Download or read book A Bullet Through the Helmet written by Douglas E Moore and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Memoir of a Vietnam Dustoff pilot. True stories of Huey helicopter Medevac rescue missions flown during the Vietnam War.
Download or read book Harper s Pictorial Library of the World War written by Albert Bushnell Hart and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Through Persia in Disguise written by Charles Edward Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Actions at Attock (Indus River crossing), Oudh-Nepal border, Umbeylah (Panjab), during & after Sepoy Rebellion 1857-1858; British oil interests in Iran.
Download or read book The Assault Recon Team Angel 1 written by Brian Falkner and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 2030, and humanity is losing the war against alien invaders. A Band of Brothers meets Ender's Game in this sci-fi military thriller. A team of six has been chosen . . . . . . to infiltrate the enemy's headquarters in the heart of the Australian Outback. The six teens have been modified to look like aliens. They have spent years mastering alien culture so that they can talk, act—even think—like their enemies. But from the start, the recon mission goes terribly wrong. It's only when they are close to discovering the shocking truth of the aliens' plans that the team is forced to ask: Who among them is a traitor? Brian Falkner, author of The Project, Brain Jack, and The Tomorrow Code, delivers a page-turning military thriller with his signature heart-pounding action and unique sci-fi twists. Hand this to teens who love playing Call of Duty and Halo! "Falkner supplies a tight story that features a strong plot and believable characters. . . . [He] effectively employs the tropes of both survival and war stories to great effect. While an entirely satisfying read on its own, readers can only hope there is a second installment in the works."—Kirkus Reviews
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Download or read book Helmet for My Pillow written by Robert Leckie and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helmet for My Pillow is a gripping memoir that transports readers to the frontlines of World War II through the eyes of Robert Leckie, a young Marine who fought in some of the most brutal battles of the Pacific Theater. With raw honesty and vivid prose, Leckie recounts his experiences from boot camp to the bloody battles of Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, and Peleliu, offering a deeply personal perspective on the sacrifices, camaraderie, and horrors of war. This powerful narrative serves as a testament to the courage and resilience of the men who fought and died in the Pacific, making it an essential read for anyone seeking to understand the realities of combat and the human cost of war.
Download or read book Sex and Zen A Bullet in the Head written by Stefan Hammond and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1996 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including reviews of 200 films, plus information about U.S. theaters, video stores, and mail-order sources that specialize in this white-hot, new genre, this is the first guide to an exploding popular culture phenomenon. Includes 75 photos.
Download or read book Hunter Killer Squadron written by Matthew Brennan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1992 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of the 1st Cav's elilte air-ground assault force.
Download or read book In Many Wars by Many War Correspondents written by George Lynch and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “There are few people in the world who have more opportunity for getting close to the hot interesting things of one’s time than the special correspondent of a great paper,” George Lynch, a veteran British correspondent, wrote in Impressions of a War Correspondent, published in 1903. He made it all sound glorious, just the way war correspondents like to recount their experiences on the battlefield. But in a few months he had less to exult about. Lynch and a distinguished throng of foreign correspondents with high hopes of a good story assembled in Tokyo to cover the Russo-Japanese War—a monumental conflict that would mark the first modern defeat of a Western force by an Asian one—only to discover that the authorities would not let them “close to the hot interesting things.” Corralled in the Imperial Hotel, the journalists had nothing much to do except tell stories in the bar and write about local flora. A few of them, including Jack London and Richard Harding Davis, decided to contribute short autobiographical stories recounting their most exciting journalistic experiences for a book to be edited by Lynch and his American colleague, Frederick Palmer. The correspondents told their tales in different ways—prose, poems, sketches, and even a short play. Their stories recounted their routines, failures, and triumphs, including durviving battles and waiting to see action. One contributor imagines bewhiskered correspondents in 1950 still awaiting permission from Japan to go to the front—only to learn the war had been over for thirty-nine years. Printed locally by a Japanese printer and largely forgotten until now, In Many Wars, by Many War Correspondents offers colorful stories and insights about the lives and personalities of some of history’s most celebrated war correspondents. With a foreword by John Maxwell Hamilton that chronicles the circumstances under which the contributors compiled the book, this new edition opens a window into the fascinating world of foreign newsgathering at the turn of the twentieth century.
Download or read book The House of the Good Neighbor written by Esther Pohl Lovejoy and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Destiny in the Desert written by Jonathan Dimbleby and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the British victory at the Battle of El Alamein in November 1942 that inspired one of Winston Churchill's most famous aphorisms: 'This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end, but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning'. And yet the significance of this episode remains unrecognised. In this thrilling historical account, Jonathan Dimbleby describes the political and strategic realities that lay behind the battle, charting the nail-biting months that led to the victory at El Alamein in November 1942. It is a story of high drama, played out both in the war capitals of London, Washington, Berlin, Rome and Moscow, and at the front in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Morrocco and Algeria and in the command posts and foxholes in the desert. Destiny in the Desert is about politicians and generals, diplomats, civil servants and soldiers. It is about forceful characters and the tensions and rivalries between them. Drawing on official records and the personal insights of those involved at every level, Dimbleby creates a vivid portrait of a struggle which for Churchill marked the turn of the tide - and which for the soldiers on the ground involved fighting and dying in a foreign land. Now available in paperback in time, Destiny in the Desert, which was shortlisted for the Hessell-Tiltman prize 2012-13, is required reading for anyone with an interest in the Desert War.
