Sonic the Hedgehog 2: The Secret Admirer

Author : John Michlig Publisher : Artist & Writers Guild Books List Price : $3.00 Amazon Price : $2.98 Used Price : $0.35

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Secret Admirer by .. Jessica (Kentucky USA)
Ok! I read this book when I was in 1st grade so its really a beginers book. But its still really really cool be cause its Sonic!Anyways all the guys in Knotthole get a letter saying that someone like them and to meet them in a certain place. Everyone thinks that it is sally. Is it really Sally or could it be one of Robtonik's plots? Read it yourself to find out!

Sonic and his friends have a secret admirer. by .. ()
Sonic and the Freedom Fighters are coming home from a picnic when they come across a basket of goodies with a message saying: "I THINK YOU'RE KEEN!" Princess Sally (who is pink in this book, like in early issues of Archie's Sonic comic) hides the basket in the bushes.

Returning home, Sonic and Antione are pondering who the mystery person is. When Tails steps in, Sonic notices Tails is carrying flowers. Sonic starts laughing his spines off. Sonic then sees a message saying: "TO MY FAVORITE FREEDUM FIGHTER: MEET ME AT MUD LAKE TODAY. FOLLOW THE TRAIL OF BASKETS AND YOU WILL FIND ME. I THINK YOU'RE KEEN!"...

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Sonic sands: uncovering the secret of the booming dunes.(This Week): An article from: Science News

Format : HTML Author : S. Perkins Number of Pages : 2 Release Date : 2007-10-03 Publisher : Thomson Gale List Price : $9.95 Amazon Price : $9.95

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This digital document is an article from Science News, published by Thomson Gale on September 8, 2007. The length of the article is 500 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Sonic sands: uncovering the secret of the booming dunes.(This Week)
Author: S. Perkins
Publication: Science News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 8, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 172 Issue: 10 Page: 149(2)

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The Secret History of Ancient Egypt: Electricity, Sonics and the Disappearance of an Advanced Civilisation

Author : Herbie Brennan Number of Pages : 224 Publisher : Piatkus Books Used Price : $77.99

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This work presents controversial theories on the rise and fall of Ancient Eygpt. It argues that the Eygptians were an advanced, high-tech civilization that tapped the earth's power to move massive granite blocks; and that ancient carvings depict helicopters and submarines.

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Best Explanations Yet by .. J. Lyon Layden (Savannah, Georgia)
Excellently written and dutifully researched, this is probably the best compilation of information on the anomalies of ancient Egypt and the best set of theories yet on how those anomalies came to be. It's also a great reference book; when dry Egyptologists and skeptics try to make light of the building of intricately and precisely built gargantuan structures in our ancient past, turn to the chapters on the hunter-gatherer state of existence of those who are generally accepted by the mainstream as having built said structures during the standard given time frame. Then turn to the pages that give you quotes and production times for the building and quarrying of similar structures by today's largest contractors. Scientists and skeptics will stutter alike, or give you an excuse much more ridiculous than the obvious conclusion that homo sapiens developed an advanced technology within the 500,000 years he had to do it in, before his history and most of the evidence of his architecture and science was destroyed some 11,600 years ago at the end of the last "Ice Age." After all, scientists want us to believe that everything that makes us modern was developed within the last 5000 years....what on Earth were we doing for all those hundreds of thousands of years before the mass extinctions and losses of entire continents around 11,600 B.C.? Our prehistoric ancestors were larger brained than us, stronger than us, and much heartier than us, and they had a lot more time than we did to develop technology. The most densely populated areas in which those people lived now lies under the sea, and we have only found the fossils of those prehistoric people who lived in the boon docks of the world, hundreds of years behind the level of civilization of their brothers who would have lived on the prime real estate of the coast. Conservative scientists tend to overlook the evidence that actually did survive the catastrophes of 11,600 years ago, but luckily Brennan has assembled a great bulk of the most well documented and factual portions of this evidence in just a few short books. I gave up on the highlighter just 20 pages in, because almost every sentence is profound.
Brennan does a wonderful job illustrating how technology can come into existence without the steps that are generally accepted as having to lead up to it with chapters on people such as Tesla and Keeley, who were hundreds of years before their time and whose knowledge seems to have almost come out of nowhere. Indeed, NASA has only touched on the technological advances made by Keeley's sonic tech a hundred years ago, and is currently accepting bids for private businesses to develop such things further.
Amazing and thorough evidence has been presented in this volume for some pretty far out theories to explain what the pyramids and certain chambers within them were actually used for, and yet I daresay the author provides a much more compelling case than the radicals like Z.S. and the closed minded conservative Egyptologists and skeptics.
Brennan is well-versed in the scientific method and totally lucid and logical in his thoughts, unlike many sensationalists who are theorizing on ancient Egypt's past. The author does not need to reach for aliens visiting from Niburu, at least in this offering, because man had enough time to develop a technology as advanced as ours at least five times over before the devastations of 11,600 years ago, which destroyed all of the prime real estate that man's biggest populations were inhabiting during those remote times.

