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Days of Steel Rain

Author : Brent E. Jones
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0316451096
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Days of Steel Rain written by Brent E. Jones and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intimate true account of Americans at war follows theepic drama of an unlikely group of men forced to work together in the face of an increasingly desperate enemy during the final year of World War II. Sprawling across the Pacific, this untold story follows the crew of the newly-built "vengeance ship" USS Astoria, named for her sunken predecessor lost earlier in the war. At its center lies U.S. Navy Captain George Dyer, who vowed to return to action after suffering a horrific wound. He accepted the ship's command in 1944, knowing it would be his last chance to avenge his injuries and salvage his career. Yet with the nation's resources and personnel stretched thin by the war, he found that just getting the ship into action would prove to be a battle. Tensions among the crew flared from the start. Astoria's sailors and Marines were a collection of replacements, retreads, and older men. Some were broken by previous traumatic combat, most had no desire to be in the war, yet all found themselves fighting an enemy more afraid of surrender than death. The reluctant ship was called to respond to challenges that its men never could have anticipated. From a typhoon where the ocean was enemy to daring rescue missions, a gallant turn at Iwo Jima, and the ultimate crucible against the Kamikaze at Okinawa, they endured the worst of the final year of the war at sea. Days of Steel Rain brings to life more than a decade of research and firsthand interviews, depicting with unprecedented insight the singular drama of a captain grappling with an untested crew and men who had endured enough amidst some of the most brutal fighting of World War II. Throughout, Brent Jones fills the narrative with secret diaries, memoirs, letters, interpersonal conflicts, and the innermost thoughts of the Astoria men—and more than 80 photographs that have never before been published. Days of Steel Rain weaves an intimate, unforgettable portrait of leadership, heroism, endurance, and redemption.

Cold Steel Rain

Author : Kenneth Abel
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
ISBN 13 : 1628158158
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book Cold Steel Rain written by Kenneth Abel and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing stays dead in New Orleans. Not for long, anyway… No one knows this better than ex-district attorney Danny Chaisson—the dead show up in his bathroom mirror every morning, staring right back at him with hollow eyes. Chaisson is the legman for Jimmy Boudrieux, speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives, for whom dirty dealing is more than just a way of life. So when Danny makes his regular pick-up of a briefcase full of handguns at a downtown Vietnamese restaurant, leaves the room for a moment, and returns to find a bloodbath, he knows the next bullet has his name on it. And nobody—least of all Boudrieux or the crooked cops who control the NOPD—is going to lift a finger to help him. From the bestselling author of Bait: “A scorcher . . . clever, tough and terrific enough to make you comb publishers’ lists for his next.” —Time Out

Rain of Steel

Author : Stephen Moore
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 168247531X
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Rain of Steel written by Stephen Moore and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last Pacific campaign of World War II was the most violent on record. Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher’s Task Force 58 carriers had conducted air strikes on mainland Japan and supported the Iwo Jima landings, but his aviators were sorely tested once the Okinawa campaign commenced on 1 April 1945. Rain of Steel follows Navy and Marine carrier aviators in the desperate air battles to control the kamikazes directed by Vice Admiral Matome Ugaki. The latter would unleash ten different Kikusui aerial suicide operations, one including a naval force built around the world’s most powerful battleship, the 71,000-ton Yamato. These battles are related largely through the words and experiences of some of the last living U.S. fighter aces of World War II. More than 1,900 kamikaze sorties—and thousands more traditional attack aircraft—would be launched against the U.S. Navy’s warships, radar picket ships, and amphibious vessels during the Okinawa campaign. In this time, Navy, Marine, and Army Air Force pilots would claim some 2,326 aerial victories. The most successful four-man fighter division in U.S. Navy history would be crowned during the fight against Ugaki’s kamikazes. The Japanese named the campaign tetsu no ame (“rain of steel”), often referred to in English as “typhoon of steel.”

Afternoon of the Rising Sun

Author : Kenneth I. Friedman
Publisher : Presidio Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Afternoon of the Rising Sun written by Kenneth I. Friedman and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: October 1944: The Batle of Leyte Gulf was the greatest battle in naval history, with over 250 vessels involved, yet its outcome depended on the nerve of a handful of sailors and the opposing commanders. 32 photos. 20 maps.

Steel Rain

Author : Tom Neale
Publisher : Headline
ISBN 13 : 0755377303
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (553 download)

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Download or read book Steel Rain written by Tom Neale and published by Headline. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special Agent Vincent Piper is an FBI Field Officer based in London. Any crime involving Americans is his business. He's estranged from his wife and he loves his only daughter Martha, but she is drifting away from him. A terrorist bomb goes off in Barnes & Noble bookshop in Charing Cross road and as Vincent surveys the carnage, he starts to weep. He had arranged to meet Martha in the bookshop. She dies in his arms. Vincent vows revenge and relentlessly pursues all the leads he can find on active anti-capitalist groups. But what he discovers is even more shocking than his daughters' death...

