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Book Devil Dog

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  • Author : David Talbot
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2010-10-05
  • ISBN : 1439117748
  • Pages : 162 pages

Download or read book Devil Dog written by David Talbot and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulp History brings to life extraordinary feats of bravery, violence, and redemption that history has forgotten. These stories are so dramatic and thrilling they have to be true. In DEVIL DOG, the most decorated Marine in history fights for America across the globe—and returns home to set his country straight. Smedley Butler took a Chinese bullet to the chest at age eighteen, but that did not stop him from running down rebels in Nicaragua and Haiti, or from saving the lives of his men in France. But when he learned that America was trading the blood of Marines to make Wall Street fat cats even fatter, Butler went on a crusade. He threw the gangsters out of Philadelphia, faced down Herbert Hoover to help veterans, and blew the lid off a plot to overthrow FDR.

Book Devil Dogs

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  • Author : George B. Clark
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780891417262
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Devil Dogs written by George B. Clark and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most detailed popular history available of the U.S. Marines in World War I . . . a collective portrait of men who, though initially unfamiliar with the Western Front and often poorly led by senior officers, prevailed with sheer courage and determination".--ALA "Booklist". 44 photos. 10 maps.

Book The Devil Dogs at Belleau Wood

Download or read book The Devil Dogs at Belleau Wood written by Dick Camp and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photo-rich firsthand accounts of the month-long battle in June 1918 that turned the tide of WWI.

Book Curse of the Devil Dogs

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  • Author : Alfonso Moret
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2017-05-31
  • ISBN : 1543426697
  • Pages : 138 pages

Download or read book Curse of the Devil Dogs written by Alfonso Moret and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scientist and a veterinarian are bitten by infected wolves and will become werewolves if you dont find the antidote flower by the full moon. While the associates seek the remedy plant, the wolf-men transform. Death and chaos disrupt the process to attain the cure.

Book Generation Kill

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  • Author : Evan Wright
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2005-02-01
  • ISBN : 1101207612
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Generation Kill written by Evan Wright and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-02-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Evan Wright's National Magazine Award-winning story in Rolling Stone, this is the raw, firsthand account of the 2003 Iraq invasion that inspired the HBO® original mini-series. Within hours of 9/11, America’s war on terrorism fell to those like the twenty-three Marines of the First Recon Battalion, the first generation dispatched into open-ended combat since Vietnam. They were a new pop-culture breed of American warrior unrecognizable to their forebears—soldiers raised on hip hop, video games and The Real World. Cocky, brave, headstrong, wary and mostly unprepared for the physical, emotional and moral horrors ahead, the “First Suicide Battalion” would spearhead the blitzkrieg on Iraq, and fight against the hardest resistance Saddam had to offer. Hailed as “one of the best books to come out of the Iraq war”(Financial Times), Generation Kill is the funny, frightening, and profane firsthand account of these remarkable men, of the personal toll of victory, and of the randomness, brutality and camaraderie of a new American War.

Book The 5th Marine Regiment Devil Dogs in World War I

Download or read book The 5th Marine Regiment Devil Dogs in World War I written by Michael A. Eggleston and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 8,000 men served in the Fifth Marine Regiment during World War I and the occupation of Germany. Marine units were among the first to arrive in war-torn Europe in 1917, and they sustained greater casualties than other American units. This book tells the story of the "Devil Dogs" in World War I and the years after through the recollections of veterans recorded over the past century. The influenza epidemic that raged during the war is discussed. An annotated roster of the regiment lists each Marine, with service details provided where known.

Book  Devil Dog  Dan Daly

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  • Author : Charley Roberts
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2021-10-21
  • ISBN : 1476686769
  • Pages : 243 pages

Download or read book Devil Dog Dan Daly written by Charley Roberts and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 40 million Americans have served in the U.S. military during wartime. Only 3500 have been awarded the Medal of Honor. Of these, three have received the medal twice. One was recommended for it a third time. Marine Corps Sergeant Major Daniel J. Daly was an unlikely hero at five feet, six inches tall and 132 pounds. What he lacked in size he made up for in grit. He received his first Medal of Honor for single-handedly holding off enemy attacks during China's Boxer Rebellion of 1900, the second for his daring, one-man action during an ambush in Haiti in 1915. He was nominated for (but not awarded) an unprecedented third medal in World War I for his valor at Belleau Wood, where he led a charge against the German stronghold with the battle cry, "Come on you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?" This first full-length biography presents a detailed examination of a Marine Corps legend.

Book Devil Dogs

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  • Author : Jeanne Clark
  • Publisher : Naval Institute Press
  • Release : 2013-01-15
  • ISBN : 161251216X
  • Pages : 514 pages

Download or read book Devil Dogs written by Jeanne Clark and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In telling the story of the extraordinary contributions of the U.S. Marines in World War I, this now-classic history examines the Corps’ entire experience in France. Now available in paperback, the book is a valuable resource for data, especially details about each unit and how they functioned. Bolstered with information from official documents as well as published and unpublished memoirs, readers follow the Marines from their recruitment, through training and shipment overseas, to the horrors of trench warfare. The famous battle at Belleau Wood is fully examined, along with the lesser known campaigns at Blanc Mont and Meuse River, and the critical engagements at Verdun, Marbache, and St. Mihiel. Readers learn how the 4th Marine Brigade earned the nickname “Devil Dogs” and why their experiences helped forge the Corps’ identity. It is a new addition to the Leatherneck Classics series.

