Download or read book Lieutenant Dangerous written by Jeff Danziger and published by Steerforth. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A must-read war memoir… with zero punches pulled, related by one of the most incisive observers of the American political scene." —KIRKUS (starred review) "Funny, biting, thoughtful and wholly original." —Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They Carried Jeff Danziger, one of the leading political cartoonists of his generation, captures the fear, sorrow, absurdity, and unintended but inevitable consequences of war with dark humor and penetrating moral clarity. If there is any discipline at the start of wars it dissipates as the soldiers themselves become aware of the pointlessness of what they are being told to do. A conversation with a group of today’s military age men and women about America’s involvement in Vietnam inspired Jeff Danziger to write about his own wartime experiences: “War is interesting,” he reveals, “if you can avoid getting killed, and don’t mind loud noises.” Fans of his cartooning will recognize his mordant humor applied to his own wartime training and combat experiences: “I learned, and I think most veterans learn, that making people or nations do something by bombing or sending in armed troops usually fails.” Near the end of his telling, Danziger invites his audience—in particular the young friends who inspired him to write this informative and rollicking memoir—to ponder: “What would you do? . . . Could you summon the bravery—or the internal resistance—to simply refuse to be part of the whole idiotic theater of the war? . . . Or would you be like me?”
Download or read book Heirpower written by Bob Vásquez and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Lieutenant written by John J. Gobbell and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-07-15 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OUTNUMBERED Under an unstoppable barrage of artillery, brilliant U.S. cryptographers crack the Japanese top-secret code, revealing their chilling plans for a doomsday attack on Midway Island. OUTGUNNED The Navy's high command responds quickly, mobilizing all they have to counter-attack the massive Japanese firepower. But there is a mole among the code-cracking team-a ruthless, cold-blooded Nazi spy on orders to stop at nothing in aiding the Japanese. BUT NOT OUTSMARTED Enter Navy Lieutenant Todd Ingram-the man the mole didn't count on. As the Japanese ravage the South Pacific, Ingram must escape the onslaught-and stop a traitor who has the power to turn the tide of war toward the land of the rising sun. In the heart-pounding tradition of Eye of the Needle comes a thriller full of raw courage, non-stop action, and an unforgettable villain.
Download or read book The Lieutenants written by W.E.B. Griffin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1986-11-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They were the young ones, the bright ones, the ones with the dreams. From the Nazi-prowled wastes of North Africa to the bloody corridors of Europe, they honorably answered the call. War–it was their duty, their job, their life. They marched off as boys and they came back–those who made it–as soldiers and professionals forged in the heat of battle...
Download or read book The American Lieutenant written by Peyton Garver and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lieutenant Garrett Harkins, a US paratrooper stationed in Wiltshire, England during World War 2, leads his platoon through the largest airborne operations of the war: Normandy, Netherlands, and Belgium. Between campaigns, Garrett defies orders when he pursues a forbidden romance with Sophia, a young British heiress. While deployed and fighting in Europe, Garrett struggles with fear, morality, and guilt. He draws strength from believing that Sophia reciprocates his feelings and awaits his safe return. Sophia Wells is fighting her own war. She became interested in the American lieutenant while struggling over the end of a childhood infatuation with James, a young British officer who has finally come to realize he does indeed reciprocate her feelings, and wants her back in his arms. Will the bond between the American Lieutenant and his newfound love survive the tragedies of war and a former love, or become a casualty of both?
Download or read book The Good Lieutenant written by Whitney Terrell and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Good Lieutenant literally starts with a bang as an operation led by Lieutenant Emma Fowler of the Twenty-seventh Infantry Battalion goes spectacularly wrong. Men are dead--one, a young Iraqi, by her hand. Others were soldiers in her platoon. And the signals officer, Dixon Pulowski. Pulowski is another story entirely--Fowler and Pulowski had been lovers since they met at Fort Riley in Kansas. From this conflagration, The Good Lieutenant unspools backward in time as Fowler and her platoon are guided into disaster by suspicious informants and questionable intelligence, their very mission the result of a previous snafu in which a soldier had been kidnapped by insurgents. And then even further back, before things began to go so wrong, we see the backstory unfold from points of view that usually are not shown in war coverage--a female frontline officer, for one, but also jaded career soldiers and Iraqis both innocent and not so innocent. Ultimately, as all these stories unravel, what is revealed is what happens when good intentions destroy, experience distorts, and survival becomes everything. Brilliantly told and expertly captured by a terrific writer at the top of his form, Whitney Terrell's The Good Lieutenantis a gripping, insightful, necessary novel about a war that is proving to be the defining tragedy of our time.
