Download or read book The Two Thousand Yard Stare written by Brendan M. Greeley and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "El Paso artist Tom Lea was commissioned by Life Magazine to paint the war as it was being experienced by U.S. and Allied soldiers, sailors, and airmen. Along with his sketchbook, Lea carried on these assignments his "record of work", a notebook in which he recorded observations and details on the images he hoped to create from the events he had seen." "Brendan M. Greeley, Jr. has collected virtually all of Tom Lea's firsthand accounts of his assignments for Life, along with his powerful sketches and unforgettable paintings, and placed them in context, along with photographs and research focusing on the people, places, and wartime events encountered by Tom Lea. Drawing on previously unpublished sources - the artist's diary, letters to the Texas historian J. Frank. Dobie, oral interviews, and archival materials from Texas and national collections - Greeley presents in The Two Thousand Yard Stare a uniquely comprehensive and sustained treatment of Lea's creative accomplishments during World War II." "This well-documented and astonishingly illustrated volume will fascinate those interested in the realistic depiction of war, in both images and words. Also a must-read for students, scholars, and collectors of the artist's work, The Two Thousand Yard Stare: Tom Lea's World War II is a brilliant compendium of the work and thought of one of America's most compelling painters and writers."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book 1000 Yard Stare written by Marc Waszkiewicz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A grunt’s-eye view of the Vietnam War through hundreds of personal photos Marc Waszkiewicz served three tours (1967, 1968, 1969) as an artillery forward observer with the U.S. Marine Corps in Vietnam, where he took thousands of photos capturing the beauty, drudgery, hilarity, and horror of the war. 1,000-Yard Stare collects the best of these in a book that presents an unvarnished grunt’s-eye view of the Vietnam War. These are amazing, well-shot photos--most of them color, many of them truly arresting--of Marines in the field, in camp, on base, fighting, patrolling, writing, drinking, carrying on. Some have the feeling of candid snapshots while others are more composed (Waszkiewicz was, and is, an amateur photographer), with subjects ranging from a gunner calculating ranges with pencil and protractor and a chaplain conducting a battlefield mass to grunts smoking illicit substances while pretending to fish and images of barbed wire twisting in the jungle and watchtowers at twilight. Also included are photographs from Waszkiewicz’s postwar decades of coming to terms with his experiences, such as a sequence of poignant photos from The Wall in Washington and his trip back to Vietnam. This is a visual memoir of the war.
Download or read book 1000 Yard Stare written by G. S. Willmott and published by Crabtree Pty Ltd. This book was released on 2020-02-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PTSD has been documented throughout history since man first began clubbing each other with rocks. Our understanding of this debilitation has only increased or become more visible in our digital age. In the past it was seen as a source of shame and embarrassment, not just for those suffering PTSD, but also their families and loved ones. The dark ages are gone we hope. We now strive to understand the effects of war on the minds of our men, women and families. Garry Willmott, in his book, has highlighted those who have suffered similar and often the very same symptoms documented throughout the centuries. Garry's mix of documented research and fact, combined with a somewhat personal narrative of each story and sufferer, provides us with a better eye-opening experience of PTSD. The reader can now put two and two together and begin to understand their own experiences of their grandfather, father, brother or sister, and how they returned from war, conflict or trauma as 'damaged goods'. Thanks for the opportunity to be a part of this project. Readers will not be disappointed. - Craig Roach, Gallipoli artist and avid historian, Gallipoli, Turkey. Money from book sales will be donated to the Webb family.
Download or read book The Bulletproof Coffin written by David Hine and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collecting the second season of the mind-blowing cult-favorite! Featuring the origin of The Shield of Justice, Tales from the Haunted Jazz Club, The Hateful Dead bubblegum cards, the loathsome Kiss The Clown, Coffin Fly versus The Red Menace, and the legendary cut-up issue -- "84." What more could you ask for? Okay... we added some "Behind the Scenes" extras, too. Happy now?
Download or read book Thousand yard Stare written by Tim Andrew and published by . This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Million Mile Stare written by Dorian Paul Rogers and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Equal parts poetry collection and adult coloring book, The Million Mile Stare is the second collaboration between siblings, Dorian Paul Rogers and Gabrielle Fludd. The book's title is a reference to the thousand-yard stare, a war term related to the distant, and sometimes soulless, gaze of a shell-shocked soldier. Rogers' poetry gives voice to the childhood trauma he experienced growing up as a bi-racial child in East Cleveland, Ohio and Albany, Georgia. Fludd, a visual artist and illustrator, created accompanying artworks in black and white with intricate designs in order to allow readers to color and more deeply reflect on the written words. Rogers' and Fludd's collaboration gives unique perspectives on issues related to self-love, self-identity, race, education, colorism, and socio-economics. The Million Mile Stare aims to provide a sense of catharsis to readers as they explore the written words while creating new art of their own through coloring.
