Download or read book Toughest Battle written by Regina Pride and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-05-31 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At eighteen, Brian Clark is ready to leave Akron Ohio and attend college at Ohio State. But when his parents are killed, he stays to raise his younger brother Tommy. Two years later, he falls in love with Pamela Carlyle. But when she becomes pregnant four years later, Brian can't put his life on hold again. He goes to school in LA, leaves Pam behind, and guilt drives him to drink and self-destruct. After he pulls himself together, he wonders if he can reclaim his family. So begins Brian's story is Small Sacrifices. Now, in Toughest Battle, Brian has come home. It's five years later, and Brian is broke, homeless, and fighting to stay sober. But he also loves his family, and he will do anything to be worthy of them again. Each day he fears he is too late. Tommy is now a grown man, who doesn't need or trust him anymore. Pam is engaged to another man, and fears giving her heart to Brian again. And Brian's daughter LaToya is a confused little girl who sees him as a stranger. But as Brian rebuilds his life, he tears down those walls and becomes a man they can believe in again. And to his utter joy, he believes Pam will finally let them have a new beginning. But Pam's fiance, Greg Austin, and her scheming sister, Patricia Carlyle, are digging into Brian's past. And what they discover could destroy Brian's reunion with his family for good ...
Download or read book The toughest battle to win THE WAR written by Mriganka Bikash Saha and published by Mriganka Bikash Saha. This book was released on 2023-05-22 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this compelling exploration of self-discipline, I invite you on a transformative journey towards personal excellence. Drawing from my own experiences and insights, I delve into the mindset, habits, and strategies that have allowed me to overcome challenges, harness my potential, and achieve remarkable success. With practical wisdom and actionable advice, I empower you to cultivate discipline as the foundation for unlocking your true potential, amplifying your productivity, and embracing a life of purpose and fulfillment. This book serves as your guide to becoming the master of your own destiny and crafting a life of extraordinary self-discipline."
Download or read book Zachary Rush in Our Toughest Battle written by D.C. Woods and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Toughest Fighting in the World written by George H. Johnston and published by Westholme Pub Llc. This book was released on 2011 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “No other writer has turned out a book on the fighting in New Guinea that can match Mr. Johnston's. Superior literary quality projects this work far in advance of those earlier and more hasty accounts. Mr. Johnston is a young Australian war correspondent who lived through most of the action he describes. The reader will know that from the first page and is apt to find himself tensely hunched up as he is carried into the jungles by this writer's extraordinary reporting and artistry. As Mr. Johnston himself admits, the title sounds bombastic and the sensitive book purchaser might well shy from it. This would be a mistake, since the title is thoroughly honest.”—New York Times “It is a book of episodes which are fitted together into a pattern that tells his story in compelling fashion. Mr. Johnston is a brilliant descriptive writer and the full flavor of this extraordinary battle is in his book.”—Saturday Review of Literature Following their attacks on Pearl Harbor, the Dutch East Indies, and the Philippines, the Japanese invaded New Guinea in early 1942 as part of their attempt to create a Pacific empire. Control of New Guinea would enable Japan to establish large army, air force, and naval bases in close proximity to Australia. The Australians, with American cooperation, began a counterattack in earnest. The mountainous terrain covered with nearly impenetrable tropical forest and full of natural hazards resulted in an exceedingly grueling battleground. The struggle for New Guinea, one of the major campaigns of World War II, lasted the entire war, with the crucial fighting occurring in the first year. In The Toughest Fighting in the World, first published in 1943, Australian war correspondent George H. Johnston recorded the efforts of both the Australian and American troops, aided by the New Guinea native people, throughout 1942 as they fought a series of vicious and bitter battles against a determined foe. In one of the classic accounts of combat in World War II, the author makes a compelling case that the hardships endured by the soldiers in New Guinea from both nature and the enemy were among the most severe in the war.
Download or read book The Way Forward written by Robert O'Neill and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER “The Way Forward will help every reader master their own challenges—this is a must-read book!” —Admiral Bill McRaven, U.S. Navy (Retired) and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Make Your Bed American Sniper meets Make Your Bed in these life lessons from decorated United States service members and New York Times bestselling authors Robert O’Neill and Dakota Meyer—an in-depth, fearless, and ultimately redemptive account of what it takes to survive and thrive on battlefields from Afghanistan and Iraq to our daily lives, and how the perils of war help us hold onto our humanity. Rob O’Neill and Dakota Meyer are two of the most decorated and recognized US service members: O’Neill killed the world’s most wanted man, Osama bin Laden, and Meyer was the first living Marine to receive the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War. But beyond their actions and courage in combat, O’Neill and Meyer also have much in common in civilian life: they are both sought-after public speakers, advocates for veterans, and share a non-PC sense of humor. Combining the best of military memoirs and straight-talking self-help, The Way Forward alternates between O’Neill’s and Meyer’s perspectives, looking back with humor at even the darkest war stories, and sharing lessons they learned along the way. The Way Forward presents O’Neill and Meyer’s philosophy in combat and life. This isn’t a book about the glory of war and combat, but one about facing your enemies, some who are flesh and blood and some that are not: Your thoughts. Your doubts. Your boredom and your regrets. From Rob’s dogged repetition at the free throw line of his childhood basketball court to Dakota’s pursuit of EMT and firefighter credentials to aid accident victims, these two American heroes turn their experiences into valuable lessons for every reader. Gritty and down-to-earth, O’Neill and Meyer tell their stories with candor and vulnerability to help readers handle stress, tackle their biggest obstacles, and exceed their expectations of themselves, while keeping life’s battles in perspective with a sense of humor.
