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Book Synopsis Reluctant Warrior by : Michael Hodgins
Download or read book Reluctant Warrior written by Michael Hodgins and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1997-10-29 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "ONE OF THE BEST VIETNAM WAR STORIES I'VE EVER READ, one damn good, compelling read. It's almost something out of a Clancy novel, yet it's true. The best thing I can say about it is I didn't want it to end." --Col. David Hackworth, New York Times bestselling author of About Face By the spring of 1970, American troops were ordered to pull out of Vietnam. The Marines of 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel "Wild Bill" Drumright, were assigned to cover the withdrawal of 1st Marine Division. The Marines of 1st RECON Bn operated in teams of six or seven men. Heavily armed, the teams fought a multitude of bitter engagements with a numerically superior and increasingly aggressive enemy. Michael C. Hodgins served in Company C, 1st RECON Bn (Rein), as a platoon leader. In powerful, graphic prose, he chronicles his experience as a patrol leader in myriad combat situations--from hasty ambush to emergency extraction to prisoner snatch to combined-arms ambush. . . . "THIS MEMOIR IS GRIPPING." --American Way
Book Synopsis The Reluctant Warrior (High Sierra Sweethearts Book #2) by : Mary Connealy
Download or read book The Reluctant Warrior (High Sierra Sweethearts Book #2) written by Mary Connealy and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Union army officer Cameron Scott is used to being obeyed, but nothing about this journey to Lake Tahoe has gone as expected. He's come to fetch his daughter and nephew, and seek revenge on the people who killed his brother. Instead he finds himself trapped by a blizzard with two children who are terrified of him and stubborn but beautiful Gwen Harkness, who he worries may be trying to keep the children. When danger descends on the cabin where they're huddled, Cam is hurt trying to protect everyone and now finds Gwen caring for him too. He soon realizes why the kids love her so much and wonders if it might be best for him to move on without them. When she sees his broken heart, Gwen decides to help him win back their affection--and in the process he might just win her heart as well.
Book Synopsis Reluctant Warriors by : Alexandra Sakaki
Download or read book Reluctant Warriors written by Alexandra Sakaki and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can Germany and Japan do more militarily to uphold the international order? Since the end of World War II, Germany and Japan have been the most reluctant of all major U.S. allies to take on military responsibilities. Given their histories, this reluctance certainly is understandable. But because of their size and economic importance, Germany and Japan are the most important U.S. allies in Europe and in East Asia, respectively, and their long-term reluctance to share the defense burden has become a perennial source of frustration for Washington. The potential security roles of Germany and Japan are becoming increasingly important given the uncertainty, indeed volatility, of today’s international environment. Under President Trump, friction among allies over burden-sharing is more intense than ever before. Meanwhile, the security environments in Europe and Asia have deteriorated because of the resurgence of a belligerent Russia under Vladimir Putin, the steady rise of an increasingly assertive China, and North Korea’s worrisome acquisition of nuclear weapons. Partly in response to these developments, Germany and Japan in recent years have boosted their security efforts, mainly by increasing defense spending and taking on a somewhat broader range of military missions. Even so, because of their cultures of anti-militarism resistance remains strong in both countries to rebuilding the military and assuming more responsibility for sustaining regional or even global peace. In Reluctant Warriors, a team of noted international experts critically examines how and why Germany and Japan have modified their military postures since 1990 so far, and assesses how far the countries still have to go—and why. The contributors also highlight the risks the United States takes if it makes too simplistic a demand for the two countries to “do more.”
Book Synopsis The Reluctant Warrior by : Heino R. Erichsen
Download or read book The Reluctant Warrior written by Heino R. Erichsen and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heino Erichsen invited the reader to walk with him as he looks back upon his childhood in Nazi Germany, his surrender as an 18-year-old private with the German Afrika Korps, his survival in POW camps in Texas and Kentucky, and his return to his broken country. But the journey does not end there. It takes an unexpected twist when the former POW returns to the United States to begin a new life.
