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Chickenhawk

Author : Robert Mason
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110117515X
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Chickenhawk written by Robert Mason and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-03-29 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true, bestselling story from the battlefield that faithfully portrays the horror, the madness, and the trauma of the Vietnam War More than half a million copies of Chickenhawk have been sold since it was first published in 1983. Now with a new afterword by the author and photographs taken by him during the conflict, this straight-from-the-shoulder account tells the electrifying truth about the helicopter war in Vietnam. This is Robert Mason’s astounding personal story of men at war. A veteran of more than one thousand combat missions, Mason gives staggering descriptions that cut to the heart of the combat experience: the fear and belligerence, the quiet insights and raging madness, the lasting friendships and sudden death—the extreme emotions of a "chickenhawk" in constant danger. "Very simply the best book so far about Vietnam." -St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Chickenhawk

Author : Robert Mason
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448154383
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Chickenhawk written by Robert Mason and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Robert Mason tells a gripping account of the relentless courage and heroism amidst the insanity of the Vietnam war. The final few pages are the most shocking I have read in any book.' - Tim Peake A stunning book about the right stuff in the wrong war. As a child, Robert Mason dreamed of levitating. As a young man, he dreamed of flying helicopters - and the U.S. Army gave him his chance. They sent him to Vietnam where, between August 1965 and July 1966, he flew more than 1,000 assault missions. In Chickenhawk, Robert Mason gives us a devastating bird's eye-view of that war in all its horror. He experiences the accelerating terror, the increasingly desperate courage of a man 'acting out the role of a hero long after he realises that the conduct of the war is insane,' says the New York Times. 'And we can't stop ourselves from identifying with it.' CHICKENHAWK contains the most vivid, astoundingly intense descriptions of flying ever written. It is a devastating account of men at war, of courage and cowardice, boredom and exhilaration, lasting friendship and sudden death. It is not a book for weak stomachs, but its powerful message will stay in the memory long after the last page is turned.

Chickenhawk

Author : Robert Mason
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0552124192
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Chickenhawk written by Robert Mason and published by Random House. This book was released on 1984 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I read this as a young pilot about to embark on a career flying military helicopters. It should have put me off for life. Robert Mason tells a gripping account of the relentless courage and heroism amidst the insanity of the Vietnam war. The final few pages are the most shocking I have read in any book.' Tim Peake ________ A stunning book about the right stuff in the wrong war. As a child, Robert Mason dreamed of levitating. As a young man, he dreamed of flying helicopters - and the U.S. Army gave him his chance. They sent him to Vietnam where, between August 1965 and July 1966, he flew more than 1,000 assault missions. In Chickenhawk, Robert Mason gives us a devastating bird's eye-view of that war in all its horror. He experiences the accelerating terror, the increasingly desperate courage of a man 'acting out the role of a hero long after he realises that the conduct of the war is insane, ' says the New York Times. 'And we can't stop ourselves from identifying with it.' CHICKENHAWK contains the most vivid, astoundingly intense descriptions of flying ever written. It is a devastating account of men at war, of courage and cowardice, boredom and exhilaration, lasting friendship and sudden death. It is not a book for weak stomachs, but its powerful message will stay in the memory long after the last page is turned.

Chickenhawk

Author : Robert Mason
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Chickenhawk written by Robert Mason and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continues to serve as a testament for an entire generation. But not even Mason's splendid debut will prepare you for the authority of Chickenhawk: Back in the World, his harrowing quest to find "the most significant thing I lost in that war - peace." Although Mason's return was at first promising - after leaving active combat duty he began instructing future helicopter pilots - it quickly spiraled downward: into bouts of panic and increasingly heavy drinking, adulterous.

The Chickenhawk Syndrome

Author : Cheyney Ryan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 074256505X
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book The Chickenhawk Syndrome written by Cheyney Ryan and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2009-05-16 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the question of war and sacrifice has been a major topic of political debate and controversy. If our country goes to war for reasons we endorse, what is our responsibility to share in its sacrifices? Does supporting a war mean serving in it? Does it mean encouraging our children to do so? Such questions have been posed by the so-called "chickenhawk" phenomenon: pro-war leaders and their pro-war children who call on Americans to assume the burden of war and its sacrifices, but avoid those sacrifices themselves. President Bush and other architects of the Iraq conflict were the most prominent chickenhawks. Cheyney C. Ryan argues that the chickenhawk issue is not just a matter of personalities—it will remain with us for a long time even though the Bush administration has left office. Ryan poses fundamental questions of war and personal sacrifice, pointing to the basic disconnection in American politics generally between the support for war and the willingness to assume its costs, which he calls "Alienated War." Calling for the reinvigoration of civic involvement, this illuminating and insightful book offers both a philosophical and historical exploration of America's citizen-soldier tradition and the consequences involved in separating the citizenry from the armed forces.