Download or read book Thousand Yard Stare written by Pierce Kelley and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-05-12 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its first adrenaline-pumping shot, "Thousand Yard Stare" races full-throttle into the nightmare world of George, a Vietnam vet who descends into the neverland of PTSD and takes the reader with him. Flush with detail, rich in research, Pierce Kelley's latest offering will be hauntingly familiar to all battle-worn soldiers -- and their families and friends. Part courtroom drama, part psychotherapy, "Thousand Yard Stare" is a timely book that deserves a good, hard look. Tom Mayer, Editor, Lake City Reporter "This is a real page turner. The Thousand Yard Stare draws attention to a subject many know about, but few care to discussPTSD. Pierce Kelley limns with detail the problems soldiers returning from combat can experience." Carolyn Risner, Editor, Williston Pioneer
Download or read book In visible War written by Jon Simons and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-14 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In/Visible War addresses a paradox of twenty-first century American warfare. The contemporary visual American experience of war is ubiquitous, and yet war is simultaneously invisible or absent; we lack a lived sense that “America” is at war. This paradox of in/visibility concerns the gap between the experiences of war zones and the visual, mediated experience of war in public, popular culture, which absents and renders invisible the former. Large portions of the domestic public experience war only at a distance. For these citizens, war seems abstract, or may even seem to have disappeared altogether due to a relative absence of visual images of casualties. Perhaps even more significantly, wars can be fought without sacrifice by the vast majority of Americans. Yet, the normalization of twenty-first century war also renders it highly visible. War is made visible through popular, commercial, mediated culture. The spectacle of war occupies the contemporary public sphere in the forms of celebrations at athletic events and in films, video games, and other media, coming together as MIME, the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Network.
Download or read book The Thousand Yard Stare and Other Stories written by Angelo Victor Mercure and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2007-06-15 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of NIGHT OF THE DRAGON and BLUE TIGER/YELLOW FANG........ come these torrid tales........ jaded, grim, corrupt, moody stories - yet each narrative retains a surge of life that is unforgettable...... Reading this book is like stepping into the lair of a lion.......Angelo Victor Mercure has created passionate and dramatic scenarios......crafted incredible tableaus of savage subterranean worlds inhabited by junkies, speed freaks, alkies, gamblers, robbers, and whores...... No-holds-barred, in-your-face prose. Carlo Popolus Taboo Magazine
Download or read book The Thousand Yard Stare written by Rob Kantner and published by Crimeline. This book was released on 1991 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book War is Personal written by Eugene Richards and published by . This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of fifteen real-life stories that speak of what it means to go to war, to sacrifice, to wait, to hope, to mourn, to remember, to live on when those you love are gone.
Download or read book The Complete Enneagram written by Beatrice Chestnut and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Enneagram—a universal symbol of human purpose and possibility—is an excellent tool for doing the hardest part of consciousness work: realizing, owning, and accepting your strengths and weaknesses. In this comprehensive handbook, Beatrice Chestnut, PhD, traces the development of the personality as it relates to the nine types of the Enneagram, the three different subtype forms each type can take, and the path each of us can take toward liberation. With her guidance, readers will learn to observe themselves, face their fears and disowned Shadow aspects, and work to manifest their highest potential.
Download or read book War and Gender written by Joshua S. Goldstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-17 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender roles are nowhere more prominent than in war. Yet contentious debates, and the scattering of scholarship across academic disciplines, have obscured understanding of how gender affects war and vice versa. In this authoritative and lively review of our state of knowledge, Joshua Goldstein assesses the possible explanations for the near-total exclusion of women from combat forces, through history and across cultures. Topics covered include the history of women who did fight and fought well, the complex role of testosterone in men's social behaviours, and the construction of masculinity and femininity in the shadow of war. Goldstein concludes that killing in war does not come naturally for either gender, and that gender norms often shape men, women, and children to the needs of the war system. lllustrated with photographs, drawings, and graphics, and drawing from scholarship spanning six academic disciplines, this book provides a unique study of a fascinating issue.
Download or read book The Trail is the Teacher written by Clay Bonnyman Evans and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the author's 2016 thru-hike of the 2,190-mile Appalachian Trail.
Download or read book The Thousand Yard Stare written by Shari Stillings and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shari Stillings grew up in a very small northern Vermont town. She now lives in the White Mountains of New Hampshire with her two dogs and two birds. She has attempted to put into words the darker side of human nature so as to bring light to it and achieve a better understanding of lifes many facets. Whether the survival of the military veteran or the empowerment of women through self exploration and growth, the author has sought to touch the soul of the people whose stories she has told through her poems. The author writes about survival in its many forms. This has been attempted in a style unique to this author. These poems will enlighten readers and hopefully create a better understanding of people.
Download or read book The Thousand yard Stare written by James Soular and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Robert McNamara s Other War written by Patrick Allan Sharma and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert McNamara's Other War chronicles the former defense secretary's thirteen-year presidency of the World Bank. Using previously unstudied World Bank documents, Patrick Allan Sharma recounts the World Bank's transformation under McNamara and highlights his complex legacy.