Author: John Darrell Sherwood Publisher: Government Printing Office ISBN: 9780945274766 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 448
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War in the Shallows, published in 2015 by the Naval History and Heritage Command, is the authoritative account of the U.S. Navy's hard-fought battle along Vietnam's rivers and coastline from 1965-1968. At the height of the U.S. Navy's involvement in the Vietnam War, the Navy's coastal and riverine forces included more than 30,000 Sailors and over 350 patrol vessels ranging in size from riverboats to destroyers. These forces developed the most extensive maritime blockade in modern naval history and fought pitched battles against Viet Cong units in the Mekong Delta and elsewhere. War in the Shallows explores the operations of the Navy's three inshore task forces from 1965 to 1968. It also delves into other themes such as basing, technology, tactics, and command and control. Finally, using oral history interviews, it reconstructs deckplate life in South Vietnam, focusing in particular on combat waged by ordinary Sailors. Vietnam was the bloodiest war in recent naval history and War in the Shallows strives above all else to provide insight into the men who fought it and honor their service and sacrifice. Illustrated throughout with photographs and maps. Author John Darrell Sherwood has served as a historian with the Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) since 1997. -- Provided by publisher.
Author: Jim Carroll Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0140422900 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 113
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From the Author of The Basketball Diaries Originally released in 1973, Living at the Movies was the first aboveground publication of the work of Jim Carroll, a singer-songwriter Newsweek called “contender for the title of rock’s new poet laureate.” In these poems, all written before the age of twenty-two, Carroll shows an uncanny virtuosity. His power and poisoned purity of vision are reminiscent of Arthur Rimbaud, and, like the strongest poets of the New York School, Carroll transforms the everyday details of city life into poetry. In language at once delicate, hallucinatory, and menacing, his major themes—love, friendship, the exquisite pains and pleasures of drugs, and above all, the ever-present city—emerge in an atmosphere where dream and reality mingle on equal terms. It is an astonishing debut by an important American writer and artist. “Jim Carroll has the sure confidence of a true artist. . . . He is steeped in his craft. He has worked as only a man of inspiration is capable of working. . . . His beginning is a triumph.”—Gerard Malanga, Poetry
Author: Jim Carroll Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0140586954 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 289
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Carroll, a diarist and rock performer, is best known for his coming-of-age memoir The Basketball Diaries, which became an instant classic when it was first published in 1978 and then a national bestseller when a film version of the book was released in 1995. Carroll initially made his reputation as a poet, and has won acclaim and comparisons to everyone from Rimbaud to Frank O’Hara for his delicate yet hallucinatory imagery. This volume of poetry collects selections from Jim Carroll’s Living at the Movies, which was published in 1973 when he was twenty-two, and The Book of Nods, released in 1986. Fear of Dreaming also includes pieces previously unpublished in book form, including “Curtis’s Charm,” a vignette set in New York City’s Central Park about a man convinced he is a victim of black magic, and poetic tributes to Robert Mapplethorpe and Ted Berrigan. “His poems’ urgent, obsessive metaphors pose tensely against their cool, streetwise surface voice, charging them with an electricity that’s at once disturbing, sexual, religious, and psychological.”—Tom Clark, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
Author: Jim Carroll Publisher: Penguin Books ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 200
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The illuminating, shocking, humorous diary that tells all about the sex, the frugs and the atmosphere of New York in the late '60s and early '70s. A supremely entertaining book that will expand the legion of Carroll's fans.
Author: Barbara Miller Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 120
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Are You Looking for a Birthday Gift During This Quarantine Period? This Notebook Planner is a Funny Gift For Family And Friends Born In 1938 Small lined daily Diary / Journal / Notebook to write in, to record your daily gratitude list, creative writing, Organize Ideas, for creating lists, for scheduling and recording your thoughts. There is plenty of space to write as much as you want. Start jotting down your ideas, big and small, and make your goals and dreams come true. This Lined Notebook makes a great gift for friends, kids, family members, grandfather, grandmother, parents, children. He/she is going to enjoy the funny birthday quotation on the cover and he/she will certainly be laughing. This is My 83rd Birthday 2021: The One Where I Was Social Distancing Notebook Journal and sketchbook / Journal and sketchbook to Write and drawing alternate a great gift idea for women, wife, husband, daughter, aunt, Uncle, girls, boys, teens, teenagers, boyfriend, and girlfriend This is My Funny 83rd Birthday in 2021: The One Where I Was Quarantined, or The One Where I Got Vaccinated, Or The One Where I Was Vaccinated. In My Funny Happy 83rd Birthday Gift Ideas Where I Was Social Distancing Notebook, and Where It was in lockdown for Men, Women, Son, Daughter, Alternative, Mom, Dad, Grandpa, Grandma, 83 Years Old Gift Ideas ♥ Notebook Specification: ★ 110 Pages with Lined & Blank Pages for Writing ★ Dimension: 6 x 9 inches (15.2 x 22.9 cm) ★ White paper ★ High-Quality, Soft Cover, Matte Finish ♥ Makes a great gift idea or stocking stuffer for any occasion ♥ ★★★ CLICK ON BRAND FOR MORE COVER. ★★★ Journal Gift, Lined Notebook with Goals Planner, To-Do list, Gratitude Journal, and More...
Author: Wakula Publishing Publisher: ISBN: 9781687757104 Category : Languages : en Pages : 102
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Lined 6x9 journal with 100 blank pages. This is the perfect and inexpensive minimalist Typographic birthday gift to sketch, put stickers, write memories, or take notes in Get yourself this amazing journal gift now
Author: Wakula Publishing Publisher: ISBN: 9781687726278 Category : Languages : en Pages : 102
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Lined 6x9 journal with 100 blank pages. This is the perfect and inexpensive minimalist Typographic birthday gift to sketch, put stickers, write memories, or take notes in Get yourself this amazing journal gift now
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