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Book Synopsis My Wars and in Between by : Lt Col James S. Oliver USAF (Ret.)
Download or read book My Wars and in Between written by Lt Col James S. Oliver USAF (Ret.) and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-02-20 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James S. Oliver grew up on the southern Philippine Island of Mindanaohiding from World War II aggressors with his Filipino mother and three siblings. He did not know it then, but war would become a constant in his life, even after he moved to the United States. Hed graduate from college and become an officer in the US Air Force, where hed spend the next twenty-four years. During the Cold War with Soviet Russia, he specialized in intercontinental ballistic missile operations and maintenance, and was selected for Special Forces training at Fort Bragg. Then he joined a controversial, top secret Provincial Advisory Group Team for one year, operating out of Bao Trai, Hau Nghia, a former province in South Vietnam, where an all-new war was underway. Hed retire in 1984 as commander of the Ninetieth Organizational Missile Maintenance Squadron (90 OMMS), an ICBM maintenance squadron of the Strategic Air Command. Despite numerous challenges, the author maintained his faith in humanity, and youll be inspired by the years of devoted service he highlights in My Wars and In Between.
Book Synopsis Between the Wars by : Philip Ziegler
Download or read book Between the Wars written by Philip Ziegler and published by MacLehose Press. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of 1918 one prescient American historian began to write a history of the Great War. "What will you call it?" he was asked. "The First World War" was his bleak response. In Between the Wars Philip Ziegler examines the major international turning points - cultural and social as well as political and military - that led the world from one war to another. His perspective is panoramic, touching on all parts of the world where history was being made, giving equal weight to Gandhi's March to the Sea and the Japanese invasion of China as to Hitler's rise to power. It is the tragic story of a world determined that the horrors of the First World War would never be repeated yet committed to a path which in hindsight was inevitably destined to end in a second, even more devastating conflict.
Book Synopsis Between Silk and Cyanide by : Leo Marks
Download or read book Between Silk and Cyanide written by Leo Marks and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-04-29 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1942, with a black-market chicken tucked under his arm by his mother, Leo Marks left his father's famous bookshop, 84 Charing Cross Road, and went off to fight the war. He was twenty-two. Soon recognized as a cryptographer of genius, he became head of communications at the Special Operations Executive (SOE), where he revolutionized the codemaking techniques of the Allies and trained some of the most famous agents dropped into occupied Europe. As a top codemaker, Marks had a unique perspective on one of the most fascinating and, until now, little-known aspects of the Second World War. This stunning memoir, often funny, always gripping and acutely sensitive to the human cost of each operation, provides a unique inside picture of the extraordinary SOE organization at work and reveals for the first time many unknown truths about the conduct of the war. SOE was created in July 1940 with a mandate from Winston Churchill to "set Europe ablaze." Its main function was to infiltrate agents into enemy-occupied territory to perform acts of sabotage and form secret armies in preparation for D-Day. Marks's ingenious codemaking innovation was to devise and implement a system of random numeric codes printed on silk. Camouflaged as handkerchiefs, underwear, or coat linings, these codes could be destroyed message by message, and therefore could not possibly be remembered by the agents, even under torture. Between Silk and Cyanide chronicles Marks's obsessive quest to improve the security of agents' codes and how this crusade led to his involvement in some of the war's most dramatic and secret operations. Among the astonishing revelations is his account of the code war between SOE and the Germans in Holland. He also reveals for the first time how SOE fooled the Germans into thinking that a secret army was operating in the Fatherland itself, and how and why he broke the code that General de Gaulle insisted be available only to the Free French. By the end of this incredible tale, truly one of the last great World War II memoirs, it is clear why General Eisenhower credited the SOE, particularly its communications department, with shortening the war by three months. From the difficulties of safeguarding the messages that led to the destruction of the atomic weapons plant at Rjukan in Norway to the surveillance of Hitler's long-range missile base at Peenemünde to the true extent of Nazi infiltration of Allied agents, Between Silk and Cyanide sheds light on one of the least-known but most dramatic aspects of the war. Writing with the narrative flair and vivid characterization of his famous screenplays, Marks gives free rein to his keen sense of the absurd and wry wit without ever losing touch with the very human side of the story. His close relationship with "the White Rabbit" and Violette Szabo -- two of the greatest British agents of the war -- and his accounts of the many others he dealt with result in a thrilling and poignant memoir that celebrates individual courage and endeavor, without losing sight of the human cost and horror of war.
