Download or read book Historical Dictionary of American Slang written by Jonathan E. Lighter and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Limeys written by David I. Harvie and published by Sutton Pub Limited. This book was released on 2005 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1740, Commander George Anson left Portsmouth with seven ships and nearly 2,000 men and returned with less than 600. these deaths were from scurvey. Limeys is the history of Dr. James Lind's efforts to find a cure for this disease in the face of prejudice and political and political and establishment antipathy.
Download or read book The Burma Campaign written by Frank McLynn and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history reveals the failures and fortunes of leadership during the WWII campaign into Japanese-occupied Burma: “a thoroughly satisfying experience” (Kirkus). Acclaimed historian Frank McLynn tells the story of four larger-than-life Allied commanders whose lives collided in the Burma campaign, one of the most punishing and protracted military adventures of World War II. This vivid account ranges from Britain’s defeat in 1942 through the crucial battles of Imphal and Kohima—known as "the Stalingrad of the East"—and on to ultimate victory in 1945. Frank McLynn narrative focuses on the interactions and antagonisms of its principal players: William Slim, the brilliant general; Orde Wingate, the idiosyncratic commander of a British force of irregulars; Louis Mountbatten, one of Churchill's favorites, overpromoted to the position of Supreme Commander, S.E. Asia; and Joseph "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell, a hard-line—and openly anlgophobic—U.S. general. With lively portraits of each of these men, McLynn shows how the plans and strategies of generals and politicians were translated into a hideous reality for soldiers on the ground.
Download or read book Citrus written by Pierre Laszlo and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laszlo traces the spectacular rise and spread of citrus across the globe, from southeast Asia in 4000 BC to modern Spain and Portugal, whose explorers inroduced the fruit to the Americas. This book explores the numerous roles that citrus has played in agriculture, horticulture, cooking, nutrition, religion, and art.
Download or read book Shan written by Walter Olson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a 17 year old private who earned his spurs as a horse cavalryman at Fort Riley, Kansas and then found himself in the jungles of Burma. He was no longer a proud trooper, he became a dogface, an infantryman fighting not only the tenacious Japanese but the jungle monsoons, malaria and other diseases. His life became a series of adventures taking him to China and the ultimate challenge.
Download or read book Yanks and Limeys written by Niall Barr and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enlightening history of the Anglo-American alliance in the Second World War, from high command down to the soldiers on the ground. In the mid-twentieth century the relationship between America and Britain had a chequered past. Theirs was a history of protection and oppression, of rebellion and ultimately war. But then the shared crisis of World War Two brought Britain and America closer than ever before or since, and saw an unprecedented level of military cooperation. How was such a radical shift possible? To uncover how this historically fraught relationship recovered from its inauspicious start, Niall Barr goes back to the origins of their shared military history in the American War of Independence and shows how these early days had ramifications for the later crucial alliance. Picking up the tale with America's entry into the Second World War, Niall Barr tells the story of these two armies as they fought in the largest war in history, right from the uppermost echelons of the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt down to battlefield level and the soldiers fighting side by side for a common cause."
Download or read book USS Unbecoming written by Joe Miller and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's about "Follow the Fleet" antics leaning toward the military, especially sailors, their family, spouses, girlfriends, friends, and prostitutes. "To the next port O sail!"
Download or read book Vancouver Mission written by Killingholme, D.K.K. de and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thierry apparently lost it in Montreal. An Irishman in a wheelchair thinks Thierry might be able to handle the "Vancouver Mission." But what is it? Thierry will have to figure it out for himself. In the meantime he ponders profound questions and questions quirky characters. Above all else he must avoid "The Island." Reader Discretion is advised: This novel contains language, some of which may offend. Also nudity, violence and alternative lifestyles. Caution to detective and mystery fiction fans: this is a tragi-comic philosophical novel, not a conventional whodunit.
