First the book needs a good editing. I loved learning the history of the biggest gun battle in Dallas PD history. Book came in in great condition. Captain Walt has done his research and details everything that went on.The Hall Street Shootout is a must read for any police officer, buff, or Dallas resident who wants a little history.As a Dallas O
- Title : To War on Two Wheels
- Author : Ron (Jock) Pope
- Rating : 4.74 (562 Vote)
- Publish : 2014-7-13
- Format : Paperback
- Pages : 128 Pages
- Asin : B00BPAURQQ
- Language :
First the book needs a good editing. I loved learning the history of the biggest gun battle in Dallas PD history. Book came in in great condition. Captain Walt has done his research and details everything that went on.The Hall Street Shootout is a must read for any police officer, buff, or Dallas resident who wants a little history.As a Dallas Officer I found it very interesting. The tattooed body, the 'subject in/of tattooing' is the locus of Sullivan's discussion; he/she/it provides a place where the at times abstract discussions of the above themes reverberate and are made (however provisionally) concrete. As I was assigned to Central Patrol and worked the Hall & Thomas area often, had I not been in Vietnam I would likely have been there like several of the men behind the retaining wall, one of which was my partner when I returned to DPD in November 1970. A fun book of prose! Although I am not a cat lover, I enjoy all of these imaginative verses. I accidentally came across this little booklet and
When Allied forces pushed into Europe, Churchill landed in Normandy and the German Wehrmacht surrendered at Luneberg Heath, one man saw it all.Ron Pope survived the D-Day landings, being Stuka dive-bombed and was rarely far from the fighting.
However despite being at the side of Britain's military top brass as battles were being lost and won, you will not find mention of Ron in the history books. What a weak end it was to this high-ranking German's War, to be escorted in his modest little scout car by a lowly corporal to his enemy's HQ to surrender his army. Not the Nazi one. When I saluted he gave the correct German salute. General Kinzel, accompanied only by his driver, was coming towards me in his little Kubelwagen. His memory of bringing in General Eberhard Kinzel to Montgomery to sign the surrender at Luneberg Heath is one of his greatest.
'After crossing the Elbe, I rode about 25 miles through no-man's-land and saw not a soul until I arrived at the rendezvous point. Very different from most War stor
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