Book Synopsis An American Requiem by : James Carroll
Download or read book An American Requiem written by James Carroll and published by HMH. This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award winner: This story of a family torn apart by the Vietnam era is “a magnificent portrayal of two noble men who broke each other’s hearts” (Booklist). James Carroll grew up in a Catholic family that seemed blessed. His father, who had once dreamed of becoming a priest, instead began a career in J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI, rising through the ranks and eventually becoming one of the most powerful men in the Pentagon, the founder of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Young Jim lived a privileged life, dating the daughter of a vice president and meeting the pope—all in the shadow of nuclear war, waiting for the red telephone to ring in his parents’ house. James fulfilled the goal his father had abandoned, becoming a priest himself. His feelings toward his father leaned toward worship as well—until the tumult of the 1960s came between them. Their disagreements, over Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement; turmoil in the Church; and finally, Vietnam—where the elder Carroll chose targets for US bombs—began to outweigh the bond between them. While one of James’s brothers fled to Canada, another was in law enforcement ferreting out draft dodgers. James, meanwhile, served as a chaplain at Boston University, protesting the war in the streets but ducking news cameras to avoid discovery. Their relationship would never be the same again. Only after Carroll left the priesthood to become a writer, and a husband with children of his own, did he begin to understand fully the struggles his father had faced. In An American Requiem, the New York Times bestselling author of Constantine’s Sword and Christ Actually offers a benediction, in “a moving memoir of the effect of the Vietnam War on his family that is at once personal and the story of a generation . . . at once heartbreaking and heroic, this is autobiography at its best” (Publishers Weekly).
Book Synopsis Between War and Peace by : Matthew Moten
Download or read book Between War and Peace written by Matthew Moten and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A U.S. Military Academy historian analyzes America's exit strategies in conflicts ranging from the American Revolution to the Gulf War, providing fifteen essays by leading authorities to offer insight into each war's goals, campaigns, and legacies.
Book Synopsis Between the World and Me by : Ta-Nehisi Coates
Download or read book Between the World and Me written by Ta-Nehisi Coates and published by One World. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENT Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race” (Rolling Stone) NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY CNN • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • O: The Oprah Magazine • The Washington Post • People • Entertainment Weekly • Vogue • Los Angeles Times • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • New York • Newsday • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.
Book Synopsis Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-war Between the United States and France by : United States. Office of Naval Records and Library
Download or read book Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-war Between the United States and France written by United States. Office of Naval Records and Library and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Diplomatic Correspondence Relative to War Between and Affairs in Chile, Peru and Bolivia by : United States. Department of State
Download or read book Diplomatic Correspondence Relative to War Between and Affairs in Chile, Peru and Bolivia written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-war Between the United States and France: From Apr. 1799 to July 1799 by : United States. Office of Naval Records and Library
Download or read book Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-war Between the United States and France: From Apr. 1799 to July 1799 written by United States. Office of Naval Records and Library and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States by : Raphael Semmes
Download or read book Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States written by Raphael Semmes and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 1224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The War Between by : Madison Ketchum
Download or read book The War Between written by Madison Ketchum and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-05-04 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellamarie Anderson seemed to have an ordinary life until her first day of high school. She was thrown into a life she never dreamed would be her own due to a secret she never knew and a family that never existed in her world. When everything seems to constantly change, she will cling to the only one she can trust. "Will we make it out alive?" becomes a permanent question.
Book Synopsis The War Between the Cities by : John Leder
Download or read book The War Between the Cities written by John Leder and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-war Between the United States and France: From June 1800 to Nov. 1800 by : United States. Office of Naval Records and Library
Download or read book Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-war Between the United States and France: From June 1800 to Nov. 1800 written by United States. Office of Naval Records and Library and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-war Between the United States and France: From Aug. 1799 to Dec. 1799 by : United States. Office of Naval Records and Library
Download or read book Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-war Between the United States and France: From Aug. 1799 to Dec. 1799 written by United States. Office of Naval Records and Library and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of the War, Between the United States and Great-Britain by : John Russell
Download or read book The History of the War, Between the United States and Great-Britain written by John Russell and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Authentic History of the Late War Between the United States and Great Britain by : Paris M. Davis
Download or read book An Authentic History of the Late War Between the United States and Great Britain written by Paris M. Davis and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-war Between the United States and France: From Jan. 1800 to May 1800 by : United States. Office of Naval Records and Library
Download or read book Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-war Between the United States and France: From Jan. 1800 to May 1800 written by United States. Office of Naval Records and Library and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
