Soldier T War On The Streets

Author : Peter Cave
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408842327
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soldier T: War on the Streets written by Peter Cave and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terrorist bombs in town and city streets, an ever-rising tide of crime and a teenage drug problem that was rapidly escalating out of control this was the ugly face of Great Britain in 1995. The conventional police forces were already stretched beyond their limit and now a new threat was looming. A fanatical right-wing movement that in recent months had wreaked murder and chaos in mainland Europe was spreading its evil tentacles into the UK. Using terrorism and crime to fund its undercover activities, and a frightening new drug to spur on its growing army of bullyboys to unprecedented extremes of violence, it threatened to turn the streets of Britain's towns and inner cities into battlegrounds of anarchic brutality. In desperation, the civil authorities turned to the only group of men who might be able to confront and beat these fanatics on their own terms: the legendary Special Air Service the SAS! Guided by a maverick undercover drug cop, the SAS team were pitted against an enemy as ruthless and deadly as any the regiment had faced in its chequered and splendid history. The SAS were at war, and that war was just outside the window a war on the streets.

Author : Peter Cave
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781898125310
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soldier T written by Peter Cave and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mainland Britain 1995 is in the grip of an ever-rising tide of crime and drugs. A new threat from Europe comes in the form of an extreme right wing movement who use terrorism and a new drug to further their cause. The SAS are called in to confront and defeat the fanatics.

Author : David Monnery
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408841568
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soldier N: Gambian Bluff written by David Monnery and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of July 1981, world heads of state gathered in London for the wedding of Price Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. Among those present was President Jawara of the Gambia, whose absence was exploited by Marxist rebels to overthrow him. Rightly fearing armed intervention from neighbouring Senegal, the new revolutionary council seized hostages including one of the President's wives and several of his children and emptied the prisons in a desperate search for allies in the coming struggle. In the first couple of days, as opposing factions of the Gambian police force wrestled for control, many of the released prisoners succumbed to the temptation to settle old scores, and almost two thousand Gambians lost their lives. In tourist beach hotels several hundred Europeans waited and feared the worst. Only one group of men was considered capable of stabilising the situation the legendary Special Air Service the SAS! So, at Jawara's request, three men of SAS 22 Regiment were sent into this cauldron, supposedly to advise the President and his Senegalese allies. But within days, circumstances and the men's bravado turned them into the spearhead of the counter-revolution, heavily embroiled in both the pursuit of heavily armed criminals and the dangerously delicate business of rescuing hostages. Soldier N SAS: The Gambian Bluff is the electrifying story of how, against all the odds, these three highly skilled soldiers defeated the rebels and restored President Jawara to power.

Author : Gary Clark
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 161160818X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The War On Bird Street written by Gary Clark and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chuck is the ninth grader, the fat kid from a father absent family, and the whipping boy for the jocks at his school. Brody is the Special Forces soldier, just returned from Iraq with a Bronze Star, Purple Heart and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Each afraid to confront his own adversaries, they sit alone, defeated by their weaknesses, suffocating in the loneliness and nightmares of their worst fears. But when Brody moves into the abandoned house on Bird Street, next door to Chuck, the two wounded warriors eventually forge an unlikely friendship THE WAR ON BIRD STREET is a story of torture and suffering at the hands of real and imagined adversaries, and finding that a person who looks and acts like the enemy is the messenger who inspires commitment, healing and the courage to leave the past behind and stand up to take back a life.

Author : Helen Benedict
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781940865843
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lonely Soldier Monologues written by Helen Benedict and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on her book, THE LONELY SOLDIER, Helen Benedict has created a work consisting from monologues of seven soldiers, culled from their own words, gathered while interviewing these women for her book, Benedict created most of the monologues fromtaped interviews, but some are combined with letters the soldiers wrote by email.None are fictionalized.The names of the soldiers and their families and friends, along with someidentifying details, have been changed to protect their privacy. THE LONELY SOLDIER MONOLOGUES: WOMEN AT WAR IN IRAQ gives us the story of our women in uniform from a front closer than the sands of the Middle East...from inside the very souls of the soldiers.

Author : Edd McNair
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781512359190
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soldier to Soldier written by Edd McNair and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-25 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a military soldier dies, everyone feels the pain. When a street soldier dies, only those close to him mourn. But both soldiers have something in common: they fought for what they believed in. Home from their final tour, a team from the 82nd Airborne Division out of Ft. Bragg, NC faces harsh realities: a broken relationship, the death of a child, and even the murder of one of their own. They quickly realize that whether you're raised on a military base and trained in the military, or you come from the hard knocks of the projects and you are trained to go, a soldier is a soldier. Confident that their skills can be used on American soil to produce American dollars, these soldiers, armed with discipline, organization, and killer instincts began making moves on the streets. What they didn't expect was to encounter a team of street soldiers who quickly teach them that on this concrete battlefield, the game is played with an entirely different set of rules. Edd McNair offers a compelling tale of the hardships soldiers face--whether they're going to war to fight for their country or going to war on the inner-city streets. A soldier is a soldier and his life matters.

Author : Dashaun Morris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416548467
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War of the Bloods in My Veins written by Dashaun Morris and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-04-08 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the harrowing experiences of a former Bloods gang member, exploring the details of his life of drugs and violence, from which he nearly escaped into a promising athletic career.

