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| Wednesday, 22 October 2008 | |||||||||||||||||
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This must have been a frustrating book to write but an interesting one to research. When I picked this up to read, I thought it was oriented along investigating what the Nazis had done on anti-gravity technology and "flying saucers." Much to my disappointment, the book covers one man's search for an elusive technology. 
The book starts with the author describing an article he had written with a throw-away line dealing jokingly with anti-gravity. As a result, he soon received an article placed anonymously on his desk that heralded (back in the 50s) the advent of a new age, one where anti-gravity solves a rash of world problems. The appearance of the article kicked off the author's creative juices and he thought the article would be worth a story of some kind so he began to research the subject.As a writer for Jane's, the world famous reference for all things military, Nick Cook was cognizant of the negative images the term "anti-gravity" conjured up. In his dealings with other organizations and associations, he skirted the term and asked for information on projects, people, and other linked research topics. After a short while he was forced by the limits of this method to go into more detail on what he was after. He claims that he then comes to the attention of "others" who want to guard the secret of anti-gravity technology and runs into stonewalls when following up on further leads. I *think* his conclusion is that there is a strong point to be made that this technology exists and is practicable fo our use today but that powerful interests are not allowing it to be released to protect the US aerodynamics industries. If he was not a writer/editor for Jane's I would be really turned off by this. As it is, my interest is peaked but not enough to write my congressman.... The book reads like a detective story. The author will develop a lead, follow it through, and then discuss the ramifications of what he discovered. This then, leads to more tantalizing clues. It's a lot like Jon Voight when he was speakingin National Treasure! This clue leads to another, and another, ad infinitum. The bottom line is that what Cook discovers is that there has been a lot of interest in, and research done into anti-gravity technologies. Nowhere does he actually find a working device. There are documents and people who will admit that there were devices built, tested, and functional, but the hard evidence is nowhere to be found. For our purposes, the supposed existence of a major project under Nazi and then SS control that producerd workable prototypes is enough to generate a number of ideas for scenarios and units. My suggestion, if this interests you, is to only read the sections about the Nazis which is some ninety pages long. That will give you a feel for the author's argument and enough material to develop more SOTR1949 goodness.
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