Download or read book Bloody Jungle written by Chris Evans and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Visual history of the Vietnam War • Hundreds of photos, many of them rare and never published before • Photos of soldiers, helicopters and ground vehicles, villages and terrain, base camps, and more • Perfect complement to the narrative accounts in the Stackpole Military History Series, such as Street Without Joy and Land With No Sun

Download or read book Bloody Jungle Rain written by M. J. Earle and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most compelling and thought-provoking Vietnam stories ever told begins with an explosion that seriously injures Corporal James Morrison. At first he wonders why he's lying on his back and it's raining on a sunny day. Then he realizes it isn't rain coming down, but human blood. Bloody Jungle Rain explores what happens to the reluctant Marine who was wounded in 1968. His brush with death brings Morrison to an operating room and a near-death experience that changes his life forever. The wounded Marine faces Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, depression, alcoholism and a broken marriage. Yet through his maze of problems there runs a thread of determination and the hope of finding a peaceful harbor. Sadly though, peace was difficult to find for many Vietnam veterans returning home to an unsympathetic public. This story about courage by Colorado native M.J. Earle was written to remember a childhood friend killed in Vietnam. The author says it proves that it is possible to overcome horrendous problems as long as there is faith and hope in the human heart.

Download or read book Bloody Jungle written by Chris Evans and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visual history of the Vietnam War in the Stackpole Military Photo Series. Included are detailed photos of soldiers, helicopters and ground vehicles, villages and terrain, base camps, and more. With hundreds of photos, many of them rare and never published before, this is the perfect complement to the narrative accounts in the Stackpole Military History Series, such as Street Without Joy and Land With No Sun.

Download or read book Detective Watters Mysteries Collection Books 1 3 written by Malcolm Archibald and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2023-06-07 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first three books in Malcolm Archibald's 'Detective Watters Mysteries', a series of crime mystery novels set in 19th century United Kingdom, now in one volume! The Fireraisers: Dundee, Scotland, 1862. After the mill of businessman Matthew Beaumont burns down, Detective Sergeant George Watters is sent to investigate. When a man is found dead in the hold of a trade ship, George discovers a connection between Beaumont and foreign powers threatening the country. But what connects the enigmatic Beaumont to the murder and the strange events taking place in the Dundee shipyard? The Atlantic Street Murder: Sergeant Watters and Detective Silver investigate a tangled mystery in London, involving the murder of a guardsman and the wife of an Austrian diplomat. With the help of the Irish woman Rowena, Watters trawls through the back streets of London, encounters female prize-fighters and suave cracksmen, and finds himself in the savage world of espionage. But can he find the meaning behind the mysterious words: ‘There is a storm from the east and the west’? Murdered On The 13th: Dundee, 1860s. Sergeant George Watters and his team investigate the murder of a local banker, found dead on the 13th tee of a local golf course. Illicit prizefighters, merchants and prostitutes all seem to be connected to the murder, and even the toughest of Dundee are refusing to talk. In a case that stretches him to his limit, Watters' enquiries take him from the lowest brothels to the elite of Dundee society.

Download or read book Paco s Story written by Larry Heinemann and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-05-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paco Sullivan is the only man in Alpha Company to survive a cataclysmic Viet Cong attack on Fire Base Harriette in Vietnam. Everyone else is annihilated. When a medic finally rescues Paco almost two days later, he is waiting to die, flies and maggots covering his burnt, shattered body. He winds up back in the US with his legs full of pins, daily rations of Librium and Valium, and no sense of what to do next. One evening, on the tail of a rainstorm, he limps off the bus and into the small town of Boone, determined to find a real job and a real bed–but no matter how hard he works, nothing muffles the anguish in his mind and body. Brilliantly and vividly written, Paco’s Story–winner of a National Book Award–plunges you into the violence and casual cruelty of the Vietnam War, and the ghostly aftermath that often dealt the harshest blows.

Download or read book Soldiers of Empire written by Tarak Barkawi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-08 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barkawi re-imagines the study of war with imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second World War.

