Melville Goodwin Usa

Author : John P. Marquand
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504015754
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Melville Goodwin, USA written by John P. Marquand and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the National Book Award: This sweeping novel set in the aftermath of World War II reveals the story behind the creation of an American icon Major General Melville A. Goodwin, the son of a druggist, served in two world wars, rising through the ranks to take command of an armored division. He was a hero long before he braved a hail of bullets to save a fellow American in postwar Berlin, but until that mad act of courage, no one outside of the military had ever heard of him. That is all about to change: A weekly news magazine has convinced the major general to sit down for an extended interview at the home of Sid Skelton, a popular radio commentator and former army buddy of Goodwin’s. Over the course of many hours, Goodwin tells the story of his life—from his small-town childhood to his years at West Point, his battlefield traumas, his marriage to an ambitious woman who helped shape his military career, and his impressions of the world as seen through the barbed wire of far-flung army posts. Of primary interest to Skelton, however, is Dottie Peale, the vivacious journalist Goodwin romanced in war-torn France. Skelton is a little bit in love with her himself, and now that the major general is in the news, Dottie plans to make a dramatic return to his life. At the moment of his greatest triumph, Goodwin will discover that his marriage and career are under threat.

Author : John P. Marquand
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Melville Goodwin, USA written by John P. Marquand and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Phillips Marquand
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 605 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Melville Goodwin, USA written by John Phillips Marquand and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John P. Marquand
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331712629
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Melville Goodwin, USA (Classic Reprint) written by John P. Marquand and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Melville Goodwin, USA There Could Always Be a Palace Revolution But Don't Quote the General Personally Time to Meet the Gang. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : John Phillips Marquand
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Melville Goodwin, USA written by John Phillips Marquand and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tony Thomas
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806512174
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Films of Kirk Douglas written by Tony Thomas and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 708 pages
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Download or read book United States Army Combat Forces Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hal Erickson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476666059
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Any Resemblance to Actual Persons written by Hal Erickson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most film buffs know that Citizen Kane was based on the life of publisher William Randolph Hearst. But few are aware that key characters in films like Double Indemnity, Cool Hand Luke, Jaws, Rain Man, A Few Good Men and Zero Dark Thirty were inspired by actual persons. This survey of a clef characters covers a selection of fictionalized personalities, beginning with the Silent Era. The landmark lawsuit surrounding Rasputin and the Empress (1932) introduced disclaimers in film credits, assuring audiences that characters were not based on real people--even when they were. Entries cover screen incarnations of Wyatt Earp, Al Capone, Bing Crosby, Amelia Earhart, Buster Keaton, Howard Hughes, Janis Joplin and Richard Nixon, along with the inspirations behind perennial favorites like Charlie Chan and Indiana Jones.

Author : Hal Erickson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786492678
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Military Comedy Films written by Hal Erickson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with Charlie Chaplin's Shoulder Arms, released in America near the end of World War I, the military comedy film has been one of Hollywood's most durable genres. This generously illustrated history examines over 225 Army, Navy and Marine-related comedies produced between 1918 and 2009, including the abundance of laughspinners released during World War II in the wake of Abbott and Costello's phenomenally successful Buck Privates (1941), and the many lighthearted service films of the immediate postwar era, among them Mister Roberts (1955) and No Time for Sergeants (1958). Also included are discussions of such subgenres as silent films (The General), military-academy farces (Brother Rat), women in uniform (Private Benjamin), misfits making good (Stripes), anti-war comedies (MASH), and fact-based films (The Men Who Stare at Goats). A closing filmography is included in this richly detailed volume.

Author : Graham Andrews
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476647631
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Rivals of James Bond written by Graham Andrews and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-02-22 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a critical history of spy fiction, film and television in the United States, with a particular focus on the American fictional spies that rivaled (and were often influenced by) Ian Fleming's James Bond. James Fenimore Cooper's Harvey Birch, based on a real-life counterpart, appeared in his novel The Spy in 1821. While Harvey Birch's British rivals dominated spy fiction from the late 1800s until the mid-1930s, American spy fiction came of age shortly thereafter. The spy boom in novels and films during the 1960s, spearheaded by Bond, heavily influenced the espionage genre in the United States for years to come, including series like The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Matt Helm. The author demonstrates that, while American authors currently dominate the international spy fiction market, James Bond has cast a very long shadow, for a very long time.