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24 December 2011

Book Review: Inferno, by James Nachtwey, *****

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Synopsis A document of war and strife during the 1990s, this volume of photographs by the photojournalist James Nachtwey includes dramat...
21 December 2011

Film Review: Pacific Battleship Yamato (2010), by Junya Sato, ****

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Synopsis World War II action film set aboard the Battleship Yamato, the most fearsome ship in the Pacific fleet and still to date the l...
20 December 2011

Film Review: Assault on the Pacific - Kamikaze (2007), by Taku Shinjo, ****

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Synopsis World War II epic about a squadron of Japanese Kamikaze pilots and their journey through training and first missions toward the te...
13 December 2011

Book Review: The Rape of Nanking, by Iris Chang, ****

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Japanese soldier beheading a Chinese man Synopsis In December 1937, in what was then the capital of China, one of the most brutal mass...
09 December 2011

Map Review: Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Freytag & Berndt, ****

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Description Explore Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia with this Freytag&Berndt road map. The best way to plan your trip, prepare your itinerar...
07 December 2011

Film Review: Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), by R Fleischer, T Masuda and K Fukusaku, *****

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Synopsis Today is the sixtieth anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack. That is one reason to review a forty years old movie. Another is ...
30 November 2011

Book Review: My China Years, by Helen Foster Snow, **

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Foster Snow is the wife of Edgar Snow, the author of "Red Star Over China - The Rise Of The Red Army". She actually met "Ed...
24 November 2011

Book Review: City of Sadness, by Bérénice Reynaud, ****

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Synopsis This work introduces the Western audience to the richness of New Taiwanese Cinema. It revisits a painful e...
23 November 2011

Book Review: Singapore Swing, by John Malathronas, *****

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MBS from the modern art museum Synopsis For generations of Britons, Singapore was the international crossroads of the Empire, the ulti...
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17 November 2011

Film Review: You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010), by Woody Allen, ****

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Synopsis Two couples discover the grass may not always be greener on the other side in Woody Allen’s breezy comedy on wry, You Will Meet A...
11 November 2011

Glass and gondolas in Venice

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Murano glass taking shape Early start of the day in Venice. I am here for a photo workshop and we are off to catch the sun rise by the ...
26 October 2011

Book Review: Formosa Betrayed, by George Kerr, *****

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Island of Tatan, off Quemoy with Nationalist flag By way of background... "Our experience in Formosa is most enlightening. The Ad...
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25 October 2011

Recensione: Percorsi d'Amore, di Maurizio Cremasco, ****

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Recensione Questa è una serie di poesie che trasmettono lo stato d'animo irrequieto dell'autore, uno scrittore che è stato pilota d...
15 October 2011

Book review: Coral Gardens, by Leni Riefenstahl, *****

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Review Leni Riefenstahl was a great, if politically controversial, movie director, but only later in her life she picked up photography in ...
14 October 2011

Book Review: A Little Book of Zen, *****

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I bought this book some six years ago and it has found a permament home atop my writing desk ever since. I open it almost every day, usually...