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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.
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.
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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
Lieutenant "El Tee" Carroll was drafted into the U.S. Army and
thrown into the Vietnam War at a firebase camp on the Cambodian
border in 1969. His band of colorful warriors, led by Cajun
"Sarnt"Jesse Parrod and Specialist Gordon "Ratman" Withers take the
reader into ambush with crawling bugs and the smell of burning
bodies. The story examines military doctrine, and the lives of
those brave young men who wear our uniforms. Orphaned Heroes are
those who have always fought in battle and are ignored by their
leaders and countrymen back home. This book will put you into the
action of flying bullets, and learn the thoughts and hopes of those
desperate to survive their orphaned status.
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""Gordon floated out of the commander's office. He sensed his
fortunes had turned 180 degrees. On the pinnacle of a phenomenal
high, incandescing like lights on Broadway, he now believed that
the backbreaking labor he had performed for his father on the roofs
of Brooklyn had a larger purpose. His feet carried him to where his
prayer book lay open to the well-worn page containing the sentence
."and the Lord shall raise an ensign." Once again his strictly
private play on the word "ensign" gave him solace-even as his
frequent trouble-making public displays of dry wit provided cover."
"And the Lord Shall Raise an Ensign"" is a World War II male
Cinderella story of sorts-with seductive and serendipitous twists.
Charles Gordon, a handsome, well-spoken Jew from a poor
working-class Yankee family, enters a naval officer's program along
with almost exclusively southern classmates. With some
fairy-godmother luck and remarkable feats of derring-do,
accomplished despite the erection of malicious and prejudicial
obstacles, Gordon eventually becomes an oddball hero among
awestruck peers and admiring superiors. After earning the rank of
ensign, an unexpected sequence of events ends with the virgin
officer serving brilliantly as the Navy's youngest lead fighter
director on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific war zone. Unforeseen
and unjust consequences of dangerous liaisons, however, threaten to
destroy him completely.
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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The Policy
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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?
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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