The Chosen Few

Author : Gregg Zoroya
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306824841
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chosen Few written by Gregg Zoroya and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The never-before-told story of one of the most decorated units in the war in Afghanistan and its fifteen-month ordeal that culminated in the 2008 Battle of Wanat, the war's deadliest A single company of US paratroopers--calling themselves the "Chosen Few"--arrived in eastern Afghanistan in late 2007 hoping to win the hearts and minds of the remote mountain people and extend the Afghan government's reach into this wilderness. Instead, they spent the next fifteen months in a desperate struggle, living under almost continuous attack, forced into a slow and grinding withdrawal, and always outnumbered by Taliban fighters descending on them from all sides. Month after month, rocket-propelled grenades, rockets, and machine-gun fire poured down on the isolated and exposed paratroopers as America's focus and military resources shifted to Iraq. Just weeks before the paratroopers were to go home, they faced their last--and toughest--fight. Near the village of Wanat in Nuristan province, an estimated three hundred enemy fighters surrounded about fifty of the Chosen Few and others defending a partially finished combat base. Nine died and more than two dozen were wounded that day in July 2008, making it arguably the bloodiest battle of the war in Afghanistan. The Chosen Few would return home tempered by war. Two among them would receive the Medal of Honor. All of them would be forever changed.

Author : Maristella Botticini
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691144877
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chosen Few written by Maristella Botticini and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein show that, contrary to previous explanations, this transformation was driven not by anti-Jewish persecution and legal restrictions, but rather by changes within Judaism itself after 70 CE--most importantly, the rise of a new norm that required every Jewish male to read and study the Torah and to send his sons to school. Over the next six centuries, those Jews who found the norms of Judaism too costly to obey converted to other religions, making world Jewry shrink. Later, when urbanization and commercial expansion in the newly established Muslim Caliphates increased the demand for occupations in which literacy was an advantage, the Jews found themselves literate in a world of almost universal illiteracy. From then forward, almost all Jews entered crafts and trade, and many of them began moving in search of business opportunities, creating a worldwide Diaspora in the process.

Author : Mark Kurlansky
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307482898
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Chosen Few written by Mark Kurlansky and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2008-12-24 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A POWERFUL, DEEPLY MOVING NARRATIVE OF HOPE REBORN IN THE SHADOW OF DESPAIR Fifty years after it was bombed to rubble, Berlin is once again a city in which Jews gather for the Passover seder. Paris and Antwerp have recently emerged as important new centers of Jewish culture. Small but proud Jewish communities are revitalizing the ancient centers of Budapest, Prague, and Amsterdam. These brave, determined Jewish men and women have chosen to settle–or remain–in Europe after the devastation of the Holocaust, but they have paid a price. Among the unexpected dangers, they have had to cope with an alarming resurgence of Nazism in Europe, the spread of Arab terrorism, and the impact of the Jewish state on European life. Delving into the intimate stories of European Jews from all walks of life, Kurlansky weaves together a vivid tapestry of individuals sustaining their traditions, and flourishing, in the shadow of history. An inspiring story of a tenacious people who have rebuilt their lives in the face of incomprehensible horror, A Chosen Few is a testament to cultural survival and a celebration of the deep bonds that endure between Jews and European civilization. “Consistently absorbing . . . A Chosen Few investigates the relatively uncharted territory of an encouraging phenomenon.” –Los Angeles Times “I can think of no book that portrays with such intelligence, historical understanding, and journalistic flair what life has been like for Jews determined to build lives in Europe.” –SUSAN MIRON Forward

Author : Mitja Velikonja
Publisher : Doppelhouse Press
ISBN 13 : 9781954600027
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chosen Few written by Mitja Velikonja and published by Doppelhouse Press. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Useful for the academic, the discerning graffiti artist, the student of visual culture, artists, journalists, and the wider world of people who are passionate about soccer or any competitive team sport. Allows readers to experience unexpected visual richness and variety of twenty-years' worth of European football fan graffiti culture through extracts from the author's archive of several thousand images. Presents an analytical, vicarious experience of sports mania rather its immersive reality, distinguishing this book from the many other Ultras books told as "war journalism" or celebrity books. The extreme fandom of the Ultras holds visceral fascination for many people, but some will want to go deeper into its ideological underpinnings, and this book's clear examples give background for critical, sociological study of this landscape. Readers gain an expert's eye view on graffiti and street art trends. The author leads graffiti "tours" and teaches the study of graffiti to his university classes at home and abroad (US, Russia, Croatia etc.). Provides an analytical framework for visual analysis of ideological markers, both common and uncommon, so readers come away from the book enthused to see their own cultural landscapes in new ways. The author encourages a new generation of subcultural visual anthropologists and cultural studies enthusiasts to seriously study every manner of expression and decoration that connotes "belongingness" to a subcultural group. Readers learn of the importance of graffiti and street art as cultural activities of dissensus and protest within functional democracies. The author argues that factions created by "us vs them" mentalities harness division for pleasure in the culture of sport, and that this is a rich source of human connection. However, in times of political instability and within certain contexts, we come to understand the dangers of symbologies used to differentiate factions if they (as some Ultras do) associate their "turf" with current or past nationalisms in real political terms. Provides a window and complex way to understand the nature of factions and fans, and at the same time, is a critical look at claims by fans (and by extension, other people) who use "jokes" and memes to make extreme views seem less harmless. Provides interesting and vital facts about extremist groups and militants in Europe recruiting from football fan terraces. The author writes with passion and engagement. He is from the Balkans and lived close to the 1990s' wars, so when he writes about political divisions from this time and place, he is speaking from having experienced the factional violence and its devastation on culture. It is by no means a detached analysis. The author has frequently been awarded commendations for his critical research and approach, has received several awards, including the Fulbright's, and has been invited to lecture at universities around the world.