Book Devil Dogs

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  • Author : Saul David
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2022-09-15
  • ISBN : 1639362002
  • Pages : 483 pages

Download or read book Devil Dogs written by Saul David and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning historian Saul David reveals the searing experience of the Devil Dogs of World War II and does for the U.S. Marines what Band of Brothers did for the 101st Airborne. The “Devil Dogs” of King Company, Third Battalion, 5th Marines—part of the legendary 1st Marine Division—were among the first American soldiers to take the offensive in World World II—and also the last. They landed on the beaches of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in August 1942—the first US ground offensive of the war—and were present when Okinawa, Japan’s most southerly prefecture, finally fell to American troops after a bitter struggle in June 1945. In between they fought in the “Green Hell” of Cape Gloucester on the island of New Britain, and across the coral wasteland of Peleliu in the Palau Islands, a campaign described by one King Company veteran as “thirty days of the meanest, around-the-clock slaughter that desperate men can inflict on each other.” Ordinary men from very different backgrounds, and drawn from cities, towns, and settlements across America, the Devil Dogs were asked to do something extraordinary: take on the victorious Imperial Japanese Army, composed of some of the most effective, “utterly ruthless and treacherous” soldiers in world history—and defeat it. This is the story of how they did just that and, in the process, forged bonds of brotherhood that still survive today. Remarkably, the company contained an unusually high number of talented writers, whose first-hand accounts and memoirs provide the color, emotion, and context for this extraordinary story. In Devil Dogs, award-winning historian Saul David sets the searing experience of the Devil Dogs into the broader context of the brutal war in the Pacific and does for the U.S. Marines what Band of Brothers did for the 101st Airborne.

Book The Devil Dogs of Belleau Wood

Download or read book The Devil Dogs of Belleau Wood written by Terrence McCaulley and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***PROCEEDS BENEFIT THE SEMPER FI FUND*** A WORLD AT WAR. A LONE MARINE FIGHTING TO SURVIVE. Charlie Doherty, the hero of PROHIBITION and SLOW BURN returns in a novella of World War I. 1918 -As a corrupt patrolman in New York City, Charlie Doherty had the ward bosses of Tammany Hall and other political cronies to watch his back. But in the hell-storm that became known as the Battle of Belleau Wood, only his rifle and his training keep him alive. After taking cover behind a fallen tree during the worst of the German shelling, Doherty links up with a brave Marine captain and a ragtag crew of survivors who realize the only way out of danger lies not in retreat, but in marching toward the sound of the gunfire. They fight the enemy wherever they find them, hoping to hold back the advancing German tide long enough for the shaken American forces to regroup and re-enforce them. They lean forward. They dig in. They fight back. Doherty and the others began the day as Marines. But by the time it is over, they will be part of a battle that helped secure the reputation of the United States Marine Corps as one of the most feared fighting forces in the world. They will become known as THE DEVIL DOGS OF BELLEAU WOOD.

Book Angel Food and Devil Dogs   A Maggie Gale Mystery

Download or read book Angel Food and Devil Dogs A Maggie Gale Mystery written by Liz Bradbury and published by Lesbian Mystery Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When private detective Maggie Gale is called to a college to discuss the suspicious suicide of a gay professor, she shakes hands with the attractive Dr. Kathryn Anthony, who smiles at her with a faint but unmistakable touch of lust. Thrills, humor, & hot lesbian romance combine in this classic who-done-it style mystery.

Book Predator   Incursion

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tim Lebbon
  • Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
  • Release : 2015-10-20
  • ISBN : 1783296399
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book Predator Incursion written by Tim Lebbon and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Predator ships stream into human space in unprecedented numbers. The Colonial Marines, controlled by Weyland-Yutani, respond to the incursion, thus entering the Rage War. This terrifying assault by the Yautja cannot go unchallenged, yet the cost of combat is high. Predators are master combatants, and each encounter yields a high body count. Then when Lt. Johnny Mains and his marines—the VoidLarks—enter the fray, they discover an enemy deadlier than any could imagine. Book one in an epic trilogy that continues in ALIEN: INVASION and concludes in ALIENS VS. PREDATOR: ARMAGEDDON. The universe will forever be changed.

