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24 Jun, 2022
Over promises and under delivers
"Hollow Chest" is a biography of Allen Hurd, a 501st PIR paratrooper told, after his death, by his daughter. Its a comic book size publication, comprising just 34 pages, that sketchily outlines Hurd's path from sickly child, through a troubled youth to Normandy and VE day. Its told in a comic book style, with each cartoon page interspaced with familiar photographs, V-mail extracts wrapped in an envelope of "Normandy for beginners".
While I have no desire to belittle the Allen Hurd's service, or his presence at a dramatic moment in world history, but I confess to being disappointed by this book.
Hurd quite clearly didn't leave much in the way of memories. Mark Bando (eminent 101st Airborne Historian) admits that despite knowing Hurd, what he knew of him came only from others. This fact really comes across in the book which comprises a dozen soundbites from Hurd which, if printed in any other format, would boil down to half a page of A4 paper.
Nevertheless, this hasn't stopped Denise Hurd from trying to deliver a work which clearly tenters itself upon Mark Bando's passion, knowledge and ability to contextualize.
Having read many other first hand paratrooper and combat accounts, I found this title really quite minimalist. At £7.95 I was seriously tempted to return it, but through some quirk of print by demand error, I got 90 pages of a vegetarian cook book included.
My mum is vegetarian so it may serve a purpose after all.
29 Nov, 2017
Rehash of out of print titles
As a keen historian on the Battle of St Lo - I was interested to see this new title. There's an old phrase that says - there's one good book in everyone - and Georges Bernard has found the way to recycle it. This title leaned very heavily on two books "Hedgerow Hell" by Sam Allsup and La Guerre Des GI's which (I believe) are both out of print. So, its good to see two "old friends" available to a new generation - albeit melded with some new photos, and some FJR accounts which were new. If your new to the battle - this is the book for you
02 Jul, 2021
Don't judge this book by the title!
If you're buying this because you want to learn more about Jack Case - then stop. Save your money. This is not the book for you. In fact it almost warrants prosecution on the trades description act!.
I was suckered in to buying this book on the title - which implies that its about the 1450 revolt. (Yes, don't judge a book by the cover, but since the contents or summary of the contents are omitted by the sellers, I took a gamble that this was some archaic, archival records about the uprising.
The most you'll learn about Cade is from the title - itself lifted from Shakespeare - and a four paragraph feather light touch on the man and the events.
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What this booklet is, is a reprint (and a very poor quality one too) of some C18th writings (found outside "the Crown and Anchor" tavern), and repackaged with a sycophantic foreword of an "editor" to the Marquis of Titchfield. If you want to want understand "what it was like to live during the 18th century, by reading first hand accounts of everyday people" then this may be the book for you. "Original texts make the American, French and industrial revolutions vividly contemporary". Allegedly.
Now comes the quality of this "reprint". I was exceedingly disappointed by the quality of this product. There are lines and whole paragraphs which are so badly reproduced you can't read what it says. Picture a photocopy of a photocopy - but after each output has been reproduced a further six times - and you'll get the idea. If I can save you £14.... then tilt your glass to me when you drink the beer you've just bought with the money I've just saved you!