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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 : 437 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 with total page 437 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

Shadowrun Legends: Steel Rain

Author : Nyx Smith
Publisher : Catalyst Game Labs
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadowrun Legends: Steel Rain written by Nyx Smith and published by Catalyst Game Labs. This book was released on 2018-09-19 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SWORD OF THE SERPENT... Machiko is second-in-command of the Green Serpent Guard, an elite corps of Elven samurai who are sworn to defend the Chairman of Nagato Corporation. But she soon gets a promotion—after her superior is ruthlessly cut down in a slew of attacks aimed at the famous Guard itself. Only the wealthiest can afford assassins with enough muscle to take on the Green Serpent Guard, and Machiko turns up evidence that points ot Nagato's biggest rival, Fuchi Corp. It looks like Fuchi has designs on Nagato's sensitive research division, where the incredible future of the communications matrix is taking shape. When magical attacks and sabotage begin taking out more of Nagato's personnel, things between the two megacorporations really heat up. But behind the growing hostilities with Fuchi looms a more sinister threat, requiring far more of Machiko's talents than her flashing sword. And staying alive may require defeating a high-tech foe with virtually unlimited powers—and absolutely no mercy...

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.”

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.

Steel Rain

Author : Tom Neale
Publisher : Headline
ISBN 13 : 0755377303
Total Pages : 210 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 210 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...

Steel Rain

Author : Nyx Smith
Publisher : New Amer Library
ISBN 13 : 9780451455932
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book Steel Rain written by Nyx Smith and published by New Amer Library. This book was released on 1997-02-21 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is up to a female member of a megacorporation's elite battalion of Elven samurai to uncover a diabolical blackmail scheme perpetrated by the company's biggest rival, a high-tech foe with unlimited powers. Original.

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.

Super Black

Author : Adilifu Nama
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292726740
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Super Black written by Adilifu Nama and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Super Black places the appearance of black superheroes alongside broad and sweeping cultural trends in American politics and pop culture, which reveals how black superheroes are not disposable pop products, but rather a fascinating racial phenomenon through which futuristic expressions and fantastic visions of black racial identity and symbolic political meaning are presented. Adilifu Nama sees the value—and finds new avenues for exploring racial identity—in black superheroes who are often dismissed as sidekicks, imitators of established white heroes, or are accused of having no role outside of blaxploitation film contexts. Nama examines seminal black comic book superheroes such as Black Panther, Black Lightning, Storm, Luke Cage, Blade, the Falcon, Nubia, and others, some of whom also appear on the small and large screens, as well as how the imaginary black superhero has come to life in the image of President Barack Obama. Super Black explores how black superheroes are a powerful source of racial meaning, narrative, and imagination in American society that express a myriad of racial assumptions, political perspectives, and fantastic (re)imaginings of black identity. The book also demonstrates how these figures overtly represent or implicitly signify social discourse and accepted wisdom concerning notions of racial reciprocity, equality, forgiveness, and ultimately, racial justice.

Truths, Taps, and Time

Author : Pete Justus
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595216137
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book Truths, Taps, and Time written by Pete Justus and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What poets have said:With simple, unflinching honesty, Pete weaves history into poetry. He relives the horror of Vietnam, the wonder of the moonshot, and so many memories of his beloved Los Angeles growing and changing. He longs for all we have lost, yet somehow he finds hope in this puzzling world.-Franki Drayus Pete is one of the most powerful poets I have ever heard. His work spans a myriad of subjects and is presented in many different and engaging styles. His imagery and content will provide amazement and inspiration to readers of all ages.-Jack Shafer Whether recounting the fate of his friend, "The Magic Rat", in Vietnam, or expressing his bewilderment or gratitude at the turns his life has taken, Pete's voice is an honest one, aimed from his heart to ours through a jungle of nightmares, " paying interest on a debt that still accrues."-Donn Deedon Pete’s lyrics of remembrance evoke the nostalgia which lingers in all of us . But more, his verses not only recall the past, they examine how its events, both public and private, have created the world we now live in, and therefore reverberate so strongly in the present. —G. Murray Thomas

The Organizational History of Field Artillery 1775-2003

Author : Janice E. McKenney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Organizational History of Field Artillery 1775-2003 written by Janice E. McKenney and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gust Front, Second Edition

Author : John Ringo
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 1625791607
Total Pages : 833 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book Gust Front, Second Edition written by John Ringo and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now with all new content by John Ringo! The aliens had arrived With gifts, warnings, and an offer we couldn't refuse.... Our choice was simple: we could be cannon fodder, or we could be ... fodder. We could send our forces to fight and die (as only humans can) against a ravening horde that was literally feeding on its interstellar conquests¾or remain as we were¾virtually weaponless and third in line for brunch. We chose to fight. Thanks to alien technology and sheer guts, the Terrans on two worlds fought the Posleen to a standstill. Thank God there was a moment to catch our breath, a moment, however brief, of peace¾. Now, for the survivors of the Barwhon and Diess Expeditionary Forces, it was a chance to get some distance from the blood and misery of battle against the Posleen centaurs. A blessed chance to forget the screams of the dying in purple swamps and massacres under searing alien suns. For Earth it was an opportunity to flesh out their force of raw recruits with combat-seasoned veterans. Political, military and scientific blundering had left the Terran forces in shambles-and with the Posleen Invasion only months away, these shell-shocked survivors might be the only people capable of saving the Earth from devastation. If the veterans had time to lick their wounds. Because the Posleen don't read schedules. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

The Dastard

Author :
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780812574739
Total Pages : 1078 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Dastard written by and published by Macmillan. This book was released on with total page 1078 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Army RD & A Bulletin

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Army RD & A Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shell Shock Doctors

Author : A D (Sandy) Macleod
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527539156
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Shell Shock Doctors written by A D (Sandy) Macleod and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shell shock was the signature injury of the First World War. Military doctors during the conflict on the Western Front observed and personally experienced psychiatric states they had never witnessed before. This text reviews the published medical literature of that era which graphically detailed the clinical states of hysteria (conversion disorder) and neurasthenia (anxiety and PTSD). Medical officers at the front evolved pragmatic medicinal, cognitive and behavioural interventions, still practised today, though never scientifically proven to be effective. The doctors, like their patients, endured numerous horrors at the front, which were, for many, to influence their post-war personal and professional lives. Much of what they wrote was forgotten and deserves reconsideration. Neuropsychiatry was founded in the shell craters of Flanders.

Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1964-07 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

After the Fire

Author : Eric Edmonds
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 059518734X
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book After the Fire written by Eric Edmonds and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-06-08 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of these poems were inspired by nature and my surroundings while I was incarserated in a mental instution . My brother and sisters have always been there for me, and I would like to dedicate this book to my family and all that have been a part of my life through out this trying period. My hopes are to continue wrighting and for the public to read and enjoy my work! Please look on the shelves in a bookstore for my next book which will be an autobiography from my life and the system from my age of seven years old to present! Thank you for reading and may God Bless Your life as well as he'has blessed me!