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Title: You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger (Bluejacket Books) by Roger Hall ISBN: 1-59114-353-5 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: May, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: It's the funniest thing I've ever read
Comment: Some time ago, almost 30 years ago to be exact, I read this book. I'd picked it up at a second-hand paperback store for a dime because the title caught my eye. I read it in one sitting, laughing out loud literally. I was so boisterous, I scared my co-workers on the midnight shift! I read the book over and over until I eventually lost it during a housemove. Now, with 2 sons, 25 and 22, I found myself wishing I'd had a copy to share with them. When we first got online, I spent hours looking for it, but no luck. Last Christmas, I happened to find it listed on Amazon prior to being released again. I've read it again and laughed HARDER and LOUDER than I did years ago.
The book chronicles Hall's experiences as a young army officer during WWII who volunteers for a mysterious clandestine organization, the OSS. His riotous re-telling of his training and experiences will bring a smile to even the most dour face. It's like like one of the other reviewers said---Dave Barry meets the OSS!
I know my boys will love reading this book---if I ever put it down long enough to share with them!
Rating: 5
Summary: They threw me out of the library for laughing too loud
Comment: I read this forty years ago in the public library ... or at least, I started reading it there, until the librarian ordered me to leave because I couldn't stop laughing. Now that I've read it again I'm still laughing, but I'm also impressed in a way I couldn't have been back then because I was too young to understand the serious subtext of Roger Hall's memoir. When you're fighting a just war, a war against monsters, you still need a sense of humor and perspective. That doesn't detract from the willingness to serve and to struggle; it brings much-needed humanity to the effort in the midst of chaos and suffering. Like a lot of soldiers -- my own father among them -- Roger didn't see combat, but his contribution to the war effort was just as genuine as if he'd stormed Omaha Beach ... and he did it with style! This is a wonderful book.
Rating: 5
Summary: I am so glad this has been reprinted
Comment: One of the funniest books I've read in any genre. If Dave Barry had been eligible for enlistment in 1942 this is the the kind of book he might have written. Roger Hall's account of his time in the O.S.S. is full of dry wit, bawdy humor, accute assessments of the Army's intelligence operations during World War II, and his own vivid personality. The pace is fast, people and situations are clearly delineated in a few deft words, and the irreverence only heightens the sobering reality of military life in a time of war. Thirty years after I first read it this book still makes me laugh.
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Title: Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs : The Unknown Story of the Men and Women of World War II's OSS by Patrick K. O'Donnell ISBN: 074323572X Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 10 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: Soe: The Scienctific Secrets by Fredric Boyce, Douglas Everett, M. R. D. Foot ISBN: 0750931655 Publisher: Sutton Pubns Inc Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Secret History of Soe: Special Operations Executive 1940-1945 by William MacKenzie ISBN: 1903608112 Publisher: St Ermins Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: The Reader of Gentlemen's Mail: Herbert O. Yardley and the Birth of American Codebreaking by David Kahn ISBN: 0300098464 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 2004 List Price(USD): $32.50 |
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Title: Special Forces in Afghanistan 2001-2003: War Against Terrorism by Eric Micheletti ISBN: 2913903908 Publisher: Histoire & Collections Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $37.95 |
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