Author : Lisle A. Rose
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700621881
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cold War Comes to Main Street written by Lisle A. Rose and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 1999-02-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1950, Main Street America-restored by victories in a global war and hopeful for a prosperous and peaceful future-was abruptly traumatized. The sudden prospect of thermonuclear war with the Soviet Union, Senator Joseph McCarthy's vicious anticommmunist crusade, and the beginning of the Korean War all combined to dampen the public mood. In the wake of these events, the Cold War invaded every home and convinced millions of Americans that the liberal establishment created by Franklin Roosevelt and sustained by Harry Truman had betrayed the public trust and placed the nation in mortal peril. Revealing the intense interplay between foreign policy, domestic politics, and public opinion, Lisle Rose argues that 1950 was a pivotal year for the nation. Thermonuclear terror brought "a clutching fear of mass death" to the forefront of public awareness, even as McCarthy's zealous campaign to root out "subversives" destroyed a sense of national community forged in the Great Depression and World War II. The Korean War, with its dramatic oscillations between victory and defeat, put the finishing touches on the national mood of crisis and hysteria. Drawing upon recently available Russian and Chinese sources, Rose sheds much new light on the aggressive designs of Stalin, Mao, and North Korea's Kim Il Sung in East Asia and places the American reaction to the North Korean invasion in a new and more realistic context. Rose argues that the convergence of Korea, McCarthy, and the Bomb wounded the nation in ways from which we've never fully recovered. He suggests, in fact, that the convergence may have paved the way for our involvement in Vietnam and, by eroding public trust in and support for government, launched the ultra-Right's campaign to dismantle the foundations of modern American liberalism. Engagingly written, The Cold War Comes to Main Street is a sophisticated synthesis that cuts to the core of a half-century of postwar national paranoia. It calls into question the assumptions of several generations of scholars about foreign affairs and domestic policies and will force readers to reconsider their assumptions about just when-and how-the nation lost its sense of community, confidence, and civility.

Author : DaShaun "Jiwe" Morris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416565337
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War of the Bloods in My Veins written by DaShaun "Jiwe" Morris and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-01-27 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By turns harrowing, moving, and ultimately redemptive, this is a war story -- a war that rages out of control on the streets of the United States, claiming the lives of our loved ones and neighbors. In this memoir, complete with child soldiers, unspeakable violence, and eventual salvation, we witness the journey of an East Coast member of the notorious Bloods gang coming to terms with the lost boy he was and the transformation into the man he wants to become. Unlike the child warriors of Mozambique and Sierra Leone, gang members and the wars they wage are the United States' homegrown nightmare. Lacking protection, support, or any alternatives, Dashaun Morris is forced into battle for the first time at age eleven, in the streets of Phoenix, when a friend's older brothers put him in a car filled with 40s and weed smoke, put a gun in his hands, then make him point it at the men on the corner and squeeze the trigger. The targets are Crips, of course, and, as Morris writes, "In the darkness of the streets, my childhood is murdered.... I am reborn -- a gangster." In this haunting, violent memoir, Morris takes us through an American childhood turned grotesquely inside out. In the fourth grade, he loses his first friend in a drive-by shooting. By high school he is the man, a champion on the football field by day and a reputable banger on his 'hood turf by night. Living the life of a gang banger, Morris does it all -- drug dealing, jacking, and continuing the aimless war with rival gang members -- almost opening fire one night on a close friend, a cheerleader, as she hangs out with young men he mistakes for Crips. He eventually makes it to college on a football scholarship, but on the verge of being drafted by the NFL, Morris can't escape his gang-banging mentality and gets caught up in crimes that snatch away all future hopes. Sitting in a prison cell, he anticipates the birth of his first child while counting the friends he's buried. War of the Bloods in My Veins is part of Morris's redemption, a cry to his brothers that gang life is mental illness. It is a rare and brutally honest look into the relentless storm of abandonment, violence, crime, death, and the endless rush toward the complete and utter self-annihilation that plagues the lives of the young "soldiers" who die every day in our streets.

Author : Martin W. Bowman
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1473863244
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Escaping Soldiers and Airmen of World War I written by Martin W. Bowman and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thrilling new volume from Martin Bowman focusses on British, Canadian, Australian and German soldiers and airmen who were captured during the First World War. Determined that they wouldnt spend the rest of the conflict incarcerated uselessly behind bars, they endeavored to escape. These are their stories.All aspects of prison life are covered here, and the author examines the various escape tactics that were employed by British soldiers and airmen held in PoW camps all over Germany and Turkey. In order to provide a balanced account, the author has also uncovered stories of German navy and army escapees who attempted to flee from England.Each chapter is preceded by an account which explains the types of camps used in Britain and Germany, the numbers involved, the food, the camp money system for worker prisoners and a general appreciation of the conditions and chronology. Firsthand accounts from the prisoners themselves are then woven into the picture, creating an authentic sense of the PoW experience.The emphasis of this unique book is placed on the human story of the main characters, the unparalleled action on the Western Front and the interaction and camaraderie experienced between soldiers and airmen held in prison camps in England, Germany and Turkey during the Second World War.