Book Synopsis Liberando: Reflections of a Reluctant Warrior by : John E. Horn
Download or read book Liberando: Reflections of a Reluctant Warrior written by John E. Horn and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-06-21 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merriam Press World War 2 Memoir Series. John H. Horn's wartime experiences as a B-24 pilot in the famous "Liberandos" bomb group, the 376th, are recounted in this work by his son, John E. Horn. Horn was one of millions in World War II who did their jobs. He was mighty lucky and blessed to have come home unscathed. Most of the real learning about air combat was on the job. Military schools and training don't really produce combat-ready men and women. They produce attitudes as well as thinking and re-acting skills. Actual combat is the real teacher. John was forever grateful to his crew and the leaders of the 376th Bomb Group who suffered his inexperience and naiveté. Without their patience, he would not have developed into a competent, safe, and living combat pilot. 31 photos, illustrations, maps.
Download or read book The Grim Reaper written by Stu Grimson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful memoir from an NHL heavyweight champion who moved from the dressing room to the courtroom. NHL tough guys all tell the same story. They all grew up dreaming of skating in the big league as stars. Then one day, a coach tells them the only way to make it is to drop the gloves. And every guy says the same thing: I'll do whatever it takes to play in the NHL. Not Stu Grimson, though. When he was offered a contract to patrol the ice for the Calgary Flames, he said no thanks, and went to university instead. And that's the way Grimson has approached his career and his life: on his own terms. He stared down the toughest players on the planet for seventeen years, while working on his first university degree. He retired on his own terms, and went on to practice law, including a stint as in-house counsel for the NHLPA. This has put him in a unique position when it comes to commenting on the game. He's seen it from the trenches, and he's seen it from the courtroom. This puts him in the eye of the storm surrounding fighting and concussions. And he handles that the way he does everything: on his own terms. When Don Cherry called him out on televison, it was the seemingly indominable Cherry who backed down. Hockey fans will be fascinated by his data-driven defence of fighting. But in the end, this is not a book about fighting and locker-room stories. It's the story of a young man who ultimately took on the toughest role in pro sports and came out the other side. Where many others have not.
Download or read book The Dirty Boots written by John F. Holm and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1966, when a nineteen-year-old boy from Three Rivers, Michigan, follows family tradition by enlisting in the United States Navy. A plan which he thinks will guarantee an uneventfful tour of duty aboard a US naval ship goes awry when he is deposited in the middle of a war zone in South Vietnam. For the next gruelling year, he performs the duties of a fleet marine force medic, caring for wounded and dying American marines. Dubbed Doc John by his comrades, he soon becomes entrenched in a strange, dangerous world, where he becomes both witness and reluctant warrior. Whether he is patching up wounded comrades or placing Band-Aids on scrapes of native children, young Doc John somehow manages to do an impossible job, even as the world is falling down around him. He not only learns the sad lessons of war, but survives them and finds himself in the process. These are the experiences of a different kind of soldier, who manages to traverse a minefield of emotional upheaval and can still tell his stories with honesty and self-deprecating humor, exemplyfying the resiliency of the human spirit.
Book Synopsis Hugh Lenox Scott, 1853–1934 by : Armand S. La Potin
Download or read book Hugh Lenox Scott, 1853–1934 written by Armand S. La Potin and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A newly minted second lieutenant fresh from West Point, Hugh Lenox Scott arrived on the northern Great Plains in the wake of the Little Bighorn debacle. The Seventh Cavalry was seeking to subdue the Plains tribes and confine them to reservations, and Scott adopted the role of negotiator and advocate for the Indian “adversaries.” He thus embarked on a career unique in the history of the U.S. military and the western frontier. Hugh Lenox Scott, 1853–1934: Reluctant Warrior is the first book to tell the full story of this unlikely, self-avowed “soldier of peace,” whose career, stretching from Little Bighorn until after World War I, reflected profound historical changes. The taste for adventure that drew Scott to the military also piqued his interest in the tenacity of Native cultures in an environment rife with danger and uncertainty. Armand S. La Potin describes how Scott embraced the lifeways of the Northern Plains peoples, making a study of their cultures, their symbols, and most notably, their use of an intertribal sign language to facilitate trade. Negotiating with dissident bands of Indians whose lands were threatened by Anglo settlers and commercial interests, he increasingly found himself advocating federal responsibility for tribal welfare and assuming the role of “Indian reformer.” La Potin makes clear that “reform” was understood within the context of Scott’s own culture, which scaled “civilization” to the so-called Anglo race. Accordingly, Scott promoted the “civilization” of Native Americans through assimilation into Anglo-American society—an approach he continued in his later interactions with the Moro Muslims of the southern Philippines, where he served as a military governor. Although he eventually rose to the rank of army chief of staff, over time Scott the peacemaker and Indian reformer saw his career stall as Native tribes ceased to be seen as a military threat and military merit was increasingly defined by battlefield experience. From these pages the picture emerges of an uncommon figure in American military history, at once at odds with and defined by his times.
