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Author : Harold Frederic
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780781211949
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (119 download)
Download or read book The Deserter and Other Stories written by Harold Frederic and published by . This book was released on 1988-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harold Frederic
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)
Download or read book The Deserter, and Other Stories written by Harold Frederic and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1898 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the coldest morning of the winter, thus far, and winter is no joke on those northern tablelands, where the streams still run black in token of their forest origin, and old men remember how the deer used to be driven to their clearings for food, when the snow had piled itself breast high through the fastnesses of the Adirondacks. The wilderness had been chopped and burned backward out of sight since their pioneer days, but this change, if anything, served only to add greater bitterness to the winter's cold. Certainly it seemed to Job Parshall that this was the coldest morning he had ever known. It would be bad enough when daylight came, but the darkness of this early hour made it almost too much for flesh and blood to bear. There had been a stray star or two visible overhead when he first came out-of-doors at half-past four, but even these were missing now.
Author : Harold Frederic
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781981654253
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (542 download)
Download or read book The Deserter; and Other Stories written by Harold Frederic and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Deserter; and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by the famous author Harold Frederic.
Author : Harold Frederic
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781503223110
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (231 download)
Download or read book The Deserter, and Other Stories written by Harold Frederic and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-11-14 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the coldest morning of the winter, thus far, and winter is no joke on those northern tablelands, where the streams still run black in token of their forest origin, and old men remember how the deer used to be driven to their clearings for food, when the snow had piled itself breast high through the fastnesses of the Adirondacks. The wilderness had been chopped and burned backward out of sight since their pioneer days, but this change, if anything, served only to add greater bitterness to the winter's cold. Certainly it seemed to Job Parshall that this was the coldest morning he had ever known. It would be bad enough when daylight came, but the darkness of this early hour made it almost too much for flesh and blood to bear. There had been a stray star or two visible overhead when he first came out-of-doors at half-past four, but even these were missing now.
Author : Harold Frederic
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849649423
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)
Download or read book The Deserter written by Harold Frederic and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2017-07-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two of the four stories contained are founded on incidents of the American Civil War; these are entitled "The deserter" and "A day in the wilderness." The others are called "How Dickson came by his name " and " Where Avon in Severn flows." They are supposed to be episodes of England's War of the Roses. The heroism in them is real and the characters are alive. And surely one need not go outside of probability to find romance.
Author : Harold Frederic
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781981654260
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (542 download)
Download or read book The Deserter; And Other Stories written by Harold Frederic and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Deserter; and Other Stories is an illustrated collection of short stories by the famous author Harold Frederic.
Author : Norma Huss
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781979141178
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (411 download)
Download or read book The Deserter and Other Stories written by Norma Huss and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Deserter and Other Stories is a collection that varies from flash fiction to novelette. Taking place from 1813 to present day, the stories range from tall tale to reimagined memory to mystery to humor, with characters from child to ghost. The title story takes the reader to a Chesapeake Bay fishing village during the War of 1812. The next group of stories range from a flash fiction tall tale in 1926 Alaska to a man on the run humming a 1970s pop tune to a child in 1941 knowing the world will never change to a 1990s eerie mystery with unexpected photos. The final group of stories takes place in the 21st century. A driving lesson ends most unexpectedly, a baglady discovers an intruder, then a retired shrimper proves his undying love. The final story returns to Chesapeake Bay where the restoration of an old ship meets murder and deep-fried turkey. Crab appetizer recipes included.
Author : Harold Frederic
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781533628060
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Deserter and Other Stories written by Harold Frederic and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-05 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harold Frederic (born Harold Henry Frederick; August 19, 1856 - October 19, 1898) was an American journalist and novelist. Frederic was born in Utica, New York, to Presbyterian parents. After his father was killed in a railroad accident when Frederic was 18 months old, the boy was raised primarily by his mother. He finished school at age fifteen, and soon began work as a photographer. For four years he was a photographic touch-up artist in his hometown and in Boston. In 1875 he began work as a proofreader for the newspaper The Utica Herald and then The Utica Daily Observer. Frederic later became a reporter. Frederic married Grace Green Williams in 1877, and they had five children together. By 1882 he was editor of the newspaper The Albany Evening Journal in the state capital. In 1884 Frederic went to live in England as London correspondent of the New York Times, and worked at this position for the rest of his life. He brought his family to London by 1889. Afterward he met Kate Lyon, who became his mistress. Frederic and Lyon established a second household, living openly together; and they had three illegitimate children. Frederic wrote several early stories, but it was not until he published Illumination (1896), better known by its American title, The Damnation of Theron Ware; followed by Gloria Mundi (1898), that his talent as a novelist was fully realized. Critic Jonathan Yardley called Damnation "a minor classic of realism." Kate Lyon was a Christian Scientist. When Frederic suffered a stroke in 1898, she tried to cure him by faith healing.After his death, she was tried on charges of manslaughter brought by his wife Grace Frederic, and acquitted at trial.
