Reviews for History of the War in the Peninsula, and in the South of France from ... 1807 to ... 1814

The average rating for History of the War in the Peninsula, and in the South of France from ... 1807 to ... 1814 based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-01-17 00:00:00 Jacqueline mager This is a review of the fifth edition of this book, published in 1998. I recommend seeking out a newer edition if you can, but if not, this version will suffice. I wish I had borrowed a copy of this book during my first couple weeks of flight training. It is super thorough, and much more useful than Say Again, Please. First, the author makes a case for good radio communication (as if you really need him to). I haven't been flying for too long, and even I regularly hear unintelligible radio calls, useless radio calls (no airport given, no location given, no runway given), people stepping over other calls (listen first please!!), people giving their life story to ATC, etc. You can't be a good pilot without making good radio calls, and practice makes perfect. The point of this book is to give you a lot of examples and a lot of practice, based on the type of airspace in which you fly. The book starts with uncontrolled airports and using MULTICOM to make radio calls. Then UNICOM / CTAF is explained. (There's really not a huge difference between the two.) Then the game gets stepped up with class D airspace and communications with tower and ground. The author even explains ATIS and the type of weather information that you will receive, and the importance of listening to and understanding the ATIS before talking to tower/ground. Finally, the author goes over TRSA (of which there are still a few left in the US) and the big guys: classes C and B. There are a lot of full, back and forth radio conversations in here that can be used to practice. All of them use proper ATC terminology so that you can get into good habits early on. There's also information on VFR flight services in class E, which you may use on a cross-country flight. I really liked this book, and highly recommend it to anybody who needs to work on their radio communication (which I think is pretty much everyone!).

Review # 2 was written on 2017-04-10 00:00:00 Ronauld G Walton An altogether lovely book, and the most gorgeous illustrations. Imagine if Da Vinci spent an afternoon doing sketches of unicorns. That's what most of the pictures remind me of. From what I remember, this book was a "history" of the unicorn, but it also had a puzzle with a possible prize. There's a riddle at the end, and the solution is scattered throughout the rest of the book. Supposedly, if you can solve the riddle then the answer will tell you where to find a real unicorn horn. Okay, it's obviously a narwhale horn set with silver and jewels. But it looks beautiful in the picture, and I've never heard about anyone finding the thing. Anybody else heard anything about that?