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Summer of 1950, Marine Reservists go to war in Korea and find
love along the way. Marine operations include the Pusan Perimeter
battles, the Inchon Landing, and the Chosin Reservoir campaign.
Through her personal journal entries and poetry, the author
AnnMarie L. Bonasera speaks through the narrator, Ann, who informs
the reader about Japan's culture and the bombing of Hiroshima on
August 6, 1945. Bonasera provides insight into the experiences of
the Japanese and American people who were in a war that brought
mental and physical devastation that not only affected their lives
but the lives of their offspring. In addition, Bonasera
communicates the feeling of internal pain and conflict, and the
dilemma of finding oneself lost in a place that is somewhere
else.
In Between the Spaces of Time, Bonasera tries to make sense of
the senselessness of war and its atrocities.
In 1968, Captain Robb Barker arrives at Nubat Royal Thai Air
Force Base, ready to replace the men who, like him, left their
families to travel halfway around the world to fight on unknown
soil. As Barker slowly surveys his new environment, fear screams
obscenities into the recesses of his mind. Captain Barker, a man
who is battling intense personal demons, has no idea he is about to
fly the most important mission of the Vietnam War.
In a desolate forest on the Siberian steppes, Colonel Dmitriy
Mihail Ruchinsky's life is crumbling around him. His career has
been irreparably damaged-the result of an unfortunate decision by a
superior in a highly political environment. Even worse, he has just
been informed that his son Nikolai, a bright young pilot in the
Soviet Air Force serving in Vietnam, has been shot down by an
American pilot. With his son dead and his career slowly plunging
into a pit of failure, Colonel Ruchinsky has nothing to lose.
As the lives of these two men converge in the jungles of
Vietnam, Captain Barker must prevent an old colonel's act of
revenge before the world is brought to the brink of nuclear
conflict.
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Red Enemy
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Chester Cole
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Apart from war and conflict, another major hazard facing the
soldier is court martial. That of colonel Destry Corrigan, US army
in Germany for murder and desertion was no exception
Marcus Caius, a Roman legionnaire in the Tenth Legion, has served
for the entirety of Julius Caesar's Gallic War. Lately, however,
British soldiers have begun to reinforce the Gallic army. With the
province of Belgica now under control, Caesar plots a
reconnaissance-en-force to the island of Britannia before the onset
of winter, and Marcus is to be among the force. Before long, the
expedition suffers setbacks, and the Legionnaires are left to fend
for themselves and find a way to cross the channel back to Gaul
before it is too late. Will there ever be a time when the Romans
are not despised for their warring ways? As Caesar and his forces
attempt to conquer Britannia, facing fierce resistance, that
question comes to the fore again and again.
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The Policy
(Hardcover)
R. J. Kalina
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From completely different walks of life, three young men meet at
Marine Corps boot camp, where they form a powerful bond of
friendship on their journey to manhood. Vanguard Womack, known as
'Van to his friends, is a naive country boy from South Dakota,
driven to avenge his brother's death in the attacks on 9/11. Jerome
Jackson, or 'Jo from the tough streets of Philly, is trying to
escape the decadent gangbanging lifestyle of the hood and fulfill
the demands of his newly acquired sense of patriotism. And the
affluent yet scamming college kid, Alex Feinstein, lands himself in
a jam and enlists solely to avoid the threat of jail time for a
past indiscretion. Their intentions and backgrounds couldn't be
more different, yet, while trying to survive boot camp, they form
an unusual bond and become best friends. With war looming on the
horizon, the men prepare for a worst-case scenario and purchase
insurance policies with an unexpected windfall. The strength of
their bond will come under scrutiny and be severely tested when the
trio is sent overseas-left to the uncertainties of combat.
friendship, freedom, and even their lives?
The "reality novel" A Poet and Bin-Laden set in Central Asia at the
turn of the 21st century against a swirling backdrop of Islamic
fundamentalism in the Ferghana Valley and beyond, gives a
first-hand account on the militants and Taliban's internal life.
The novel begins on the eve of 9/11, with the narrator's haunting
description of the airplane attack on the Twin Towers as seen on TV
while he is on holiday in Central Asia; and tells the story of an
Uzbek poet Belgi, who was disappointed in the authoritarian regime
in Uzbekistan and became a terrorist in the eyes of the world. His
journey begins with a search for a Sufi spiritual master and ends
in guerrilla warfare, and it is this tension between a
transcendental and a violent response to oppression, between the
book and the bomb, between Archipelago GULAG and modern Central
Asia and Afghanistan, that gives the novel its specific poignancy.
In this book Hamid Ismailov masterfully intertwines fiction with
documentary and provides wonderfully vivid accounts of historical
events such as the siege of Kunduz, the breakout from Shebergan
prison and the insurgency in the Ferghana Valley as witnessed by
the Byronian figure of Belgi, who enters the inner sanctum of
al-Qaeda, and ultimately meets Sheikh bin Laden himself.
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
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