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The Silence of War

Author : Terry McGowan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101988185
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Silence of War written by Terry McGowan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terry McGowan was a beat cop, a Marine captain, and an FBI Special Agent before retiring at age fifty. But after September 11th, 2001, McGowan was in Iraq, serving as a member of a team of high-ranking retired and active duty military working for the highest level of Marine military intelligence. McGowan's success in Iraq led to a position as a Law Enforcement Professional with the Marines in Afghanistan. There he found himself the oldest member of a platoon on the front line; a platoon that was understrength and under fire. While an eighteen-year-old Marine can't look at a crowd of Afghans and pick out the guilty party, McGowan's years of experience in law enforcement had developedhis eye for the "felony look." His training as a Marine Officer, combined with his experience as an FBI Agent, made McGowan an asset as he struggled to keep up with young Marines while they humped over the mountains. Here, he recounts the many trials of his life of service, providing an intimate glimpse into the horrible realities of modern military conflict. --

The Great Silence

Author : Juliet Nicolson
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802197043
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Great Silence written by Juliet Nicolson and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of British life in the wake of World War I is “social history at its very best . . . insightful and utterly absorbing” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune). As the euphoria of Armistice Day in 1918 quickly subsided, there was no denying the carnage that the Great War had left in its wake. Grief and shock overwhelmed the psyche of the British people—but from their despair, new life would slowly emerge. For veterans with faces demolished in the trenches, surgeon Harold Gillies brings hope with his miraculous skin-grafting procedure. Women win the vote, skirt hems leap, and Brits forget their troubles at packed dance halls. And two years later, the remains of a nameless combatant would be laid to rest in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Westminster Abbey, as “The Great Silence,” observed in memory of the countless dead, halted citizens in silent reverence. This history of two transformative years in the life of a nation features countless characters, from an aging butler to a pair of newlyweds, from the Prince of Wales to T. E. Lawrence, the real-life Lawrence of Arabia. The Great Silence depicts a nation fighting the forces that threaten to tear it apart and discovering the common bonds that hold it together. “A pearl of anecdotal history, The Great Silence is a satisfying companion to major studies of World War I and its aftermath . . . as Nicolson proceeds through the familiar stages of grief—denial, anger and acceptance—she gives you a deeper understanding of not only this brief period, but also how war’s sacrifices don’t end after the fighting stops.” —The Seattle Times “It may make you cry.” —The Boston Globe

Silence was a Weapon

Author : Stuart A. Herrington
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Silence was a Weapon written by Stuart A. Herrington and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For two years, U.S. Intelligence advisor Stuart Herrington's job was to root out the Viet Cong from the villages of rural Hau Nghia province. Here is a riveting account of what he remembers of that reality.

Silent Battlefields

Author : Hugh Rosen
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595347738
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Silent Battlefields written by Hugh Rosen and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selig Kruger, once a dedicated Hitler Youth and committed Nazi soldier, confronts his past when he meets Eva, the woman whose life he spared nearly thirty years ago. She remembered learning from the bear man shortly after the incident that two German soldiers were killed by a third. Perhaps he was the one who took their lives. She believed that if she were ever to find out the answers, now was not the time to deluge him with her emotions and questions. Her persistent gaze released a rush of memories flooding Selig's mind. In the secret space of his consciousness he saw a young, frightened girl huddling on the floor of an attic closet. Without even thinking about it Selig placed his index finger vertically against his lips. It was the same gesture Selig had performed twenty-eight years ago on the attic floor of a house in a Polish village. "It's really you then?" Eva asked in astonishment. Selig was stunned at the realization that this was, indeed, the same young girl whose life he had spared. The same girl whose destiny he had obsessed about over almost three decades.

Battlefield

Author : Peter Brook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848427051
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Battlefield written by Peter Brook and published by . This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The internationally renowned team of Peter Brook, Marie-Helene Estienne and Jean-Claude Carriere together revisit the great Indian epic The Mahabharata 30 years after Brook's legendary production took world theatre by storm.Destruction never approaches weapon in hand. It comes slyly, on tiptoe, making you see bad in good and good in bad.The devastation of war is tearing the Bharata family apart. The new king must unravel a mystery: how can he live with himself in the face of the devastation and massacres that he has caused?An immense canvas in miniature, this central section of the ancient text is timeless and contemporary, asking how we can find inner peace in a world riven with conflict.

Into the Silence

Author : Wade Davis
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307700569
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Into the Silence written by Wade Davis and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive story of the British adventurers who survived the trenches of World War I and went on to risk their lives climbing Mount Everest. On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip of Everest’s North Col. George Mallory, thirty-seven, was Britain’s finest climber. Sandy Irvine was a twenty-two-year-old Oxford scholar with little previous mountaineering experience. Neither of them returned. Drawing on more than a decade of prodigious research, bestselling author and explorer Wade Davis vividly re-creates the heroic efforts of Mallory and his fellow climbers, setting their significant achievements in sweeping historical context: from Britain’s nineteen-century imperial ambitions to the war that shaped Mallory’s generation. Theirs was a country broken, and the Everest expeditions emerged as a powerful symbol of national redemption and hope. In Davis’s rich exploration, he creates a timeless portrait of these remarkable men and their extraordinary times.