Download or read book Secret in the Clouds written by Christopher Cummings and published by DoctorZed Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 8 p.m. Saturday night February. The 'Wet Season' in tropical North Queensland Stephen Bell and his three friends of the 'Hiking Team' — Graham, Peter, and Roger — are camped in the jungle at the foot of the Black Mountain when they hear what sounds like a light aircraft crash into the mountain. Stephen is impelled to investigate but what he finds in the cloud and thick rainforest near the top of the mountain impels him to discover what really happened and who was involved. But his attempts to uncover the past reveal secrets that some powerful and dangerous people are determined to keep concealed. At all costs. Stephen and his friends are lead into deadly peril as they find shocking discoveries that test their emotional, spiritual, intellectual, and physical limits. "An adventure story for both teenagers and adults that touches on a little-known aspect of Australia's history."

Download or read book Moonfleece written by Philip Ridley and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-02-14 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moonfleece is an intense and thrilling exploration of memory and identity, with themes of contemporary resonance: racism, homophobia, and how those in authority distort both the truth and the past. This play is Philip Ridley's most direct representation yet of his hopes and fears for disadvantaged, diverse communities of today's society, as two groups of teenagers are forced to judge for themselves the prejudices and preconceptions of their parents. This is a vital, relevant and compelling story for the whole country and especially young people from all backgrounds. The plot follows Curtis, who has arranged a secret meeting in a flat of a derelict tower block. Years ago, when he was a child, Curtis lived here before tragedy struck in the form of his elder brother's death. Now Curtis is seeing his brother's ghost. With the aid of Gavin and Tommy, fellow members of the right wing political party of which he is a leading figure, and his ex-girlfriend, Sarah, Curtis aims to find out why this ghost is haunting him. Things, however, do not go as planned and a hitherto secret story has to be revealed. A story that will change Curtis's life forever.

Download or read book In Search of Power written by Brenda Gayle Plummer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Search of Power is a history of the era of civil rights, decolonization, and Black Power. In the critical period from 1956 to 1974, the emergence of newly independent states worldwide and the struggles of the civil rights movement in the United States exposed the limits of racial integration and political freedom. Dissidents, leaders, and elites alike were linked in a struggle for power in a world where the rules of the game had changed. Brenda Gayle Plummer traces the detailed connections between African Americans' involvement in international affairs and how they shaped American foreign policy, integrating African American history, the history of the African Diaspora, and the history of United States foreign relations. These topics, usually treated separately, not only offer a unified view of the period but also reassess controversies and events that punctuated this colorful era of upheaval and change.

Download or read book Battling the Elements written by Harold A. Winters and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2001-03-21 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, from Kublai Khan's attempted invasions of Japan to Rommel's desert warfare, military operations have succeeded or failed on the ability of commanders to incorporate environmental conditions into their tactics. In Battling the Elements, geographer Harold A. Winters and former U.S. Army officers Gerald E. Galloway Jr., William J. Reynolds, and David W. Rhyne, examine the connections between major battles in world history and their geographic components, revealing what role factors such as weather, climate, terrain, soil, and vegetation have played in combat. Each chapter offers a detailed and engaging explanation of a specific environmental factor and then looks at several battles that highlight its effects on military operations. As this cogent analysis of geography and war makes clear, those who know more about the shape, nature, and variability of battleground conditions will always have a better understanding of the nature of combat and at least one significant advantage over a less knowledgeable enemy.

Download or read book Green Hills Golf Chronicles written by Rayne Barton and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001-03-12 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pathfinder Tales Firesoul written by Gary Kloster and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jiri has always been special. Found as an infant in the ashes of her village, she was taken in by neighbors and trained to be a powerful jungle druid. Yet, when Aspis Consortium mercenaries release an ancient evil that burns her adopted home to the ground, Jiri must gather a group of her own in order to get revenge and drive the mercantile foreigners from her land before they cause further damage. For in the heart of the Mwangi Jungle, sometimes the secrets of the past are best left buried. From acclaimed newcomer Gary Kloster comes a tale of jungle adventure and lost civilizations, set in the award-winning world of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Prism and Ken written by Terry Johnson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-18 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These two plays - by acclaimed playwright Terry Johnson - tell the inspiring, endearing and sometimes alarming stories of an Oscar-winning cinematographer and an aspiring playwright who receives a chance phone call. In Prism we see Legendary cinematic master Jack Cardiff retire to the sleepy village in Buckinghamshire. His days of hard work - and play – on some of the most famous sets in the world are now long behind him, as are his secret liaisons with some of the most famous women in the world... Surrounded by memorabilia from a lifetime of 'painting with light', the writing of an autobiography should be an easy matter - were it not that Jack would now rather live in the past than remember it. Ken, set in 1978, sees an aspiring young playwright wrestle with a play for the Royal Court. The phone rings. The man on the other end is called Ken and he's about to teach our hero the pleasures and perils of serendipity... These plays were published to coincide with a 2017 production of Prism at the Hampstead Theatre, London, by Hampstead Theatre/AKO Foundation initiative and with funding from NEXT DECADE.

