The Coldest Winter

Author : David Halberstam
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 1401389643
Total Pages : 1040 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Coldest Winter written by David Halberstam and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2007-09-25 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a grand gesture of reclamation and remembrance, Mr. Halberstam has brought the war back home."---The New York Times David Halberstam's magisterial and thrilling The Best and the Brightest was the defining book about the Vietnam conflict. More than three decades later, Halberstam used his unrivaled research and formidable journalistic skills to shed light on another pivotal moment in our history: the Korean War. Halberstam considered The Coldest Winter his most accomplished work, the culmination of forty-five years of writing about America's postwar foreign policy. Halberstam gives us a masterful narrative of the political decisions and miscalculations on both sides. He charts the disastrous path that led to the massive entry of Chinese forces near the Yalu River and that caught Douglas MacArthur and his soldiers by surprise. He provides astonishingly vivid and nuanced portraits of all the major figures--Eisenhower, Truman, Acheson, Kim, and Mao, and Generals MacArthur, Almond, and Ridgway. At the same time, Halberstam provides us with his trademark highly evocative narrative journalism, chronicling the crucial battles with reportage of the highest order. As ever, Halberstam was concerned with the extraordinary courage and resolve of people asked to bear an extraordinary burden. The Coldest Winter is contemporary history in its most literary and luminescent form, providing crucial perspective on every war America has been involved in since. It is a book that Halberstam first decided to write more than thirty years ago and that took him nearly ten years to complete. It stands as a lasting testament to one of the greatest journalists and historians of our time, and to the fighting men whose heroism it chronicles.

Author : Sister Souljah
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 143911997X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Coldest Winter Ever written by Sister Souljah and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times and USA TODAY Bestseller “50 Most Impactful Black Books of the Last 50 Years.” —Essence Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read The instant classic from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Life After Death brings the streets of New York to life in a powerful and utterly unforgettable novel. I came busting into the world during one of New York’s worst snowstorms, so my mother named me Winter. Ghetto-born, Winter is the young, wealthy daughter of a prominent Brooklyn drug-dealing family. Quick-witted, sexy, and business-minded, she knows and loves the streets like the curves of her own body. But when a cold Winter wind blows her life in a direction she doesn’t want to go, her street smarts and seductive skills are put to the test of a lifetime. Unwilling to lose, this ghetto girl will do anything to stay on top. Twenty-five years and over one million copies later, The Coldest Winter Ever is a bestseller and a national treasure, a classic handed down from one reading generation to the next. Whether you are reading it for the first time or have cherished it for years, you will never forget this Winter’s tale.

Author : Antony Johnston
Publisher : Oni Press
ISBN 13 : 1620103702
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Coldest Winter written by Antony Johnston and published by Oni Press. This book was released on 2016-12-07 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer ANTONY JOHNSTON and artist STEVEN PERKINS return to Cold War-era Berlin for this prequel to THE COLDEST CITY. After a string of botched assignments for MI6 in Berlin, David Perceval is being sent home. Even his final mission before leaving — the defection of a Soviet scientist — goes badly wrong, as the coldest winter for 30 years descends on Europe. With transport out of Berlin impossible, and the KGB searching everywhere for their lost scientist, Perceval must improvise a deadly game of cat and mouse through the frozen city to keep the Russians at bay, and deliver his own unique brand of revenge!

Author : Sister Souljah
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982139145
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life After Death written by Sister Souljah and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Winter Santiaga hit time served. Still stunning, still pretty, still bold, still loves her father more than any man in the world, still got her hustle and high fashion flow. She's eager to pay back her enemies, rebuild her father's empire, reset his crown, and ultimately to snatch Midnight back into her life no matter which bitch had him while she was locked up. But Winter is not the only one with revenge on her mind. Simone, Winter's young business partner and friend, is locked and loaded and Winter is her target. Will she blow Winter's head off? Can Winter dodge the bullets? Or will at least one bullet blast Winter into another world? Either way Winter is fearless. Hell is the same as any hood and certainly the Brooklyn hood she grew up in. That's what Winter thinks."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Sister Souljah
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439165327
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Deeper Love Inside written by Sister Souljah and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural-born hustler Porsche Santiaga refuses to accept her new life in juvenile detention after her family is torn apart and fights to regain what she has lost.

