Timeline of Terror
Book Description
The 9/11 Report for Every American
On December 5, 2005, the 9/11 Commission issued its final report card on the government’s fulfillment of the recommendations issued in July 2004: one A, twelve Bs, nine Cs, twelve Ds, three Fs, and four incompletes. Here is stunning evidence that Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón, with more than sixty years of experience in the comic-book industry between them, were right: far, far too few Americans have read, grasped, and demanded action on the Commission’s investigation into the events of that tragic day and the lessons America must learn.
Using every skill and storytelling method Jacobson and Colón have learned over the decades, they have produced the most accessible version of the 9/11 Report. Jacobson’s text frequently follows word for word the original report, faithfully captures its investigative thoroughness, and covers its entire scope, even including the Commission’s final report card. Colón’s stunning artwork powerfully conveys the facts, insights, and urgency of the original. Published on the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the United States, an event that has left no aspect of American foreign or domestic policy untouched, The 9/11 Report puts at every American’s fingertips the most defining event of the century.
Customer Reviews:
Surprisingly interesting.......2007-10-10
While I disagree with some of the conclusions in the report, I found most of it very informative. The comic format works well for at least 90% of the pages, the rest just resort to showing logos and text boxes.
I really appreciate the effort to publish this as a graphic novel, which makes it more accessible to a broader audience (including myself) who are not likely to read the lengthy report.
Now, can someone please publish a graphic version of the Bipartisan Iraq Study Group?
9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation.......2007-09-19
Naturally, this graphic adaptation has been getting a lot of flack from different people related to the September 11th attacks, because they still feel that comics are for a child's enjoyment, to entertain and encourage a child's humor, and they don't know that in some ways they can do more than books in both informing through words and explaining through art. Sometimes a lot more can be said through a picture with words.
I have to say though, after sloughing through this graphic adaptation of the 9/11 Report, I will not be reading that long and important source any time soon. The graphic novel is heavy and complicated enough to get through. But if one wishes to get the complete story of not just exactly what happened on September 11th, 2001, but all the events leading up to it with the terrorists and the state of our foreign policy with the Middle East, then pick up this graphic novel and take it all in . . . it's all there.
Apart from the introduction from two of the commissioners of the 9/11 Report, the graphic adaptation begins with a four-way split streamline of the four planes, when they took off and under what circumstances, what happened on the planes with the hijackers, and what the eventual resulting attack was. What makes this quite fascinating is that by charting them all together one can see the initial plan of having all the hijackers carry out their plans at the same time, but due to different circumstances and delays this was not the case.
In the next chapter, the authors go into detail on how the FAA and different government bodies could have and should have done things differently according to all their previous regulations. It does prove that had everyone been doing what they should've, some of those planes may not have hit those targets, or at least something else and less devastating might have happened.
The rest of the book is spent in going into the history of the circumstances that led up to the hijackers boarding the planes. It's heavy reading, but the pictures make it a lot clearer and easier to understand. One gets a full picture on everyone and what they were doing, and how many different people and places were involved. It's actually quite surprising.
The book (as I'm sure the 9/11 Report does also) is clear in pointing out that while the Bush administration was certainly to blame in some cases, the previous Clinton administration was very much also, and even had everything been working smoothly, the attacks may still have not been prevented. One can say they would've never happened had Clinton carried out the assassination of Usama Bin Laden, as he'd planned in the late 90s; but one can also say had Bush focused on terrorism in the Middle East when he came into office, as all his advisors were telling him (specifically Richard Clarke), then again September 11th may never have happened.
While I'm sure the graphic adaptation covers nowhere near the same ground as the actual report, it nevertheless serves its own unique purpose in making everything more succinct and clearer and easier to understand as a whole. It's the perfect book to keep in one's library so that one day in the future one can pick it up again, read it, and understand exactly what happened and more importantly why on September 11th, 2001.
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Lies, lies, lies..........2007-08-19
This book is simply to designed to misinform stupid people about 9/11.
9/11 was an "inside job" that murdered 2700 people.
This is a crime.
amazing read.......2007-06-06
great book. it made the report seem alot more interesting that it probably was. organized, with great drawings and some cool large fold out map type pages.
Explained a lot!.......2007-05-16
I didn't have time to read the 9-11 Commission's report, and its breadth overwhelmed me. This book explained all the main points in the report with easy language, graphics and impartiality. All lengthy, complicated reports should be done in comic-book style like this was-- then people will read them and understand what is really going on in the world. I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to know what led up to 9-11.
