{"id":29848,"date":"2012-08-15T23:08:58","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T05:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/15\/book-review-the-forgotten-500.html"},"modified":"2012-08-15T23:08:58","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T05:08:58","slug":"book-review-the-forgotten-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/15\/book-review-the-forgotten-500.html","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: &quot;The Forgotten 500&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A too-subjective and puffed-out tale about a daring mission and the (more interesting) politics around it.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fphoto.goodreads.com%2Fbooks%2F1344694449l%2F1549989.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/392897465'>a review of The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u2605\u2605\u2606\u2606\u2606 I&#39;ve read about the Greatest Rescue Mission of WWII (Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II&#39;s Greatest Rescue Mission), and this mission, sadly, doesn&#39;t live up. Neither does the book&#8230;.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/Hf7DswnSXF2' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A too-subjective and puffed-out tale about a daring mission and the (more interesting) politics around it. Embedded Link a review of The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II \u2605\u2605\u2606\u2606\u2606 I&#39;ve read about the Greatest Rescue Mission of WWII (Ghost Soldiers: The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/15\/book-review-the-forgotten-500.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Book Review: &quot;The Forgotten 500&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37938,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/28\/movie-review-mission-impossible-ghost-protocol-2011.html","url_meta":{"origin":29848,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: &quot;Mission: Impossible &#8211; Ghost Protocol&quot; (2011)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 28-Jun-13 10:04pm","format":false,"excerpt":"ust in time to head to the airport to pick up my lovely wife, I wrapped up the M:I franchise with the most recent installment. \u00a0I will definitely be watching it again. 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