Download or read book Tarawa the Toughest Battle in Marine Corps History written by Dick Hannah and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first half of this book is meant to give an over-all picture of the battle for Tarawa. It has been compiled from the news dispatches and photographs which came in, day after day, from the scene of combat. In many instances, stories have been reproduced in their entirety. The second half is devoted to the men who did such a magnificent jobs of telling Tarawa's astonishing story. The photographers and reporters at Betio met and mastered the toughest assignment imaginable. It is to them, then--in admiration--that the book is dedicated."--p. [9].
Download or read book 1001 Battles That Changed the Course of History written by R. G. Grant and published by Chartwell Books. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 963 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical account of humanity's 5000 year history of recorded conflict looks at ancient wars, modern conflict, and everything in-between.
Download or read book Unit Histories of World War II written by United States. Department of the Army. Office of Military History and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Trojan War as Military History written by Manousos E. Kambouris and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2023-03-23 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Trojan War as Military History, the author's starting point is the fact that the Iliad, notwithstanding the fantastical/mythological elements (the involvement of gods and demigods), is the earliest detailed description of warfare we have. Stripping away the myths, Manousos Kambouris analyses the epic and combines it with other textual and archaeological evidence to produce a coherent narrative of the conflict and of Bronze Age warfare in the Aegean. The author presents the most detailed analysis possible of Mycenaean Greek armies - their composition and organization, the warriors' weapons, armor and tactics, and those of their enemies. He finds sophisticated combined-arms forces blending massed infantry with missile troops and chariots, employing open battle, deception and special operations in what amounted to total war. The author's detailed examination of the mechanics of Bronze Age combat is enriched by his use of insights from experimental archaeology using replica equipment. No less illuminating or significant than the minutiae of heroic duels is the setting of the strategic context of the conflict and the geopolitical relationship of the Mycenaean Greeks with their rivals across the Aegean. Seeking to integrate the supernatural/divine element of the Iliad within the power structure and struggle of the day, the author lashes the Trojan War to the chariot of rationality and drags it from the mists of mythology and into the realm of History.
Download or read book Persona written by Naoki Inose and published by Stone Bridge Press. This book was released on 2012-12-07 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yukio Mishima (b. 1925) was a brilliant writer and intellectual whose relentless obsession with beauty, purity, and patriotism ended in his astonishing self-disembowelment and decapitation in downtown Tokyo in 1970. Nominated for the Nobel Prize, Mishima was the best-known novelist of his time (works like Confessions of a Mask and The Temple of the Golden Pavilion are still in print in English), and his legacy—his persona—is still honored and puzzled over. Who was Yukio Mishima really? This, the first full biography to appear in English in almost forty years, traces Mishima's trajectory from a sickly boy named Kimitake Hiraoka to a hard-bodied student of martial arts. In detail it examines his family life, the wartime years, and his emergence, then fame, as a writer and advocate for traditional values. Revealed here are all the personalities and conflicts and sometimes petty backbiting that shaped the culture of postwar literary Japan. Working entirely from primary sources and material unavailable to other biographers, author Naoki Inose and translator Hiroaki Sato together have produced a monumental work that covers much new ground in unprecedented depth. Using interviews, social and psychological analysis, and close reading of novels and essays, Persona removes the mask that Mishima so artfully created to disguise his true self. Naoki Inose, currently vice governor of Tokyo, has also written biographies of writers Kikuchi Kan and Osamu Dazai. New York–based Hiroaki Sato is an award-winning translator of classical and modern Japanese poetry, and also translated Mishima's novel Silk and Insight.
Download or read book The Will Power written by Onoja Adakole Michael and published by Onoja Adakole Michael. This book was released on with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientists over the years have proven that human life is shape and reshape by our level of thinking. For instance, Sheldon B Kopp (Clinical Psychologist) said a large part of how a little kid becomes a big kid has to do with increasing a store of information and differentiating new ways of thinking. Through this, the child can predict and control how the physical and social world works. This book offers an oversimplified explanations and a pivotal configuration of how individuals can harness the reformulations on the physical, social, economic and political world. It contains practical illustrations of how individuals through The Will Power have achieved an unbelievable and limitless success in life overtime. It's a guide for those who want the best out of life.