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Beautiful chronicle of the WWII Citizen Soldier's sacrafice.......2003-04-30
This is a compilation of Ernie Pyle's best dispatches from the front lines during World War II. His stories were printed in American newspapers throughout the war, and brought home to the people of those years just what our men (and women) on the front lines had to endure, and how brave they were in doing their duty day after day until the job was done. It's moving to read about the hardships our soldiers went through in order to preserve the freedoms we enjoy today.
We owe a great debt to the generation of Americans who struggled through this period of history. So many Americans, regular people like you and me, lived through hell and many paid the ultimate price. Ernie Pyle's stories bring this sacrafice to life in a very emotional way.
The book also includes a brief biography of Pyle. It's a beautiful, if sometimes tragic, time-capsule of the WWII years, and I strongly recommend it.
A Must Read for anyone interested in the Dog Face!.......1999-03-19
I have yet to find a better book on the experiences of the average "dog face" in WWII. From North Africa to Sicily to Italy to France; Ernie was there and covered it better than anyone.
OUTSTANDING point of view of the G.I. !.......1999-03-17
It would be difficult to find a better book on the average G.I. It isn't hard to understand why every dog face loved Ernie Pyle; he lived among them, lived like them, and died like them. This is one of the best prime source reads around. I can't recommend it highly enough. The section on the Italian campaign is a must read.
Customer Reviews:
awesome ! awesome !.......1999-02-09
The Psalty character is awesome, Psalty always finds the right things to do. He turns to the Bible and usually fixes his problems. They also have a great line of videos for kids, children love Psalty.
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Bruce Coville's Strange Worlds (Avon Camelot Books)
Manufacturer: Avon Books
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Bruce Coville's masterful collection of short stories by leading SF authors. Coville's popular middle-grade anthologies featuring ghosts, monsters, and other frightful and fascinating topics have long brought together the very best writing in a given genre. Now he turns his attention to strange and fantastic worlds in a gripping new anthology featuring entries by such masterful storytellers as Jane Yolen, Arthur C. Clarke, and Alethea Fason.Bruce Coville's masterful collection of short stories by leading SF authors. Coville's popular middle-grade anthologies featuring ghosts, monsters, and other frightful and fascinating topics have long brought together the very best writing in a given genre. Now he turns his attention to strange and fantastic worlds in a gripping new anthology featuring entries by such masterful storytellers as Jane Yolen, Arthur C. Clarke, and Alethea Fason.
Customer Reviews:
Mini Twilight Zones.......2002-01-06
Each short story is like a Twilight Zone episode and most not for those given to nightmare. Fine stories but be warned, some will truely give one the willys.
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- Ernie's World is real and funny (and we need it.)
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Ernie's World: The Book
Ernie Witham
Manufacturer: Fithian Press
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Book Description
Forty-six humorous pieces on Ernie Whitham, Everyguy. He's married with children, step children, and now, grandchildren. He likes sports better than they like him. He doesn't exactly attack life, but survives it through naivete, chutzpah, and the unwillingness to admit he may not be qualified to fix the washing machine. From jury duty through Valentine's Day, Little League through the Christmas tree fiasco, life with Ernie is just plain funny. Each of the five sections features a humorous photo of Ernie: * If You're Going to Be a Husband... * Raising a Family or Visa Versa * Oxymoron #27: Handy-Man * Sports, the Final Frontier * Living in a Man's World
Customer Reviews:
Ernie's World is real and funny (and we need it.).......2003-11-02
Ernie lives in the same world as you and me - but somehow his world is funnier (and softer when he falls.) Real people we could know inhabit his world. And, Ernie gives us helpful information, with his view of the world.
His theory about clutter is valuable for those of us fighting it. He writes, "I have a theory about clutter. Seems to me that clutter is a lot like ants. It begins with a few scouts -- a cardboard box here, a broken, yet easily repairable, appliance there - and then before you know it, it becomes a full-blown invasion. So, knowing that clutter, like the ant species, is, has been, and always will be, I have learned to accept it. Live and let live, I say."
Nobody is going to believe him. We're more like his wife who believes in "that great clutter massacre known as spring cleaning." But, how wonderful to know people like Ernie are with us, no matter which side of the clutter question we choose.
He reminds me of Linus, Charles Schultz's friend. One difference is Linus will never be on a late night talk show. I hope Ernie will give us more columns, books, and maybe sometime talk to us from the big screen. He can keep us sane. Please keep working Ernie. We need you.
