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LZ Sitting Duck

Author : John Arsenault Ltcol Usmc (Ret)
Publisher : Liberty Hill Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781662813139
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book LZ Sitting Duck written by John Arsenault Ltcol Usmc (Ret) and published by Liberty Hill Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories of war and survival told by the Marines that were there "What shines through from this bare-knuckled, furious battle is the core ethos. It comes though loud and clear when you read chapter after chapter in different voices. These Marines had no battlefield prep, no intelligence, no cohesive leadership. What held them together was the Marine spirit. There was nothing else. Wow! What an epic fight!" - Bing West, author of The Last Platoon and The Village "LZ Sitting Duck shows battle from the bottom up. In personal statements it captures the chaos, bravery, confusion, fear, and fighting spirit of Marines of the First Battalion Fourth Marines who fought a fierce hill battle with regular North Vietnamese Army forces in March of 1969. Readers will learn about combat down in the dirt at the very tip of the spearpoint." - Karl Marlantes, author of Matterhorn and What's It Like To Go To War

LZ Sitting Duck

Author : John Arsenault Ltcol Usmc (Ret)
Publisher : Liberty Hill Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781662813146
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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The Body Burning Detail

Author : Bill Jones
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476634246
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Body Burning Detail written by Bill Jones and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-09-10 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poignant memoir that recounts the author’s hair-raising—and occasionally hilarious—experiences as a young, not especially gung-ho Marine artilleryman in Vietnam. Gritty and disturbing, Bill Jones’ unvarnished narrative probes the lasting physical and emotional wounds of war and offers a combat veteran’s wry insight into the influence and relevance of America’s long and indecisive misadventure.

Loon

Author : Jack McLean
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 034551016X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book Loon written by Jack McLean and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Kids like me didn’t go to Vietnam,” writes Jack McLean in his compulsively readable memoir. Raised in suburban New Jersey, he attended the Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, but decided to put college on hold. After graduation in the spring of 1966, faced with the mandatory military draft, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps for a two-year stint. “Vietnam at the time was a country, and not yet a war,” he writes. It didn’t remain that way for long. A year later, after boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, and stateside duty in Barstow, California, the Vietnam War was reaching its peak. McLean, like most available Marines, was retrained at Camp Pendleton, California, and sent to Vietnam as a grunt to serve in an infantry company in the northernmost reaches of South Vietnam. McLean’s story climaxes with the horrific three-day Battle for Landing Zone Loon in June, 1968. Fought on a remote hill in the northwestern corner of South Vietnam, McLean bore witness to the horror of war and was forever changed. He returned home six weeks later to a country largely ambivalent to his service. Written with honesty and insight, Loon is a powerful coming-of-age portrait of a boy who bears witness to some of the most tumultuous events in our history, both in Vietnam and back home.

Sitting Ducks

Author : Michael Bedard
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698118979
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Sitting Ducks written by Michael Bedard and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-06-25 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Day after day, brand new ducks roll off a giant assembly line operated by alligators at the Colossal Duck Factory. They are loaded into trucks and taken to Ducktown, where they are fattened up in preparation for their final destination—into the stomachs of alligators. Everything proceeds smoothly, until the day one of the alligators decides to take a wayward duck home. Over time, the alligator grows fond of his future dinner. Can a duck and an alligator really be friends in an alligator-eat-duck world? Find out in this charming and humorous friendship story.

Infantry

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Infantry written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Renegade Hero

Author : Michael Higston
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1844682528
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book Renegade Hero written by Michael Higston and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Royal Air Force helicopter pilot fakes his own death to join a CIA paramilitary unit in this remarkable Cold War biography. RAF helicopter ace Terry Peet had a well-earned reputation for sheer guts. While in Malaya and Borneo, he cheated death time and again, earning a Queen’s Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air. But Peet suddenly disappeared without trace—supposedly having drowned while scuba diving. Then, six years later, Peet reappeared. The media hailed him as a renegade hero when the story of his extraordinary double life was revealed. Peet had in fact been recruited by the CIA for clandestine paramilitary operations in the former Belgian Congo. He was then sent to Nigeria, where he led a UNICEF mission saving refugees from the Biafran War. Peet’s work with the CIA had the tacit approval of British Intelligence, but his departure from the RAF had to be covert. Yet none of this was mentioned in the summary presented at his court martial. Now Renegade Hero recounts the full story of the mysterious affair as told to the author by Peet himself.

King of the Battlefield

Author : Mark Pittman
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book King of the Battlefield written by Mark Pittman and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King of the Battlefield by Mark Pittman

Englesko-srpski Frazeološki Rečnik: L-Z

Author : Živorad Kovačević
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Englesko-srpski Frazeološki Rečnik: L-Z written by Živorad Kovačević and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Vietnam

Author : Andrew Wiest
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782003215
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Vietnam written by Andrew Wiest and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-20 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Andrew Wiest, the bestselling author of The Boys of '67: Charlie Company's War in Vietnam and one of the leading scholars in the study of the Vietnam War, comes a frank exploration of the human experience during the conflict. Vietnam allows the reader a grunt's-eye-view of the conflict – from the steaming rice paddies and swamps of the Mekong Delta, to the triple-canopy rainforest of the Central Highlands and the forlorn Marine bases that dotted the DMZ. It is the definitive oral history of the Vietnam War told in the uncompromising, no-holds barred language of the soldiers themselves.