Download or read book Parting Words written by Cass Moriarty and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2017-08-23 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Whittaker has left some unusual instructions in his will: in order for his three children to get their share of the inheritance, they must hand-deliver twelve letters he has left with his lawyer. What significance did these strangers have to their father? Kelly, the youngest of the three, is intrigued by what they might learn about Daniel. For Richard, however, the exercise seems futile, especially when he has his own secrets to hide. And Evonne is still nursing her grief over her parents' attitude to her sexuality. As Daniel's children carry out his last wishes, each of them must confront their long-held images of their father, and reconsider their relationship with him. What they discover about his legacy will change their lives.

Download or read book England s Lane written by Joseph Connolly and published by riverrun. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE: AS IF THE ROYLE FAMILY WERE WRITTEN BY MARTIN AMIS 'Vibrant tragicomic slices of cosmopolitan Englishness' Independent on Sunday 'May well be his masterpiece . . . a rich and compelling drama of life' Daily Mail 'Virtuosic farce and razor-edged comedy of manners' Independent Jim and Milly. Stan and Jane. Jonathan and Fiona. Winter, 1959. Three married couples: each living in England's Lane, each with an only child, and each attending to family, and their livelihoods - the ironmonger, the sweetshop and the butcher. Each of them hiding their lies, coping in the only way they know how. 'He remains essentially a comic novelist, but one whose work has its dark, even sinister side . . . There is no other novelist today who writes quite like Connolly' Scotsman

Download or read book The Last Second written by Catherine Coulter and published by Pocket Books. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling Brit in the FBI series continues with this thrilling “popcorn movie in print form” (Associated Press) pitting special agents Nicholas Drummond and Michaela Caine against a private French space agency that has the power to end the world as we know it. Galactus, France’s answer to SpaceX, has just launched a communications satellite into orbit, but the payload actually harbors a frightening weapon: a nuclear bomb that can trigger a massive electromagnetic pulse (EMP). When the satellite is in position, Galactus’s second-in-command, Dr. Nevaeh Patel, will have the power to lay waste to the world. A former astronaut, Patel believes she is following the directions of the Numen, aliens who saved her life when she space-walked outside the International Space Station. She is convinced that with the Holy Grail—just discovered by the owner of Galactus, eccentric treasure hunter Jean-Pierre Broussard—she can be reunited with the Numen, change the world’s destiny, and become immortal with them. The countdown has begun when Special Agents Nicholas Drummond and Michaela Caine are thrown into the pending disaster. They must stop the EMP that would wreak havoc on communication and electronic systems on Earth, resulting in chaos and anarchy. With their high-octane and suspenseful prose, “Coulter and Ellison are a thriller writer’s dream team, and The Last Second is some of their best work yet” (The Real Book Spy).

Download or read book Malaya s Secret Police 1945 60 written by Leon Comber and published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Malayan Emergency lasted from 1948 to 1960. During these tumultuous years, following so soon after the Japanese surrender at the end of the Second World War, the whole country was once more turned upside down and the lives of the people changed. The war against the Communist Party of MalayaA*s determined efforts to overthrow the Malayan government involved the whole population in one form or another. Dr Comber analyses the pivotal role of the Malayan PoliceA*s Special Branch, the governmentA*s supreme intelligence agency, in defeating the communist uprising and safeguarding the security of the country. He shows for the first time how the Special Branch was organised and how it worked in providing the security forces with political and operational intelligence. His book represents a major contribution to our understanding of the Emergency and will be of great interest to all students of Malay(si)aA*s recent history as well as counter-guerrilla operations. It can profitably be mined, too, to see what lessons can be learned for counterinsurgency operations in other parts of the world.