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Author: Jerald W. Berry Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1450073476 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 348
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To preserve the gallantry of these men, author Jerald W. Berry spent three years of extensive investigation and personal interviews. He now presents this comprehensive research through this book. Hundreds of interviews from those who actually were insideCambodia comprise the heart of this book. It relives the firsthand accounts of those soldiers who witnessed history through their own eyes. To add a more vivid picture of the era that, that are forty-year-old photographs that belong to the infantrymen who lived the "twelve days in May" inside Cambodia.--From publisher description.
Author: Larry Dane Brimner Publisher: Boyds Mills Press ISBN: 1629799173 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 116
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Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award Winner “An engaging and accessible account” for young readers about the Freedom Riders who led the landmark 1961 protests against segregation on buses (School Library Journal) On May 4, 1961, a group of thirteen black and white civil rights activists launched the Freedom Ride, aiming to challenge the practice of segregation on buses and at bus terminal facilities in the South. The Ride would last twelve days. Despite the fact that segregation on buses crossing state lines was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1946, and segregation in interstate transportation facilities was ruled unconstitutional in 1960, these rulings were routinely ignored in the South. The thirteen Freedom Riders intended to test the laws and draw attention to the lack of enforcement with their peaceful protest. As the Riders traveled deeper into the South, they encountered increasing violence and opposition. Noted civil rights author Larry Dane Brimner relies on archival documents and rarely seen images to tell the riveting story of the little-known first days of the Freedom Ride.
Author: Robertson Browne Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub ISBN: 9781481299909 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 254
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Set on contemporary Cape Cod, Dr. David Knight is a college professor and practicing psychologist drawn into the mystery surrounding the death of a patient; drugs, kidnappings, and police frame-ups cloud the landscape, but against all odds, the good doctor solves the crimes with help from unexpected quarters. In the tradition of the recently deceased novelists William Tappley and Philip Craig, the protagonist, Dr. David Knight, works to solve the mystery with wit and acumen. Possessing an esprit rivaling that of the late Robert Parker's renowned sleuth, Spenser, Dr. Knight is also somewhat of a wisenheimer who struggles against all authority figures from the college's department head to the clinics' administrators to the State Police. He knew Jimmy Farnsworth from the mental health clinic, but now learns of his death. Knight, interrupted in the middle of his lecture by the State Police, finds himself at the epicenter of a murder investigation. Torn between disclosing all he knows to the police and honoring the confidentiality that extends to the grave for his deceased patient, he sets out on his own quest to find the truth. The violence that consumed Jimmy spirals outward and out of control touching all aspects of Knight's life: college, clinical practice, and home. His relationship with the police sours as he learns they are angling for an expedient solution, which would incarcerate for life an innocent man whose only crime is mental illness. Caught between the devil and the deep blue sea, Knight seeks a possible solution in the waters off Chatham in order to save his life and that of at least two others. This mystery/thriller is set on Cape Cod, and the action encompasses the entire cape from the canal bridges to the Atlantic. A diverse cast of characters adds depth, intrigue, and even romance to the frightening circumstances surrounding murder. Writing in the first person singular, Browne has produced a work of factual fiction based on his real-life knowledge of and experience in academia and clinical settings.
Author: Jerald W. Berry Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1450073484 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 344
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Jerald W. “Jerry” Berry served in Vietnam with the 3rd Battalion, 506th Airborne Infantry (Paratrooper), 101st Airborne Division in 1967- 68. Originally assigned as a rifleman, he became the battalion Public Information Officer (PIO), combat photographer/reporter, shortly into his tour. Berry retired from his thirty-year career as Staff Wildlife Biologist with the U.S. Forest Service in 1997. As historian for the 3-506th, he maintains a website (www.currahee.org) for his fellow Currahees. He currently resides in Libby, Montana with his wife, Donna. Other books by Berry include The Stand Alone Battalion, Psychological Warfare Leaflets of the Vietnam War, and My Gift to You.
