![]() If generals knew less tactics, they would interfereless.” On meddling generals, he noted, “The tactics belong to battalion commanders. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity,” runs a famous Patton quote. According to military historian Harry Yeide, Patton’s style of commanding comes close to the German concept of Auftragstaktik, or mission-type orders: In German, whereas ein Befehl is a direct order, eine Direktive, a directive, is something broader and less detailed, where the commander states what he wants to achieve but leaves it up to his men how to go about it. Patton was also a keen student of translated German military literature, such as the World War I memoirs of Hans von Seeckt, the chief of staff of the German 11th Army, and Adolf von Schell’s Battle Leadership. Patton saw tanks as upgraded cavalry, infinitely more powerful, whose deep penetrations could collapse enemy lines. His favored approach was the oblique one: Hold them by the nose and kick them in the rear, which in more polite textbook terms translates into pinning the enemy while the tanks attack his flanks. ![]() To Patton, war meant destroying the enemy’s main force, not clinging to territory. This he did by sending out his staff officers to the front line units. Like Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, Germany’s most skillful World War II commander, Patton would also carefully monitor performance. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. "Kagawa knows just how to end a first volume for maximum cliff-hanger drama.” Booklist George, to spy on his former brothers and uncover deadly and shocking secrets that will shake the foundations of dragons and dragon-slayers alike and place them all in imminent danger as Talon’s new order rises. She’s lost any contact with her twin brother, Dante, a Talon devotee, as well as Garret, the former-enemy soldier who challenged her beliefs about her human side.Īs Ember and Riley hide and regroup to fight another day, Garret journeys alone to the United Kingdom, birthplace of the ancient and secret Order of St. When forced to choose between safety with the dragon organization Talon and being hunted forever as an outcast, Ember Hill chose to stand with Riley and his band of rogue dragons rather than become an assassin for Talon. 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I kinda wish I hated this book given how long it took me to finish it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yang pushed through, however, and since then, has garnered a second National Book Award nomination for the two-volume Boxers & Saints (which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize) and developed the graphic novel iteration of Nickelodeon’s popular cartoon Avatar: The Last Airbender, among other projects. He and his collaborator, Lark Pien, spent several years in rewrite mode after his editor broke the news that the nearly finished comic simply wasn’t good enough to publish. According to Yang, however, his next project was less successful. In 2006, Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese became the first graphic novel to become a National Book Award finalist and to win the American Library Association’s Printz Award. ![]() ![]() ![]() Everything they are, everything that happens, came from their natures and their choices, not from `accident’īut enough of this elusive waffle, what is the outline of this bookĪ family of 4, Michael, University lecturer in the English Department, serial philanderer. The mysterious agent-provocateur, Amber/Alhambra, whose conception, in the café of an Alhambra cinema is detailed at the start, will enter the lives of a fairly ordinary family, in the guise of a saviour to some, and as some kind of devastating Kali figure to others, whose trail of destruction forces changes and awakening on them. ![]() The title of Smith’s book is of course mocking and, `Yeah, Right!’ because the whole tenor of the book decries `the accident’. Not playing it safe tumbles to be expected when such a high wire act is happeningĪli Smith’s The Accidental is bold, playful, exuberant, and with its opening chapter about the very accident of conception itself – one egg, the possibility offered by a myriad spermatozoa, bursting vibrantly and provocatively into introducing the protagonist from – where, heaven?, hell? the here and now? – it reminded me not a little of Kate Atkinson’s first novel, Behind The Scenes At The Museum. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jarrett’s monsters certainly represent the frightening adults who are all around him, but they’re also a great image of a child desperately struggling for security and control that’s far beyond his power: Only by “keeping an eye” on the monsters can he freeze them, and there are far too many for one little kid to keep an eye on. 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Mario Testino OBE is widely regarded as one of the most influential fashion and portrait photographers of our times. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Praise for the Mark of the Thief Trilogy:* "The fast-paced, ingenious plot, charismatic hero and highly diverse cast of characters. You can visit her online at or follow her on Twitter and Instagram at For… She lives in northern Utah with her family, and is probably sneaking in a bite of dark chocolate right now. ![]() Jennifer collects old books, loves good theater, and thinks that a quiet afternoon in the mountains makes for a nearly perfect moment. 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