Charlie Chicken Hawk

Author : Beverly Hayes
Publisher : Publishamerica Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781608366736
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Charlie Chicken Hawk written by Beverly Hayes and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlie Hawk is getting big enough to learn to fly, but will he turn out to be chicken?

Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations

Author : Al Franken
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0440508649
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations written by Al Franken and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Move over P.J. O'Rourke! From Al Franken, America's premier liberal satirist, comes a hilarious homage to the wonderful, awful, and always absurd American political process that skewers a whole new crop of presidential hopefuls--just in time for the 1996 presidential election. "(Franken is) responsible in part for some of the most brilliant political satire of our time".--John Podhoretz, New York Post.

Pucker Factor 10

Author : James Joyce
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786454059
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Pucker Factor 10 written by James Joyce and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1963...there was no way I could have known, sitting in a classroom on that beautiful campus in Ohio, that by raising my hand I would be going to war in Vietnam and that I would see things, hear things and do things that most people cannot imagine."--James Joyce. The author was drawn into the United States Army through ROTC, and went through training to fly helicopters in combat over Vietnam. His experiences are notable because he flew both Huey "Slicks" and Huey "Gunships": the former on defense as he flew troops into battle, and the latter on offense as he took the battle to the enemy. Through this book, the author relives his experiences flying and fighting, with special attention given to his and other pilots' day-to-day lives--such as the smoke bombing of Disneyland, the nickname given to a United States Army-sponsored compound for prostitution. Some of the pilots Joyce served with survived the war and went on to have careers with commercial airlines, and many were killed.

Low Level Hell

Author : Hugh L. Mills, Jr.
Publisher : Presidio Press
ISBN 13 : 0307537927
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Low Level Hell written by Hugh L. Mills, Jr. and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2009-01-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aeroscouts of the 1st Infantry Division had three words emblazoned on their unit patch: Low Level Hell. It was then and continues today as the perfect concise definition of what these intrepid aviators experienced as they ranged the skies of Vietnam from the Cambodian border to the Iron Triangle. The Outcasts, as they were known, flew low and slow, aerial eyes of the division in search of the enemy. Too often for longevity’s sake they found the Viet Cong and the fight was on. These young pilots (19-22 years old) “invented” the book as they went along. Praise for Low Level Hell “An absolutely splendid and engrossing book. The most compelling part is the accounts of his many air-to-ground engagements. There were moments when I literally held my breath.”—Dr. Charles H. Cureton, Chief Historian, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine (TRADOC) Command “Low Level Hell is the best ‘bird’s eye view’ of the helicopter war in Vietnam in print today. No volume better describes the feelings from the cockpit. Mills has captured the realities of a select group of aviators who shot craps with death on every mission.”—R.S. Maxham, Director, U.S. Army Aviation Museum

Afterwar

Author : Nancy Sherman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199325278
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Afterwar written by Nancy Sherman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on in-depth interviews with service women and men, Nancy Sherman weaves narrative with a philosophical and psychological analysis of the moral and emotional attitudes at the heart of the afterwars. Afterwar offers no easy answers for reintegration. It insists that we widen the scope of veteran outreach to engaged, one-on-one relationships with veterans.

Weapon

Author : Robert Mason
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781892220172
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Weapon written by Robert Mason and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Equipped with telescopic, microscopic, and infrared vision, the strength of thirty men and reflexes beyond those of any Olympic athlete, Solo also has a brain. Bill Stewart, the gawky co-owner of Electron Dynamics, has created the thing most computer engineers only dream a machine can learn. Sent on a trial in Costa Rica with Bill and General Clyde Haynes, Solo monitors a Pentagon transmission ordering him shipped back to Florida for reprogramming. In a helicopter chase beneath the jungle canopy, Solo crashes his chopper, crawls out of the wreckage and, as his batteries begin to run out, escapes across the border into Nicaragua. Robert Mason, author of the New York Times bestselling Vietnam War memoir, "Chickenhawk", enters entirely new territory in a smashing fiction debut.