Author : Harold Frederic
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781547242351
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (423 download)
Download or read book The Deserter and Other Stories (Jovian Press) written by Harold Frederic and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-07 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harold Frederic (born Harold Henry Frederick; August 19, 1856 - October 19, 1898) was an American journalist and novelist. Frederic was born in Utica, New York, to Presbyterian parents. After his father was killed in a train accident when Frederic was 18 months old, the boy was raised primarily by his mother. He finished school at fifteen, and soon began work as a photographer. For four years he was a photographic touch-up artist in his hometown and in Boston. In 1875 he began work as a proofreader for the Utica Herald and then the Utica Daily Observer. Frederic later became a reporter, and by 1882 he was editor of the Albany Evening Journal.
Author : Nelson DeMille
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982137320
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
Download or read book The Deserter written by Nelson DeMille and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “outstanding” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) blistering thriller featuring a brilliant and unorthodox Army investigator, his enigmatic female partner, and their hunt for the Army’s most notorious—and dangerous—deserter from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille and Alex DeMille. When Captain Kyle Mercer of the Army’s elite Delta Force disappeared from his post in Afghanistan, a video released by his Taliban captors made international headlines. But circumstances were murky: Did Mercer desert before he was captured? Then a second video sent to Mercer’s Army commanders leaves no doubt: the trained assassin and keeper of classified Army intelligence has willfully disappeared. When Mercer is spotted a year later in Caracas, Venezuela, by an old Army buddy, top military brass task Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor of the Criminal Investigation Division to fly to Venezuela and bring Mercer back to America—preferably alive. Brodie knows this is a difficult mission, made more difficult by his new partner’s inexperience, by their undeniable chemistry, and by Brodie’s suspicion that Maggie Taylor is reporting to the CIA. With ripped-from-the-headlines appeal, an exotic and dangerous locale, and the hairpin twists and inimitable humor that are signature DeMille, The Deserter is the first in a timely and thrilling new series from an unbeatable team of True Masters: the #1 New York Times bestseller Nelson DeMille and his son, award-winning screenwriter Alex DeMille.
Author : Harold Frederic
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331622102
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (221 download)
Download or read book The Deserter and Other Stories written by Harold Frederic and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Deserter and Other Stories: A Book of Two Wars The crusted snow in the barnyard did throw up a wee, faint light Of its own, for all the blackness of the Sky, but Job carried, besides a bucket, a lantern to help him in his impending struggle with the pump. This ancient contrivance had been ice-bound every morning for a fortnight past, and one needn't be the Son of a prophet to foresee that this morning it would be frozen as stiff as a rock. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Charles Glass
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101617810
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Deserters written by Charles Glass and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Powerful and often startling…The Deserters offers a provokingly fresh angle on this most studied of conflicts.” --The Boston Globe A groundbreaking history of ordinary soldiers struggling on the front lines, The Deserters offers a completely new perspective on the Second World War. Charles Glass—renowned journalist and author of the critically acclaimed Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation—delves deep into army archives, personal diaries, court-martial records, and self-published memoirs to produce this dramatic and heartbreaking portrait of men overlooked by their commanders and ignored by history. Surveying the 150,000 American and British soldiers known to have deserted in the European Theater, The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II tells the life stories of three soldiers who abandoned their posts in France, Italy, and Africa. Their deeds form the backbone of Glass’s arresting portrait of soldiers pushed to the breaking point, a sweeping reexamination of the conditions for ordinary soldiers. With the grace and pace of a novel, The Deserters moves beyond the false extremes of courage and cowardice to reveal the true experience of the frontline soldier. Glass shares the story of men like Private Alfred Whitehead, a Tennessee farm boy who earned Silver and Bronze Stars for bravery in Normandy—yet became a gangster in liberated Paris, robbing Allied supply depots along with ordinary citizens. Here also is the story of British men like Private John Bain, who deserted three times but never fled from combat—and who endured battles in North Africa and northern France before German machine guns cut his legs from under him. The heart of The Deserters resides with men like Private Steve Weiss, an idealistic teenage volunteer from Brooklyn who forced his father—a disillusioned First World War veteran—to sign his enlistment papers because he was not yet eighteen. On the Anzio beachhead and in the Ardennes forest, as an infantryman with the 36th Division and as an accidental partisan in the French Resistance, Weiss lost his illusions about the nobility of conflict and the infallibility of American commanders. Far from the bright picture found in propaganda and nostalgia, the Second World War was a grim and brutal affair, a long and lonely effort that has never been fully reported—to the detriment of those who served and the danger of those nurtured on false tales today. Revealing the true costs of conflict on those forced to fight, The Deserters is an elegant and unforgettable story of ordinary men desperately struggling in extraordinary times.
