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The Colonel's Wife

Author : Rosa Liksom
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1644451077
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (444 download)

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Download or read book The Colonel's Wife written by Rosa Liksom and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold, dark-hued novel by a writer who “conjures beauty from the ugliest of things” (The Wall Street Journal) In the final twilit moments of her life, an elderly woman looks back on her years in the thrall of fascism and Nazism. Both her authoritarian tendencies and her ecstatic engagement with the natural world are vividly and terrifyingly evoked in The Colonel’s Wife, an astonishing and brave novel that resonates painfully with our own strained political moment. At once complex and hideous, sexually liberated and sympathetic to the darkest of political movements, the narrator describes her childhood as the daughter of a member of the right-wing Finnish Whites before World War II, and the way she became involved with and eventually married the Colonel, who was thirty years her senior. During the war, he came and went as they fraternized with the Nazi elite and retreated together into the deepest northern wilds. As both the marriage and the war turn increasingly dark and destructive, Rosa Liksom renders a complex and unsavory character in a prose style that is striking in its paradoxical beauty. Based on a true story, The Colonel’s Wife is both a brilliant portrayal of an individual psychology and a stark warning about the perils of nationalism.

Judy O'Grady and the Colonel's Lady

Author : Noel T. St. John Williams
Publisher : Brassey's
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Judy O'Grady and the Colonel's Lady written by Noel T. St. John Williams and published by Brassey's. This book was released on 1988 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the lives of women connected to the military--an overlooked segment of British Army life. This fresh perspective belongs in women's studies. Good reading. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Colonel

Author : Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
Publisher : Haus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1907822895
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Colonel written by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pitch black, rainy night in a small Iranian town. Inside his house the Colonel is immersed in thought. Memories are storming in. Memories of his wife. Memories of the great patriots of the past, all of them assassinated or executed. Memories of his children, who had joined the different factions of the 1979 revolution. There is a knock on the door. Two young policemen have come to summon the Colonel to collect the tortured body of his youngest daughter and bury her before sunrise. The Islamic Revolution, like every other revolution in history, is devouring its own children. And whose fault is that? This shocking diatribe against the failures of the Iranian left over the last fifty years does not leave one taboo unbroken.

The Colonel's Lady on the Western Frontier

Author : Alice Kirk Grierson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803279292
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (792 download)

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Download or read book The Colonel's Lady on the Western Frontier written by Alice Kirk Grierson and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects the letters of the wife of Civil War major general Benjamin H. Grierson, describing daily life and hardships at frontier posts like Fort Riley, Fort Concho, Fort Davis, and Fort Grant

The Colonel's Lady

Author : Laura Frantz
Publisher : Revell
ISBN 13 : 080073341X
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Colonel's Lady written by Laura Frantz and published by Revell. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1779, a search for her officer-father brings Roxanna Rowan to the Kentucky frontier--but she discovers instead the young Colonel Cassius McLinn, a dark secret and a compelling reason to stay. Original.

The Colonel's Wife

Author : Andre Dubus
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101970278
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Colonel's Wife written by Andre Dubus and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-05-25 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection The colonel had served in two wars with the Marines, without being injured. Then, at home, he breaks both legs falling off a horse, and learns that his knees will never fully recover. Together with his wife, he will have to relearn everything, all over again. “The Colonel’s Wife” is the moving story of a man and his wife, the woman for whom, when he met her for the first time, he felt “that he was looking at the sun without burning his eyes.” A story of peace after war and the continued drama of real life. From Andre Dubus’s masterful and compassionate collection Dancing After Hours, a New York Times Notable Book. An eBook short.

Compartment No. 6

Author : Rosa Liksom
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1555977472
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book Compartment No. 6 written by Rosa Liksom and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wanting to escape a failed relationship, a young Finnish woman boards a train to travel from Moscow to Mongolia. Wanting to be alone, she chooses an empty compartment, but is soon joined by a former soldier who recounts explicit stories of his past.

Confederate Colonels

Author : Bruce S. Allardice
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826266487
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Confederate Colonels written by Bruce S. Allardice and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Allardice provides detailed biographical information on 1,583 Confederate colonels, both staff and line officers and members of all armies. In his introduction, he explains how one became a colonel -- the mustering process, election of officers, reorganizing of regiments -- and discusses problems of the nominating process, seniority, and "rank inflation""--Provided by publisher.

Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat (A Roald Dahl Short Story)

Author : Roald Dahl
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 140591095X
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat (A Roald Dahl Short Story) written by Roald Dahl and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat is a brilliant gem of a short story from Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail. In Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells a sinister story about the darker side of human nature. Here, a wife pawns her lover's parting gift with unexpected consequences . . . Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat is taken from the short story collection Kiss Kiss, which includes ten other devious and shocking stories, featuring the husband and wife who hit upon a novel way to feed their new baby; the priceless piece of furniture that is the subject of a deceitful bargain; a wronged woman taking revenge on her dead husband, and others. 'Unnerving bedtime stories, subtle, proficient, hair-raising and done to a turn.' (San Francisco Chronicle ) This story is also available as a Penguin digital audio download read by Stephanie Beacham. Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.

