Advantages: Sheds light on an unfamiliar subject Disadvantages: None
I live in the area in which Millar operated in 1944. As far as I know, his is the only first-hand description in English of local Resistance activities. It should be far better known and yet local people generally are still reticent and/or uninformed. His story is factual and fascinating, with names and places that can easily be followed on the ground. The reality of the daily risks that he (and his local companions) had to run is vividly there to ... ...appreciation of the mental attitude it was necessary to adopt in order to cope with the stresses of a truly extraordinary daily existence.
Those of my local friends with sufficient English have appreciated my loan of this book for the light it sheds on a subject that their parents/ grandparents never discussed with them.
An eye-opener even for those unfamiliar with the geography. ...
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Advantages: Very readable, very interesting Disadvantages: -
Edith Hamilton's very popular 'Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes' is a very basic, very popular and very good text for the introduction of Greek and Roman mythology. This book by Hamilton, simply entitled 'Mythology' is an expansion of the material in the shorter book. Largely, however, it is a repetition of the same material. In our Western culture, the term 'mythology' is most often equated with these tales, and Hamilton,
