Eyewitness Soldier – Simon Adams

soldierPlease welcome my favorite guest blogger my son Nick, as he gives his review of this book that he really likes and it is quite evident here at home, where he looks at it a lot.

Eyewitness Soldier is one of those books that is great for one that is wanting to learn about soldiers.  Actually, all of the eyewitness books are awesome for this.  They have loads of information, plenty of pictures, and this one has a clip image cd-rom that can be used on your computer, for making different things that you may like.

Here are some other things he liked about the book:

  • Shows different types of soldiers – uniforms, equipment.
  • Shows the different types of soldiers – platoon, battalion, companies and more.
  • Talks about specialized soldiers such as mercenaries and how they participate on conflicts.
  • Also shows the ranking system from Private and up, selections and differences.
  • Again, it comes with a clip art cd-rom, to use with your own personalized projects.
  • The different types of operations – attacks, formations.
  • Has many informative on – Special Forces, SAS, Marines, Green Beret, German Units that were used in the Olympics.
  • There is also a HUGE wall poster that is also included (full size) with a little bit of everything from the book.

Suffice to say, this is one book he will be referring to again and again for a long time.

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The Soccer Book – The Sport, The Teams, The Tactics, The Cups – David Goldblatt

the soccer bookWhen this book came to my door, I was excited for my son who received it, but I had absolutely no idea how great and fact filled this books was.  It is absolutely filled with illustrations about every facet of the game of soccer, the rules, the history, the tactics, the skills,  EVERYTHING.

The covers of the book itself is even patterned as a real soccer ball as well to give it even more authenticity.  At a whooping 399 pages, this book will not soon leave your home if you have multiple children that are crazy about the sport of soccer.

My son Nick who has graciously lent his thoughts about the book as well.

  • Even better than any other soccer book I have read
  • Has every single little detail about soccer you would ever want to know and then some

His Favorite features are:

  • The maps of countries, locations, the illustrations of accessories, equipment
  • History of how soccer became such a phenomenon
  • Statistics
  • Championship Cups
  • Rules, different types of soccer
  • REALLY GREAT BOOK ! If you love soccer

Last and final thought from Nick – This book TOTALLY blew my mind !

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