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Author: Donald R. Nicholas Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781532827327 Category : Languages : en Pages : 458
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To me, the absolute excitement we see in a child stems from learning. There are so many things out there to stimulate the mind. Some good. Some not so good. But they all teach. Life is never what you wholly anticipate. It is full of tests, later called experiences. I grew up in an environment no one expected me to succeed but wouldn't have doubted the prospect. This autobiography is a testament to my inner child; my experiences. At times, things were simple, others difficult, still other times...deadly. I am not a book writer. I wrote to relieve the stress of the physicality of three wars, and one emotional. I may have spent five years in combat zones but the emotional ride feels like an eternity. Even in its mildest form, things are remembered, as the Veterans Administration likes to put it, at times you don't want them to. Personal relations are hurt but fortunately for me, my family is always there.
Author: Donald R. Nicholas Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781532827327 Category : Languages : en Pages : 458
Book Description
To me, the absolute excitement we see in a child stems from learning. There are so many things out there to stimulate the mind. Some good. Some not so good. But they all teach. Life is never what you wholly anticipate. It is full of tests, later called experiences. I grew up in an environment no one expected me to succeed but wouldn't have doubted the prospect. This autobiography is a testament to my inner child; my experiences. At times, things were simple, others difficult, still other times...deadly. I am not a book writer. I wrote to relieve the stress of the physicality of three wars, and one emotional. I may have spent five years in combat zones but the emotional ride feels like an eternity. Even in its mildest form, things are remembered, as the Veterans Administration likes to put it, at times you don't want them to. Personal relations are hurt but fortunately for me, my family is always there.
Author: Brendan Taylor Publisher: Black Inc. ISBN: 1743820267 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 216
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A timely account of the four most troubled hotspots in the world’s most combustible region Asia is at a dangerous moment. China is rising fast, and its regional ambitions are growing. Reckless North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un may be assembling more nuclear weapons, despite diplomatic efforts to eradicate his arsenal. Japan is building up its military, throwing off constitutional constraints imposed after World War II. The United States, for so long a stabilising presence in Asia, is behaving erratically: Donald Trump is the first US president since the 1970s to break diplomatic protocol and speak with Taiwan, and the first to threaten war with North Korea if denuclearisation does not occur. The possibility of global catastrophe looms ever closer. In this revelatory analysis, geopolitical expert Brendan Taylor examines the four Asian flashpoints most likely to erupt in sudden and violent conflict: the Korean Peninsula, the East China Sea, the South China Sea and Taiwan. He sketches how clashes could play out in these global hotspots and argues that crisis can only be averted by understanding the complex relations between them. Drawing on history, in-depth reports and his intimate observations of the region, Taylor asks what the world’s major powers can do to avoid an eruption of war – and shows how Asia could change this otherwise disastrous trajectory.
Author: Donald F. Myers Publisher: Pentland Press (NC) ISBN: 9781571971876 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 340
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The author presents short newspaper articles concerning the war in Vietnam along with writings of his memories of sixteen months of an extended Vietnam tour with the Marines.
Author: Karen Abbott Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 006209291X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 295
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Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and “pioneer of sizzle history” (USA Today), tells the spellbinding true story of four women who risked everything to become spies during the Civil War. Karen Abbott illuminates one of the most fascinating yet little known aspects of the Civil War: the stories of four courageous women—a socialite, a farmgirl, an abolitionist, and a widow—who were spies. After shooting a Union soldier in her front hall with a pocket pistol, Belle Boyd became a courier and spy for the Confederate army, using her charms to seduce men on both sides. Emma Edmonds cut off her hair and assumed the identity of a man to enlist as a Union private, witnessing the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. The beautiful widow, Rose O’Neale Greenhow, engaged in affairs with powerful Northern politicians to gather intelligence for the Confederacy, and used her young daughter to send information to Southern generals. Elizabeth Van Lew, a wealthy Richmond abolitionist, hid behind her proper Southern manners as she orchestrated a far-reaching espionage ring, right under the noses of suspicious rebel detectives. Using a wealth of primary source material and interviews with the spies’ descendants, Abbott seamlessly weaves the adventures of these four heroines throughout the tumultuous years of the war. With a cast of real-life characters including Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, General Stonewall Jackson, detective Allan Pinkerton, Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln, and Emperor Napoleon III, Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy draws you into the war as these daring women lived it. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy contains 39 black & photos and 3 maps.
Author: Andy Rooney Publisher: PublicAffairs ISBN: 1586486829 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 358
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My War is a blunt, funny, idiosyncratic account of Andy Rooney's World War II. As a young, naïve correspondent for The Stars and Stripes, Rooney flew bomber missions, arrived in France during the D-Day invasion, crossed the Rhine with the Allied forces, traveled to Paris for the Liberation, and was one of the first reporters into Buchenwald. Like so many of his generation, Rooney's life was changed forever by the war. He saw life at the extremes of human experience, and wrote about what he observed, making it real to millions of men and women. My War is the story of an inexperienced kid learning the craft of journalism. It is by turns moving, suspenseful, and reflective. And Rooney's unmistakable voice shines through on every page.
Author: John Dower Publisher: Pantheon ISBN: 0307816141 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 411
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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD • AN AMERICAN BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A monumental history that has been hailed by The New York Times as “one of the most original and important books to be written about the war between Japan and the United States.” In this monumental history, Professor John Dower reveals a hidden, explosive dimension of the Pacific War—race—while writing what John Toland has called “a landmark book ... a powerful, moving, and evenhanded history that is sorely needed in both America and Japan.” Drawing on American and Japanese songs, slogans, cartoons, propaganda films, secret reports, and a wealth of other documents of the time, Dower opens up a whole new way of looking at that bitter struggle of four and a half decades ago and its ramifications in our lives today. As Edwin O. Reischauer, former ambassador to Japan, has pointed out, this book offers “a lesson that the postwar generations need most ... with eloquence, crushing detail, and power.”
Author: William Strauss Publisher: Crown ISBN: 0767900464 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 401
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheaval—with deep insights into the roles that Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials have to play—now with a new preface by Neil Howe. First comes a High, a period of confident expansion. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion. Then comes an Unraveling, in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisis—the Fourth Turning—when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history. William Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the world—and your place in it. With blazing originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future. Most remarkably, it offers an utterly persuasive prophecy about how America’s past will predict what comes next. Strauss and Howe base this vision on a provocative theory of American history. The authors look back five hundred years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a long human life, each composed of four twenty-year eras—or “turnings”—that comprise history’s seasonal rhythm of growth, maturation, entropy, and rebirth. Illustrating this cycle through a brilliant analysis of the post–World War II period, The Fourth Turning offers bold predictions about how all of us can prepare, individually and collectively, for this rendezvous with destiny.
Author: Donald R. Nicholas
Author: Donald R. Nicholas
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