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This candid WWI memoir takes readers inside the cockpit with an RAF officer on the Western Front from the outbreak the Great War until its end in 1918.  Louis Arbon Strange was at the Royal Air Force's Central Flying School when war broke out in 1914.He immediately reported to Royal Flying Corps headquarters and joined No. 5 Squadron.

Without question this is an important new addition to World War II and Cold War historiography... Highly recommended. -- Douglas Brinkley, author of Dean Acheson: The Cold War Years and The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter's Journey beyond the White House A remarkably objective, yet sympathetic, study of Louis Johnson's life and career. Now only half-remembered,... Johnson was a major national figure. Colorful, aggressive, independent-minded, egotistical, his strong views and conflicts with Dean Acheson proved to be his undoing. All in all, a fascinating tale. -- James R. Schlesinger, former Secretary of Defense McFarland and Roll have performed a real service in rescuing from obscurity this Democratic mover and shaker. Their account of the rise and fall of Louis Johnson provides us with the fullest depiction yet of an important Washington figure employed for better or worse as a blunt instrument of policy change by both Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman. -- Alonzo L. Hamby, author of Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman and For the Survival of Democracy: Franklin Roosevelt and the World Crisis of the 1930s [Johnson's] career is a cautionary tale of how even the most ruthlessly effective men can become pawns in the Washington power game. McFarland and Roll bring Johnson to life in this thorough and well-told history. -- Evan Thomas, Newsweek, author of Robert Kennedy: His Life and The Very Best Men: The Early Years of the CIA Louis Johnson was FDR's Assistant Secretary of War and the architect of the industrial mobilization plans that put the nation on a war footing prior to its entry into World War II. Later, as Truman's Secretary of Defense, Johnson was given the difficult job of unifying the armed forces and carrying out Truman's orders to dramatically reduce defense expenditures. In both administrations, he was asked to confront and carry out extremely unpopular initiatives -- massive undertakings that each president believed were vital to the nation's security and economic welfare. Johnson's conflicts with Henry Morganthau, Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring, Winston Churchill, Harry Hopkins, Dean Acheson, Averell Harriman, and Paul Nitze find contemporary parallels in the recent disagreements between the national defense establishment and the State Department.

Bennion discusses the life of her grandmother Lucile Cannon Bennion. Her grandmother painted adventurers--illuminated maps of explorers of new lands, including Abraham, the Vikings, Columbus, and trappers and fur traders. His Bennion progenitors experienced the pull of Manifest Destiny as a religious mission. They felt that God had called them to settle the area around the Great Salt Lake.

In the second decade of this century, the Soviet biologist Emmanuil S. Enchmen (1891-1966) proposed a psychological theory that he named the \"theory of new biology.\" The theory advocated the study of human behavior rather than conscious processes. The theory was popular among university students in the early 1920s until it was condemned in 1923 by N. Bukharin, at that time the Soviet regime's main ideologue, for its solipsistic and anti-Marxist tendencies. From that time on, Enchmen was considered a \"nonperson.\" A fragment of Enchmen's work was republished only after the fall of the Soviet regime. A comparison of John B. Watson's and Enchmen's theories show that they developed their versions of behaviorism during the same time period. This independent formulation of behavioristic theories was made possible by the prevailing Zeitgeist that stressed positivism in methodology, Darwinian adaptation, and Pavlov's conditioned reflex findings.

The approaches to ecumenism as embodied by Donald Gee and David Du Plessis are described. Both were the most fervent Pentecostal advocates of ecumenism, which by no means implies a lowering of Pentecostal identity and theology.

This comes in a two-disc case because the booklet is too thick to fit inside a standard one. Since I was unfamiliar with Erwartung and was dreading 2+ hours of a Schoenberg monodrama and not noticing the obvious 31:25 on the back of the case), I thought at first a disc was missing, but the brevity was quite pleasing.

Two examples may suffice. The magnificent contrapuntal edifice of the first Kyrie is stretched out to almost 15 minutes - a strain that not even [Bach]'s counterpoint can sustain. In the Credo, the 'Confitebor' movement begins so slowly that when the great plainchant quotation is delivered by the tenors it totally lacks any triumphant proclamation of faith; and then, after greater slowness, the 'Et expecto' finale switches gears into such a scramble that the chorus cannot keep up.

No. Some people liked [Hermann Scherchen]; I never understood that.

[Hermann Scherchen] recorded a generous portion of Haydn symphonies for Westminster in the early days of long-playing records; they were generally well reviewed at the time and again when reissued by DG some while back. The fine Military Symphony done for Westminster with the Royal Philharmonic also appears here. The 94th Symphony is taken from HMV 78s, the 92nd from a Supraphon LP, and the others from concert performances.

[Nigel Kennedy]'s new recording clearly shows the influence of the period performance mavens, though he doesn't follow them slavishly (plenty of vibrato here). Compared with his earlier recording with the English Chamber Orchestra from the late 1980s, here he is more nuanced and imaginative and freer; and, as keen an ensemble as the ECO is, the Berliners have a razor-sharp precision that is exciting. Programmatic elements get more attention this time.