A Common Virtue

Author : James A Hawkins
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612517943
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Common Virtue written by James A Hawkins and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2014-11-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming a man is difficult—even in the best of circumstances—but when it must be done in 1968 with the Year of the Monkey set to explode onto the cities and battlefields of a war-torn Vietnam, it is only the very best who make the grade. A Common Virtue has the immediacy and punch of today’s fears as it draws on yesterday’s headlines. When the armies of Ho Chi Mihn push across the demilitarized zone on a scale never thought possible and simultaneously strike at hundreds of targets, American Marines are at the forefront—dependent on information from a special reconnaissance force that is the only thing that can stop Hanoi from using a New Year’s opportunity to seize the country. Unfolding against this background is the story of Marine Paul Jackson, the sole survivor of a hillside massacre. A sniper and reconnaissance innovator, his epic march through the annals of the horrific bureaucracy that is the U.S. military in 1968 is the heart of this story. As an eighteen-year-old Marine he learns at an early age what he must do to survive; what he must do to excel; and what he must do to fit into the most exclusive military fraternity in the world. A Common Virtue is about the other half of heroism, the part that pits a warrior against an American public that despises his uniform, against internal factions that brand him a “coward,” and against a beautiful woman who wants nothing more than for him to stay home and love her. It is about growing into manhood in a toxic America and a world gone mad. Tough choices, painful experiences, and an instinct for survival work to create a leader of legend. Exciting, historical, and far reaching, A Common Virtue is an ambitious and explosive creation; one that could only have been written by one who was there.

Author : Hal Buell
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780425209806
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uncommon Valor, Common Virtue written by Hal Buell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth account of the World War II battle of Iwo Jima, immortalized in Joe Rosenthal's Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of the raising of the American flag on Mt. Suribachi, describes the events of the battle between U.S. Marines and Japanese forces, as well as Rosenthal's ten days on Iwo Jima during the conflict, in a narrative complemented by more than 120 archival combat photographs. 50,000 first printing.

Author : United States. Marine Corps
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iwo Jima, Uncommon Valor [was a Common Virtue] written by United States. Marine Corps and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Darrell Foster Alleman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Uncommon Valor was a Common Virtue." written by Darrell Foster Alleman and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roy M. Blake
Publisher : Epigram Press
ISBN 13 : 9781878096531
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uncommon Valor... Common Virtue written by Roy M. Blake and published by Epigram Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alejo José G. Sison
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315277832
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Business Ethics written by Alejo José G. Sison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can business activities and decisions be virtuous? This is the first business ethics textbook to take a virtue ethics approach. It explains how virtue ethics compares with alternative approaches to business ethics, such as utilitarianism and deontology, and argues that virtue ethics best serves the common good of society. Looking across the whole spectrum of business—including finance, governance, leadership, marketing and production—each chapter presents the theory of virtue ethics and supports students’ learning with chapter objectives, in-depth interviews with professionals and real-life case studies from a wide range of countries. Business Ethics: A Virtue Ethics and Common Good Approach is a valuable text for advanced undergraduates and masters-level students on business ethics courses.

Author : Donald R. Curtis
Publisher : Bearhead Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781937508302
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uncommon Valor - Common Virtue: The Franklin R. Sousley Story written by Donald R. Curtis and published by Bearhead Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On February 19th, 1945, after four days of heavy fighting on the tiny island of Iwo Jima, the Marines finally reached the base of Mt. Suribachi. The goal was to take the volcanic cone some 600 feet tall towering over the island. First to reach the summit was "Fox" Company. They erected an American flag to the thrill and excitement of Marines on the beach and coming ashore. Colonel Chandles Johnson thought it best to put up a larger flag where everyone could see it. A runner was sent to a ship off shore and a larger flag was retrieved. As the larger flag was sent up the mountain, Joe Rosenthal went up with the second flag, carried by a Marine. As the flag went up and the first came down, a split second click of his camera, caught the flag raising which became one of the most famous photographs in U.S. history. It also caused one of the biggest controversies. This writing is about one certain young man, Franklin R. Sousley, of Fleming County, Kentucky, who after battling his way up Mt. Suribachi, took part in the second flag raising and became a hometown hero as well as one from Kentucky, by raising and displaying "Old Glory" over Japanese territory, along with five other comrades. Discover some of his early life, growing into a fine young man, becoming a Marine and ending up on the island of Iwo Jima, where he lost his life for freedom, not only for Americans, but the entire world, and became part of what has long been said as "our greatest generation."

Author : John Bradshaw
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553095927
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reclaiming Virtue written by John Bradshaw and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-selling author of Creating Love sets out to redefine what it means to live a moral life in today's world by helping readers reclaim and cultivate their inborn moral intelligence by developing one's instincts for goodness in childhood and nurturing them through one's adult life to promote good character and moral responsibility.

Author : Suzanne E. Roussel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uncommon valor was a common virtue written by Suzanne E. Roussel and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725208571
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nature of True Virtue written by Jonathan Edwards and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major work in moral philosophy by the Puritan who was the most modern man of his age. Edwards at his very greatest . . . he speaks with an insight into science and psychology so much ahead of his time that our own can hardly be said to have caught up with him. Perry Miller, 'Jonathan Edwards' Like the great speculators Augustine, Aquinas, and Pascal, Jonathan Edwards treated religious ideas as problems not of dogma, but of life. His exploration of self-love disguised as true virtue is grounded in the hard facts of human behavior. More than a hellfire preacher, more than a theologian, Edwards was a bold and independent philosopher. Nowhere is his force of mind more evident than in this book. He speaks as powerfully to us today as he did to the keenest minds of the eighteenth century.