Convincing! by .. RiderOnTheStorm (USA)
This book was a pleasure to read. I want to learn more about Egypt after reading it. It includes notes and a bibliography-- very helpful for anyone planning to do more research. I highly recommend this book.

A Great Primer on Ancient Egpyt's Mysteries by .. John E. (MI United States)
As an avid student of lost civilization and technology, I truly appreciated this entertaining yet serious book. It effectively discards conventional "knowledge", places in front of the reader a variety of mind-bending mysteries regarding ancient Egypt, and then proposes plausible and exciting answers. The book efficiently covers a lot of territory. It left me wanting more information on some subjects but provided ideas about further study, including the author's other books, which I have ordered and look forward to devouring soon. This was a all-in-all a very satisfying read for this lover of lost knowledge.

An incredibly well researched study of Egyptology by .. (Olathe, KS United States)
I was a bit sceptical when I first approached this book but after the first few pages I was immersed in the wonderful theories presented by the author. The only reason that it does not recieve 5 stars is due to the fact that the author often times veers wildly off of the subject matter. A great read for History buffs with open minds.

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Secret Soldiers: How a Troupe of American Artists, Designers and Sonic Wizards Won World War II's Battles of Deception Against the Germans

Author : Philip Gerard Number of Pages : 416 Release Date : 2003-04-29 Publisher : Plume List Price : $16.00 Amazon Price : $3.83 Used Price : $0.01

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They were Eisenhower's secret weapon-an elite troupe of artists, actors, electronics wizards, designers, and writers. These men created dazzling theatrical battlefield ruses, fooling the German high command into attacking the wrong place, defending the wrong bridgeheads, even retreating from phantom attackers.

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. helped pioneer the tactics of this unlikely band of heroes, which included future fashion king Bill Blass, abstract painter Ellsworth Kelly, and artist Hal Laynor.

Drawing on recently declassified records, interviews, diaries, and letters, Secret Soldiers provides a fascinating and long-overdue tribute to these uniquely talented soldiers.

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Finally the Story of the 23rd HQ Sp Trp has been told by .. Robert S. MacFarland (Dallas, TX)
I am an admittedly biased reviewer, as I have a strong affinity to the events set forth in Mr. Gerard's book. My father, MSG Robert C. MacFarland, served in H&S Co, 603rd Engineer (Camouflage) Battalion. He never spoke of his wartime service, except in a few humerous ancedotes while he purportedly served in infantry, armored, airborne, and engineer units. Having read this book I now see that he was being truthful, albeit in a deceptive fashion. The only point of mild critism is that I wish more maps had been included, showing the positions of the various elements of the 23rd during the disparate and separate operations throughout the ETO. My personal thanks to Philip Gerard for a very fine book.

Balanced, very interesting story, told well by .. Mike Hammond (Buffalo, NY)
As an amateur history buff dabbling in several different periods, I found this book to be a very interesting read on a small but very important unit that arguably contributed greatly to the final year of the war.

This book gets into the technical details just enough to let the reader understand the basics of the various deceptions the units "played" without bogging the book down. Its strength is painting a whole picture of how the unit formed, the key leaders that made the unit successful, the unusual mix (for the Army) of artists that had the initiative and innovation to pull off their deceptions, the daily routines for the enlisted men, and of course the various operations that were conducted.

Well balanced between interviews with the actual soldiers and the facts of the operations while setting the scene of what wartime Europe was like during their short deployment, Gerard has done a great service in documenting the unit's once top-secret history.

5 Stars for Great Content, 3 Stars for "OK" Presentation by .. A Guy from Central Illinois (USA)
I picked up this book expecting one thing, and got another. The Hardback version ~seems~ to promise an overall history of Deception Warfare in WWII, the most famous of which is probably "Fortitude" - the deception of Rommel into believing Patton would lead the D-Day forces to Calais, closely followed in general public awareness by the story of "The Man who Never Was".

Well, while these are indeed touched on, they're not dealt with in depth. What you get in its place, however, is admirable. The story of the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops is a great one - ESSENTIAL, I'd say, because it helps open your eyes to the activites of US Army "support" Units, which you must know to have a well rounded view of WW II.

As I've said in another review on the 3AD's WW II Maintenance Operations (Deathtraps), most books on the War in Europe give the view from the Foxhole or the View from HQ, with little said about the activities of other units, which were just as important to the success of the overall campaign.

