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While I still haven't gone for any one of these "electronic books", if you would like to be able to store thousands of your favorite photos, high fidelity recordings of music & feature length movies in a small pocketable VCR that can be used anywhere, with stereo earbuds, or played back on your tv ...

For me the main character in "All the Pretty Horses" had a wonderful " never say die" atitude & a fine sense of honor & decency! Refreshing to find such basic old fashioned qualities in a contemorary movie. It came off as a really worthwhile moral movie! An unusual story too. Well acted & filmed ...

Greetings: A superb British children's author Michael Morpurgo wrote a wonderful book "War Horse". This has led to a fantastic theatrical production in London & Stephen Spielberg is about to film it also! The show has an amazing South African company's full scale horse puppets & if you check on ...

"State Trooper: National Trooper Coalition" ISBN 156311-613-B $39.99 US. All the State Police & Highway Patrol outfits covered with colour pages of uniforms, badges, patches & cruisers. Black & white photos, Indexed. Fallen troopers listed. About 11" x 14". One of a series of police/fire & special ...

Dear Jim: Perfectly legal to make your own personal copies & to own a code free DVD player. Suggest you take a look at <www.220-electronics.com/dvd/dvx.htm> I have dealt with this Chicago company twice or so & they are good to do business with. Grant.

John L. Matthew

Hi Jim: If you run a search on "Google", you should find some forums with fellows discussing "hacking" DVD players to make them "Code Free" & even kill Macrovision copy-guard protection! Since virtually all DVD players are made in China & sold world-wide, the manufacturer's secret code has to be ...

Yes! They are all fun & extremely well done, so well worth owning copies on DVD & watching them. I think the title was "Daredevils of the Desert", in itself a great story! Grant.

Pat: Simon Wincer directed several of these, & in the one about the Australian Light Horse, he reused the entire climactic charge from his 1987 "The Lighthorsemen"! Catherine Zeta-Jones plays a spy! Long before her marriage to Michael Douglas! It also seemed to borrow a bit from "40,000 Horsemen ...

Pat: Brian's book is absolutely superb! I can even recomend you buy one sight unseen, I guarantee you will like it & find it fascinating. His research is vast & amazing & he had lots of experts helping him too. Re "The Lighthorsemen", sadly he completely scotches Ian Jones' use of Meinertzhagen ...

Further to Brian Garfield's book, please take a look at www.briangarfield.net/events.htm for several excellent reviews of "The Meinertzhagen Mystery". The same address, but with "works.htm" substituted for "events" leads you to Brian's movies & other books. Grant.

My initial order for a soft cover copy of Brian Garfield's book went astray! Sent to a wrong box number. However I have now sent in for a hardcover copy & hope soon to be able to report on the book. Grant.

Pat: I'm pretty sure someplace I Do have a VHS copy of the 1946 "The Overlanders". But where? A lot of stuff is stashed away in piled up cartons & there's no listings handy. My library has one, which might be for hearing impaired? I could try that. Currently I'm bedevilled by what may be arthritis ...

Pat: Only just saw your request! Will get on it. Grant.

My order has gone in for the softcover edition of "The Meinertzhagen Mysteries", so hopefully very soon I may be able to say something about it! There is a sizeable excerpt from it on the publisher's website incidentally. It sounds excellent.Grant.

A reminder that Brian Garfield's book - "The
Meinertzhagen Mystery - The Life & Legend of a Colossal Fraud" was published by Potomac Books in January 30th 2007. ISBN-10 1597970417 ISBN-13: 978-1597970419. It may well finally tell the truth about him? Grant.

I got & ran the 2 DVD "Collector's Edition of "Flyboys". Thoroughly enjoyed it, despite the faults that others have blown up into intense condemnation in reviews! It tried very hard to give tribute to those far off pioneers who joined the French Lafayette Escadrille in WWI. Admittedly somewhat ...

Greetings all: "LOTNA" is now out on DVD & not to be missed. This is Wajda's famous rare movie about a white mare given to the head of a last Uhlan cavalry regiment about to face German tanks in WWII. Each officer rides her & she is handed down as they are killed off. At the end sadly her leg is ...

Further: I now find, thanks to one of our ALHA's top researchers, that this new New Zealand documentary is already just out on DVD for $30. I'm asking the owner at his website how he wants currency sent & what kind? Grant.

Further: I see where Greg Bradley beat me to it! Having posted these two websites already on 12/03 on our general discussion pages. I'm hopimg this new documentary makes it soon onto DVD? Grant.

John L. Matthew

Greetings all: On the Australian Light Horse Association Forum new postings have turned up about New Zealander Paul Sanderson's new documentary about the 10,000 horses from there that went to Egypt/Palestine in the WWI campaigns. His website is <www.horsedocumentary.com> concerning his film "All the ...