Those about Him Remained Silent

Author : Amy Bass
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816644950
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Those about Him Remained Silent written by Amy Bass and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amy Bass tells the compelling story of how her home region ignored its most famous son--W.E.B. Du Bois--for decades because of politics and race. A startling and important tale of social denial, of erased historical memory, and a hidden past now coming to light.

A Burden of Silence

Author : Nancy A. Draper
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1418451061
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book A Burden of Silence written by Nancy A. Draper and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004-07-27 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Burden of Silence: My Mothers Battle with AIDS, is a heartwarming story of an affectionate bond between a daughter and her sixty-six year old mother who was transfused with HIV positive blood during heart bypass surgery. It will evoke emotions of faith, inspiration, anger, and overwhelming love. The reader will also smile at the funny, tender moments that Ms. Draper writes about in her story. This is a devoted daughters story of her elderly mothers painful and lonely journey through AIDS. Because her mother was not part of a so-called AIDS risk group, she felt ignored, rejected, stigmatized, and ashamed. For years, she suffered in excruciating silence. Nancy has given her mothers story a voice. There are lessons for everyone in this booklessons about acceptance, compassion, and forgiveness. -Ann Webster, Ph.D., director, HIV/AIDS Program, Mind/Body Institute, Boston, MA Nancy Draper has written a tender account of a daughters devotion to her dying mother. This story about a grandmother who developed AIDS from a contaminated blood transfusion, will inspire admiration for Ms. Drapers courage and persistence. It will also inspire rage against the blood banks that failed to screen blood donations adequately. -Ann Pozen, Psy.D., president, National Association for Victims of Transfusion-Acquired AIDS, Inc., Bethesda, MD This book is a must readIt teaches us about the importance of embracing AIDS patients as human beings. We need to provide them with compassion and empathy instead of treating them as if they were dirty untouchable, unworthy people. In the end, I believe it is people like Nancys mother teaching us about love and acceptance. Hopefully, her dying in silence will wake us up! -Maggie Sund, Ph.D., Central Oregon Counseling and Coaching Nancy Drapers mother told her, I want you to write about me having AIDS because I dont want anyone else to suffer in silence like we have. Nancys mother must be very proud of her and this account of three years of fear, heartache, some good days and always deep love. Here Nancy tells the rest of a story that she summarized in our March 1999 issue and wrote under a pseudonym. Thanks, Nancy!" -Father Pat McCloskey, O.F.M., Editor, St. Anthony Messenger

Silent Landscape at Gallipoli

Author : Simon Doughty
Publisher : Helion
ISBN 13 : 9781911512738
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book Silent Landscape at Gallipoli written by Simon Doughty and published by Helion. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evocative and richly atmospheric photographs of the Gallipoli Peninsula's battlefields today.

Silent Wings at War

Author : John L. Lowden
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Silent Wings at War written by John L. Lowden and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1992 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pilots were known as "suicide jockeys" and the aircraft they flew were called "flak bait." Towed behind modified bombers or transport aircraft, Allied combat gliders were used in some of the riskiest missions of World War II, landing miles behind enemy lines with specially trained assault forces. In "Silent Wings at War," John L. Lowden combines his own recollections with those of fellow veterans to create a vivid, gritty, jocose memoir of war as he and other glider pilots and their passengers knew it. These true tales of courage, as well as command blunders, make a substantial contribution to WWII literature.

Silent Sentinels

Author : George Newton
Publisher : Savas Beatie
ISBN 13 : 1611210127
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Silent Sentinels written by George Newton and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2005-09-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artillery played an important and perhaps decisive role at the July 1863 Battle of Gettysburg. Although many hundreds of books have been published on the battle, few have focused on the artillery. Silent Sentinels fills this flaring gap in the literature. This well-written and illustrated study was designed for both the casual battlefield visitor and the serious scholar. The former will use Silent Sentinels to tour the battlefield, browse existing guns, ponder the many photographs, and learn more about artillery in general; the latter will find the extensive primary sources, diagrams, appendices of numbers and losses, and informative discussion of organization and tactics an indispensable reference resource. Silent Sentinels discusses in detail every gun-type used at Gettysburg, the equipment needed to operate the guns, their organization, and the tactics employed by both Union and Confederate artillery men. In addition to a history of the artillery and how it was used, the author includes chapters on the park’s collection of 436 guns, the pieces on display at the field today, how to identify the different types of cannon, and how to identify the date and place of manufacture. Silent Sentinels concludes with a driving tour of the battlefield, specially designed with the artillery in mind. This lovely historical guide, complete with detailed endnotes and bibliography, will be a welcomed addition to the growing Gettysburg titles.