Cavalry Wife

Author : Eveline M. Alexander
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780890963364
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (633 download)

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Download or read book Cavalry Wife written by Eveline M. Alexander and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1987-10 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dancing After Hours

Author : Andre Dubus
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307801918
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Dancing After Hours written by Andre Dubus and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book of the Year From a genuine hero of the American short story comes a luminous collection that reveals the seams of hurt, courage, and tenderness that run through the bedrock of contemporary American life. In these fourteen stories, Dubus depicts ordinary men and women confronting injury and loneliness, the lack of love and the terror of actually having it. Out of his characters' struggles and small failures--and their unexpected moments of redemption--Dubus creates fiction that bears comparison to the short story's greatest creators--Chekhov, Raymond Carver, Flannery O'Connor.

The Colonels

Author : W.E.B. Griffin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440636095
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Colonels written by W.E.B. Griffin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1986-11-15 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They were the professionals, the men who had been toughened by combat in the mine-laden fields of Europe, in Korea, in Greece, in Indochina. Now, in the twilight of a dying decade, they must return to the United States to forge a new type of American soldier--one to be tested on the beaches of Cuba and in a new war yet to come...

The Colonel ́s Dream

Author : Charles W. Chesnutt
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3734024951
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Colonel ́s Dream written by Charles W. Chesnutt and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Colonel ́s Dream by Charles W. Chesnutt

The Colonel's Wife

Author : J Robert Kennedy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781998005390
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Colonel's Wife written by J Robert Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dylan Kane leaves James Bond in his dust!" What would you do if solving a murder meant the certain death of an innocent? FROM AWARD-WINNING USA TODAY & MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR J. ROBERT KENNEDY WHILE WAR RAGED IN NAZI GERMANY, ONE MAN WAS DETERMINED TO KEEP THE PEACE. Berlin. 1941. Nazi Germany controls most of Europe, and the war has barely touched the German capital. Life goes on, with most civilians optimistic about the future. Bakers baked. Fishermen fished. Cleaners cleaned. And murderers murdered. When a body is found after an air raid, it is treated as routine until an anonymous tip has the case assigned to Kriminalinspektor Wolfgang Vogel, who discovers the death was anything but a casualty of war. It was murder. A murder beyond the routine, with a motive so shocking, it will leave Vogel questioning his own morality, and whether his oath to uphold the law is absolute, no matter what the cost. The Colonel's Wife, the first in a new series from award-winning USA Today and million-copy bestselling author J. Robert Kennedy, will have you lost in the mysteriousness of World War Two Nazi Germany, where life went on much as it did in cosmopolitan America, where crime continued unabated, and where police struggled as they always have to maintain the peace. Get your copy of The Colonel's Wife today, then decide what you would have done had you been thrust into the same situation as Kriminalinspektor Wolfgang Vogel...

The Colonel's Choice

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781721758241
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book The Colonel's Choice written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-25 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Colonel'sChoice Arthur Conan Doyle We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Under the Sabers

Author : Tanya Biank
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429901683
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Under the Sabers written by Tanya Biank and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2006-02-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the Sabers is a groundbreaking narrative detailing the complex personal challenges Army wives face, presenting a provocative new look at Army life. Tanya Biank goes beyond the sound bites and photo ops of military life and shows what it is really like to be an Army wife—from hauling furniture off the rental truck by yourself at a new duty station when your husband is in the field, to comforting your son who wants his dad home from Afghanistan for his fifth birthday—she takes readers into the hearts and homes of today's military wives. In the summer of 2002, Army wives were in the headlines after Biank, a military reporter for the Fayetteville Observer, made international news when she broke the story about four Army wives who were brutally murdered by their husbands in the span of six weeks at Fort Bragg, an Army post that is home to the Green Berets, Airborne paratroopers, and Delta Force commandos. By that autumn, Biank, an Army brat herself, realized the still untold story of Army wives lay in the ashes of that tragic and sensationalized summer. She knew the truth—wives were the backbone of the Army. They were strong—not helpless—and deserved more than the sugarcoating that often accompanied their stories in the media. Under the Sabers tells the story of four typical Army wives, who, in a flash, find themselves neck-deep in extraordinary circumstances that ultimately force them to redefine who they are as women and Army wives. In this fascinating and meticulously researched account, Biank takes the reader past the Army's gates, where everyone has a role to play, rules are followed, discipline is expected, perfection praised, and perception often overrides reality. Biank explores what happens when real life collides with Army convention. Biank describes what it means to be a wife and mother in a subculture that is in a constant state of readiness for war. In this hard-hitting and powerful book, Biank takes a close look at the other woman—the Army itself—and its impact on wives, marriages, and home life. This story of strength and perseverance is an eye-opener for those who have never experienced military life and an anthem to those women who each day live the "unwritten code."

Curmudgeons, Drunkards, and Outright Fools

Author : Thomas P. Lowry
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803280243
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Curmudgeons, Drunkards, and Outright Fools written by Thomas P. Lowry and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War, a Union colonel was five times more likely to be court-martialed than a private. Worse, courts-martial of all ranks increased by 400 percent in the winter months. Among the court-martialed transgressors presented in this volume are an officer nicknamed ?Stumpy? because he tended to hide behind tree stumps during combat and a man tried for calling his superior a ?miserable reptile.? The gallery of offenders also includes a Vermont colonel who became a chloroform addict and a New York colonel who rode his horse into a barroom, ordered a brandy for himself and one for his horse, then fired his pistol through the ceiling. The stories of fifty misdeeds, along with a statistical exploration of twenty-two thousand other courts-martial, provide a pioneering study of the little-known world of Civil War misbehavior and clarify the often-bewildering dynamics between volunteer soldiers and their professional superiors.