Download or read book Napoleon written by Robert Burleigh and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief introductory biography of Napoleon.
Download or read book A Corporal s Story written by George Kimball and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A natural storyteller, Kimball wrote often about his military service, always with a newspaperman’s eye for detail and respect for the facts, relating only what he’d witnessed firsthand and recalled with remarkable clarity. Collected in A Corporal’s Story, Kimball’s writings form a unique narrative of one man’s experience in the Civil War, viewed through a perspective enhanced by time and reflection.
Download or read book A Corporal s Story written by Charles Wright and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Wealth of Common Sense written by Ben Carlson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-06-22 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A simple guide to a smarter strategy for the individual investor A Wealth of Common Sense sheds a refreshing light on investing, and shows you how a simplicity-based framework can lead to better investment decisions. The financial market is a complex system, but that doesn't mean it requires a complex strategy; in fact, this false premise is the driving force behind many investors' market "mistakes." Information is important, but understanding and perspective are the keys to better decision-making. This book describes the proper way to view the markets and your portfolio, and show you the simple strategies that make investing more profitable, less confusing, and less time-consuming. Without the burden of short-term performance benchmarks, individual investors have the advantage of focusing on the long view, and the freedom to construct the kind of portfolio that will serve their investment goals best. This book proves how complex strategies essentially waste these advantages, and provides an alternative game plan for those ready to simplify. Complexity is often used as a mechanism for talking investors into unnecessary purchases, when all most need is a deeper understanding of conventional options. This book explains which issues you actually should pay attention to, and which ones are simply used for an illusion of intelligence and control. Keep up with—or beat—professional money managers Exploit stock market volatility to your utmost advantage Learn where advisors and consultants fit into smart strategy Build a portfolio that makes sense for your particular situation You don't have to outsmart the market if you can simply outperform it. Cut through the confusion and noise and focus on what actually matters. A Wealth of Common Sense clears the air, and gives you the insight you need to become a smarter, more successful investor.
Download or read book Corporal in Charge of Taking Care of Captain O Malley written by Jack Fritscher and published by Palm Drive Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 22 stores are archetypes of Gay Desire that pleasure the mind as much the libido! Gathered from hot gay magazines (where test-marked by 1,000 s of readers), 22 diverse/perverse stories by this best-selling cult author include: Corporal in Charge of Taking Care of Captain O Malley which was the only gay play published in the Queer Canon, the literary history anthology, GAY ROOTS. The futuristic Earthorse: Harvest balances the fantasy of sweaty sex pieces like K-9: Dog Dik and a night at the sex-clubz, Selfsucker. The LA night in Hustler Bars leads to the LA 5 AM of Judy Garland in By Blonds Obsesses. Fritscher dishes up Marines in USMC Slap Captain, athletes in teenage Circle Jerk, blue-collars in The Best Dirty Blond Carpenter in Texas, cops in Officer Mike, and sailors in Cruising Merchant Marines. Daddies and sons and frat boys all take a tumble in Nooner Sex, and Big Beefy College Jocks.
Download or read book Corporal Cannon written by Savannah Cannon and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “...a dramatic, sobering account of prejudice and the mistreatment of women in combat zones." - Publishers Weekly Not even old enough to drink, Corporal Savannah Cannon is a young enlisted United States Marine deployed to support Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan in 2010. As a tactical data networking specialist, she is sent away from everyone she knows and attached to a Regimental Combat Team where women are not allowed to repair communications. Her experiences over the next few months shed light on the unique and difficult positions women are placed in when supporting combat roles, while offering a raw look at the painful choices women must sometimes make. Cannon finds herself in a combat zone, ostracized from family, friends, and even her fellow Marines as the men are told to avoid her. The connections she makes are born from trauma and desperation and the choices she makes will echo throughout many lives. Corporal Cannon is not the story of a heroine; it is the hard-hitting account of just one of the flawed individuals who make up the United States’ fighting forces. Mistakes in the battlefield can have dire consequences, personally and professionally. Reflecting on her time in service, the author weaves a story of past and present, and the healing that can come with admitting our mistakes and moving past them.
Download or read book Heart of a Ranger written by Bill Lunn and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-19 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben's death had been recorded on paper more than twenty-four hours previously. But in the very late hours of July 19, 2009, Ben finally no longer had a pulse. The heart of a Ranger was still but alive and awaiting its next mission.
