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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > War fiction > General
A young American infantryman finds himself in a Korean troop train
hurrying north to the front early in 1953. Thus begins a story of
humor, pathos, horror, bitterness, and a chilling look at the class
discrimination whether intended or accidental that created a
warrior class of poor, uneducated men to fight a vicious enemy in a
forlorn, inhospitable country.
War is a religious experience. Mystic. Demonically insane. It
pushes humans to the ragged edge of self-knowledge. Mixing
philosophy, literature, psychology, and memoir, this book carries
us on an odyssey - an odyssey that explores why young men volunteer
for combat, how they live, and how they survive. It is raw in its
portrayal of cowardice, of bravery, of haunting irreversible
mistakes, of guilt, and of love. Confession to a Deaf God is a
thought-provoking exploration of the incomprehensible cosmic game
of Mars, ancient god of war.
A flyer's World War Two diary reveals the terror in combat and
tells of escape in the dark to avoid capture. Returned to Italy,
missing comrades and the secrecy assigned to the status of the
evader, harvest a bewildering new beginning. Army Air Force
unintentionally places us in situations we would never arrange for
ourselves and fails to provide support when we are abandon in enemy
territory. its machinery, is, at first, happy to be alone,
independent, and without supervision only to learn how
unsatisfactory that condition is for needs change to where others
and intact systems are employed to return to Italy. Becoming an
evader, the influence its status document has as an unrecognized
entity, places open acknowledgment of this syndrome far down on the
list of important issues. Important subject matters are fear,
cowardice, and the role the Army Air Force plays in making sense of
it all.
The shadows of war grow ever darker across the Demi-Monde.
Norma Williams knows she was a fool to be lured into the virtual
nightmare that is the Demi-Monde. When the agent sent in the game
to save her goes rogue and a long forgotten evil is awoken, it
falls to Norma to lead the resistance.
Lost, without a plan, and with the army of the ForthRight
marching ever closer, she must come to terms with terrible new
responsibilities and with the knowledge that those she thought were
her friends are now her enemies. To triumph in this surreal
cyber-world she must be more than she ever believed she could be .
. . or perish.
Just before her sixteenth birthday, missionary Reena Pavane
stepped onto African soil and called it home. Four years later,
she's swept from her post in Huzuni amid rumblings of war by
British photojournalist Jim Stone, a man who loves East Africa and
wants to tell its story and show its many faces. Staying true to
their separate callings is complicated by their unexpected feelings
for each other.
When Stone leaves hurriedly for a top-secret story but doesn't
have his malaria medicine, Reena enlists the help of black man
Dakimu Reiman to help her find Stone. Deep in the jungle, they
discover Stone is being held by militants, and death for all seems
inevitable.
The lives of Stone, Reena, and Dak evolve in the political
turmoil of the 1950s and early 1960s in Tanganyika. Their personal
goals, unrelated at the start, become increasingly dependent on and
resolvable only inside their surprising and complex relationship.
From the wild savannahs and forests of East Africa to England and
the United States, spiritual, racial, and cultural barriers
threaten and divide them. There is one thing among them that cannot
be shaken and brings them to the harrowing edge of every choice
they have made and every tenet they have believed. Their road to
redemption is marked with controversy, self-doubt, and pain.
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