Mars through my telescope, enlarged 4X--10:50 UT, Aug. 12, 2003
w/8-inch Celestron reflector
Top, above: Moon going through its phases
during its 28 1/2 days orbiting Earth; second, above:
Moon casts its shadow in a Solar Eclipse; bottom, The
Pleiades, star group in the constellation of Taurus.
Above: Saturn as seen by Cassini space probe, June 2004
Below: Earth as seen from Moon's North pole
Above: Use stereo spex to view the above pix
taken by the NASA rover on Mars in 2004.
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[This website was last updated in January 2007]
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Some images courtesy of U.S. Naval Observatory and NASA.
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MY NEW BOOK!
Stalin's Other War: Soviet Grand Strategy, 1939-1941
By Albert L. Weeks
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
$60.00 Cloth 0-7425-2191-5 July 2002 216pp
$24.95 Paper 0-7425-2192-3 May 2003 216pp
On June 22, 1941, just less than two years after signing the Nazi-Soviet Agreements, Adolf Hitler's German army invaded the Soviet Union. The attack hardly came as a surprise to Josef Stalin; in fact, history has long held that Stalin spent the two intervening years building up his defenses against a Nazi attack. With the gradual declassifying of former Soviet documents, though, historians are learning more and more about Stalin's grand plan during the years 1939-1941.
Longtime Soviet expert Albert L. Weeks has studied the newly-released information and come to a different conclusion about the Soviet Union's pre-war buildup--it was not precaution against German invasion at all. In fact, Weeks argues, the evidence now suggests Soviet mobilization was aimed at an eventual invasion of Nazi Germany. The Soviets were quietly biding their time between 1939 and 1941, allowing the capitalist powers to destroy one another, all the while preparing for their own Westward march. Stalin, Weeks shows, wasn't waiting for a Nazi attack--Hitler simply beat him to the punch.
About The Author
Albert L. Weeks has been an expert on Soviet Russia for more than fifty years. Weeks has served as a journalist, policy analyst, and professor, and is credited with coining the name "Sputnik" while working for Newsweek in 1957. Stalin's Other War is his eighth book.
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