Download or read book POW Baseball in World War II written by Tim Wolter and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 130,000 American soldiers and 19,000 American civilians were captured by the enemy during the Second World War. The conditions under which they were held varied enormously but baseball, in various forms, was a common activity among these prisoners of war. Not just Americans, but Canadians, British, Australians and New Zealanders took the field, as well as the Japanese and even a few Germans. In the best of the German Stalags (permanent German camps where these prisoners were held, shortened from Stamm Lagers) there were often several leagues active at a time, with dozens of teams playing games continuously during the warm weather months. In the harsher Stalags, and in some Japanese camps, there was only makeshift ball playing. In places like Camp O'Donnell, the worst of the camps, there was no energy left for anything but the struggle to survive. This work is the story of POW baseball, complete with guard versus prisoner ball games, radio parts hidden in baseballs, and future major leaguers. The book is divided into the various prison camps and describes the types of prisoners held there and the degree to which baseball was played.
Download or read book Generation written by and published by UM Libraries. This book was released on 1950 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Little Nothing written by Dee Holloway and published by Queen of Swords Press. This book was released on 2023-07-13 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two young women race to turn the tide in a Florida on the brink of civil war… Everyone knows that Jonnie trains and races the limerunners, the deadly water horses that live in the swamps and streams around the town of Sawgrass, and that she’s got a way with them that none of the local men can match. And everyone suspects that while Bess works at her family’s inn, The Nag’s Head, she sews her little nothings, magic in every stitch, to protect her beloved Jonnie and their family. What they don’t know is that Jonnie runs messages, stitched in code by Bess, for the Union Army. But now the Confederate forces have taken the nearby fort and they want to use Jonnie’s limerunners and Jonnie herself as weapons against the Union. And all of Bess’s magic won’t be enough to save them when they’re caught in a web of betrayal in a Florida being torn apart by burgeoning civil war. Only Ada Nuit, the Maroon’s ghost queen, knows what lies in store for them and she’s not telling…
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Health written by and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2003 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains entries covering body function, fitness, diet, disease, hygiene, medicine and drugs, as well as articles on accident prevention, beauty care and looking good, the body and its systems, careers in health and medicine, and more.
Download or read book Johnny Got His Gun written by Dalton Trumbo and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Searing Portrayal Of War That Has Stunned And Galvanized Generations Of Readers An immediate bestseller upon its original publication in 1939, Dalton Trumbo?s stark, profoundly troubling masterpiece about the horrors of World War I brilliantly crystallized the uncompromising brutality of war and became the most influential protest novel of the Vietnam era. Johnny Got His Gun is an undisputed classic of antiwar literature that?s as timely as ever. ?A terrifying book, of an extraordinary emotional intensity.?--The Washington Post "Powerful. . . an eye-opener." --Michael Moore "Mr. Trumbo sets this story down almost without pause or punctuation and with a fury amounting to eloquence."--The New York Times "A book that can never be forgotten by anyone who reads it."--Saturday Review
Download or read book A Salty Piece of Land written by Jimmy Buffett and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wander to "where the song of the ocean / Meets the salty piece of land" with Tully Mars, washed up from Margaritaville and in the mood for monkeyshines, in a shimmering Caribbean epic by the late king of tropical rock, Jimmy Buffett. It's not on any chart, but the tropical island of Cayo Loco is the perfect place to run away from all your problems. Waking from a ganja buzz on the beach in Tulum, Tully can't believe his eyes when a 142-foot schooner emerges out of the ocean mist. At its helm is Cleopatra Highbourne, the eccentric 101-year-old sea captain who will take him to a lighthouse on a salty piece of land that will change his life forever. From a lovely sunset sail in Punta Margarita to a wild spring-break foam party in San Pedro, Tully encounters an assortment of treasure hunters, rock stars, sailors, seaplane pilots, pirates, and even a ghost or two.
Download or read book Secretary of defense Chairman Joint chiefs of staff Overall financial statements Service secretaries and chiefs of staff Wednesday February 14 1968 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Department of Defense Appropriations for 1969 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proving Ground written by Arthur G. Storey and published by GeneralStore PublishingHouse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Torey goes to war. Disillusioned and almost defeated by his own pigheadedness, David takes on the responsibilities of an officer in the field in WWII. His decision to serve the soldiers who need him rather than seek promotion for its own sake proves him a man of character and integrity. By the time he returns to civilian life, the solid foundation has been laid within him for the success he has long dreamed of.
