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Author: Bert Quint Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595130143 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 190
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Sam Sloane is an over-the-hill foreign correspondent still plagued by painful memories of his reporting days in Vietnam. He has refused to adapt to the cheapening of TV news and is called home to be fired. Back in the mahogany foxholes of New York, he finds himself confronting not only today’s corporate America, but the demons of his own past. A wounded cameraman helps him to deal with the nightmares and face the future. It’s a story of the intense friendship of comrades who live together and come close to dying together. It is also a poignant tale of Americans and Vietnamese, frightened men and lonely women, and of one little girl who is the symbol of wartime Vietnam. There is tragedy and profanity and dark humor but this story tells of more than man’s inhumanity to man. It speaks of man’s humanity to man.
Author: Bert Quint Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595130143 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 190
Book Description
Sam Sloane is an over-the-hill foreign correspondent still plagued by painful memories of his reporting days in Vietnam. He has refused to adapt to the cheapening of TV news and is called home to be fired. Back in the mahogany foxholes of New York, he finds himself confronting not only today’s corporate America, but the demons of his own past. A wounded cameraman helps him to deal with the nightmares and face the future. It’s a story of the intense friendship of comrades who live together and come close to dying together. It is also a poignant tale of Americans and Vietnamese, frightened men and lonely women, and of one little girl who is the symbol of wartime Vietnam. There is tragedy and profanity and dark humor but this story tells of more than man’s inhumanity to man. It speaks of man’s humanity to man.
Author: Naval & Military Press Publisher: ISBN: 9781843421665 Category : Languages : en Pages : 128
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The first 46 pages of this book give an account of the fighting in the Ypres salient throughout the war, beginning with the First battle of Ypres in which the regulars and reservists of the BEF withstood every effort made by the Germans to take Ypres. The battles are described in fair detail, highlighting the French part in the fighting, and there are good, clear maps to support the narrative. The next fifty pages are devoted to a two-day visit to the battlefield with Lille as the starting point, describing what is to be seen en route, again with good supporting maps. In outline the itinerary takes the visitor along the route Lille - Armentieres - Messines - Poelcapelle - Ypres - Poperinghe on the first day. The next day carries on from Poperinghe - Les Monts - Bailleul - Bethune and back to Lille. Finally there is another tour in an area having nothing to do with Ypres, that is a visit to the Arras battlefield, from Arras - Lens - Douai and back to Arras. This is an interesting account of the battlefields, written so soon after the events they describe.
Author: G. C. Kniffin Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 33
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The Army of the Cumberland was one of the principal Union armies in the Western Theater during the American Civil War. It was originally known as the Army of the Ohio. The army's first significant combat under the Cumberland name was at the Battle of Stones River which ended in Union victory after the Confederate army's withdrawal on January 3, largely due to a series of tactical miscalculations by Confederate General Braxton Bragg. This text is a war paper issued by the Commandery of the District of Columbia as penned by Lieutenant-Colonel Gilbert C. Kniffin, giving the background of the battle, including the assumption of command over the army by Major General William S. Rosecrans.
Author: Cynthia Wachtell Publisher: LSU Press ISBN: 0807137502 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 248
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Until now, scholars have portrayed America's antiwar literature as an outgrowth of World War I, manifested in the works of writers such as Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos. But in War No More, Cynthia Wachtell corrects the record by tracing the steady and inexorable rise of antiwar writing in American literature from the Civil War to the eve of World War I. The authors examined include Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, John William De Forest, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, William James, Theodore Roosevelt, and others. Wachtell makes strikingly clear that pacifism had never been more popular than in the years preceding World War I. War No More concludes by charting the development of antiwar literature from World War I to the present, thus offering the first comprehensive overview of one hundred and fifty years of American antiwar writing.
Author: Tim Dudgeon Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1481784749 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 237
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Bats, baronets and Battle is more than just about cricket. This is a history full of colourful characters eccentric baronets with a fondness for gambling, forthright women who wished to take their role and the game beyond an excuse to wear a pretty dress, and brothers from local villages who played the sport at the highest levels home and abroad. If Sussex was the cradle for the earliest of cricket, the villages around Battle were there at the games birth. From Georgian times and the murky world of 18th century politics, Tim Dudgeon traces Battle crickets role from its role in 18th century Georgian gambling though the fear of 19th century rural unrest and the dawn of the professional game to the tragic impact of two world wars and into the modern era. The story he uncovers is an intriguing one that has local people and communities at its heart, but throws light on their links with events and forces that have shaped our world today.
Author: Michael Lee Lanning Publisher: Sourcebooks Incorporated ISBN: 9781402202636 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 368
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Offers a historical retrospective on the most important battles of the past three thousand years, describing in detail one hundred key military campaigns, with commentary on the outcome of the conflict, who won and lost, the results of each war, and its impact on world history and culture, with a provocative afterword on the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. 20,000 first printing.
Author: Jeff Belanger Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc ISBN: 1435851773 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 205
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Collects historical accounts of war and connected hauntings in a volume divided by conflict and ranging from the twelth century Gempei War to Bosnia.
Author: Bert Quint
Author: Bert Quint
Author: Aylwin Guilmant
Author: Naval & Military Press
Author: G. C. Kniffin
Author: Milo S. Hascall
Author: Cynthia Wachtell
Author: Tim Dudgeon
Author: Michael Lee Lanning
Author: Jeff Belanger
Author: Michael Lee Lanning