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Force No One
(Hardcover)
Daniel Charles Ross
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"Toes of Apollo" is an exciting nautical adventure dramatizing
the best and the worst about the U.S. Coast Guard. It's the "Caine
Mutiny" on steroids Lt. (jg) Tom Stierwell, a twenty-two year old
office falls in love with the beautiful daughter of Captain Kearse,
an out-of-control commanding officer on the Coast Guard's
"Albatrosss," a unique mystery ship operating in the Eastern
Mediterranean, six-thousand miles from the USA. The location is on
land and ashore in tumultuous Greece where the Colossus of Rhodes
once stood, where religion and greed are a deadly reality on an
island of Muslim minarets and the rebuilt castle of Christian
crusaders.
In this story I have disclosed some of the dark machinations in the
Fuhrer's mind when he unleashed the dogs of war in bloody cruelties
without conscience. I have tried to reveal uniquely German
predispositions or mindsets, if you will, that caused Germans to
accept Hitler's leadership. For it was they, the German people, the
Volkish Bevolkerung who believed, and it was true, that the
Versailles Treaty imposed merciless reparations upon the German
people that affected them in complex ways-to annihilate their
nationhood, their sovereign compacity forever to make wat. Yet
while it virtually destroyed the Kaiserreich of Post WWI and,
tructh to tell, said many times, set the stage for Hitler's
popularity. The rise of national Socialism, the Nazi Party and WWII
the Treaty shoes how mistaken and despotic revenge can be.
Christian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Col. Von Stauffenberg did not
want to destroy the German people. They schemed to kill the
diabolical fiend Adolph Hitler.
Five tales of battle, intrigue, the sea and adventure from the
Napoleonic era
Conan Doyle was justifiably famous for his great detective Sherlock
Holmes. But in fact Doyle's first love was historical fiction, and
he had a particular interest in and affinity with the age of
Napoleon. This led him after the 'demise' of Holmes to create
another character much closer to his heart-the impossibly brave,
boastful and not very bright, French hussar-Brigadier Gerard. That
character's full adventures-complete with all the original magazine
illustrations-is available as a Leonaur edition. Fortunately for
the many enthusiastic aficionados of Doyle and the Napoleonic Age
his efforts in that period of history did not end with Gerard. Here
are Doyle's other classic novelettes and stories of the epoch of
empires-each one a gem-brought together in a single volume
available in soft cover and hard cover for collectors to enjoy over
again. Includes Uncle Bernac, The Great Shadow, A Foreign Office
Romance, A Straggler of 1815, The 'Slapping Sal' and Doyle's essay
on his own Napoleonic history library.
Oh well, she's not my girl back home any-way. Her name is
Halamie Tikara. She's Iraqi, and not so far away. So complicated,
our beautiful love.
Human Intelligence Specialist Joshua Martin lies stranded and
severely wounded after a night raid on an al-Qaeda hideout in
Samarra. He spends a long night alone remembering-not only intense
combat but also growing up conflicted in Oklahoma.
As he prays for a rescue at dawn, Joshua, the son of an
evangelical minister, recalls his foray into first love at a church
summer camp. A scandal while attending a Bible college drives
Joshua to join the War on Terror. But he is really seeking true
love abroad, not martial glory or divine forgiveness. It is a
difficult search. Then he finds the spirited Halamie. The young
couple must hide their budding romance from hard men.
"The Book on Joshua" is a captivating exploration of a foreign
war and forbidden love. A Christian boy and Muslim girl test their
faith in each other against the backdrop of sectarian violence in
2005/2006 Iraq.
""I love the way Wilfred recycles the bodies. That's fabulous stuff
with a direct line to Heller's Catch-22 and perfectly captures the
insanity of the Vietnam War."
-Richard Peabody, co-editor of Gargoyle Magazine
Counting bodies in Vietnam. In this earthy war/peace novel,
comedy frames grim pictures of war. Morris weaves combat, a love
affair, and military satire into a story that is by turns
terrifying, gruesome, and mad, and one acted by a memorable cast of
characters-grunts and hookers, Vietcong soldiers and spies, heroes
and inane officers. It begins on a huge base in the Central
Highlands in 1967 where Lieutenant Wilfred Carmenghetti falls in
love with Can and smuggles her to a forward firebase. In the field
he and his platoon win stunning victories, but spies plot his
death, Vietcong soldiers attack the platoon, and Can leaves him.
What follows is a surprising and fanciful comedic ending. "Cologne
No. 10 For Men" is a book to make us fear, weep, laugh, and
remember. A soldier in Vietnam invents a uniquely absurd solution
to the horrors of war. A relatively na ve Wilfred Carmenghetti
comes to the Far East to outmaneuver the draft and save the Western
world. A funny and serviceable satire about the gross
rationalizations that propel war and peace. -Kirkus Discoveries
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