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As Chung Kuo's population continues to swell, the Seven are forced
to make further concessions; laws must be relaxed and the House at
Weimar re-opened. Change is coming, whether the Seven want it or
not. As the tides of unrest unleashed by earlier wars grow, DeVore
secretly allies with Li Yuan's newly-appointed general, Hans Ebert.
DeVore's schemes are slowly coming to fruition, but Ebert has his
own plans: to depose the Seven and control the whole of Chung Kuo.
It is finally a time for Change. In the long years before the War
it had seemed inconceivable to challenge the Seven. But now? Now
new currents of unrest have woken in the depths of the City, darker
and deeper than those expressed by the War. Currents which threaten
to tear Chung Kuo apart.
During the Vietnamese War, a Washington-approved sanctuary for
enemy troops in Laos and Cambodia is a recipe for disaster, but a
covert CIA operation made up of Special Forces volunteers deemed
expendable, penetrates the borders and neutralizes the enemy's
advantage. The Green Berets, Rick Barinelli, Warren Fahey, and Bob
Akamura, make a pact: If any one of them goes missing, the others
will commit to, "rescue, ransom, or revenge."
Barinelli, conflicted with a growing passion for a beautiful
Vietnamese woman, Ai Dao, gains distinction for intel successes
that disrupt the Tet Offensive and becomes known to the enemy as
"the Gray Ghost." Hanoi orders General Wong to capture or kill him
regardless of cost, and the brilliant and sadistic Wong spins an
elaborate trap. He orchestrates the kidnapping of Ai Dao, but
captures the headstrong Akamura instead. Now, against harrowing
odds, it's up to Barinelli and Fahey to attempt their rescue.
Racing to a shattering climax, "Hunting With Tigers" illustrates
how ordinary men can rise to acts of selfless heroism within the
savagery of war.
Nearly fifty years old and widowed for the last ten, Lilly
Larsen understands that Roger Hartec could be a heartbreaker.
First, there's his age. Roger is more than ten years younger than
she. And the rumor mill in Ashland Falls, Minnesota, says he might
have a penchant for violence, which she witnesses him exercise.
At the local museum, Roger, a Vietnam War veteran, throws a park
bench through a plate-glass window that had been protecting a
display of the American flag being desecrated. In spite of his
violent action, Lilly finds herself attracted to this tall, strong
man because of the tenderness he displays with the crying Cub Scout
in her charge. With the help of two close friends, Lilly is
determined to make a new life with this enigmatic and troubled
veteran.
Together Lilly and Roger embark on a journey of creating a
diverse family of rejected individuals. Surmounting one obstacle
after another, with the help of an ever-growing circle of friends,
this loving couple has no idea of the far-reaching impact their
union has made on their community. A story of confession and
redemption, A Lost Generation showcases the struggle for survival
of a Vietnam combat veteran as he reenters society.
Seven more excursions into the Napoleonic world through the pen of
a master
Honore de Balzac was quite literally a child of the Napoleonic age.
Born in 1799 he grew to be one of the most highly regarded French
writers of any age and his works are acknowledged influences on
several authors of renown who followed him including Zola,
Flaubert, Henry James and even Jack Kerouac His most frequently
referenced writer in the English language was, however, Charles
Dickens. Those who are familiar with Balzac's work need no
introduction to it here, but for those less familiar with it, this
favourable comparison reveals that here was one who knew how to
tell a good story filled with real, well crafted, rounded
characters who are authentic to their age. This collection of
Balzac's fiction contains only those stories which are set in the
Napoleonic era itself. Having grown up in this period and having
about him a plethora of living reference sources in the form of
those who took an active part in it, these highly entertaining
tales, combined with Balzac's own genius can be nothing other than
pure reading pleasure. Several of Balzac's pieces have been filmed
including some of those collected here.
This second volume of Balzac's Napoleonic stories begins with 'An
Historical Mystery, ' beginning in1806 it is a satisfying tale of
the abduction of a senator of the Empire, of detection, trial and
punishment. The second tale, 'Farewell, ' draws the reader to the
disastrous Russian campaign, its retreat through winter and the
crossing of the Berezina by the shattered remnants of the Grand
Army. 'A Second Home' is followed by 'The Recruit' and 'A Passion
in the Desert, ' a brilliantly memorable story of Napoleon's
invasion of Egypt. 'El Verdugo' moves the scene back to Europe and
the war in the Iberian peninsula before the volume concludes with
'Colonel Chabert, ' the bizarre account of brave soldier's return
from among the dead of the Battle of Eylau.
Available in soft cover and good quality hard back with dust
jacket for collectors.
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Duffels
(Hardcover)
Edward Eggleston
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R1,153
Discovery Miles 11 530
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"It is 1943, and World War II rages on battlefields across the
globe. But in America, another bloody, divisive battle rages as
stepped-up wartime production lures legions of poor blacks from the
rural South to defense jobs in the North-to a so-called "promised
land" of opportunity. The wartime migration has a profound impact,
transforming America's cities into both "arsenals for democracy"
and cauldrons of racial conflict.
Set against this conflicted backdrop, two men embark on separate
journeys to begin a new chapter in their lives. Roosevelt Turner is
a poor black migrant who flees the Jim Crow South to work in
Pittsburgh's bustling steel mills. Jacob Perlman is a Jewish
physician forced to escape Nazi-occupied Europe. As each seeks to
escape his harrowing past and rebuild his life in a country
struggling to fulfill its own promise, their paths unwittingly
cross during a violent racial conflict. In an instant, their
destinies are reshaped forever.
As Roosevelt and Jacob are thrust into the crucible of the civil
rights movement, they courageously join forces in an effort to
crush a terrorist hate group and exorcise the ghosts from their
pasts."
An epic tale of the war between the States
This is volume three-incorporating the two novels The Star of
Gettysburg & The Rock of Chickamauga, the fifth and sixth
novels of a series of eight adventures which follow the momentous
events, campaigns and battles of the great American Civil War
between the Northern and Southern states. The central characters of
the story are Harry Kenton-an officer in the Confederate Army and
his cousin Dick Mason a young officer in a similar position
fighting within the Union ranks. The narrative of the whole war is
charted through the action which embraces many actual players in
the real conflict. Beginning with First Bull Run and climaxing at
Appomattox each novel tells the story from an alternate
perspective-from the ranks of the Blue and then the Grey as the
saga unfolds. Altsheler wrote another Civil War novel, Before the
Dawn, concerning the fall of Richmond told from a Confederate
perspective. Although this story is not strictly part of the series
Leonaur have offered it as part of its five volume, nine novel
collection of the author's Civil War adventures for collectors and
readers in complementing designs and soft cover or hard cover.
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