Easy to read story of the little known Belgian resistance in ww2. Real life stories can be amazing, and fill you full of envy, delight, fear. However, this book is so understated that although the writer did some courageous and amazing things, risking her life daily, she does not portray this, and leaves the reader dissatisfied. Sometimes modesty is not such a virtue.

This is an easy and well written book and first hand biography by a couragious woman, resistance fighter in Belgium during World War II. I am glad to have found this work and finally have been able to read about the Belgian resistance. The simplicity of the biography is what makes it so interesting. The work is filled with small and valuable details. I wish that other Belgians would have found the courage to publish their wartime experiences. Thank you Yvonne de Ridder

This is a "pocket-sized" guidebook to one of the most civilized cities I've ever visited. It is organized very well, breaking the "tourist parts" of the city into color coded zones, with nicely detailed descriptions of each of the zones. Amsterdam has great public transit and the guide has a good description of the tram lines and how to use them. In the back there is a pocket which contains a very nice fold out map--on one side there is a "day" map of Amsterdam and on the other a "night" map. Each side reflects the activities available at each time, with colored markers for the type of activity and their locations. You really don't need any other guide, this one is pretty comprehensive.

As with all of the books in the Battleground Europe series, BASTOGNE is a combination of historical overview, selective detailed reference and compendium of italicized first-hand accounts. This book is not meant to be an in depth study of the Ardennes Campaign around Bastogne, but a concentrated dose of the battle and helpful roadside touring information. There are some "Then and Now" type comparisons, however on the whole the book is very similar to the US Army War College series (Which, by the way, was not published the the US Army War College) guides to Civil War sites. Currently this is the second book book in the Battle of the Bulge segment of the series. The first book, St. Vith, is in the same format. As a supplemental reference to the battles around Bastogne, this book is highly recommended. If you are planning a visit to Bastogne, I recommend that this reference be packed along with your travel brochures, Micheln guides and roadmaps.

Wallonia's beers and culture have lain hidden for centuries under the weight of their flemish and french equivalents. The Walloons have enjoyed their anonymity. But no longer! The authors traversed the french speaking half of Belgium and have uncovered a vast wealth of liquid gold....and reds, blonds and wheat coloured beers. Their enthusiasm for their task knew no bounds as they tracked down small family run brasseries in out of the way places that would do justice to the beerhunter himself, Michael Jackson. They have rated the beers using scales of their own tastes, as well as expectation for the tastes of others.Their descriptions of small unique breweries such as l'vapeur were captivating.One developed a severe thirst as one read. The book itself is not a coffee table exhibit as those from Mr. Jackson, but well worth the read, and one which I will bring to Belgium on my next trip there.

I loved this story about Annie & Hope because they are homeschooled like me and my friends. They travel to Belgium to help their dad and find out that their new friend is full of surprises! Really easy to read and a great story.

My wife and I found this book to be quite useful when we visited Belgium. It really enhanced our visit, including us finding the little-known Jeruselem Church at the edge of town.

This book gave an excellent overview of the history of Belgium and Bruges, and a nice overview of the main sites of the city. Furthermore, it's nice for someone only visiting Bruges that it only deals with that city. The small size makes it easy to shove in a pocket while touring.

I have a couple of nitpicks. First of all, the statement that "In the summer Belgium is seven hours ahead of US Eastern Standard time" is technically true, but misleading. It's six hours ahead of EDT. Also, "the maps in this book will provide all the detail you need" isn't true; it's very easy to get lost, since the side-streets aren't labeled.

I have read many of papers contained in the three CASYS conference proceedings and have been quite impressed with the direction anticipatory systems research is heading. Anticipatory systems research is derived from Robert Rosen's seminal works "Anticipatory Systems", "Life Itself" and "Essays on Life Itself"; these were basically ignored (much like Rashevsky's work prior to Rosen) but slowly its value is being realized.

Anticipatory systems acknowledge that real processes, particularly life, do not obey causal laws required by our present 'religion' of reductionism. This can be seen in all aspects of science whether one looks at attempts at cybernetics, algorithmic information theory, physics or biology (to name a few). We have consistently run up against the same roadblocks to progress since our present way of thinking excludes the possibility of ever answering some very basic questions.

There is a lot of interest here from Dubois' works in hyperinclusion (although I do not agree with his interpretation of Rosen) to Ekdahl's excellent research on the link between induction and anticipatory systems. Nadin's work is quite good for someone just beginning to get interested in this area. Many aspects of science that are complete mysteries now begin to make much more sense whether it is the Feynman-Wheeler theories of QED, understanding Shnoll's results or learning theories in general when one sees that the problem is our clinging to linear causality.

It is quite interesting to contrast this to Wolfram's pinnacle of ironic science, "A New Kind of Science" - he has no 'new' science, just more of the old stuff. Unfortunately his money has helped him generate lots of hype about fluff when there is much more exciting and genuinely new work being done as it has in the past: quietly and thoughtfully.

20 letters, a correspondance between the brothers Piet and Wim Chielens, both fascinated by the first world war and both horrified by the cruel and hard life of the war. This book tells the story of the war-poems by Sassoon, Kipling Graves and Blunden, the places where they were during the dreadful war. This book tries to give a permanent place in literairy history to those who now stand in the shadow of McCrae's 'in Flanders Fields'.

Book written in Dutch. Poems are translated in Dutch as well.