Author : Joshua Key
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 1770890726
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Deserter's Tale written by Joshua Key and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joshua Key's critically acclaimed memoir, The Deserter's Tale, is the first account from a soldier who deserted from the war in Iraq, and a vivid and damning indictment of how the war is being waged. In spring 2003, young Oklahoman Joshua Key was sent to Ramadi as part of a combat engineer company with the U.S. military. The war he found himself participating in was not the campaign against terrorists and evildoers he had expected. Key saw Iraqi civilians beaten, shot, and killed for little or no provocation. After six months in Iraq, Key was home on leave and knew he could not return. So he took his family and went underground in the United States, finally seeking asylum in Canada. In clear-eyed, compelling prose crafted with the help of award-winning Canadian novelist and journalist Lawrence Hill, The Deserter's Tale tells the story of a man who went into the war believing unquestioningly in his government and who was transformed into a person who ethically, morally, and physically could no longer serve his country.
Author : Junji Ito,Ichiro Nakayama,Hirokatsu Kihara
Publisher : VIZ Media LLC
ISBN 13 : 1974729664
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Deserter: Junji Ito Story Collection written by Junji Ito,Ichiro Nakayama,Hirokatsu Kihara and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2021-12-21 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vengeful family hides an army deserter for eight years after the end of World War II, cocooning him in a false reality where the war never ended. A pair of girls look alike, but they’re not twins. And a boy’s nightmare threatens to spill out into the real world... This hauntingly strange story collection showcases a dozen of Junji Ito’s earliest works from when he burst onto the horror scene, sowing fresh seeds of terror. -- VIZ Media
Author : Paul Almond
Publisher : McArthur
ISBN 13 : 9781552789018
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Deserter written by Paul Almond and published by McArthur. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine you're in a swaying hammock on a British man-o'war around 1800, riding out a harsh spring storm in a deserted estuary. Behind those high red cliffs lie a hundred miles of uncharted wilderness, populated only by ferocious indigenous peoples. If you jump ship and are caught, you will be branded a deserter - subject to death by one thousand lashes. What can you bring to help you survive? Within minutes, the ice-strewn waters will freeze your body and claim your soul. Even if this were your one chance for a life in the New World, would you jump?Thomas Manning did, and his leap into uncertainty begins the epic tale of a pioneer family, one of the many who built our great nation. Through his and his descendants' eyes, we watch one small community's impact on the great events which swirl about them and bring conflicts they must face in their struggles to create homes and families.After Thomas Manning's leap to freedom, he is captured by the Mi'kmaq, has life threatening encounters with wild animals, lives through a barren winter in the highlands of the caribou with a tribe who befriends him and falls for a Mi'kmaq maiden.Absorbing, touching and full of adventure, THE DESERTER is Book One of the Alford saga, a series chronicling two hundred years of Canadian history, as seen through the eyes of a settler's family.
Author : Bryan Karetnyk
Publisher : Russian Library
ISBN 13 : 9780231189767
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (897 download)
Download or read book Fandango and Other Stories written by Bryan Karetnyk and published by Russian Library. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fandango and Other Stories presents a selection of essential short fiction by Alexander Grin, Russia's counterpart to Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Alexandre Dumas. Grin's ingenious plots explore conflicts of the individual and society in a romantic world populated by a cast of eccentric, cosmopolitan characters.
Author : Harold Frederic
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The short stories: The copperhead and other stories. The deserter and other stories written by Harold Frederic and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