Download or read book T ISSUES AN IMMORTAL PANDEMIC written by SHAISTA SHAIKH and published by Spectrum of thoughts. This book was released on 2021-02-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Give me some tissues and I will pierce them it all with my tears, Lend me sorrows they would burn along with my mourning heart. A book that consists of the residual ashes of those tissues. The co-authors of this anthology have tried to magnify those ashes and make your sight hazy with the tears that you yourself have hidden from everyone. Let's embrace this journey; with the book which would take you from hidden fears to the issues that are yet to be labelled Legal!
Download or read book Leadership in War written by Andrew Roberts and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparison of nine leaders who led their nations through the greatest wars the world has ever seen and whose unique strengths—and weaknesses—shaped the course of human history, from the bestselling, award-winning author of Churchill, Napoleon, and The Last King of America “Has the enjoyable feel of a lively dinner table conversation with an opinionated guest.” —The New York Times Book Review Taking us from the French Revolution to the Cold War, Andrew Roberts presents a bracingly honest and deeply insightful look at nine major figures in modern history: Napoleon Bonaparte, Horatio Nelson, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, George C. Marshall, Charles de Gaulle, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Margaret Thatcher. Each of these leaders fundamentally shaped the outcome of the war in which their nation was embroiled. Is war leadership unique, or did these leaders have something in common, traits and techniques that transcend time and place and can be applied to the essential nature of conflict? Meticulously researched and compellingly written, Leadership in War presents readers with fresh, complex portraits of leaders who approached war with different tactics and weapons, but with the common goal of success in the face of battle. Both inspiring and cautionary, these portraits offer important lessons on leadership in times of struggle, unease, and discord. With his trademark verve and incisive observation, Roberts reveals the qualities that doom even the most promising leaders to failure, as well as the traits that lead to victory.
Download or read book Wuxia Novel Super Evil Hero written by Kexue Ma and published by Kexue Ma. This book was released on with total page 1255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encouragement For Those Who Suffer In Silence written by Rev. Dr. LaRuth E. Lockhart and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of us, at times, encounter heartache, death, challenges, failures, disappointments, and other trials. How do you overcome these difficulties? Do you hold onto your hidden and silent issues? At what moment will you no longer internalize your doubts and fears, your failures and unforgiveness, your pain and brokenness? Holding onto painful problems indefinitely will not add value or meaning to your life. In Encouragement for Those Who Suffer in Silence, author Rev. Dr. LaRuth E. Lockhart addresses common issues often held in secret by many, challenges that can cause you to become broken and to suffer in silence. She communicates that you can’t receive comfort until you face and admit what ails you. You must let go and let God have control of every aspect of your life. He’s the God of all healing, comfort, and restoration. Using her personal experience of suffering silently, and with the word of God as her source, Dr. LaRuth encourages you to give voice to the silent issues that bind you and to graciously receive healing for your pain and restoration through Jesus Christ the savior.
Download or read book Voices from the Vietnam War written by Xiaobing Li and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-06-11 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vietnam War's influence on politics, foreign policy, and subsequent military campaigns is the center of much debate and analysis. But the impact on veterans across the globe, as well as the war's effects on individual lives and communities, is a largely neglected issue. As a consequence of cultural and legal barriers, the oral histories of the Vietnam War currently available in English are predictably one-sided, providing limited insight into the inner workings of the Communist nations that participated in the war. Furthermore, many of these accounts focus on combat experiences rather than the backgrounds, belief systems, and social experiences of interviewees, resulting in an incomplete historiography of the war. Chinese native Xiaobing Li corrects this oversight in Voices from the Vietnam War: Stories from American, Asian, and Russian Veterans. Li spent seven years gathering hundreds of personal accounts from survivors of the war, accounts that span continents, nationalities, and political affiliations. The twenty-two intimate stories in the book feature the experiences of American, Chinese, Russian, Korean, and North and South Vietnamese veterans, representing the views of both anti-Communist and Communist participants, including Chinese officers of the PLA, a Russian missile-training instructor, and a KGB spy. These narratives humanize and contextualize the war's events while shedding light on aspects of the war previously unknown to Western scholars. Providing fresh perspectives on a long-discussed topic, Voices from the Vietnam War offers a thorough and unique understanding of America's longest war.
Download or read book Breaking Toxic Soul Ties written by Tom Brown and published by Whitaker House. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going through this world in relationship with other people inevitably creates connections in our inner being called soul ties. When these relationships are loving, supportive, and nurturing, positive soul ties are created. But if the relationships become abusive or manipulative, or cause rejection, they create a toxic brokenness within our soul that we carry with us, even long after the relationship ends. If these toxic inner soul ties are not severed, we will experience failure, fractured relationships, and even health problems throughout life. In Breaking Toxic Soul Ties, Tom Brown describes his own story of rejection and the process of inner healing he experienced. He will help you to identify and diagnose toxic relationships as he explains the difference between positive and negative soul ties. He also shows why toxic soul ties develop and how they can only be broken by a process of inner healing that incorporates confession, forgiveness, and prayer. The truth is, unless your self-image is firmly rooted in the truth of your identity in Christ, you will always be susceptible to bad soul ties. Tom Brown describes the way for you to move forward in life and leave pain and brokenness behind for good!