12 Seconds of Silence

Author : Jamie Holmes
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 1328460126
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book 12 Seconds of Silence written by Jamie Holmes and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2020 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The riveting story of the American scientists, tinkerers, and nerds who solved one of the biggest puzzles of World War II--and developed one of the most powerful weapons of the war. 12 Seconds of Silence is the remarkable, lost story of how a rag tag group of American scientists overcame one of the toughest problems of World War II: Shooting things out of the sky. Working in a secretive organization known as Section T, a team of physicists, engineers, and everyday Joes and Janes created one of the world's first "smart weapons"--the proximity fuse. The tiny gadget allowed an artillery shell to "know" when to explode to bring down an aircraft. Against overwhelming odds and in a race against time, mustering every scrap of resource, ingenuity, and insight, the scientists of Section T would eventually save countless lives, rescue the city of London from the onslaught of a Nazi superweapon, and help bring about the Axis defeat. A holy grail sought after by Allied and Axis powers alike, the fuse ranks with the atomic bomb as one of the most revolutionary technologies of the Second World War. Until now, its tale was largely untold. For fans of Erik Larson and Ben Macintyre, set amidst the fog of espionage, dueling spies, and the dawn of an age when science would determine the fate of the world, 12 Seconds of Silence is a tribute to the extraordinary wartime mobilization of American science and the ultimate can-do story.

A Culture of Silence

Author : Jason Mitchell
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1291012109
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Culture of Silence written by Jason Mitchell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2005, while researching the implications of the Civil Partnerships Act, HM Treasury and the Department of Trade and Industry concluded that 6%% of the population of the United Kingdom should be classed as gay; one in every 16.6 people and an estimated 3.5 million people in total. As of 2012, there are over 4,000 professional footballers currently playing the game in England alone. Despite this, there are currently no openly gay professional footballers in the country. However, to suggest that this issue is exclusive to English football would be drastically wide of the mark. In actual fact, this complete lack of openly gay professional players can be observed throughout all of the top professional football leagues across the world. 'A Culture of Silence' tells the story of football's problematic relationship with homosexuality and of the homophobia that, unquestionably, still plagues the sport.

Breaking the Silence

Author : Bernie Anderson
Publisher : Autumn House Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780812704624
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Breaking the Silence written by Bernie Anderson and published by Autumn House Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He Lived a Secret Life for years. A respected pastor, husband, and father, Bernie Anderson battled behind closed doors with pornography and sexual addiction. Exposed to pornography early in life, he was held captive by the addiction until he allowed God to transform his life. It is a problem not often spoken about in the Christian community, yet pornography and sexual addiction are devastating countless Christian homes. To help others avoid it or break free from its stronghold, Anderson tells his personal story of torment, hope, and the God who changes lives. Offering insight, encouragement, and resources, Breaking the Silence boldly reveals the truth about this addiction and how you can protect yourself and your family from the dangers of pornography. Book jacket.

The Great Silence

Author : Juliet Nicolson
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1848542690
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (485 download)

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Download or read book The Great Silence written by Juliet Nicolson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-11-12 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peace at last, after Lloyd George declared it had been 'the war to end all wars', would surely bring relief and a renewed sense of optimism? But this assumption turned out to be deeply misplaced as people began to realise that the men they loved were never coming home. The Great Silence is the story of the pause between 1918 and 1920. A two-minute silence to celebrate those who died was underpinned by a more enduring silence born out of national grief. Those who had danced through settled Edwardian times, now faced a changed world. Some struggled to come to terms with the last four years, while others were anxious to move towards a new future. Change came to women, who were given the vote only five years after Emily Davidson had thrown herself on the ground at Ascot race course, to the poor, determined to tolerate their condition no longer, and to those permanently scarred, mentally and physically, by the conflict. The British Monarchy feared for its survival as monarchies around Europe collapsed and Eric Horne, one time butler to the gentry, found himself working in a way he considered unseemly for a servant of his calibre. Whether it was embraced or rejected, change had arrived as the impact of a tragic war was gradually absorbed. With her trademark focus on daily life, Juliet Nicolson evokes what England was like during this fascinating hinge in history.

50 Years of Silence

Author : Jan Ruff-O'Herne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781863407830
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book 50 Years of Silence written by Jan Ruff-O'Herne and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long idyllic summer of Jan Ruff O'Herne's ildhood in Dutch colonial Indonesia ended in 1942 with the Japanese invasion of Java. She was interned in Ambarawa Prison Camp, along with her mother and two younger sisters. In February 1944, when Jan was 21, her life was torn apart. Along with nine other young women, all of them virgins, she was plucked from the camp and her family, and enslaved into prostitution by the Japanese Imperial Army.

Running Critical

Author : Patrick Tyler
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Running Critical written by Patrick Tyler and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1986 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like an Indecent Exposure of the defense industry, Running Critical is an expose of the General Dynamics scandal told by the only reporter who had exclusive access to the secret documents of both General Dynamics and the U.S. Navy. 16-page photo insert.