Backwards Into Battle

Author : Andy Doty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Backwards Into Battle written by Andy Doty and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pure gold," "enduring literature," "spell binding," "deeply moving," "insightful," "heartfelt," "riveting," & "one of the most interesting stories to come out of World War II" are some of the reader responses to this poignant memoir. It traces the transformation of a typical small-town boy into a seasoned B-29 tail gunner flying 21 bombing missions over Japan -- one of which ended in the death of three crewmates. This book is more than a war story: it is rich in boyhood & wartime humor & nostalgia, recounts the amazing innocence, patriotism & values of the author's generation, & comments on revisionist historians & the need to use the atomic bomb. It asks -- & answers -- the question of why men risk their lives time & again in the face of great danger. Dedicated to the lost crewmen, this gem of a book is a timely, perceptive & inspirational account of a 19-year-old's experiences in the most costly & destructive war in history. To order contact: Tall Tree Press, 4072 Scripps Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94306 or phone (415) 494-3897.

Author : Mick Simonelli
Publisher : Hillcrest Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1934937924
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Riding a Donkey Backwards Through Afghanistan written by Mick Simonelli and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2009 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A BEHIND-THE-SCENES ACCOUNT OF AMERICA'S CRITICAL EFFORT TO BUILD AN AFGHANISTAN NATIONAL ARMY DISCOVER: - WHY THE U.S. IS BUILDING AN AFGHANISTAN NATIONAL ARMY - WHY AMERICAN TROOPS CAN'T LEAVE AFGHANISTAN YET - HOW YOUR TAX MONEY IS BEING SPENT Written from the unique vantage point of the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan, this book reveals the inside story of the United States' army-building efforts. As the first comptroller responsible for funding the Afghanistan National Army, Mick earned the Bronze Star Medal while spending $400 million taxpayer dollars and planning the spending for $2.1 billion more. Mick has appeared on: - National Public Radio - CNN International - Armed Forces News

Author : Paddy Griffith
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0891414711
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forward into Battle written by Paddy Griffith and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1997-01-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition (1981) took a critical look at the accepted wisdom of historians who interpreted battlefield events primarily by reference to firepower. It showed that Wellington's infantry had won by their mobility rather than their musketry, that the bayonet did not become obsolete in the nineteenth century as is often claimed, and that the tank never supplanted the infantryman in the twentieth. A decade later, the author has been able to fill out many parts of his analysis and has extended it into the near future. The Napoleonic section includes an analysis of firepower and fortification, notably at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815. Additional discussions of the tactics of the American Civil War have been included. The evolution of small-unit tactics in the First World War is next considered, then the problem of making an armored breakthrough in the Second World War. Following is a discussion of the limitations of both the helicopter and firepower in Vietnam. The author points to some of the lessons learned by the U.S. military and the doctrine which resulted from that experience. Concluding is a glimpse at the strangely empty battlefield landscape that might be expected in any future high technology conflict.

Author : Teresa Leo
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822979640
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloom in Reverse written by Teresa Leo and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2014-01-27 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bloom in Reverse chronicles the aftermath of a friend's suicide and the end of a turbulent relationship, working through devastation and loss while on a search for solace that spans from local bars to online dating and beyond to ultimately find true connection and sustaining love. Things move backwards, from death to life, like a reverse time-lapse video of a dead flower morphing from brittle, scorched entity to floral glory to nacsent bud. The poems seek to find those places where the natural world connects to and informs experiences at the core of human relationships, and at times call upon principles and theories from physics and mathematics to describe the complexities of love and loss. It's a book where grief, melancholy, heartbreak, and disillusionment intersect with urban romanticism, hope, possibility, and love. Bloom is all of it, the terrible and the beautiful.

Author : Mary Downing Hahn
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395629758
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wind Blows Backward written by Mary Downing Hahn and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1993 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although they share a love of poetry and problems with their parents, a shy high school senior's attraction to a popular classmate is tempered by her fear of his moody, self-destructive side.

Author : Mr Jerry Palmer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134851375
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taking Humour Seriously written by Mr Jerry Palmer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Koushun Takami
Publisher : TokyoPop
ISBN 13 : 9781591823148
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Battle Royale Volume 1 written by Koushun Takami and published by TokyoPop. This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reads from back to front and from right to left.

Author : John Buckley
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300134495
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monty's Men written by John Buckley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian John Buckley offers a radical reappraisal of Great Britain’s fighting forces during World War Two, challenging the common belief that the British Army was no match for the forces of Hitler’s Germany. Following Britain’s military commanders and troops across the battlefields of Europe, from D-Day to VE-Day, from the Normandy beaches to Arnhem and the Rhine, and, ultimately, to the Baltic, Buckley’s provocative history demonstrates that the British Army was more than a match for the vaunted Nazi war machine. This fascinating revisionist study of the campaign to liberate Northern Europe in the war’s final years features a large cast of colorful unknowns and grand historical personages alike, including Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery and the prime minister, Sir Winston Churchill. By integrating detailed military history with personal accounts, it evokes the vivid reality of men at war while putting long-held misconceptions finally to rest.

Author : Terence Ball
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198279957
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reappraising Political Theory written by Terence Ball and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in a lively and accessible style, the book will provoke debate among students and scholars alike. Throughout, Terence Ball shows just how exciting and important political theory can be.

Author : Christopher Coker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190237996
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Men At War: What Fiction Tells us About Conflict, From The Iliad to Catch-22 written by Christopher Coker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Achilles first stormed into our imagination, literature has introduced its readers to truly unforgettable martial characters. In Men at War, Christopher Coker discusses some of the most famous of these fictional creations and their impact on our understanding of war and masculinity. Grouped into five archetypes-warriors, heroes, villains, survivors and victims-these characters range across 3000 years of history, through epic poems, the modern novel and one of the twentieth century's most famous film scripts. Great authors like Homer and Tolstoy show us aspects of reality invisible except through a literary lens, while fictional characters such as Achilles and Falstaff, Robert Jordan and Jack Aubrey, are not just larger than life; they are life's largeness-and this is why we seek them out. Although the Greeks knew that the lovers, wives and mothers of soldiers are the chief victims of battle, for the combatants, war is a masculine pursuit. Each of Coker's chapters explores what fiction tells us about war's appeal to young men and the way it makes- and breaks-them. The existential appeal of war too is perhaps best conveyed in fictional accounts, and these too are scrutinized by the author.