Download or read book Happiness is a Warm Foxhole written by S. Keith Kreitman and published by Nomoreboxes LLC. This book was released on 2020-09-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of 19, S. Keith Kreitman was drafted into the Army and sent to the front lines as a combat medic in the European Theatre in the final days of World War II. He was thrust into the final, brutal battles with Allied troops as they broke through the German lines and ended the war in Europe, and stationed in Heidelberg as the occupation began. Highly decorated for courage under fire, he never considered himself a hero, but a citizen-soldier who held no illusions about war. The gritty realistic account of combat is balanced with the touching human and occasionally humorous accounts of the experience of military service, war and the aftermath.
Download or read book EYES IN MagBook Vol 19 written by Vivian Van Dijk and published by Eyes In Corp. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EYES IN™ spotlights fields of Architecture, Art, Artists, Beauty, Books, Culinary Arts, Culture, Design, Fashion, Film, Finance, Health, Music, Photography, Real Estate, Science, Technology & Travel and is delving into respective insights, disciplines and pieces for each. Vivian Van Dijk interviews the following innovative creators in this EYES IN™ MagBook™ Nr. 19: Hannes Koch, Stuart Wood & Florian Ortkrass: Exploring Artificial Intelligence as Art DESIGN, LONDON Every Side of Beautiful: The Art of Sofie Muller ARTISTS, BELGIUM Want-ology and Dr. Kevin Kreitman CULTURE, SAN FRANCISCO Innovative Creator, Architect & Designer Professor Ben van Berkel ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN THE NETHERLANDS Harnessing Technology for Fashion: Amy Winters FASHION + TECHNOLOGY, LONDON The TRX Challenge: Taking Fitness to the Next Level HEALTH + BEAUTY, SAN FRANCISCO Will Kurtz at the Mike Weiss Gallery ARTISTS, NEW YORK Jerry L. Ross - America’s Spacewalker SCIENCE + TECHNOLOGY, FLORIDA John Kenny and the Chiaroscuro of the African Plains PHOTOGRAPHY, LONDON - AFRICA Singapore’s Fascinating and Ecological “Gardens by the Bay” TRAVEL + CULTURE, SINGAPORE Culinary Artists - Wolfgang Ban and Eduard Frauneder CULINARY, NEW YORK A Bridge between Souls: “One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das” FILM + MUSIC, CALIFORNIA Eyes In Photography - Architecture The Versatility of Adrian Wilson PHOTOGRAPHY + ARCHITECTURE, ENGLAND
Download or read book A Foxhole View written by Louis Baldovi and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2002-07-31 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Foxhole View is a powerful and moving oral history of the Korean War. Here are highly personal accounts of the war from the rank and file of the infantry--told in the distinctive voices of Hawaii's soldiers.
Download or read book The Foxhole Court written by Nora Sakavic and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neil Josten is the newest addition to the Palmetto State University Exy team. He's short, he's fast, he's got a ton of potential - and he's the runaway son of the murderous crime lord known as The Butcher.Signing a contract with the PSU Foxes is the last thing a guy like Neil should do. The team is high profile and he doesn't need sports crews broadcasting pictures of his face around the nation. His lies will hold up only so long under this kind of scrutiny and the truth will get him killed.But Neil's not the only one with secrets on the team. One of Neil's new teammates is a friend from his old life, and Neil can't walk away from him a second time. Neil has survived the last eight years by running. Maybe he's finally found someone and something worth fighting for.