Tales from the Yoga Studio

Author : Rain Mitchell
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110147811X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Tales from the Yoga Studio written by Rain Mitchell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sparkling new series introducing five unforgettable women who flock to yoga at turning points in their lives and find the gift of lasting friendship. The yoga studio is where daily cares are set aside, mats are unfurled, and physical exertion leads to well-being, renewal, and friendship. An aggressively expanding chain of Los Angeles yoga "experience centers," has Lee and her extraordinary teaching abilities in its sights. They woo her with a lucrative contract, a trademarked name for her classes, and a place for her handsome musician husband. But accepting the contract means abandoning the students at the homey studio Lee runs in L.A.'s Silver Lake district- and leaving behind four women whose friendships are suddenly more important to her than retirement benefits and a salary increase. Tales from the Yoga Studio is an insider's look at the current obsession with yoga, told with enough humor, wit, and warmth to charm and delight readers, whether or not they've ever done a Downward Dog.

Storm of Steel

Author : Ernst Junger
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0143108255
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Storm of Steel written by Ernst Junger and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the great war memoirs, published here in a stunning Deluxe Edition for the centenary of World War I and the Battle of the Somme—and featuring a foreword by the New York Times bestselling author of Matterhorn A worldwide bestseller published shortly after the end of World War I, Storm of Steel is a memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism. It illuminates not only the horrors but also the fascination of total war, as seen through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier. Young, tough, patriotic, but also disturbingly self-aware, Ernst Jünger exulted in the Great War, which he saw not just as a great national conflict but also—more importantly—as a unique personal struggle. Leading raiding parties, defending trenches against murderous British incursions, simply enduring as shells tore his comrades apart, Jünger keeps testing himself, braced for the death that will mark his failure. His account is ripe for rediscovery upon the centennial of the Battle of the Somme—a major set piece in Storm of Steel—and a bracing read for fans of Redeployment and American Sniper. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Disaster in the Pacific

Author : Denis Warner
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Disaster in the Pacific written by Denis Warner and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exhaustively researched account. Stalking the facts relentlessly in the official records of the United States and Australia, in unofficial reports and interviews, and in Japanese documents with the help of Commander Sadao Seno, the Warners have written what will remain for the foreseeable future the definitive history of the Battle of Savo Island.

SS-Steel Rain

Author : Tim Ripley
Publisher : Spellmount, Limited Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book SS-Steel Rain written by Tim Ripley and published by Spellmount, Limited Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This miltary history gives the reader an account of the battles fought by the panzer divisions of the Waffen-SS, amongst one of the finest units in Germany. The author takes us from D-day to Arnhem, and through to the Battle of the Bulge.

The Gun Club

Author : Robert Fowler
Publisher : Winthrop & Fish
ISBN 13 : 9780999075302
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (753 download)

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Download or read book The Gun Club written by Robert Fowler and published by Winthrop & Fish. This book was released on 2017-10 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Navy's first planned battle of WWII is told through the extraordinary, little-known story of USS DUNCAN, the first Allied warship to penetrate a Japanese battle-line. From their first encounter with their celebrated captain and tyrannical executive officer to a deadly night afloat in shark-infested waters to a homecoming turned into a PR campaign, The Gun Club is a vivid day-to-day account of life on a warship, told largely in the words of the survivors, and is one of the most detailed and compelling accounts of a war cruise ever written.

Steel Rain, the Tet Offensive 1968

Author : john harrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781977045447
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Steel Rain, the Tet Offensive 1968 written by john harrison and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the bloodiest year of the Vietnam War, 1968, including the Tet Offensive. Like the original Band of Brothers, we were formed in the States as the 3rd Battalion (Airborne), 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. As the story shows we specifically formed the make the second large unit combat parachute jump in the Vietnam War. The first had been made by a battalion of the 173rd Airborne Brigade (Separate). Our original commanding officer was Lt. Col. John P. Geraci. Geraci had started his military career in the Marines during World War II. He continued it as an Army platoon leader in the Korean War and then went on to serve two tours in Vietnam with the Green Berets prior to heading up our battalion. He was good enough and famous enough to inducted into the Ranger Hall of Fame at Fort Benning. While we never made that jump, we were ready.The book starts with me attending Airborne School and ends with a case I had as a lawyer long after the Vietnam War was over defending a former 173rd Airborne trooper from criminal charges related to his use of marijuana while undergoing cancer treatment at Walter Reed Army Hospital. I tell our story episodically with each chapter capable of being read alone. Many of the stories have already appeared in my blog. Among the readers were many of the men that served with me and that literally brought me home. Some of their comments appear at the beginning of each story.It is a story of men at war doing the best they could in a war they did not choose, in a place we never really did understand. We managed to be there on the bloodiest day, the bloodiest week, the bloodiest month and the bloodiest year of a long bloody war. The 1968 Tet Offensive is a big part of what we saw and what we did in our year in country. War never really leaves you, it brings out the best and the worst in men and because of those two facts normally the story of a war is well told. However, the Vietnam War was different. Never have there been more myths reported as facts. Never has the actual story of the war been more ignored. If you read almost any history of the Vietnam War at some point it will say something like: "The enemy attacks during the Tet Offensive were quickly beaten back except in Khe Sanh, Saigon, Hue and Phan Thiet." Then the history will go on to describe the fighting in Khe Sanh, Saigon and Hue, but Phan Thiet will never be mentioned again. This is our story. We fought and won in Phan Thiet.