Author : Paula Fox
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466802383
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Coldest Winter written by Paula Fox and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2006-10-17 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this elegant and affecting companion to her "extraordinary" memoir, Borrowed Finery, a young writer flings herself into a Europe ravaged by the Second World War (The Boston Globe) In 1946, Paula Fox walked up the gangplank of a partly reconverted Liberty with the classic American hope of finding experience—or perhaps salvation—in Europe. She was twenty-two years old, and would spend the next year moving among the ruins of London, Warsaw, Paris, Prague, Madrid, and other cities as a stringer for a small British news service. In this lucid, affecting memoir, Fox describes her movements across Europe's scrambled borders: unplanned trips to empty castles and ruined cathedrals, a stint in bombed-out Warsaw in the midst of the Communist election takeovers, and nights spent in apartments here and there with distant relatives, friends of friends, and in shabby pensions with little heat, each place echoing with the horrors of the war. A young woman alone, with neither a plan nor a reliable paycheck, Fox made her way with the rest of Europe as the continent rebuilt and rediscovered itself among the ruins. Long revered as a novelist, Fox won over a new generation of readers with her previous memoir, Borrowed Finery. Now, with The Coldest Winter, she recounts another chapter of a life seemingly filled with stories—a rare, unsentimental glimpse of the world as seen by a writer at the beginning of an illustrious career.

Author : Antony Johnston
Publisher : Oni Press
ISBN 13 : 9781620103814
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atomic Blonde written by Antony Johnston and published by Oni Press. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A bit of a masterpiece... reminded me of John Le Carré in its very plausible complexity, but a lot more engaging and exciting." — Alan Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta, Batman: The Killing Joke) THE ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL THAT INSPIRED THE MOVIE! November 1989. MI6 spy Lorraine Broughton was sent to Berlin to investigate the death of another agent, and the disappearance of a list revealing every spy working there. She found a powder keg of mistrust, assassinations and bad defections that ended with the murder of MI6's top officer, as the Berlin Wall was torn down. Now Lorraine has returned from the Cold War's coldest city, to tell her story. And nothing is what it seems. Don't miss the thrilling sequel, The Coldest Winter, available now.

Author : Sister Souljah
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476730717
Total Pages : 1488 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sister Souljah Collection #1 written by Sister Souljah and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 1488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Volume I of this special collectors’ edition, visit the first three unforgettable novels by New York Times bestselling author Sister Souljah: The Coldest Winter Ever, Midnight: A Gangster Love Story, and Midnight and the Meaning of Love. THE COLDEST WINTER EVER In The Coldest Winter Ever, internationally known author, activist, and hip-hop artist Sister Souljah brought the streets of New York to life in a powerful and unforgettable first novel. Beautifully written, raw, and authentic, this novel firmly established Sister Souljah as the mother of all contemporary urban literature and the author of the first classic of the genre. MIDNIGHT: A GANGSTER LOVE STORY Sister Souljah, the hip-hop generation's number one author and most compelling storyteller, delivers a powerful story about love and loyalty, strength and family. In her bestselling novel The Coldest Winter Ever, Sister Souljah introduced the world to Midnight, a brave but humble lieutenant to a prominent underworld businessman. Now, in a highly anticipated follow-up to her million-selling masterpiece, she brings readers into the life and dangerously close to the heart of this silent, fearless young man. MIDNIGHT AND THE MEANING OF LOVE Sister Souljah, the New York Times bestselling author of The Coldest Winter Ever and Midnight, delivers her most compelling and enlightening story yet. With Midnight and The Meaning of Love, Souljah brings to her millions of fans an adventure about young, deep love, the ways in which people across the world express their love, and the lengths that they will go to have it.

Author : Lisa Bell
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1632904616
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Winter written by Lisa Bell and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2015-03 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Addresses winter], especially for PreK-1 and Grades 1-3, using...music, simple text and age-appropriate illustration"--Publisher.

Author : Sharon Gibson Palermo
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN 13 : 1627539794
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Winter, Winter, Cold and Snow written by Sharon Gibson Palermo and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gentle, repetitive story about forest creatures on a cold winter's day and night. With colorful, child-friendly illustrations this is a sweet pick for cozy storytimes by the fire.