Author: Daniel Linden
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781508952114
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Conspicuous Gallantry is the long-awaited sequel to The Content of Character. Charlie Cooper has returned from a hitch with the US Marine Corps in Afghanistan and is scarred so badly he calls himself a freak. He is incapable of dealing with his family and his wife Annie, and only his dog Gibbs has the power to get though his shell. His best friend died protecting Charley on the battlefield; died protecting Charley with his own body, and Charlie heard and felt every bullet that hit him and killed him. He wakes screaming, but when he tries to see his friend Victor's face... all he sees is darkness. Charlie and Amanda try to struggle on, but are only treading water. Until they hit the wall, that is, and Annie tells him she wants a divorce. Charlie will try to do anything, but he is so badly broken he feels there is no hope left. Annie calls her Aunt Amanda and asks for help and with Amanda comes David Posey, her crazy husband. David suffers from Asperger's Syndrome and is himself damaged, but David has figured out how to survive. David and Amanda come to Maine to help them. What they can do is not certain, but the relationship that develops between David and Charlie slowly seems to lift Charlie out of his shell and a discovery by Army doctors has Charlie and Annie hoping for a breakthrough that will allow them to live happily again as man and wife. As the months drag on they eventually believe there is a way out of the darkness until in one screaming moment of sheer terror Charlie remembers the final instant before his life crashed down around him. And with the revelation he begins to walk through the valley of darkness again... but this time there is a light at the end of the road. Gibbs walks by his side, and they begin...
Conspicuous Gallantry
Author: Daniel Linden
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781508952114
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Conspicuous Gallantry is the long-awaited sequel to The Content of Character. Charlie Cooper has returned from a hitch with the US Marine Corps in Afghanistan and is scarred so badly he calls himself a freak. He is incapable of dealing with his family and his wife Annie, and only his dog Gibbs has the power to get though his shell. His best friend died protecting Charley on the battlefield; died protecting Charley with his own body, and Charlie heard and felt every bullet that hit him and killed him. He wakes screaming, but when he tries to see his friend Victor's face... all he sees is darkness. Charlie and Amanda try to struggle on, but are only treading water. Until they hit the wall, that is, and Annie tells him she wants a divorce. Charlie will try to do anything, but he is so badly broken he feels there is no hope left. Annie calls her Aunt Amanda and asks for help and with Amanda comes David Posey, her crazy husband. David suffers from Asperger's Syndrome and is himself damaged, but David has figured out how to survive. David and Amanda come to Maine to help them. What they can do is not certain, but the relationship that develops between David and Charlie slowly seems to lift Charlie out of his shell and a discovery by Army doctors has Charlie and Annie hoping for a breakthrough that will allow them to live happily again as man and wife. As the months drag on they eventually believe there is a way out of the darkness until in one screaming moment of sheer terror Charlie remembers the final instant before his life crashed down around him. And with the revelation he begins to walk through the valley of darkness again... but this time there is a light at the end of the road. Gibbs walks by his side, and they begin...
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781508952114
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Conspicuous Gallantry is the long-awaited sequel to The Content of Character. Charlie Cooper has returned from a hitch with the US Marine Corps in Afghanistan and is scarred so badly he calls himself a freak. He is incapable of dealing with his family and his wife Annie, and only his dog Gibbs has the power to get though his shell. His best friend died protecting Charley on the battlefield; died protecting Charley with his own body, and Charlie heard and felt every bullet that hit him and killed him. He wakes screaming, but when he tries to see his friend Victor's face... all he sees is darkness. Charlie and Amanda try to struggle on, but are only treading water. Until they hit the wall, that is, and Annie tells him she wants a divorce. Charlie will try to do anything, but he is so badly broken he feels there is no hope left. Annie calls her Aunt Amanda and asks for help and with Amanda comes David Posey, her crazy husband. David suffers from Asperger's Syndrome and is himself damaged, but David has figured out how to survive. David and Amanda come to Maine to help them. What they can do is not certain, but the relationship that develops between David and Charlie slowly seems to lift Charlie out of his shell and a discovery by Army doctors has Charlie and Annie hoping for a breakthrough that will allow them to live happily again as man and wife. As the months drag on they eventually believe there is a way out of the darkness until in one screaming moment of sheer terror Charlie remembers the final instant before his life crashed down around him. And with the revelation he begins to walk through the valley of darkness again... but this time there is a light at the end of the road. Gibbs walks by his side, and they begin...
The Canada Gazette
The Cambridge Review
The War of the Rebellion
Author: United States. War Department
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 1522
Book Description
Official records produced by the armies of the United States and the Confederacy, and the executive branches of their respective governments, concerning the military operations of the Civil War, and prisoners of war or prisoners of state. Also annual reports of military departments, calls for troops, correspondence between national and state governments, correspondence between Union and Confederate officials. The final volume includes a synopsis, general index, special index for various military divisions, and background information on how these documents were collected and published. Accompanied by an atlas.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 1522
Book Description
Official records produced by the armies of the United States and the Confederacy, and the executive branches of their respective governments, concerning the military operations of the Civil War, and prisoners of war or prisoners of state. Also annual reports of military departments, calls for troops, correspondence between national and state governments, correspondence between Union and Confederate officials. The final volume includes a synopsis, general index, special index for various military divisions, and background information on how these documents were collected and published. Accompanied by an atlas.
The War of the Rebellion: Formal reports, both Union and Confederate, of the first seizures of United States property in the Southern States (53 v. in 111)
Author: United States. War Department
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 1530
Book Description
Series I: Contains the formal reports, both Union and Confederate, of the first seizures of United States property in the Southern States, and of all military operations in the field, with the correspondence, orders, and returns relating specially thereto, and, as proposed is to be accompanied by an Atlas. In this series the reports will be arranged according to the campaigns and several theaters of operations (in the chronological order of the events), and the Union reports of any event will, as a rule, be immediately followed by the Confederate accounts. The correspondence, etc., not embraced in the "reports" proper will follow (first Union and next Confederate) in chronological order. Volume XIV. 1885. (Vol. 14, Chap. 26) Chapter XXVI - Operations on the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Middle and East Florida. Apr 12, 1862-Jun 11, 1863
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 1530
Book Description
Series I: Contains the formal reports, both Union and Confederate, of the first seizures of United States property in the Southern States, and of all military operations in the field, with the correspondence, orders, and returns relating specially thereto, and, as proposed is to be accompanied by an Atlas. In this series the reports will be arranged according to the campaigns and several theaters of operations (in the chronological order of the events), and the Union reports of any event will, as a rule, be immediately followed by the Confederate accounts. The correspondence, etc., not embraced in the "reports" proper will follow (first Union and next Confederate) in chronological order. Volume XIV. 1885. (Vol. 14, Chap. 26) Chapter XXVI - Operations on the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Middle and East Florida. Apr 12, 1862-Jun 11, 1863
The Monthly Army List
Author: Great Britain. Army
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Retired military personnel
Languages : en
Pages : 2846
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Retired military personnel
Languages : en
Pages : 2846
Book Description
The Lancet
The London Gazette
Author: Great Britain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
Author: Great Britain. Army. Royal Army Medical Corps
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
The V. C. and D. S. O.
Author: Sir O'Moore Creagh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Victoria Cross
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Victoria Cross
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description