Author: Volker Ullrich Publisher: Liveright Publishing ISBN: 1631498282 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 370
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"[G]ripping, immaculately researched . . . In Mr. Ullrich’s account, the murderous behavior of the Reich’s last-ditch loyalists was not a reaction born of rage or of stubbornness in the face of defeat—common enough in war—but of something that had long ago tipped over into the pathological." —Andrew Stuttaford, Wall Street Journal The best-selling author of Hitler: Ascent and Hitler: Downfall reconstructs the chaotic, otherworldly last days of Nazi Germany. In a bunker deep below Berlin’s Old Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler and his new bride, Eva Braun, took their own lives just after 3:00 p.m. on April 30, 1945—Hitler by gunshot to the temple, Braun by ingesting cyanide. But the Führer’s suicide did not instantly end either Nazism or the Second World War in Europe. Far from it: the eight days that followed were among the most traumatic in modern history, witnessing not only the final paroxysms of bloodshed and the frantic surrender of the Wehrmacht, but the total disintegration of the once-mighty Third Reich. In Eight Days in May, the award-winning historian and Hitler biographer Volker Ullrich draws on an astonishing variety of sources, including diaries and letters of ordinary Germans, to narrate a society’s descent into Hobbesian chaos. In the town of Demmin in the north, residents succumbed to madness and committed mass suicide. In Berlin, Soviet soldiers raped German civilians on a near-unprecedented scale. In Nazi-occupied Prague, Czech insurgents led an uprising in the hope that General George S. Patton would come to their aid but were brutally put down by German units in the city. Throughout the remains of Third Reich, huge numbers of people were on the move, creating a surrealistic tableau: death marches of concentration-camp inmates crossed paths with retreating Wehrmacht soldiers and groups of refugees; columns of POWs encountered those of liberated slave laborers and bombed-out people returning home. A taut, propulsive narrative, Eight Days in May takes us inside the phantomlike regime of Hitler’s chosen successor, Admiral Karl Dönitz, revealing how the desperate attempt to impose order utterly failed, as frontline soldiers deserted and Nazi Party fanatics called on German civilians to martyr themselves in a last stand against encroaching Allied forces. In truth, however, the post-Hitler government represented continuity more than change: its leaders categorically refused to take responsibility for their crimes against humanity, an attitude typical not just of the Nazi elite but also of large segments of the German populace. The consequences would be severe. Eight Days in May is not only an indispensable account of the Nazi endgame, but a historic work that brilliantly examines the costs of mass delusion.
Author: Warren K. Wilkins Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 0806158921 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 647
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Moving through the jungle near the Cambodian border on May 18, 1967, a company of American infantry observed three North Vietnamese Army regulars, AK-47s slung over their shoulders, walking down a well-worn trail in the rugged Central Highlands. Startled by shouts of “Lai day, lai day” (“Come here, come here”), the three men dropped their packs and fled. The company commander, a young lieutenant, sent a platoon down the trail to investigate. Those few men soon found themselves outnumbered, surrounded, and fighting for their lives. Their first desperate moments marked the beginning of a series of bloody battles that lasted more than a week, one that survivors would later call “the nine days in May border battles.” Nine Days in May is the first full account of these bitterly contested battles. Part of Operation Francis Marion, they took place in the Ia Tchar Valley and the remote jungle west of Pleiku. Fought between three American battalions and two North Vietnamese Army regiments, this prolonged, deadly encounter was one of the largest, most savage actions seen by elements of the storied 4th Infantry Division in Vietnam. Drawing on interviews with the participants, Warren K. Wilkins recreates the vicious fighting in gripping detail. This is a story of extraordinary courage and sacrifice displayed in a series of battles that were fought and won within the context of a broader, intractable strategic stalemate. When the guns finally fell silent, an unheralded American brigade received a Presidential Unit Citation and earned three of the twelve Medals of Honor awarded to soldiers of the 4th Infantry Division in Vietnam.
Author: John Lukacs Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300180918 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 389
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A “gripping [and] splendidly readable” portrait of the battle within the British War Cabinet—and Churchill’s eventual victory—as Hitler’s shadow loomed (The Boston Globe). From May 24 to May 28, 1940, members of Britain’s War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue what became known as the Second World War. In this magisterial work, John Lukacs takes us hour by hour into the critical events at 10 Downing Street, where Winston Churchill and his cabinet painfully considered their responsibilities. With the unfolding of the disaster at Dunkirk, and Churchill being in office for just two weeks and treated with derision by many, he did not have an easy time making his case—but the people of Britain were increasingly on his side, and he would prevail. This compelling narrative, a Washington Post bestseller, is the first to convey the drama and world-changing importance of those days. “[A] fascinating work of historical reconstruction.”—The Wall Street Journal “Eminent historian Lukacs delivers the crown jewel to his long and distinguished career.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A must for every World War II buff.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer “Superb…can be compared to such classics as Hugh Trevor-Roper’s The Last Days of Hitler and Barbara Tuchman’s The Guns of August.”—Harper’s Magazine
Author: J. D. Messinger
Author: J. D. Messinger
Author: Jerald W. Berry
Author: Larry Dane Brimner
Author: Robertson Browne
Author: Jerald W. Berry
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Author: Volker Ullrich
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Author: Warren K. Wilkins
Author: John Lukacs