Download or read book The Reluctant Patriot written by Roger F. Duncan and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1775, just prior to the start of the American Revolution, the British schooner Halifax was wrecked off the Maine coast. The pilot of the vessel was a Colonial seaman who'd been impressed into the Royal Navy. Drawing on true events and real people, noted maritime author and historian Roger Duncan traces the fictional life of Halifax's pilot in this historical novel.
Download or read book The Reluctant Patriot written by Susan Lohafer and published by . This book was released on 2020-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early days of the American Civil War, Harry thought it was just a quarrel among politicians -- until his young son ran away to join a guerrilla raid against the Confederates. Within weeks, Harry himself was falsely accused of sabotage, tried in a rigged courtroom, and sentenced to hang for treason. Based on true events and the real life of Harrison Self, this is a tale of eastern Tennessee, where loyalty to the Union survived long after the state had seceded. At times evoking the diaries, humorous tales, and adventure narratives of the period, it is the story of a man for whom love of country was not a given, but the result of decisions forged under pressure. In the course of his war, he will lose a son, plumb a daughter's love, and form a strange bond with the region's most controversial figure, W. G. Brownlow. Unremarked by history, Harry experienced, firsthand, the serial betrayals and surprising loyalties of a bloody war on his doorstep. How he survived -- and what he became -- is a suspenseful and moving tale of a soul's reformation.
Download or read book A Reluctant Patriot written by Robert Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 1998-02-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Reluctant Patriot written by Robert Lawrence Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story that is true to American history. A refreshing novel that flies in the face of negativity found in the media today. Here is a young man handicapped by the loss of his right arm, triumphing over what might be considered impossible odds. A young man who risks all in the service of his adopted country.
Download or read book The Reluctant Patriot written by Edward Piacentini Bernardi and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Reluctant Patriot written by Persimmon Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Factual, documented and verifiable account of what happened to (The Author) Captain David Andrew Christenson, United States Air Force, on March 15th, 2011.The Department of Justice classifed Captain David Andrew Christenson as a terrorist. The FBI attempted to murder/assassinate the author while he was being held in isolation in the Orleans Parish Prison. Coast Guard Commander William Wesley Goetzee was not so lucky. He was murdered in the Orleans Parish Prison on August 7th, 2011. The FBI failed with Captain Christenson but succeeded with Commander Goetzee. What was so important that the United States Government had to assassinate Captain David Andrew Christenson?Chemical warfare ingredients, "THE KATRINA VIRUS", were released during Hurricane Katrina. The end result wil be GENOCIDE for the residents of New Orleans.The United States Military killed, executed and murdered Americans during Hurricane Katrina and after.The BP oil spill.The Danziger Bridge.
Download or read book The Reluctant Patriot written by Edward Bernardi and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernardi's first effort, The Reluctant Patriot, is a richly woven history of a good people changed; a powerful cautionary story about the grand opera of politics where, throughout the ages, maestros are changed but the music remains the same ... always the same.Based upon his research of letters and extensive original conversations with family members and friends living in the United States and several small villages in the Italian Apennine Mountains, the author weaves a unique story of love, hope and patriotism of family members and friends who became casualties of Fascism, the German occupation, partisan raids and the reprisals carried out by both sides.
Download or read book Robert Ludlum s The Patriot Attack written by Robert Ludlum and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan and China are thrown close to the brink of war when a Japanese warship is attacked. Meanwhile top Covert-One operative Jon Smith is sent to recover mysterious material from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear reactor. Smith vanishes, and CIA agent Randi Russell goes on an unsanctioned mission to find him. She discovers that the missing samples may be evidence that Japan, led by Chief of Staff Masao Takahashi, has been developing next-generation weapons systems in preparation for a conflict with China. The Covert-One team must prevent Takahashi from sparking a war, or the world will be dragged into a battle certain to kill tens of millions of people and leave much of the planet uninhabitable.
Download or read book John Adams reluctant patriot of the revolution written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mission For A Reluctant Patriot written by Susana Paolini and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boomers are a generation that is often overlooked in the wrong assumption that they lack digital affinity. This, however, is far from the truth. Businesses thinking that Social Media is only for younger generations are missing out on great opportunities. The book is the fascinating story of the life journey of author Paul Baffico as a member of the passionate Boomer Generation. Raised in a typical Post WWII family in San Francisco, his education and family values directed him to always do the right thing no matter the circumstances. Through the Haight-Ashbury Summer of Love and the military obligation that sent him to Vietnam; a brilliant career with a Fortune 50 company including an envious early retirement; and finally, the recall of one horrific year of combat that haunted him daily, he eventually questioned if he had ever lived up to the values he was taught. Paul Baffico takes us through the crucial moments of the experience that defined his life and emotional state, but that eventually motivated him to be healed by a most unforeseen encounter with a buried and boiling past. The story is as timeless and relevant today for warriors and their families as it has been for the millennia that humankind has fought wars.