When the Beaches Trembled

Author : Zach S. Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (851 download)

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Download or read book When the Beaches Trembled written by Zach S. Morris and published by . This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Stephen Ganzberger enlisted in the U.S. Navy at the outset of World War II, he never imagined what would await him and his shipmates in the Pacific Islands, as they journeyed aboard a newly-designed ship called a Landing Craft Infantry (LCI). American sailors like Ganzberger-who answered their nation's call and fought on the tiny LCIs-had the perilous job of delivering troops directly onto enemy-held beaches, in some of the fiercest combat of the war. As part of General Douglas MacArthur's South Pacific campaign, Ganzberger faced death from Japanese bombers, torpedoes, and kamikaze attacks. All during the largest naval conflict in history. In this long-awaited, richly-illustrated new book, Zach S. Morris weaves a vivid narrative of the World War II Pacific Theater, drawn from declassified military documents, maps, photos, and over a decade of interviews and research. Through his grandfather Stephen's journey and the deeply personal accounts of other veterans, When the Beaches Trembled brings to life the incredible true story of the LCIs in the Second World War: a story rarely told, until now.

Storm of Steel

Author : Ernst Jünger
Publisher : WWW.Bnpublishing.com
ISBN 13 : 9781607961895
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Storm of Steel written by Ernst Jünger and published by WWW.Bnpublishing.com. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Junger's great book matter-of-factly conveys the mysterious glamour of war, the exhilaration of its excess and intensity and, not least, the undeniable glory of men bravely preparing for battle as for "some terrible silent ceremonial that portends human sacrifice."

Steel Rain

Author : Molly Briar
Publisher : Molly Briar
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book Steel Rain written by Molly Briar and published by Molly Briar. This book was released on 2023-12-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ajax. My world as an MMA trainer for the Irish mob was supposed to be temporary. Just a debt I needed to pay when the big boss saved my life. Then I watched her fight, and she was brought into my gym. I unravelled her secrets, bit by bit, as we laid it bare on the mat. Now I'm joining a war I wanted no part of, because she needed me in her corner. Sin. My mission was simple. Get my sister out of foster care. I had a plan. But the sins of our father came knocking at the locker door and offered a smooth path to reuniting my family. But can I get through the vipers den with my soul and secrets intact?

Steel Rain

Author : Elizabeth Miller
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781540335951
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Steel Rain written by Elizabeth Miller and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These men and women may fight in the forces which guard our country, but they're about to declare war on your heart. In this emotional and sexy anthology, ten popular authors deliver stories of sacrifice, hope and redemption, all to bring awareness to the struggle our home grown heroes continue to battle.

Combat Social Work

Author : Charles R. Figley
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190059435
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Combat Social Work written by Charles R. Figley and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social workers have a long, proud history of service in most branches of the United States military. The experiences of social workers and other human service professionals of all military ranks have an important, often profound, and lasting impact that informs not only their practice within the military but throughout their career long after they have left the combat zone. In exploring the experiences of 13 American combat social workers (CSWs)--whose role is, among other things, providing military mental health services to members in their unit--this book shares lessons from military service through the lens of social work practitioners. The text includes strategies learned about social work practice in a war zone that are highly applicable to other highly stressful contexts (e.g., crisis intervention, stress reduction procedures, suicide prevention, brief psychotherapy, and consultation on family issues). Combat Social Work is uniquely positioned to serve as a valuable resource for social workers and other mental health providers interested in the assessment and treatment of trauma with active members of the military and military veterans.

The Book of Common Fallacies

Author : Philip Ward
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 1620873362
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Common Fallacies written by Philip Ward and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before Snopes.com and Wikipedia, The Book of Common Fallacies set out to debunk popular beliefs and set the record straight. By tracking down the facts and citing experts in a multitude of fields, Philip Ward points out the senseless ideas that we have come to accept as fact. Newly updated with today’s common misconceptions and available as a single-volume paperback for the first time, The Book of Common Fallacies exposes the truth behind hundreds of commonly held false beliefs.