Rolling Coffins

Author : Brian Richard Esher
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 163417111X
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Rolling Coffins written by Brian Richard Esher and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An infantryman's honest account of his experiences during the controversial Vietnam War, this book chronicles the courage and dedication that the American soldiers demonstrated while away from loved ones, in a foreign land where hanging by a thread was the norm every day. It openly discusses the challenges and sacrifices each man had to make in order to survive and protect the lives of his comrades, and it casts a light on the shortcomings of the US government and of those in authority who could

The Things They Carried

Author : Tim O'Brien
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547420293
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book The Things They Carried written by Tim O'Brien and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. Taught everywhere—from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing—it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing. The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Abandoned in Hell

Author : William Albracht
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698144260
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Abandoned in Hell written by William Albracht and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An astonishing memoir of military courage at a remote outpost during the Vietnam War “A riveting, dead-true account in the tradition of Black Hawk Down and We Were Soldiers Once...and Young.”—Steven Pressfield, national bestselling author of The Lion’s Gate In October 1969, William Albracht, the youngest Green Beret captain in Vietnam, took command of a remote hilltop outpost called Firebase Kate held by only 27 American soldiers and 156 Montagnard militiamen. At dawn the next morning, three North Vietnamese Army regiments—some six thousand men—crossed the Cambodian border and attacked. Outnumbered three dozen to one, Albracht’s men held off the assault but, after five days, Kate’s defenders were out of ammo and water. Refusing to die or surrender, Albracht led his troops off the hill and on a daring night march through enemy lines. Abandoned in Hell is an astonishing memoir of leadership, sacrifice, and brutal violence, a riveting journey into Vietnam’s heart of darkness, and a compelling reminder of the transformational power of individual heroism. Not since Lone Survivor and We Were Soldiers Once...and Young has there been such a gripping and authentic account of battlefield courage. INCLUDES PHOTOS

Flight of the Grey Hawk

Author : Robert L. Spenle
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359574920
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book Flight of the Grey Hawk written by Robert L. Spenle and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-07 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retired Army helicopter pilot Jim Bestin is called back to active duty when war is imminent with North Korea. Bestin has little time to transition from civilian life to combat. In a very short time he finds himself in the precarious position of trying to prevent a nuclear world war with the odds stacked heavily against him.

To the Limit

Author : Tom A. Johnson
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1597970018
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (979 download)

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Download or read book To the Limit written by Tom A. Johnson and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-06-30 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helicopter pilots in Vietnam kidded one another about being nothing but glorified bus drivers. But these “rotor heads” saved thousands of American lives while performing what the Army classified as the most dangerous job it had to offer. One in eighteen did not return home. Tom A. Johnson flew the UH-1 “Iroquois” — better known as the “Huey” — in the 229th Assault Helicopter Battalion of the First Air Cavalry Division. From June 1967 through June 1968, he accumulated an astonishing 1,600 flying hours (1,150 combat and 450 noncombat). His battalion was one of the most highly decorated units in the Vietnam War and, as part of the famous First Air Cavalry Division, helped redefine modern warfare. With tremendous flying skill, Johnson survived rescue missions and key battles that included those for Hue and Khe Sanh and operations in the A Shau and Song Re valleys, while many of his comrades did not. His heartfelt and riveting memoir will strike a chord with any soldier who ever flew in the ubiquitous Huey and any reader with an interest in how the Vietnam War was really fought.

Paco's Story

Author : Larry Heinemann
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307539628
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Paco's Story written by Larry Heinemann and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-05-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paco Sullivan is the only man in Alpha Company to survive a cataclysmic Viet Cong attack on Fire Base Harriette in Vietnam. Everyone else is annihilated. When a medic finally rescues Paco almost two days later, he is waiting to die, flies and maggots covering his burnt, shattered body. He winds up back in the US with his legs full of pins, daily rations of Librium and Valium, and no sense of what to do next. One evening, on the tail of a rainstorm, he limps off the bus and into the small town of Boone, determined to find a real job and a real bed–but no matter how hard he works, nothing muffles the anguish in his mind and body. Brilliantly and vividly written, Paco’s Story–winner of a National Book Award–plunges you into the violence and casual cruelty of the Vietnam War, and the ghostly aftermath that often dealt the harshest blows.

Man and Machine

Author : Stephan Wilkinson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1599216795
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Man and Machine written by Stephan Wilkinson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "They sit on a spur of test track outside General Electric's locomotive factory in Erie, Pennsylvania, panting and grumbling like two old lions half asleep. The ominous, muttering rumble is the idle of 8,800 horsepower--24 cylinders with pistons big as buckets, turbochargers the size of washing machines, two V12 engines driving alternators five feet in diameter. For here are two units of the most advanced diesel-electric locomotives in the world: a pair of GE Evolutions."--Excerpt from "Do the Locomotion" in Man and Machine Stephan Wilkinson--a longtime expert on the ways men entertain themselves when no one is telling them what to do--takes readers into the high-speed, high-risk world of restored jets, fast boats, and Formula 1 cars. Wilkinson visits a factory where Amish men build custom ambulances, flies an airliner from the glory days of air travel, meets a bird that is a killing machine, and has a hot date with a handgun. In another chapter, Wilkinson relates the hazards of flying purely on instruments, and why being able to do so can make the difference between life and death. He draws from his own misadventures in flight and explains exactly why the high-end Beech Bonanza is known as “the doctor killer.” And dissecting the finely tuned instrument that is the Formula 1 car, Wilkinson relates how the engine's connecting rods actually stretch at 19,000 rpm, even though they're made of titanium, and what can happen when a racecar brakes at 6Gs. Always entertaining, Wilkinson takes men, and maybe even a few women, where they love to go--under the hood, over the mechanic's shoulder, and behind the wheel.