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Stay Off The Skyline

Author : Laura Homan Lacey
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1597974587
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (979 download)

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Download or read book Stay Off The Skyline written by Laura Homan Lacey and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sixth Marine Division holds a unique place in U.S. Marine Corps history, because it was retired after one great battle. The division was formed on Guadalcanal in September 1944, its ranks filled with battle-hardened veterans and untested replacement troops. The Sixth Division fought its only action on the island of Okinawa from April to June 1945 but entered the fight with more combat experience overall than any other Marine division in its initial battle. It disappointed no one. The Okinawa campaign involved eight Army and Marine divisions, but the Sixth captured most of the ground in some of the bloodiest fighting of the war. Weeks later, atomic attacks on two Japanese cities in early August 1945 swiftly ended the war. Before Hiroshima there was Okinawa. Because of Okinawa, in considerable part there was Hiroshima, wrote one reporter. With the invasion of Japan canceled, the Sixth Division went to China on occupation duty and, on 1 April 1946, was reorganized out of existence. As it was created overseas, so was it disbanded. This book tells the story of these Marines in their own words. Historian Laura Lacey - a Marine family member who has lived on Okinawa -sympathetically portrays the men who in 1945 fought a tremendous battle that she contends has not received its full share of attention from historians. Lacey considers the gritty details of close quarters combat and considers the myriad physical and psychological wounds that war wreaks. With Marines now engaged in a tough fight in Iraq, Laceyas book reminds us that whether or not a war is popular, war is indeed hell."

Stay Off the Skyline

Author : Laura Homan Lacey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Stay Off the Skyline written by Laura Homan Lacey and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Coming to Terms

Author : William Safire
Publisher : Doubleday
ISBN 13 : 0307800598
Total Pages : 659 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Coming to Terms written by William Safire and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2012-01-04 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When William Safire delineates the difference between misinformation and disinformation or “distances himself” from clichés, people sit up and take notice. Which is not to say that Safire’s readers always take the punning pundit at his word: they don’t, and he’s got the letters to prove it. Among the entries in Coming to Terms, this all-new collection of Safire’s “On Language” columns, you’ll read the repartee of Lexicographic Irregulars great and small. John Haim of New York sets in concrete what properly to call a cement truck, while Charlton Heston challenges an interpretation of Hamlet’s “to take arms against a sea of troubles” and Gene Shalit passes along his favorite Yogi Berra-ism. Bringing them all together are dozens of Safire’s most illuminating and witty columns, from “Right Stuffing” to “Getting Whom.” When William Safire comes to terms, there’s never a dull moment.

Crucible of Hell

Author : Saul David
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 031653465X
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Crucible of Hell written by Saul David and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning historian, Saul David, the riveting narrative of the heroic US troops, bonded by the brotherhood and sacrifice of war, who overcame enormous casualties to pull off the toughest invasion of WWII's Pacific Theater -- and the Japanese forces who fought with tragic desperation to stop them. With Allied forces sweeping across Europe and into Germany in the spring of 1945, one enormous challenge threatened to derail America's audacious drive to win the world back from the Nazis: Japan, the empire that had extended its reach southward across the Pacific and was renowned for the fanaticism and brutality of its fighters, who refused to surrender, even when faced with insurmountable odds. Taking down Japan would require an unrelenting attack to break its national spirit, and launching such an attack on the island empire meant building an operations base just off its shores on the island of Okinawa. The amphibious operation to capture Okinawa was the largest of the Pacific War and the greatest air-land-sea battle in history, mobilizing 183,000 troops from Seattle, Leyte in the Philippines, and ports around the world. The campaign lasted for 83 blood-soaked days, as the fighting plumbed depths of savagery. One veteran, struggling to make sense of what he had witnessed, referred to the fighting as the "crucible of Hell." Okinawan civilians died in the tens of thousands: some were mistaken for soldiers by American troops; but as the US Marines spearheading the invasion drove further onto the island and Japanese defeat seemed inevitable, many more civilians took their own lives, some even murdering their own families. In just under three months, the world had changed irrevocably: President Franklin D. Roosevelt died; the war in Europe ended; America's appetite for an invasion of Japan had waned, spurring President Truman to use other means -- ultimately atomic bombs -- to end the war; and more than 250,000 servicemen and civilians on or near the island of Okinawa had lost their lives. Drawing on archival research in the US, Japan, and the UK, and the original accounts of those who survived, Crucible of Hell tells the vivid, heart-rending story of the battle that changed not just the course of WWII, but the course of war, forever.

Uniquely Okinawan

Author : Courtney A. Short
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823288404
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Uniquely Okinawan written by Courtney A. Short and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uniquely Okinawan explores how American soldiers, sailors, and Marines considered race, ethnicity, and identity in the planning and execution of the wartime occupation of Okinawa, during and immediately after the Battle of Okinawa, 1945–46.

Real Places

Author : Grady Clay
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226109497
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Real Places written by Grady Clay and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-05-22 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the romantic lure of "place", such as "Fall Color Country" or "Lover's Lane", urban planner Grady Clay describes a unique cross-section of America, emphasizing the beauty and intrigue of hidden landscape gems. Depicting the everyday as well as the bizarre, Clay's entertaining "travel" guide allows us to see in a new way what has always been right before our eyes. 100 photos. 16 line drawings.

