An estimated 100 million people worldwide are homeless. 1.6 billion live in sub-standard housing. But how can such a simple game like football tackle such a complex problem? Mel Young and Peter Barr tell the story of the million homeless people in 70 countries who have taken part in the Homeless World Cup since it was founded in 2003 and the positive impact it has on the players and everyone else involved, including spectators. From refugees to drug addicts, orphans and the poorest of the poor, to homeless people from the world's richest countries, we read about the moving human drama behind the event and find out how a ball can change the world. Home Game provides an insight into the birth of the Homeless World Cup and how it has become such a global phenomenon, by looking at more than just facts. It shows how the power of sport can help excluded people transform their own lives and how the event has transformed attitudes to homelessness.

An estimated 100 million people worldwide are homeless. 1.6 billion live in sub-standard housing. But how can such a simple game like football tackle such a complex problem? Mel Young and Peter Barr tell the story of the million homeless people in 70 countries who have taken part in the Homeless World Cup since it was founded in 2003 and the positive impact it has on the players and everyone else involved, including spectators. From refugees to drug addicts, orphans and the poorest of the poor, to homeless people from the world's richest countries, we read about the moving human drama behind the event and find out how a ball can change the world. Home Game provides an insight into the birth of the Homeless World Cup and how it has become such a global phenomenon, by looking at more than just facts. It shows how the power of sport can help excluded people transform their own lives and how the event has transformed attitudes to homelessness.

Back from the brink, Julian buries the horrors of the past deep in his subconscious knowing that is where they will remain. He knows a second chance is his for the taking and he goes after it determined that no one or nothing is going to stop him now. Some characters from the past continue to make appearances but much has changed in his life. He finds love again, someone who believes in him, someone who longs to share his dream. The future beckons and he approaches it with such intensity, confident he is headed in the right direction ably supported by those wanting him to succeed. Then distractions start to surface. Someone appears to be hell bent on fanning flames from the fires of the past. Is Julian faced with a new threat or are the demons of yesterday lining up to confront him once again driven by someone out for revenge?

Lieutenant Ryan "Rye" Enders arrives in Vietnam unassigned and selects a rear support First Cavalry artillery unit. He's dead wrong.

Armchair generals in Washington have devised an experiment, to drop his 6 1/2 ton guns and 127 men on the North Viet Army-a desperate gamble to win the war. Each mission from the sky has less chance of survival as Rye lifts his battery into brutal battles against the NVA, Russian tanks and artillery.

His guns destroy Hue during Tet, and then take-on troops, artillery, and tanks in Khe Sanh. He arrives on the abandoned marine base under fire and saves men left behind becoming the last American standing. Three weeks to departing, he airlifts two guns and twenty-seven men into the "Valley of Death"; a suicide mission. Will they make it out?

He and a triage nurse find love as "damaged goods."

Under Attack from his own air force, exposed to Agent Orange, he must reconcile the killer he's become and the futility of war.

The dialog and actions are real, experienced by the author in Vietnam, September 1967-8.

"Hard Chargers from the Sky" deals with one of the riskiest-and craziest-airmobile artillery operations in military history.

Julian and Zelda have enjoyed a relationship for ten years. When he decides to give up a highly paid job in an attempt to achieve his ambition of becoming a published author. Zelda is not amused and the relationship begins to flounder. Zelda embarks on an affair with a distinguished older man and they make plans to live together. Julian develops a dark side, suffering the horrors of a recurring and ongoing dream, a nightmare that brings horrifying repercussions for him in the form of a mystery woman. Zelda wakes to the sound of his screams as he battles his unknown adversary. The dream pushing him ever closer to the edge and eventually he learns the woman's identity. He believes the only way to reclaim his sanity is by taking the woman's life.

With A Complete List Of All The Species And Varieties Known To English Amateurs.

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