Download or read book Ice Trilogy written by Vladimir Sorokin and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Review Books Original In 1908, deep in Siberia, it fell to earth. THEIR ICE. A young man on a scientific expedition found it. It spoke to his heart, and his heart named him Bro. Bro felt the Ice. Bro knew its purpose. To bring together the 23,000 blond, blue-eyed Brothers and Sisters of the Light who were scattered on earth. To wake their sleeping hearts. To return to the Light. To destroy this world. And secretly, throughout the twentieth century and up to our own day, the Children of the Light have pursued their beloved goal. Pulp fiction, science fiction, New Ageism, pornography, video-game mayhem, old-time Communist propaganda, and rampant commercial hype all collide, splinter, and splatter in Vladimir Sorokin’s virtuosic Ice Trilogy, a crazed joyride through modern times with the promise of a truly spectacular crash at the end. And the reader, as eager for the redemptive fix of a good story as the Children are for the Primordial Light, has no choice except to go along, caught up in a brilliant illusion from which only illusion escapes intact.
Download or read book Explosive Blast Injuries written by Zhengguo Wang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-22 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a systematic summary of a series of achievements of blast injury studies in China and the latest progress in blast injury treatment including injuries caused by various explosion accidents (such as coal mine gas explosion, and chemical explosion) and terrorist bombing around the world over the past three decades. The book not only covers comprehensive introductions to the knowledge and injury theories about explosive shock waves, but also expounds the prevention and treatment of various explosion shock injuries and their complications with generalized summaries. This book not only contains a diverse range of content, but also immense practicality. It elaborates on the causes of various types of explosion and impact injuries, as well as protection and treatment measures, serving not only as an important basis and technical support for military health service support in modern warfare, but is also extremely important in providing practical value in peacetime disaster prevention, mitigation and relief for patients.
Download or read book Britain s Last Tommies written by Richard Van Emden and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2006-03-19 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War as a living history is to all intents and purposes over. As of today February 2005, there are only twelve veterans from six million alive who served on the Western Front. Richard has spent the last 20 years interviewing and carefully recording the memories of over 270 veterans and this book is a culmination of his 20 years of work. The book will be an extraordinary collection of stories told by the veterans themselves but also through the author's memories of them: the remarkable, the sad, the funny, the moving. It will also feature an outstanding collection of photographs taken of the veterans as they were, as soldiers during the war together with recent images of almost all of these men, taken at home, back on the Western Front, at the final veterans' reunion, and at various investitures. Britain's Last Tommies will also offer a unique list of veterans, all of who individually hold the poignant title of being the last Gallipoli veteran, the last Royal Flying Corps veteran, the last Distinguished Conduct Medal holder, the last cavalryman, the last Prisoner of War.
Download or read book Lightweight Ballistic Composites written by Ashok Bhatnagar and published by Woodhead Publishing. This book was released on 2006-06-30 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ballistic composites need to be lightweight and durable as well as exhibiting high impact resistance and damage tolerance. This important book reviews these requirements, how the materials used for ballistic composites meet them and their range of applications.After an introductory chapter, Lightweight ballistic composites is split into two main sections. The first part of the book explores material requirements and testing. There are chapters on bullets and bullet fragments, material responses to ballistic impact, standards and specifications, modelling and test methods. Part Two reviews the range of materials used, production methods and applications. Topics discussed include high-performance ballistic fibres and ceramics, non-woven ballistic and prepreg composites, and their uses in body armour, vehicle and aircraft protection.This major book is the first of its kind to give a comprehensive review of the current use of lightweight ballistic composites in both military and law-enforcement applications. It is an invaluable reference for all those involved in personnel and vehicle protection in defence and police forces around the world. Reviews the current use of lightweight ballistic composites in both military and law-enforcement application An authoritative overview of the range of materials used, production methods and applications Explores material requirements and testing
Download or read book Only by the Hand of God written by H J (Duke) Petmecky CW03 USN, Retired and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only by the Hand of God By H J (Duke) Petmecky CW03 USN, Retired and Earl Boutell “This is a war story; a tale that takes you along with me through 18 months in the jungles, rivers, canals, and military facilities in Viet Nam. It was a period of conflict in which I was exposed to, not only the risk of death, but to the powerful influence of my Creator.” Harrowing, exciting and sorrowful by turns, Only by the Hand of God is a powerful story of loss and redemption. Written with a sure hand full of vigor and also a touch of rough humor by H J (Duke) Petmecky and his co-author Earl Boutell, this book offers its readers a graphic, colorful, life-changing experience.
Download or read book Fallen Colonies written by Ashley Ashforth and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violet wakes in an abandoned laboratory with little to no memory of who she is or how she got there. Slowly her memories return to her as she finds her way home. As she searches for answers about her past Violet is hunted by creatures that are near impossible to kill...for normal people anyway. Violet isn't normal though, not anymore. Book Review 1: "The characters were extremely vivid and well-imagined. I was intrigued by the world and wanted to know more." - Kelly Boworth Book Review 2: “Fallen Colonies is a creative and inventive look into a living, breathing dystopian world, lush with vivid environments and dynamic, progressive characters. Slight discrepancies in pace are overshadowed by sheer creativity, with gripping plot points to keep readers guessing throughout the ride. In short, Fallen Colonies offers readers a look into a brand new, elaborate mythos just waiting to be unraveled.“ - Mr. English Book Review 3: "I couldn’t put it down. I stayed up until 2am finishing it. Truly a fun read!" - J. Newland