Lies (and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them)

Author : Al Franken
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141924756
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Lies (and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them) written by Al Franken and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-08-05 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Al Franken, one of America's savviest satirists has been studying the rhetoric of the Right. He has listened to their cries of 'slander', 'bias' and even 'treason'. He has examined the Bush administration's policies of squandering our surplus, ravaging the environment, and alienating the rest of the world. He's even watched Fox News. A lot. And in this fair and balanced report, Al bravely exposes them all for what they are: liars. Lying, lying, liars.

Solo

Author : Robert Mason
Publisher : Berkley
ISBN 13 : 9780425137482
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Solo written by Robert Mason and published by Berkley. This book was released on 1993 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sequel to Weapon, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. The Pentagon invents Solo, the greatest robot weapon ever created. He is taught to fight and kill. But when he begins to think for himself, the government sends Nimrod--another robot just like him--to destroy Solo.

Vietnam

Author : Stanley Karnow
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 071265965X
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Vietnam written by Stanley Karnow and published by Random House. This book was released on 1994 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monumental narrative clarifies, analyses and demystifies the terrible ordeal of the Vietnam war. Free of ideological bias, profound in its understanding and compassionate in its portrayal of humanity, it is filled with fresh revelations drawn from secret documents and from exclusive interviews with the participants - French, American, Vietnamese, Chinese: diplomats, military commanders, high government officials, journalists, nurses, workers and soldiers. The Vietnam war was the most convulsive tragedy of recent times. This is its definitive history.

Wings of the Eagle

Author : William T. Grant
Publisher : Ivy Books
ISBN 13 : 9780345470331
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Wings of the Eagle written by William T. Grant and published by Ivy Books. This book was released on 1995-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of rescue in the steamy, bloody jungles of Vietnam. First as peter pilot and then as full-fledged aircraft commander, W.T. Grant routinely flew McGuire rig extractions under enemy fire, inserts into combat zones exploding with mortar shells, and night operations in the enemy-infested A Shau Valley. Though the 17th Assault Helicopter Company eventually became B Compnay, 101st Aviation Battalion, the Kingsmen will always be remembered for their courage.... From the Paperback edition.

Oh, the Things I Know!

Author : Al Franken
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0452284503
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book Oh, the Things I Know! written by Al Franken and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-03-25 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic New York Times bestseller by Senator Al Franken, author of Giant of the Senate Senator Al Franken, or Dr. Al Franken, as he prefers to be called, has written the first truly indispensable book of the new millennium. Filled with wisdom, observations, and practical tips you can put to work right away, Oh, the Things I Know! is a cradle-to-grave guide to living, an easy-to-follow user's manual for human existence. What does a megasuccess like Al Franken—bestselling author, Emmy-award winning television star, sitting U.S. Senator, and honorary Ph.D.—have to say to ordinary people like you? Well, as Dr. Al himself says, "There's no point in getting advice from hopeless failures." Join Mr. Franken—sorry, Dr. Franken—on a journey that will take you from your first job ("Oh, Are You Going to Hate Your First Job!"), through the perils and pitfalls of your twenties and thirties ("Oh, the Person of Your Dreams vs. the Person You Can Actually Attract!"), into the joys of marriage and parenthood ("Oh, Just Looking at Your Spouse Will Make Your Skin Crawl!"), all the way to the golden years of senior citizenship ("Oh, the Nursing Home You'll Wind Up In!"). Don't travel life's lonesome highway by yourself. Take Al Franken along, if not as an infallible guide, then at least as a friend who will make you laugh.

Apache Sunrise

Author : Jerome M. Boyle
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 9780804110693
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Apache Sunrise written by Jerome M. Boyle and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether rescuing downed crews, flying fiery combat missions during the invasion of Cambodia, or being shot down himself, Cobra pilot Jerry Boyle saw war quickly turn from a scary game of bullets, rockets, and grenades to a terrifying race against death where just a split second could turn a scene of breathtaking beauty into one of sheer hell. A true story of courage and dedication by a real American hero.