Download or read book Lt Charles Gatewood and His Apache Wars Memoir written by Charles B. Gatewood and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Realizing that he had more experience dealing with Native peoples than other lieutenants serving on the frontier, Gatewood decided to record his experiences. Although he died before he completed his project, the work he left behind remains an important firsthand account of his life as a commander of Apache scouts and as a military commandant of the White Mountain Indian Reservation. Louis Kraft presents Gatewood's previously unpublished account, punctuating it with an introduction, additional text that fills in the gaps in Gatewood's narrative, detailed notes, and an epilogue."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book A Code For Tomorrow written by John J. Gobbell and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-02-18 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a spy mission in World War II Philippines, U.S. Navy lieutenant Todd Ingram tries to rescue a girlfriend, trapped by Japan's occupation. Instead, Ingram is captured by the Japanese and it is she, now a guerrilla chief, who saves him. By the author of The Last Lieutenant.
Download or read book Lieutenant Patton and the American Army in the Mexican Punitive Expedition 1915 1916 written by Vernon L. Williams and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reluctant Lieutenant written by Jerry Morton and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author reconstructs his journey from basic training.
Download or read book War Stories written by Robert O. Babcock and published by . This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our Year of War written by Daniel P. Bolger and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two brothers -- Chuck and Tom Hagel -- who went to war in Vietnam, fought in the same unit, and saved each other's life. They disagreed about the war, but they fought it together. 1968. America was divided. Flag-draped caskets came home by the thousands. Riots ravaged our cities. Assassins shot our political leaders. Black fought white, young fought old, fathers fought sons. And it was the year that two brothers from Nebraska went to war. In Vietnam, Chuck and Tom Hagel served side by side in the same rifle platoon. Together they fought in the Mekong Delta, battled snipers in Saigon, chased the enemy through the jungle, and each saved the other's life under fire. But when their one-year tour was over, these two brothers came home side-by-side but no longer in step -- one supporting the war, the other hating it. Former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and his brother Tom epitomized the best, and withstood the worst, of the most tumultuous, shocking, and consequential year in the last half-century. Following the brothers' paths from the prairie heartland through a war on the far side of the world and back to a divided America, Our Year of War tells the story of two brothers at war -- a gritty, poignant, and resonant story of a family and a nation divided yet still united.
Download or read book The Fool Lieutenant written by Marcia Moen and published by . This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The All American Lieutenant written by Rich Grimes and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The All-American Lieutenant is a story describing the noteworthy accomplishments made on battlefields and naval venues to fend off the Axis enemies determined to defeat and enslave America. The book is a fictionalized love story with events of World War II intertwined creating a literary blend sure to interest readers. The text highlights one man's patriotic quest doing all he can to help win the war, and his soldiering, courage, and sacrifice represent the best of all who served. Acknowledging and celebrating the exploits of many through the life and times of this military hero was both an honor and privilege.
Download or read book Lieutenant Ramsey s War written by Edwin Price Ramsey and published by Memories of War. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Knightsbridge, 1990.
Download or read book The Education of Lieutenant Kerrey written by Gregory L. Vistica and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Education of Lieutenant Kerrey is an incredible story and a modern morality tale about a man of compassion and promise trapped by a horrible secret. On the night of February 25, 1969, an inexperienced, 25-year-old lieutenant, Bob Kerrey, led a commando raid on an isolated hamlet called Thanh Phong in Vietnam's Mekong Delta. While witnesses and official records give varying accounts, one thing is certain: around midnight, Kerrey and his men killed nearly two dozen unarmed women and children. What happened that night and why? It's a terrible secret that Kerrey has borne for more than thirty years. Kerrey went on to do heroic things in Vietnam and later as a politician. Since World War II, he is only Medal of Honor winner to sit as a member of Congress. In many ways, Kerrey's life following that tragic mission has been a struggle for redemption. So is Bob Kerrey a war hero or war criminal? Gregory L. Vistica, who uncovered the Thanh Phong atrocities in a widely-praised cover story for The New York Times Magazine, searches the entire span of Kerrey's life to answer that question.. From his rural boyhood in Nebraska, to his gut wrenching Navy SEAL training, to his aborted run for President, Kerrey's life will become a vehicle for understanding the Vietnam generation shaped in the 50s and sharpened by the tumultuous 60s.
Download or read book Gatewood and Geronimo written by Louis Kraft and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2000-06 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parallels the lives of Gatewood and Geronimo as events drive them toward their historic meeting in Mexico in 1886--a meeting that marked the beginning of the end of the last Apache war.