Download or read book The Education of Corporal John Musgrave written by John Musgrave and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Marine's searing and intimate story—"A passionate, fascinating, and deeply humane memoir of both war and of the hard work of citizenship and healing in war’s aftermath. A superb addition to our understanding of the Vietnam War, and of its lessons” (Phil Klay, author of Redeployment). John Musgrave had a small-town midwestern childhood that embodied the idealized postwar America. Service, patriotism, faith, and civic pride were the values that guided his family and community, and like nearly all the boys he knew, Musgrave grew up looking forward to the day when he could enlist to serve his country as his father had done. There was no question in Musgrave’s mind: He was going to join the legendary Marine Corps as soon as he was eligible. In February of 1966, at age seventeen, during his senior year in high school, and with the Vietnam War already raging, he walked down to the local recruiting station, signed up, and set off for three years that would permanently reshape his life. In this electrifying memoir, he renders his wartime experience with a powerful intimacy and immediacy: from the rude awakening of boot camp, to daily life in the Vietnam jungle, to a chest injury that very nearly killed him. Musgrave also vividly describes the difficulty of returning home to a society rife with antiwar sentiment, his own survivor's guilt, and the slow realization that he and his fellow veterans had been betrayed by the government they served. And he recounts how, ultimately, he found peace among his fellow veterans working to end the war. Musgrave writes honestly about his struggle to balance his deep love for the Marine Corps against his responsibility as a citizen to protect the very troops asked to protect America at all costs. Fiercely perceptive and candid, The Education of Corporal John Musgrave is one of the most powerful memoirs to emerge from the war.
Download or read book A Hand Book for Infantry written by William Duane and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended To Explain In A Familiar And Practical Manner, For The Use Of The Military Force Of The United States, The Modern Improvements In The Discipline And Movement Of Armies.
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Download or read book Other Moons written by and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this anthology, Vietnamese writers describe their experience of what they call the American War and its lasting legacy through the lens of their own vital artistic visions. A North Vietnamese soldier forms a bond with an abandoned puppy. Cousins find their lives upended by the revelation that their fathers fought on opposite sides of the war. Two lonely veterans in Hanoi meet years after the war has ended through a newspaper dating service. A psychic assists the search for the body of a long-vanished soldier. The father of a girl suffering from dioxin poisoning struggles with corrupt local officials. The twenty short stories collected in Other Moons range from the intensely personal to narratives that deal with larger questions of remembrance, trauma, and healing. By a diverse set of authors, including many veterans, they span styles from social realism to tales of the fantastic. Yet whether describing the effects of Agent Orange exposure or telling ghost stories, all speak to the unresolved legacy of a conflict that still haunts Vietnam. Among the most widely anthologized and popular pieces of short fiction about the war in Vietnam, these works appear here for the first time in English. Other Moons offers Anglophone audiences an unparalleled opportunity to experience how the Vietnamese think and write about the conflict that consumed their country from 1954 to 1975—a perspective still largely missing from American narratives.
Download or read book Once Upon a Lifetime written by Brent A. Peterson and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the most compelling stories from our Greatest Generation." This biographical account follows a descendant of America's early pioneers as he becomes a young man in the 1930's. Caught up in the winds of war, Bill Bennett valiantly serves his country in the USMC, surviving the Solomon Islands, Tarawa, Saipan and Tinian. Returning to his hometown, Bill endeavors to honor his inexplicable survival by living a life dedicated to Christ. This book is marketed to adults with an interest in U.S. history and inspirational Christian non-fiction.
Download or read book Last Men Out written by Bob Drury and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Last Men Out" tells the riveting story of the last 11 United States soldiers to escape South Vietnam on April, 30, 1975, the day America ended its combat presence.
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Download or read book Stories from the War written by Stephen Crane and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition contains Crane's best stories dealing with wars and the military. The extraordinary power of imagination is more wonderful than that of Defoe. It is in dialogue that he is at his strongest, for in this the words are used as the soldiers would have used them. Contents: The Little Regiment Three Miraculous Soldiers A Mystery Of Heroism An Indiana Campaign A Grey Sleeve The Veteran The Price of the Harness The Lone Charge Of William B. Perkins The Clan Of No-Name God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen The Revenge of the Adolphus The Sergeant's Private Madhouse Virtue in War Marines Signalling Under Fire At Guantanamo This Majestic Lie War Memories The Second Generation