Author : Taran Matharu
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
ISBN 13 : 125013871X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chosen written by Taran Matharu and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chosen introduces the first book in the Contender trilogy, an epic young adult fantasy from Taran Matharu, author of the New York Times–bestselling Summoner series. Throughout history, people have vanished with no explanation. A group of teenagers are about to discover why. Cade is settling into a new boarding school, contemplating his future, when he finds himself transported to another realm. He soon discovers their new world is populated with lost remnants from the past: prehistoric creatures, ancient relics, and stranger still—people. Overwhelmed by his new surroundings, Cade has little time to adjust, for soon he and his fellow classmates are forced to become contenders in a brutal game, controlled by mysterious overlords. But who are these beings and why did they choose these teens? Cade must prepare for battle . . . because hiding is not an option. Fans of fantasy and LitRPG will welcome this new character and world from the author of the Summoner series.

Author : James A. O'Donnell
Publisher : Ateneo de Manila University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789715507639
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book For the Chosen Few written by James A. O'Donnell and published by Ateneo de Manila University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Father James Aloysius O'Donnell, S.J., brings a wealth of experience to this book, having worked with Philippine schools for more than 50 years. He is well known to many educators for his popular workshops on classroom supervision which he has preserved in this book, now in its 6th edition.

Author : S. M. Stirling
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 1618241605
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chosen written by S. M. Stirling and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hottest team in military SF is hack in action¾ with Book I of a red-hot sequel to The General series! Planted by interstellar probes on hundreds of human-occupied worlds, the downloaded personalities of Raj Whitehall and the ancient battle computer known as Center work together for planetary unity. Their goal is to prepare those worlds for membership in the Second Federation of Man. But on one planet they do the opposite: on Visager they work to prevent unity. For on Visager a nation-state of vicious militarists is about to start the final war to unite their world-once that is accomplished and their technology has matured they will turn outward, bringing their fatal racist infection to the stars. John Hosten is the son of a high general of the Chosen. Jeffrey Fair is the son of an admiral of the only nation on Visager that might be capable of halting the onslaught. Through a strange twist of fate they have become as brothers united in their hatred of all that the Chosen hope to do. Only they ¾with the aid of the disembodied voices of their mentors from the stars-stand between eternal tyranny for their world and eternal war for the galaxy. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Author : Rachele Aragno
Publisher : Random House Graphic
ISBN 13 : 0593301234
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mel The Chosen written by Rachele Aragno and published by Random House Graphic. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this magical middle-grade graphic novel, nothing is more dangerous than a wish come true. More than anything, Mel wants to be a grown-up, and to make her own decisions, instead of having her parents pick what she wears, where they live, what they have for dinner, and where she goes to school. Then Mel gets the chance to travel to a magical world, where she can make her own choices and return all grown up. But what happens when you get older without living your life along the way? Enchanting adventures and magical mishaps abound as Mel grapples with what it means to grow up. Rachele Aragno brings this enchanting story to life with a gorgeous watercolor style that feels both comfortingly classic and delightfully fresh! Anyone who has ever wished to grow up faster, or for just for a little bit of magic, will love Mel the Chosen.

Author : Jasmine Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781735626529
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chosen Few written by Jasmine Jones and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I grew up on the south side of Chicago in an area known as Morgan Park. MP is a real community that flourishes because of the closeness that you can easily describe as family. Morgan Park is where a married couple from the south would begin an upbringing of a household that was like no other. I have encountered many people and have heard many stories, and yet my life remains unique. This book is my story, along with memoirs of others that have experienced growth from the same lenses as myself. Every day a child is taken from their birth parents and put into a hideous system that is best known as the Department of Children and Family Services. For the most part, a good majority of these children will lose complete contact with their biological families. These children will eventually become foster children before being adopted, or they will just remain in long-term foster care. Nonetheless, these children will face many obstacles and challenges, mostly mental. This book is where I begin my quest in trying to not only shed light on a problem that has affected many families but an issue that continues to impact many individuals. Hopefully, this book will help. You are not alone, but you only have one option, and that is to make it!

Author : Berry Craig
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780938021377
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chosin Few written by Berry Craig and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: