Two racing movies. James Garner Grand Prix and Steve McQueen Le Mans.
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These movies were mentioned in the book as they were filmed at the height of the Racing Craze in the early 1960s.
Jim
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Jack the Ripper, never caught, right? Like the Zodiac Killer… Very interesting
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Nope, never caught. Several suspects, lots of theories, but never any actual…“That’s him”. One of the suspects was hung for unrelated crimes and there is the rumor that right before he dropped from the gallows he supposedly said, “I am Jack the…”. He wasn’t able to finish what he started to say
I became interested in Jack the Ripper many years ago when I was in high school after watching a program on HBO called “Whodunit? The Greatest Unsolved Mysteries”. It discussed Jack the Ripper, Lizzy Borden, The Zodiac Killer, The Hall-Mills Murders and others.
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Fancied a break and saw a review for this. It’s definitely escapism, so good I’m almost at the end of the second book in the series.
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Just finished this. Interesting first-person narrative of a cold war TOW gunner. Quick read. Part of a series’ about the cold war in Europe. Not a lot of detail that we modelers like.
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I am currently reading this title. I received it in the mail yesterday from the author. She wrote the book from the stories her father told her about when he was a member of the 4th Infantry Division during World War II. She sent a copy of the book to me as her father and my stepfather were friends during the war and fought together until my stepfather was wounded and evacuated during the fighting in the Hürtgen Forest. So of course, my stepfather is talked about in the book as well.
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Must be a great read! Did you learn anything new about your step father?
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Thank you for asking Erwin. I haven’t got to the point where they met yet. I did flip through the pages and found the part where he helped carry my stepfather back to the medics after he was wounded during a German artillery attack.
I wish that my stepfather would have written a book. He was a B.A.R. gunner and had several stories he told me including his basic training, his time in England prior to the Normandy landings, D-Day, the fighting in the hedgerows, the fighting through Belgium and up until the time he was wounded in Germany. He willed me several of his items from the war including his medals and a piece of German shrapnel they removed from him which almost crippled him and gave him a bad back for the rest of his life.
Thank you again,
Randy 
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These are great stories. What these guys went through is inconceivable if you didn’t experience it yourself. Even after reading books like these, one doesn’t even come close to understanding what really happened.
Getting so much closer to the one you love (I hope) must give the reading so much more depth…
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There is a book here in Germany, published by the local historical Museum about the first world war . My father spend original letters from his grandfather to them and it’s amazing to read this for me …
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This crazy wild ride.
I have a bit of an amateur anthropological interest in the UFO and related canon, and particularly, how it’s changed markedly over the decades.
You would almost think some or much of it is a psyop. Nah…
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After a few failed attempts … I am giving this another go …
Not due to divine intervention… Just want to read it at least once …
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Ha. About a month ago I thought the same thing, “should probably read the whole thing once and for all.” I am almost through all the “begat-ing”. 
I am giving myself 50-50 odds on finishing it.
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If you want to change up the version and don’t mind a digital version.
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Spoiler Alert!
Jesus dies at the end 
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Or does he … 
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