Army Digest

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Army Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Essentials of Military Training for Use by Units of the Regular Army, the National Guard and the Organized Reserve Corps

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 920 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essentials of Military Training for Use by Units of the Regular Army, the National Guard and the Organized Reserve Corps written by and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Adventure

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adventure written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Volk's Shadow

Author : Brent Ghelfi
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805082555
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (825 download)

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Download or read book Volk's Shadow written by Brent Ghelfi and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-07-08 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The headquarters of an American oil company hemorrhages chemical-pink smoke into the Moscow night, the aftermath of an apparent terrorist attack. A Russian army captain carrying a priceless Fabergé egg and digital evidence of horrific wartime atrocities is murdered and relieved of both these prizes. And in the snowy mountains of southern Russia, a terrorist named Abreg--who once held Alexei Volkovoy captive in a Chechen mud pit--hatches a plan to lure him back into his grasp.

The Word of God

Author : Christopher Cummings
Publisher : DoctorZed Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0994208448
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (942 download)

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Download or read book The Word of God written by Christopher Cummings and published by DoctorZed Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The massive triangular mountain called Walsh Pyramid stands one thousand metres above the floodplain in Far North Queensland. Eight army cadets are hiking towards it, when they encounter a shadowy figure who tells them a tale so bizarre they find it difficult to believe. But not Stephen Bell. He knows it is true and urges the group to act immediately. As they clamber up the mountain in a desperate race against time, they collide headlong with forces they barely imagined could exist. Over the ensuing four days they are tested emotionally, spiritually and physically as they seek to vanquish the evil that lurks atop the mysterious pyramid. An evil that knows no limits.

The Drive

Author : Lonnie Magee
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595423604
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book The Drive written by Lonnie Magee and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zane Grey, Louis L'Amour, these names conjure up vivid pictures of the West, dangerous, rough and untamed. In this first novel in the North to the Tallgrass trilogy, Lonnie Magee weaves the same vivid tapestry. You will find familiarity in the Howard family saga. His attention to detail, wry sense of humor, and his ability to draw you into the story will have you swearing that you are there amongst the herd; pushing towards an undetermined but exciting destiny.

Twilight Till Dawn

Author : Lord R. Handyside
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1728353920
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book Twilight Till Dawn written by Lord R. Handyside and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book about the controversial aspects of metal detecting at Night time in the UK some know it as Night-hawking and the colourful people involved with it.

Best Easy Day Hikes Mount Rainier National Park

Author : Heidi Radlinski
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493032054
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Best Easy Day Hikes Mount Rainier National Park written by Heidi Radlinski and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best Easy Day Hikes Mount Rainier National Park includes concise descriptions and detailed maps for thirty easy-to-follow trails, from easy low elevation loops to slightly more difficult scenic routes through Mount Rainier. Get a close-up panoramic view of Nisqually Glacier on the popular Skyline Trail; enjoy Emmons Glacier, the largest glacier in the contiguous United States or power through the hilly Rampart Ridge for unobstructed views of Mount Rainier. Look inside for: • Casual hikes to full-day adventures • After-dinner strolls to full-day hikes • Hikes for everyone, including families • Mile-by-mile directions and clear trail maps • GPS coordinates

Hiking Mount Rainier National Park

Author : Mary Skjelset
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493077538
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Hiking Mount Rainier National Park written by Mary Skjelset and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-11-05 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully updated and revised, the fifth edition of Hiking Mount RainierNational Park is a comprehensive and concise guide to the well-maintained trails of the diverse landscape nestled between the two major metropolises of the Pacific Northwest. Included are sixty hike descriptions for hikers of all ages and skill levels.

By the Knife

Author : Steve Partridge
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784621633
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (846 download)

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Download or read book By the Knife written by Steve Partridge and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2015-03-28 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the Caribbean and the West Coast of Africa, By the Knife details the struggle between two very different men. John Carter is a product of the London slums. Put into male prostitution by his mother at the age of nine, he turns to murder when attacked outside a tavern in the docks. For the rest of his life, he takes pleasure in viciously torturing his victims before killing them. He runs away to sea to escape the law and progresses to piracy. Having stolen a large amount of Spanish gold, he is sought by the English Navy. David Fletcher is the much-loved son of a country school teacher. He is sent into the Navy on his father’s death and progresses to Lieutenant whilst growing up amongst the problems of shipboard life in a time of war. He first meets Carter when, during a struggle on the deck of a merchant ship, Carter slashes his chest with a knife. By the Knife is a traditional adventure story that harks back to an age of pirates and sailing. This naval novel will appeal particularly to those who enjoy pirate adventure stories.

Desperate Surgery in the Pacific War

Author : Thomas Helling, M.D.
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476664218
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Desperate Surgery in the Pacific War written by Thomas Helling, M.D. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-01-18 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caring for the wounded in the World War II Pacific Theater posed serious challenges to doctors and surgeons. The thick jungles, remote atolls and heavily defended Japanese islands of the Pacific presented dangers to medical personnel never before encountered in modern warfare, as did the devastating new kamikaze attacks. Sophisticated treatments, including complex surgery, were by necessity far removed from the fighting, requiring front line doctors to do the minimum--often under fire--to stabilize patients until they could be evacuated: "damage control," it would later be called. Navy doctors responsible for thousands of sailors aboard fleets in battle found caring for the wounded daunting or nearly impossible. Yet to save lives, medical resources had to be kept as close as possible to the action. This book systematically details the efforts and innovations of the doctors and surgeons who worked to preserve life under extreme peril.