|  |  |  | | | | | Book-Reviews:History Articles from EzineArticles.com | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I usually find nonfiction history to be so dry as to lose my attention. Lost in Shangri-La though is a non-fiction accounting of a plane crash that occurred in the last days of WWII with all of the elements of a fiction adventure thriller and author Mitchell Zuckoff has the spirited talent to paint the vivid scenes needed to seize your attention and not let go. On May 13, 1945 twenty-four officers, enlisted men and WACs boarded a flight at the military base in Hollandia New Guinea for a sightseeing excursion over the inland jungle of the island. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Learn about British Naval History without studying. Reading entertaining historical novels about the Napoleonic era will give you immense pleasure and you will get quite knowledgeable at the same time. Patrick O'Brian and C.S. Forester created two fictional historical figures, Jack Aubrey and Horatio Hornblower respectively. Horatio Hornblower almost became a real historical figure. Both man, Jack and Horatio, will become real heroes for you when you begin to read about them. For some people Horatio even became a role model. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In 1008 pages, the author reveals a short history of the Anglo Saxon; revealingly, its introduction was written in 1888. With biographical assistance from eras much more ancient than Shakespeare, Chaucer, Homer, or even Ovid, Green chronicles those influences shaping the ethics, ethos, and law construct among English speaking peoples. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I read "The Filthy Thirteen - From the Dustbowl to Hitler's Eagle's Nest: The 101st Airborne's Most Legendary Squad of Combat Paratroopers" by Richard Killblane and Jake McNiece as research for a project I'm working on, and am glad I did, because I really enjoyed the story. And a story it is, the story of Jake McNeice and his adventures during WWII as he and his fellow paratroopers earned the name "The Filthy Thirteen." On the cover of the book, it also states, "The True Story of 'The Dirty Dozen'" and if you get the two disk special edition DVD of the famous movie starring Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, and others, you can see a special featurette on McNiece and the Filthy Thirteen that includes interviews with McNiece and Killblane as well as others. However, the movie and the exploits in this book have nothing similar except both involve WWII and brave men defeating the enemy in the fight against the Germans. | | | | | | | | | |  | |  | |  |
