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Summary: Well written
Review: An extremely well written, consise and informative book about a little known area of WWII. I bought three and gave them as gifts. Eached recipient raved.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: Excellent book. Well researched and superbly written. A must read by anybody interested in WWII, Airborne, D-Day, etc. This is the best book ever written about the use of combat gliders in WWII. I hope the author, Charles Masters writes more. If he does, please send me a copy and charge my account. Thank you.
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Summary: Great
Review: Finally a great book about combat gliders and the part they played on D-Day. Superb! The author did a sensational job of laying out in detail this unique WWII subject. Also the best analysis and explanation about how the location of the invasion was chosen and how it was decided what country was responsible for assaulting a particular beach. This is the first book that I have found that sets out this information in detail. Well done!
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Summary: Glider of Neptune
Review: Glidermen of Neptune covers the subject of the glidermen of the 101st and 82nd Airborne Division from an American point of view. This becomes especially clear when the author starts discussing the British gliders. The book is very deltailed when it comes to describing the operations until the landing. After landing the story ends. What I missed is how the men were doing after landing. The glidermen did make a difference in Normandy and that does not become clear in this book.A nice story about the subject although the title doesn't cover the story the way it could have done.
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Summary: I was a glidermen on D-Day. Best account ever!
Review: I was a battalion commander and glidermen in the 101st Airborne Division for the D-Day operations. I was also one of the consultants for the movie "The Longest Day". Over the last 50 years I've endeavored to read as many books as I could on the subject of D-Day, Airborne and the American and British gliders used in the D-Day operations. "Glidermen of Neptune" is the most accurate, clear, consise and lucid accounts of the D-Day glider operations I've ever read. It is an excellent book and an invaluable resource on the subject. I recommended it to my son, who is an instructor at the War College and uses it as a reference book in his class. I applaud Mr. Masters for his fine book.
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Summary: I was a glidermen on D-Day. Best account ever!
Review: I was a battalion commander and glidermen in the 101st Airborne Division for the D-Day operations. I was also one of the consultants for the movie "The Longest Day". Over the last 50 years I've endeavored to read as many books as I could on the subject of D-Day, Airborne and the American and British gliders used in the D-Day operations. "Glidermen of Neptune" is the most accurate, clear, consise and lucid accounts of the D-Day glider operations I've ever read. It is an excellent book and an invaluable resource on the subject. I recommended it to my son, who is an instructor at the War College and uses it as a reference book in his class. I applaud Mr. Masters for his fine book.
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: The most complete and well writted book on the subject. The author takes you step by step through the development of the American glider program and concurrently the planing and development of D-Day. The photographs alone give this book a new dimension. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in D-Day, Gliders or Airborne.
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Summary: Not what you think!
Review: This is one of the most disappointing books I have ever purchased. ...there does not appear to be any original research conducted with participants. The book is merely a rehash of other writers" efforts and a monotonous listing of Units, departure times and LZ arrival times. For instance, he states: "... two glidermen managed to push open the door of the still speeding glider so that another could fire his BAR ..." Who are these men and what is the source of this information? We are never told individual glidermen's names or sources of these stories. The combat descriptions seem generic, in nature. In addition to the almost copywriter approach to the acutal D-Day combat descriptions, the remainder of the text recants the statistics of the day "Mission Galveston was to begin with two serials of fifty gliders each taking off concurrently from two different fields. The first serial, leaving from Ramsbury, was comprised of thirty-two Wacos and eighteen Horsas. All fifty gliders in the second serial, leaving from Alderson, were Wacos." For all the energy one gets from reading about D-day events he could have put the information in a few tables. Masters has the foundation of a good book, but he needs to weave the lives and struggles of the individuals he purports to describe into and interesting narrative to warrant the title "Glidermen of Neptune".
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Summary: Not what you think!
Review: This is one of the most disappointing books I have ever purchased. ...there does not appear to be any original research conducted with participants. The book is merely a rehash of other writers" efforts and a monotonous listing of Units, departure times and LZ arrival times. For instance, he states: "... two glidermen managed to push open the door of the still speeding glider so that another could fire his BAR ..." Who are these men and what is the source of this information? We are never told individual glidermen's names or sources of these stories. The combat descriptions seem generic, in nature. In addition to the almost copywriter approach to the acutal D-Day combat descriptions, the remainder of the text recants the statistics of the day "Mission Galveston was to begin with two serials of fifty gliders each taking off concurrently from two different fields. The first serial, leaving from Ramsbury, was comprised of thirty-two Wacos and eighteen Horsas. All fifty gliders in the second serial, leaving from Alderson, were Wacos." For all the energy one gets from reading about D-day events he could have put the information in a few tables. Masters has the foundation of a good book, but he needs to weave the lives and struggles of the individuals he purports to describe into and interesting narrative to warrant the title "Glidermen of Neptune".
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