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The feel of war.......2006-08-23
War is more than just battles, bullets, fighting and killing. It's about soldiers who go for weeks without bathing, nor even taking their socks off. It's about simple delights such as finding a nice foxhole without having to dig it yourself, or a fellow soldier sharing his fresh eggs for breakfast. It's about making friends quickly and deeply, then never seeing them again.
At least this is the picture of war painted by correspondent Ernie Pyle in "Here is Your War: The Story of G.I. Joe." This fascinating book is a compilation of Pyle's newspaper dispatches from 1942-43 when he accompanied U.S. soldiers fighting in Algerian and Tunisia, and told their stories to the folks "back home."
Pyle is a masterful journalist; any reporter could learn from his careful attention to detail. Every page in "Here is Your War" is filled with stories and anecdotes that are brought alive by his colorful and nuanced observations.
He tell us, for example:
* Infantry constantly watched the sky; nothing scared them more than strafing planes.
* A jeep going fast makes a humming noise that sounds distressingly like an incoming enemy fighter.
* The less a soldier washed the less he was bothered by insects.
* Repair crews improvised methods to keep planes flying that would have frightened the plane's makers
* A tired soldier -- sometimes they would go for two or three days without a break -- could sleep right through an artillery shelling.
* In war, "camouflage became second nature. Near the front no one ever parked a jeep without putting it under a tree. If there were no trees, we left it on the shady side of a building or wall. As we neared the front we folded our windshield down over the hood and slipped a canvas cover over it so it wouldn't glint and attract a pilot's eye."
Along with such details, Pyle introduces us to many dozens of the soldiers. Most of these are ordinary men who were living ordinary lives as doctors, carpenters, furniture movers, or some such occupation before the war. Now suddenly they're off on the biggest adventures of their lives. For each man, Pyle find a story or detail that makes him unique, then quickly moves on. There are no continuing characters in the book, other than the author himself, but that's the nature of war, Pyle explains:
"In wartime people leave without saying good-bye -- a fellow would be gone for three or four days before we realized his absence. It was no use to inquire. We just accepted it, and months later we were likely to be pumping his hand in some other foreign country. Or maybe we would never see him again. There was no telling."
A big strength of this book is that Pyle is just plain likeable. He's down-to-earth, self-deprecating and admittedly human. I especially liked when he confessed that he was too scared to go along with a bomber crew on a dangerous mission.
The book is filled with funny and offbeat anecdotes, and you'll no doubt gets some laughs from the book. But this is still war, and Pyle acknowledges that as the fighting goes on, it changes the men: "The most vivid change was the casual and workshop manner in which they talked about killing. They made the psychological transition from their normal belief that taking human life was sinful, over to a new professional outlook where killing was a craft no longer was there anyting morally wrong about killing. In fact, it was an admirable thing."
Despite the hardships and the dangers, Pyle finds a generally upbeat tone among the American soldiers. Sure, they might be homesick and hungry for a comfortable bed and Mom's cooking, but no one seems to question the war itself. The fact that that there's a clear goal and that the soldiers can see progress being made clearly helps their morale.
A beautifully written book which pulls no punches.......2005-12-28
Ernie Pyle was one of the finest war reporters of his generation and this book shows us why. Pyle writes simply and describes what he saw, day in, day out, never exaggerating, never descending into hyperbole. A tank drives up, the commander laughing about something, and then heads into combat. In the next line Pyle tells us the crew died half an hour later, using curiously dispassionate yet effective language to do so. This is an account of the U.S. combat campaign in North Africa, the first major European theatre conflict that American troops took part in. Pyle pulls no punches and describes the endless problems the troops came up against thanks to what he saw as excessive bureaucracy. Nor does he hide unpleasant facts -- he correctly describes the Battle of Kasserine Pass as a major defeat for the fledgling troops but goes on to say they'll do better the next time. This is a wonderful book and I cannot recommend it too highly.
A Story By The Greatest War Correspondent Of World War Two.......2003-09-23
As a combat veteran, I have always admired Ernie Pyle. He stood head and shoulders above other reporters in World War Two. He was in the thick of battles, shoulder to shoulder with the troops. More than that, he saw war through the eyes of individual soldiers. He shows us their human side while they do a dirty job, and he gives them dignity that they richly deserve. If you haven't been in combat, you haven't a clue as to what it is like, but Ernie Pyle's words come closer to a realistic picture of the many facets of war than anything else I have read. Here Is Your War begins on a ship carrying inexperienced, American troops to the invasion of North Africa in November, 1942. Through Pyle's eyes, we follow their landing at Oran, their pounding and defeats by the Germans as they struggle eastward, the bitter battles in Tunisia, and final victory in the Spring of 1943. If you are in combat long enough, you will die, and it happened to Ernie Pyle on Okinawa in the Spring of 1945. But he left us memorable words about war, such as those in this book. It is well worth reading.