The Good Points of this book:

- Needed light shown on a unfamiliar topic

- Great attention to the detail in portraying the individual work of the units of the 23rd(Camofleur ops with Dummy vehicles & Encampments, Sonic Operations, Radio Spoofing, etc), and how that work evolved and improved over the course of their operations

- Great attention to the personalities of the men who made up the unit. An unlikely mix of combat men, artists, showmen and techies who found a way to work together against the enemy and upon occasion, shortsighted leadership. Whoda' thunk Bill Blass or Douglas Fairbanks Jr. played such roles in WWII? The 2000 reunion at the end of the book was effectively recounted

Things I wish were better:

- The cover blurbs promise more than the book really aims to deliver. Probably more a marketing thing than the authors true intent, which was primarily the 23rd. However, I still wish the Author could have talked about Fortitude, and if/how the 23rd learned anything from the operation

- As another reviewer noted, we learn a lot about Douglas Fairbanks Jr's naval deception experience - a lot more than we learn about Fortitude, in fact. While this was welcome information, I would have preferred it to be covered in either a larger book about all WW II Decpeption OPs, or edited out of this book, where its a bit less relevant.

- The disorganized nature of the 23rd, which was really cobbled together from separate units, and their loose affiliations in the field, make for difficult history telling. The author does not always make it clear how the units worked together, and how they did not. A "chain of command" diagram would have been much appreciated

I do recommend this book. I think it could have used a bit more editing and could have been shorter, but the enthusiasm of the author for the material shines through, as does the depth of his research. The story is a great one, and the book is well worth purchasing for anyone seeking a well rounded view of WWII.

A Great Story Poorly Told by .. Richard A. Mitchell (candia, new hampshire United States)
This is a great story about a company of soldiers who brought deception to WWII for America. Mush of the story was kept classified until the last few years (although the author never tells us why or when it was declassified). Unfortunately, the book is poorly organized.

The author also gets bogged down in minutae which often is not relevant to the story or just plain uninteresting. The book is at its best when it steps back and looks at the big picture of this small company or is describing the methodology it used. Those parts are too thin in the book.

Also, the author tries to walk the tightrope of relating a very specialized aspect of the US Army in WWII while at the same time attempting to put that small aspect into the overall. Thus the reader gets two sentence analyses of major events, which are often insultingly simplistic. One would expect that if a reader is going to pick up this book devoted to one company, he would know the general aspects of the war.

Many of the characters are compelling as are the battles (for lack of a better word for the activities of deception troops) in which they contributed. The technology is also interesting. I think this would have been a much better book had it been 100 pages shorter.

It also could have been improved if the author did not gush so over Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. The amount of space devoted to him in the opening chapter is disproportionate to the role this Navy man in the US Army deception comapny. An example of the author's obsession with Fairbanks and the unorganized nature of this book is seen when, in the middle of a long chapter on the deception techniques the company is using France on its way to Germany, the author breaks in with a two page update on what Fairbanks was doing at the time -- in the Mediterranean and in the Navy and nothing to do with deception!!! Nothing at all to do with what was going on in the 75 pages before and after. A glaring example of the superfluous and disorganization running through the book.

I wish I could recommend this because of teh great accomplishments of those described in this book. Unfortunately, it is a long hard journey to get from beginning to end.

A must read for any WWII history buff by .. Dale Lane (Indianapolis, IN)
I commend Mr. Gerard for bringing this amazing story to print. It should be required reading by all students and buffs of WWII history. It is an excellent story and well told.
This book is about the 23d Headquarters Special Troops; a group of actors, artists and skilled illusionists that became soldiers in one of America's most secret outfits of WWII. Not until 1979 were any of them permitted to openly tell of their exploits during the war.
The book begins with the concept of using deception in warfare and carries forward through examples in various battles. It then tells of the birth of this deceptive warfare unit and the men instrumental in its formation. Among them Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
The sections on the formation of the various units, Sonic Deception, Camouflage, Radio etc, explain the importance of using these techniques in combat. Battle plans are "scripted" and the soldiers are "actors." But what the reader comes away with is the knowledge that these artists and actors, in doing their jobs, became frontline combat soldiers. To insure their success, missions frequently were kept secret from the other soldiers in the area. Many times they purposely drew enemy fire into their formations of "rubber" tanks, and artillery pieces so that the real weapons and soldiers could move to a new position undetected.
Mr. Gerard sprinkles through out the book, reflections from the surviving members of this unit. And finishes the book at a small reunion of the dwindling number of veterans of the 23rd Special Troops, reminding me so much of the reunions I've attended of my father's 29th Infantry Division and the awe of being in the company of heroes. By Dale Lane, author of "All My Love, Forever: Letter's Home From A World War II Citizen-Soldier"

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