Download or read book Happiness Is a Warm Balloon written by Shelley Beer and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Raider written by Charles W. Sasser and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raider is the true story of the legendary soldier who performed more POW raids than any other American in history. He went into battle as a boy. And on one of the most daring missions of World War II, he became a man-- and the perfect soldier for America's next wars... Galen Charles Kittleson was slight, modest, and born to wage war. The son of an Iowa farmer, Kittleson volunteered in 1943 and caught the eye of his commanders. By 1945, PFC Kittleson was selected for the Army's smallest elite unit, the Alamo Scouts. While U.S. forces were pushing back the Japanese in the Pacific, the Alamo scouts unleashed legendary raids deep behind enemy lines, including the liberation of over 500 starved, beaten prisoners of the Bataan Death March in the Philippines. For Kittleson, a career as a raider had just begun... Charles W. Sasser chronicles the remarkable journey that was Kit Kittleson's courageous life in the service of his country. Now a veteran after first going to war as a boy twenty-five years ago, Kittleson volunteered for one last mission-- the most extraordinary and daring POW raid ever attempted by secret American Special Forces in Vietnam...
Download or read book Let s Go 29 written by Henry Lambert and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-06-09 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, thousands of young American men and women joined the fight to liberate Western Europe from Nazi occupation. From June 6, 1944 to May 7, 1945, an orchestrated effort among the Allies was made toward this end that included five major beach landings on the French coast off the English Channel. The responsibility of launching the mass invasion on the first two beaches code-named Utah, and Omaha, fell primarily to the American forces. British led forces were selected to assault the remaining three beaches code-named Gold, Juno, and The Sword. In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944 at 6:30 a.m., the wars determining battle was launched. Fifteen hundred warships, 4,000 amphibious crafts, 20,000 vehicles, and 13,000 aircraft carrying 145,000 soldiers were deployed. The Omaha and Utah beachhead invasions put the troops at a disadvantage, pitting them against the fortified German forces that occupied the land, but the elements of surprise, courage, and sheer determination led to the success of the operation. The German Wehrmacht was pushed back to face a two-pronged attack that ended the battle for the beach, and led to the beginning of the end of the war.
Download or read book A Nation Forged in War written by Thomas A. Bruscino and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2013-05-12 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War II shaped the United States in profound ways, and this new book--the first in the Legacies of War series--explores one of the most significant changes it fostered: a dramatic increase in ethnic and religious tolerance. A Nation Forged in War is the first full-length study of how large-scale mobilization during the Second World War helped to dissolve long-standing differences among white soldiers of widely divergent backgrounds. Never before or since have so many Americans served in the armed forces at one time: more than 15 million donned uniforms in the period from 1941 to 1945. Thomas Bruscino explores how these soldiers' shared experiences--enduring basic training, living far from home, engaging in combat--transformed their views of other ethnic groups and religious traditions. He further examines how specific military policies and practices worked to counteract old prejudices, and he makes a persuasive case that throwing together men of different regions, ethnicities, religions, and classes not only fostered a greater sense of tolerance but also forged a new American identity. When soldiers returned home after the war with these new attitudes, they helped reorder what it meant to be white in America. Using the presidential campaigns of Al Smith in 1928 and John F. Kennedy in 1960 as bookend events, Bruscino notes a key change in religious bias. Smith's defeat came at the end of a campaign rife with anti-Catholic sentiment; Kennedy's victory some three decades later proved that such religious bigotry was no longer an insurmountable obstacle. Despite such advances, Bruscino notes that the growing broad-mindedness produced by the war had limits: it did not extend to African Americans, whose own struggle for equality would dramatically mark the postwar decades. Extensively documented, A Nation Forged in War is one of the few books on the social and cultural impact of the World War II years. Scholars and students of military, ethnic, social, and religious history will be fascinated by this groundbreaking new volume.
Download or read book Forever Peace written by Joe Haldeman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2043 A.D.: The Ngumi War rages. A burned-out soldier and his scientist lover discover a secret that could put the universe back to square one. And it is not terrifying. It is tempting...
Download or read book Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway written by Ernest Hemingway and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stunning collection of short stories by Nobel Prize–winning author, Ernest Hemingway, contains a lifetime of work—ranging from fan favorites to several stories only available in this compilation. In this definitive collection of short stories, you will delight in Ernest Hemingway's most beloved classics such as “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” “Hills Like White Elephants,” and “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” and discover seven new tales published for the first time in this collection. For Hemingway fans The Complete Short Stories is an invaluable treasury.
