherland, Hans also felt great compassion for humanity. But while aerial warfare could be a most bloody undertaking, it was the horrors of the Holocaust that truly appalled Hans.
Days of Smoke is a look at World War II and the Holocaust through the eyes of a German soldier. I was very impressed with the writing, and it was obvious the author spent much time in research. Days of Smoke would make an excellent movie.

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DAYS OF SMOKElooks at warand Holocaustthrough the eyes of Hans Udet, a pilot involved from the earliest days with Hitler's air force. In battles raging over much of Europe, Hans progresses fromnaïve young Messerschmitt pilot toace of increasing rank and responsibility. But unfolding events pit Hans' love of the Fatherland against his natural compassion for humanity, afterhe saves a young Jewish woman from brutal assault. As growing feelings for Rachel sensitize him to the so-called"Jewish problem," Hans is torn between mounting disdain for the Nazis and his sense of duty to Germany.Rachel is the unlikely bridge between histwo warringhalves.

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The Tiger's Wife: A Novel Review

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(More customer reviews)By the time she is thirteen, Natalia has taken so many trips with her grandfather to visit the caged tigers that she feels like a prisoner of ritual. Then a war hundreds of miles distant breaks the ritual: the zoo closes, curfews are implemented, students are disappearing, and spending time with her grandfather seems less important than committing small acts of defiance: staying out late, kissing a boyfriend behind a broken vending machine, and listening to black market recordings of Paul Simon and Johnny Cash. When her grandfather is suspended from his medical practice because he is suspected of harboring "loyalist feelings toward the unified state," Natalia adopts new rituals that keep her at his side when he isn't paying clandestine visits to his old patients. In return, he takes her to see an astonishing sight that offers the hope for an eventual restoration of the rituals that made up their pre-war lives. Natalia's grandfather tells her that this is their moment: not a moment of war to be shared by everyone else, but a moment that is uniquely theirs.
The Tiger's Wife is filled with wondrous moments, small scenes that assemble into a novel of power and wisdom and beauty. As an adult doctor delivering medicine across new and uncertain borders, Natalia grieves for her deceased grandfather while recalling the lessons he taught and the stories he told -- stories that more often than not center on death: how it is faced, feared, and embraced. Death is everywhere in this novel: death caused by war, by disease, by animal and man and child. And there is death's counterpoint, a character who cannot die (or so the grandfather's story goes). Death is virtually a character in the novel, as is the devil -- although the devil's identity is somewhat obscure, appearing as someone's uncle in one of the grandfather's stories, suspected of wearing the guise of a tiger by others. The tiger, of course, is a force of death -- feared by many, but not by the tiger's wife, who shows us that fear is unnecessary. Ultimately, coming to terms with death is, I think, the novel's subject matter.
Téa Obreht writes with clarity and compassion. She tells the interwoven stories that comprise The Tiger's Wife without judgment or sentiment. Her characters are authentic; with only one or two exceptions, she doesn't go out of her way to make them likable or sympathetic. Nor does she ask readers to hate characters who commit evil acts, although she wants us to understand them. She does not insist that we either condemn or condone the actions of a wife-abusing butcher. Instead, she gives us a chance to comprehend human complexity, to know that there is more to the characters than their offensive or violent actions. The village gossips, knowing nothing of the truth, judge both the abuser and the abused. Obreht shows us how foolish it is to judge others without knowing them ... and how unlikely it is that we will know enough to judge.
Obreht writes with the maturity and confidence of an accomplished novelist. Her style is graceful. It is difficult to believe that this is her first novel. If she continues to produce work as sound as The Tiger's Wife, readers should wish her a long career.


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