Book Synopsis Reluctant Warrior by : Michael Hodgins
Download or read book Reluctant Warrior written by Michael Hodgins and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2010-12-29 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "ONE OF THE BEST VIETNAM WAR STORIES I'VE EVER READ, one damn good, compelling read. It's almost something out of a Clancy novel, yet it's true. The best thing I can say about it is I didn't want it to end." --Col. David Hackworth, New York Times bestselling author of About Face By the spring of 1970, American troops were ordered to pull out of Vietnam. The Marines of 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel "Wild Bill" Drumright, were assigned to cover the withdrawal of 1st Marine Division. The Marines of 1st RECON Bn operated in teams of six or seven men. Heavily armed, the teams fought a multitude of bitter engagements with a numerically superior and increasingly aggressive enemy. Michael C. Hodgins served in Company C, 1st RECON Bn (Rein), as a platoon leader. In powerful, graphic prose, he chronicles his experience as a patrol leader in myriad combat situations--from hasty ambush to emergency extraction to prisoner snatch to combined-arms ambush. . . . "THIS MEMOIR IS GRIPPING." --American Way
Book Synopsis Reluctant Warrior by : Winston Lavallee
Download or read book Reluctant Warrior written by Winston Lavallee and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Never fear, the Army is on its way!” Jim Dudley, a cocky youngster and newly minted ROTC Lieutenant, finds that the tank corps is not for him. As luck would have it, he qualifies by college training as a Medical Service Corps entomologist and serves on active duty as an instructor and sanitary specialist. Serving among scores of Army stalwarts and rouges, he soon learns to discern armed forces reality from illusion. All the while, war in Southeast Asia, increasing civil rights conflicts and racial prejudice in the U. S. weigh heavily on Jim and his young family as they experience the ins and outs of Army life. After war games in Carolina, he is unexpectedly assigned to duty in Viet Nam where he is wounded. Relieved from active duty, he leaves the Army for college teaching, but encouraged by his wife, Laurie and a college buddy, he volunteers to help returning veterans reconstruct their lives in the face of an ungrateful public, a challenge equal to anything the Army threw at him. Jim and Laurie persevere, but find that military and social conflict often lies waiting within the human conscious, affecting for every generation including their own children. Counting on a little bit of luck, they hope damage control will again carry the day.
Book Synopsis The Reluctant Warrior by : Ty Patterson
Download or read book The Reluctant Warrior written by Ty Patterson and published by Three Aces Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TO CATCH A TRAITOR The Warriors have recovered from Zeb Carter's mission in the Congo. They now find themselves helping the FBI. USA's premier investigative agency has a mole in its ranks. The betrayer has access to highly classified intel and is a threat to national security. The Warriors respond by deploying their maverick intelligence analyst Broker. Who makes the shocking discovery that the traitor is not owned by a foreign government. The truth is worse. And the repercussions can trigger a devastation the kind of which the country hasn't seen before. Before long, the investigation leads to a showdown. The Warriors - all by themselves - on one side, the city's organized crime gangs on the other. Broker and his team can't afford to lose that battle, nor can they give up the investigation. The odds against them are overwhelming. The mafia gangs have come together in an unprecedented move. And the mole is helping the criminals. And what of the mysterious assassin tailing them? He might prove more lethal than the mole or the gangs. 'Non-stop action isn't a tired old cliche in this book's case. The Reluctant Warrior delivers NON-STOP ACTION!' 'Pedal-to-metal, needle-in-the-red thrills!' 'You won't like Zeb Carter and his Warriors. You'll LOVE them!'