The Feel of Americans Fighting in WW II.......2000-06-05
I've been reading Pyle's "Here is Your War," his accounts from the North African Campaign. It is easy to see why Pyle was beloved, not just by the soldiers (especially the infantrymen), but by the folks at home too. Pyle loved these guys and they loved him. He was "embedded" with them for years. He and they hated the job they had to do, and they were grimly determined that they were not going home until they had done it. Ernie never did get home--he is still out there, still telling his stories, still helping us feel why his guys and his words are still important.
Pyle was not shy in telling readers that he was never big on going on "heroic" missions just so he could write about them. He would pass on opportunities to stick his neck way out. It is interesting and ironic that Ernest Hemingway, another war correspondent, who sought any opportunity to make a hero out of himself, frequently and enviously mentions Pyle, but Pyle never mentions Hemingway. When they were both in Paris in 1944 at the Liberation, Pyle was with the GIs, Hemingway was in the Ritz Bar with the generals.
Pyle was always ready to go anyhwere with the troops, and if that meant being shot at, he just hung on with the rest of the fellows. Pyle made it clear to the readers that the real heroism was being there and sticking it out, not the particular feats of bravery that garnered the headlines and the medals. He showed all the guys (and the gals; Pyle's second love were the ladies in the uniforms) were heroes and he told the folks at home why.
There are never any "minor combat actions" for the lads and lasses under fire, and Pyle gives the feeling of that "pucker factor," when the enemy is shooting, strafing, and shelling. But he also conveys a deeper feeling that is largely missing from combat today. In the 1940s, Americans went to war knowing not just that they or their friends might die, but that our side could lose the whole war. Today, the individual American soldier knows he or she might have a "bad day," but we are all pretty sure we know who's side is going to win. In 1942 or 1943, the fate of the world was riding on those young boys Ernie Pyle loved so deeply. What is beautiful is that Ernie never had to write anything profound about why these guys were out there doing the fighting. He just told their personal stories in a way that told the whole story for all of us.
I would recommend any of Pyle's books, to be read along with a copy of the late Bill Mauldin's "Up Front," his WW II cartoons of Willie and Joe. Mauldin drew cartoon versions of the GI infantrymen that Pyle loved the most. Pyle and Mauldin are the very best way I know to introduce a young person to the Americans in World War II. Pyle and Mauldin are the words and the pictures that provide the feel, of the life and the death, the humor and sadness, the guts and the fear and the bravery, of this Greatest Generation of Americans at war. There were no two journalists as loved by combat soldiers. Without the feel that only they convey it is very hard to give the history of WW II much real human meaning.
Colonel (ret.) Frank Stech, PhD USAR
A vision of the past.......1997-03-06
Ernie Pyle, probably the greatest journalist who ever lived, presents his best work from the American campaign in North Africa. Through Ernie's words, we see how life was like in WWII for the average soldier. Ernie never cared for raving on about generals and admirals -- just the average "Joe." His books read like the greatest screenplays. And yet they are not fiction. They are real stories, memoirs, recollections, biographies of hundreds of soldiers. His book is a living, breathing echoe of America's blood and tears in World war II. A must for any journalist, journalism student or anyone interested in World War II and military history
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The Best American Comics 2006 (Best American)
The cave paintings in Altamira, Spain, tell stories. Mostly they tell tales of the hunt. Drawn during the Paleolithic Stone Age, they still amaze us with their lucidity and directness. As an artist, and as an editor and writer in the graphic medium, we each pay homage to those delineators and interpreters of experience. They offered accounts of what happened and provided a way of remembering, honoring, and learning. When retold by the fire's flickering light, these stories must have lent the drawings a compelling, virtual movement. There is something eerie, but deeply gratifying, in knowing that a direct line runs from our contemporary comic art to these earliest efforts to record and convey what happened. Storyteller, audience, drawings depicting continuity of event: it all sounds familiar. In a culture that has become the most visually oriented in the history of humankind, comics retain the original concept of storytelling and remain a potent force of information.
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