Download or read book The Reluctant Spy written by John Kiriakou and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before the waterboarding controversy exploded in the media, one CIA agent had already gone public. In a groundbreaking 2007 interview with ABC News, John Kiriakou called waterboarding torture—but admitted that it probably worked. This book, at once a confessional, an adventure story, and a chronicle of Kiriakou’s life in the CIA, stands as an important, eloquent piece of testimony from a committed American patriot. In February 2002 Kiriakou was the head of counterterrorism in Pakistan. Under his command, in a spectacular raid coordinated with Pakistani agents and the CIA’s best intelligence analyst, Kiriakou’s field officers took down the infamous terrorist Abu Zubaydah. For days, Kiriakou became the wounded terrorist’s personal “bodyguard.” In circumstances stranger than fiction, as al-Qaeda agents scoured the streets for their captured leader, the best trauma surgeon in America was flown to Pakistan to make sure that Zubaydah did not die. In The Reluctant Spy, Kiriakou takes us into the fight against an enemy fueled by fanaticism. He chillingly describes what it was like inside the CIA headquarters on the morning of 9/11, the agency leaders who stepped up and those who protected their careers. And in what may be the book’s most shocking revelation, he describes how the White House made plans to invade Iraq a full year before the CIA knew about it—or could attempt to stop it. Chronicling both mind-boggling mistakes and heroic acts of individual courage, The Reluctant Spy is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the inner workings of the U.S. intelligence apparatus, the truth behind the torture debate, and the incredible dedication of ordinary men and women doing one of the most extraordinary jobs on earth.
Download or read book Reluctant Patriot Story written by Latrina Dycus and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author provided an honest look at the life experiences that saw him go from adolescence to post-retirement. It struck me how the values, morals, and ethics he adopted thru his family, his education with the Jesuits, and his military training stayed with him. They prepared him for the variety of challenges and obstacles he faced thru the years. This is the fascinating story of the life journey of the author The author is a member of the passionate Boomer Generation. Raised in a typical Post WWII family in San Francisco, his education and family values directed him to always do the right thing no matter the circumstances.
Download or read book Last Mission for a Reluctant Patriot written by Paul A. Baffico and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-22 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Last Mission for a Reluctant Patriot is the fascinating story of the life journey of author Paul Baffico as a member of the passionate Boomer Generation. Raised in a typical Post WWII family in San Francisco, his education and family values directed him to always do the right thing no matter the circumstances. Through the Haight-Ashbury Summer of Love and his military obligation that sent him to Vietnam; a brilliant career with a Fortune 50 company including an envious early retirement; and finally, the recall of one horrific year of combat that haunted him daily, he eventually questioned if he had ever lived up to the values he was taught. Paul Baffico takes us through the crucial moments of the experience that defined his life and emotional state, but that eventually motivated him to be healed by a most unforeseen encounter with a buried and boiling past. The story is as timeless and relevant today for warriors and their families as it has been for the millennia that human kind has fought wars.Baffico is the Founder of the Lake County Veterans and Family Services Foundation. He was the 2012 Red Cross Military Hero of the Year for Greater Chicagoland. He is a U.S. Park Service Volunteer Docent at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C.. And he is the former President of the Sears Automotive Group and the CEO of Western Auto Supply Company. He lives in the Chicago suburbs with his wife Max Smith.
Download or read book Patriots in Petticoats written by Shirley Raye Redmond and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles girls and women who participated in the American Revolution by refusing to buy British merchandise, collecting money, and even going to war as wives, nurses, spies, or soldiers.
Download or read book Our First Civil War written by H. W. Brands and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fast-paced, often riveting account of the military and political events leading up to the Declaration of Independence and those that followed during the war ... Brands does his readers a service by reminding them that division, as much as unity, is central to the founding of our nation."—The Washington Post From best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands comes a gripping, page-turning narrative of the American Revolution that shows it to be more than a fight against the British: it was also a violent battle among neighbors forced to choose sides, Loyalist or Patriot. What causes people to forsake their country and take arms against it? What prompts their neighbors, hardly distinguishable in station or success, to defend that country against the rebels? That is the question H. W. Brands answers in his powerful new history of the American Revolution. George Washington and Benjamin Franklin were the unlikeliest of rebels. Washington in the 1770s stood at the apex of Virginia society. Franklin was more successful still, having risen from humble origins to world fame. John Adams might have seemed a more obvious candidate for rebellion, being of cantankerous temperament. Even so, he revered the law. Yet all three men became rebels against the British Empire that fostered their success. Others in the same circle of family and friends chose differently. William Franklin might have been expected to join his father, Benjamin, in rebellion but remained loyal to the British. So did Thomas Hutchinson, a royal governor and friend of the Franklins, and Joseph Galloway, an early challenger to the Crown. They soon heard themselves denounced as traitors--for not having betrayed the country where they grew up. Native Americans and the enslaved were also forced to choose sides as civil war broke out around them. After the Revolution, the Patriots were cast as heroes and founding fathers while the Loyalists were relegated to bit parts best forgotten. Our First Civil War reminds us that before America could win its revolution against Britain, the Patriots had to win a bitter civil war against family, neighbors, and friends.
Download or read book The Reluctant Republican written by Barbara F. Olschner and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara Olschner believes in her party’s founding principles: lower taxes, less regulation, limited government, and individual accountability. But she also believes in governing through compromise, in respectfully listening to opponents’ viewpoints, and in the possibility that a Republican can be fiscally but not socially conservative. In hindsight, it isn’t surprising that when she ran for Congress at the height of the Tea Party’s influence she was branded an elitist and a RINO (Republican in Name Only)—and finished dead last. The Reluctant Republican traces her campaign and her realization that the current leadership of her party demands strict adherence to its ideology. Not only are different viewpoints not tolerated, but those who espouse them are vilified for their disloyalty.
Download or read book Thomas Jefferson written by Alf J. Mapp and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second volume of a 2 volume biography. Follows Jefferson from his inauguration as president in 1801 to his death on July 4, 1826.