Book Devil Dogs Chronicle

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  • Author : George B. Clark
  • Publisher : University Press of Kansas
  • Release : 2013-03-02
  • ISBN : 0700618961
  • Pages : 424 pages

Download or read book Devil Dogs Chronicle written by George B. Clark and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2013-03-02 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 4th Marine Brigade, with roughly 10,000 men, was the only large Marine unit to see major action in World War I. Dubbed "Devil Dogs" by the Germans, the 4th was part of the 2nd Division of the American Expeditionary Forces, nicknamed the "Race Horse Division" for its rapid and devastating pursuit of the enemy. The 4th Brigade fought at Verdun, Soissons, St. Mihiel, Blanc Mont, and the Meuse-Argonne, and its signature victory at Belleau Wood saved Paris from falling into German hands. It was also one of the major reasons that the 2nd Division advanced more miles, captured more territory, and amassed more casualties than any other in the war. George Clark, a former Marine and expert on Marine Corps history, here draws upon memoirs, diaries, letters, and post-war interviews-most of which have not been seen since the war ended-to create a chorus of voices chronicling the 4th Brigade's experiences. Through the words of these Marines, Clark captures the rigors of training at Paris Island and Quantico, the ferocity of combat overseas, and the strange quietude of occupation. He reveals what it was like for these men to fight in trenches while knee-deep in mud, with rats playing over them as they slept; going days between meals, often surviving on what they could forage from dead German or French packs; and even wishing for a wound that would allow some time off far from the terrors of the front. He also illuminates the dread and despair of Marines who beat the odds during one blood bath, surviving when most of their comrades did not, only to find themselves flung into an even worse battle not long afterward. One German soldier remarked that these "Americans are savages. They kill everything that moves," a caustic testament to the Marines' intensity and prowess. But that came at a cost: by war's end the 4th had suffered a severe casualty rate of 150 percent. Vividly reflecting the horrors of that "war to end all wars," Devil Dogs Chronicle pays tribute to the Marines whose bravery helped the Allies achieve victory in the first global conflict.

Book Night Dogs

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  • Author : Kent Anderson
  • Publisher : Mulholland Books
  • Release : 2018-11-13
  • ISBN : 0316489514
  • Pages : 465 pages

Download or read book Night Dogs written by Kent Anderson and published by Mulholland Books. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed crime writer Kent Anderson's "fiercely authentic and deeply disturbing" police novel, following a Vietnam veteran turned cop on the meanest streets of 1970s Portland, Oregon (Los Angeles Times). Two kinds of cops find their way to Portland's North Precinct: those who are sent there for punishment, and those who come for the action. Officer Hanson is the second kind, a veteran who survived the war in Vietnam only to decide he wanted to keep fighting at home. Hanson knows war, and in this battle for the Portland streets, he fights not for the law but for his own code of justice. Yet Hanson can't outrun his memories of another, warmer battleground. A past he thought he'd left behind, that now threatens to overshadow his future. An enemy, this time close to home, is prying into his war record. Pulling down the shields that protect the darkest moments of that fevered time. Until another piece of his past surfaces, and Hanson risks his career, his sanity--even his life--for honor.

Book Devil Dogs of Space

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  • Author : Helen Weinbaum
  • Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
  • Release : 2020-01-01
  • ISBN : 1479446734
  • Pages : 24 pages

Download or read book Devil Dogs of Space written by Helen Weinbaum and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeanne of Jupiter and Warren of Earth -- each fighting in the service of their respective planets -- enemies in deadly opposition, yet lovers of intense devotion! But one must be the victor -- and the other must die! Written by Helen Weinbaum, one of the few women to write science fiction for the pulp magazines, here is a classic space opera!

Book Bad Dog

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  • Author : R. D. Rosen
  • Publisher : Workman Publishing
  • Release : 2005-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780761139836
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Bad Dog written by R. D. Rosen and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents photographs of dogs in various settings and costumes, along with quotations describing the intentions and attitudes of the canine subjects.

Book The Devil Is a Black Dog

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  • Author : Sándor Jászberényi
  • Publisher : Scribe Publications
  • Release : 2015-10-21
  • ISBN : 1925307042
  • Pages : 185 pages

Download or read book The Devil Is a Black Dog written by Sándor Jászberényi and published by Scribe Publications. This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘I don’t regret anything, really. I never wanted to live a sensible life … I didn’t want a sensible death either.’ War-torn Africa, a Middle East in crisis, and post-Soviet Eastern Europe form the backdrop to the stories told in The Devil Is a Black Dog — stories based on the extraordinary experiences of acclaimed photojournalist Sándor Jászberényi. From Cairo to the Gaza Strip, from Benghazi to Budapest, his characters contemplate the meaning of home, love, family, and friendship in the face of brutality. Immersed in the societies he reports on and heedless in the face of war and revolution, Jászberényi observes mothers, martyrs, soldiers, and lovers who must confront the extremes of contemporary experience. In spare, evocative prose, he combines fact and fiction to create a profoundly true portrait of the humanity behind the headlines. PRAISE FOR SÁNDOR JÁSZBERÉNYI ‘Unforgettable … an indispensable volume that helps us to remember and regard some of the greatest ruptures of our time.’ The Sydney Morning Herald ‘Extraordinary … Searingly truthful.’ The Independent