Book Synopsis The Reluctant Warrior by : Dominick Forte
Download or read book The Reluctant Warrior written by Dominick Forte and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history there have been recorded incidents of angels visiting earth. The Archangel Gabriel is credited with the most interactions with mortals. He is written about by diverse numbers of religions and cultures throughout the ages, and his identity is unmistakable. Gabriel is The Reluctant Warrior. He is reflective, reserved and sensitive and is heaven’s leading musician and musical director. Gabriel would prefer to spend his existence leading the choirs of angels in song and celestial music. However, he must respond to the call of duty out of loyalty and obedience to God and Michael, commander of the Heavenly Host. Whenever God requires a fighting force of angels or an emissary to earth Gabriel is called to action. Although completely opposite in personality and motivation to the Archangel Michael, it is Gabriel whom God designates as Michael’s second in command and it is Gabriel who most often gets the nod when God wishes to intervene in the affairs of man. This narrative chronicles events such as Satan’s great rebellion and the expulsion of the fallen angels from heaven, Gabriel’s relationships with other angels in heaven and his frequent interactions with us on Earth. Here he writes of his role in the ongoing history of God’s creation and gives first hand reports of his experiences as God emissary to man. The Reluctant Warrior takes us through all of Gabriel the Archangel’s recorded experiences throughout history right up to his ultimate role as leader against the antichrist during the Apocalypse. The Reluctant Warrior presents the history of God’s creation from its early stages until the Second Coming through the voice of God’s most celebrated Archangel.
Book Synopsis The Reluctant Commander by : Richard Patton
Download or read book The Reluctant Commander written by Richard Patton and published by Zumaya Yesterdays. This book was released on 2014-08-29 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-two-year-old George Washington was pleased by his promotion to the rank of lieutenant-colonel and quite content to be the second-in-command of Governor Robert Dinwiddie’s expedition to remove the French from the Ohio Valley. Then Joshua Fry, the mission’s elderly commanding officer, is killed in a fall from his horse. Washington, whose experience in battle is all but nonexistent, is suddenly in command of the Virginia Regiment at a remote field in the Allegheny Mountains called Great Meadows—and the enemy is coming.
Book Synopsis Reluctant Warriors by : Patrick M. Dennis
Download or read book Reluctant Warriors written by Patrick M. Dennis and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the “Hundred Days” campaign of the First World War, over 30 percent of conscripts who served in the Canadian Corps became casualties. Yet, they were often considered slackers for not having volunteered. Reluctant Warriors is the first examination of the pivotal role played by Canadian conscripts in the final campaign of the Great War on the Western Front. Challenging long-standing myths, this Patrick Dennis examines whether conscripts made any significant difference to the success of the Canadian Corps in 1918. Reluctant Warriors provides fresh evidence that conscripts were good soldiers who made a crucial contribution to the war effort.
Download or read book Reluctant Siege written by J. Slater and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reluctant Siege Book #4 of Clay Warrior Stories A battlefield covered with dead Legionaries, an Empire encroaching on the Republic and a Senate in turmoil. Welcome to 265 B.C. Alerio Sisera will need all of his skills as a heavy infantryman, a scout and a weapon's instructor to survive. Standing with two gladii in a river of blood, the Legionary will battle for his life in the Reluctant Siege.
Book Synopsis The Unexpected Champion (High Sierra Sweethearts Book #3) by : Mary Connealy
Download or read book The Unexpected Champion (High Sierra Sweethearts Book #3) written by Mary Connealy and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City dweller John McCall never expected to be out in the High Sierras of 1868 on a wild-goose chase to find the Chiltons' supposedly lost grandson. But now that he's out here, things have gotten even more complicated, mostly due to wildcat Penny Scott. She's not like any woman he's ever met--comfortable in the woods, with a horse, and with a gun. When Penny and John are taken against their will by a shadowy figure looking for evidence they don't have, both realize they've stumbled into something dangerous and complicated. With their friends and family desperately searching for them, Penny and John must make a daring escape. When they emerge back into the real world, they are confronted with a kidnapper who just won't stop. They must bring a powerful, ruthless man to justice, even as this city man and country woman fight a very inconvenient attraction to each other.
Book Synopsis Trapped in a Video Game by : Dustin Brady
Download or read book Trapped in a Video Game written by Dustin Brady and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesse Rigsby hates video games—and for good reason. You see, a video game character is trying to kill him. After getting sucked in the new game Full Blast with his friend Eric, Jesse starts to see the appeal of vaporizing man-size praying mantis while cruising around by jet pack. But pretty soon, a mysterious figure begins following Eric and Jesse, and they discover they can't leave the game. If they don't figure out what's going on fast, they'll be trapped for good!