Download or read book Voices Almost Lost written by Vickie Spring and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-11-28 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Vickie Spring promised her dad who had served in both WWII and the Korean War, that she would one day write his story and the others with whom he served, she never imagined the challenges that lay ahead of her. After months of searching, thirteen men were found that had fought in Korea alongside her dad. Vickie has compiled these brave and noble mens personal accounts of their experiences during the Korean War. Their stories are heartfelt and compelling. Each story will be given to the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. for generations to experience each mans laughter, pain, and suffering. Here are their stories
Download or read book Carlisle Trace Vol 8 Chain of Events written by Clarence J. Rockey and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Candy Bombers written by Andrei Cherny and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “What an exciting, inspiring, and wonderfully-written book this is....Each page has lessons for today, and it is also a thrilling narrative to read.”—Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Steve Jobs The masterfully told story of the unlikely men who came together to make the Berlin Airlift one of the great military and humanitarian successes of American history. On the sixtieth anniversary of the Berlin Airlift, Andrei Cherny tells a remarkable story with profound implications for the world today. In the tradition of the best narrative storytellers, he brings together newly unclassified documents, unpublished letters and diaries, and fresh primary interviews to tell the story of the ill-assorted group of castoffs and second-stringers who not only saved millions of desperate people from a dire threat but changed how the world viewed the United States, and set in motion the chain of events that would ultimately lead to the dismantling of the Berlin Wall and to America’s victory in the Cold War. On June 24, 1948, intent on furthering its domination of Europe, the Soviet Union cut off all access to West Berlin, prepared to starve the city into submission unless the Americans abandoned it. Soviet forces hugely outnumbered the Allies’, and most of America’s top officials considered the situation hopeless. But not all of them. Harry Truman, an accidental president, derided by his own party; Lucius Clay, a frustrated general, denied a combat command and relegated to the home front; Bill Tunner, a logistics expert downsized to a desk job in a corner of the Pentagon; James Forrestal, a secretary of defense beginning to mentally unravel; Hal Halvorsen, a lovesick pilot who had served far from the conflict, flying transport missions in the backwater of a global war—together these unlikely men improvised and stumbled their way into a uniquely American combination of military and moral force unprecedented in its time. This is the forgotten foundation tale of America in the modern world, the story of when Americans learned, for the first time, how to act at the summit of world power—a masterful and exciting work of historical narrative, and one with strong resonance for our time.
Download or read book Ocean Beach written by Wendy Wax and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three women find a second chance—or is it a third—in this novel from the USA Today bestselling author of Best Beach Ever. When unlikely friends Madeline, Avery, and Nicole arrive in Miami’s South Beach neighborhood, they’re hoping for a do-over. Literally. They’ve been hired to bring a historic house back to its former glory on a new television show called Do Over. If they can just get this show off the ground, Nikki could fix her finances, Avery could restart her career, and Maddie would have a shot at keeping her family together. The women quickly realize that having their work broadcast is one thing, but having their personal lives play out on TV is another. Soon they’re struggling to hold themselves, and the project, together. With a decades-old mystery—and hurricane season—looming, the women are forced to figure out just how they’ll weather life’s storms...
Download or read book Veneta Junction written by Sharleen Kapp and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ninety-two years ago, Veneta, unaccompanied and with only a note pinned to her clothing, crossed the border from Canada into the United States. That was a major moment in her journey from her birth in Nova Scotia, to her current residence in Nantasket Beach, Massachusetts. There were stops along the way, important stops, that provided many memories that will carry the reader from one junction to the next. They will meet the child, the little girl, the young woman, and finally the mother who has become the matriarch of her world, with over seventy living descendants, childrengrandchildrengreat grandchildrengreat-great grandchildren.
Download or read book Infantry in Battle written by Infantry School (U.S.) and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1934 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Summer in the Country written by Marcia Willett and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domestic relationships. Follow-up to A week in winter.
