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Author : Keith Wheeler
Publisher : New York, Dutton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Pacific is My Beat ... written by Keith Wheeler and published by New York, Dutton. This book was released on 1943 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A war correspondent's experiences in the Pacific in the first 14 months after Pearl Harbor.
Author : Steven Casey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190053658
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The War Beat, Pacific written by Steven Casey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-05 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of American war reporting in the Pacific theater of World War II, from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After almost two years slogging with infantrymen through North Africa, Italy, and France, Ernie Pyle immediately realized he was ill-prepared for covering the Pacific War. As Pyle and other war correspondents discovered, the climate, the logistics, and the sheer scope of the Pacific theater had no parallel in the war America was fighting in Europe. From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, The War Beat, Pacific provides the first comprehensive account of how a group of highly courageous correspondents covered America's war against Japan, what they witnessed, what they were allowed to publish, and how their reports shaped the home front's perception of some of the most pivotal battles in American military history. In a dramatic and fast-paced narrative based on a wealth of previously untapped primary sources, Casey takes us from MacArthur's doomed defense on the Philippines and the navy's overly strict censorship policy at the time of Midway, through the bloody battles on Guadalcanal, New Guinea, Tarawa, Saipan, Leyte and Luzon, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, detailing the cooperation, as well as conflict, between the media and the military, as they grappled with the enduring problem of limiting a free press during a period of extreme crisis. The War Beat, Pacific shows how foreign correspondents ran up against practical challenges and risked their lives to get stories in a theater that was far more challenging than the war against Nazi Germany, while the US government blocked news of the war against Japan and tried to focus the home front on Hitler and his atrocities.
Author : Alfred Green
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442242477
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Rhythm Is My Beat written by Alfred Green and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rhythm Is My Beat: Jazz Guitar Great Freddie Green and the Count Basie Sound, Alfred Green tells the story of his father, rhythm guitarist Freddie Green, whose guitar work served as the pulse of the Count Basie Band. A quiet but key figure in big band jazz, Freddie Green took a distinct pride in his role as Basie’s rhythm guitarist, redefining the outer limits of acoustic rhythm guitar and morphing it into an art form. So distinct was Green’s style that it would eventually give birth to notations on guitar charts that read: “Play in the style of Freddie Green.” This American jazz icon, much like his inimitable sound, achieved stardom as a sideman, both in and out of Basie’s band. Green’s signature sound provided lift to soloists like Lester Young and vocalist Lil’ Jimmy Rushing, a reflection of Green’s sophisticated technique, that produced, in Green’s words, his “rhythm wave.” Billie Holiday, Ruby Braff, Benny Goodman, Gerry Mulligan, Teddy Wilson, Ray Charles, Judy Carmichael, Joe Williams and other recording artists all benefited from the relentless fours of the man who came to be known as Mr. Rhythm. The mystique surrounding Freddie Green’s technique is illuminated through generous commentary by insightful interviews with other musicians, guitar professionals and scholars, all of whom offer their ideas on Freddie Green’s sound. Alfred Green throughout demystifies the man behind the legend. This work will interest jazz fans, students, and scholars; guitar enthusiasts and professionals; music historians and anyone interested not only in the history of jazz but of the African American experience in jazz.
Author : Christopher Buckley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493076639
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Steaming to Bamboola written by Christopher Buckley and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-05-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Columbianna, an ancient tramp steamer with a notably eccentric crew, 200 layers of paint on her decks, a sailing history going back to 1945, and demons in her plumbing, was crossing the Atlantic for the umpteenth time—but on this occasion with a sharp-eyed observer, whose brilliant account brings to life the harshness, humor, and bizarreness of life on board. Steaming to Bamboola is a story of the author's time at sea. He tells first-hand about typhoons, cargoes, smuggling, mid-ocean burials, rescues, stowaways, hard places, hard drinking, and hard romance. It is the tale of a ship and her crew, men fated to wander for a living—always steaming to, but never quite reaching, Bamboola. This was the first book by renowned author and humorist Christopher Buckley, which was originally published in 1982 to glowing reviews. Forty years and over twenty books and hundreds of articles later, Buckley introduces Columbianna and her roguish crew to a new generation of readers.
Author : Ian S. MacNiven
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374712433
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book "Literchoor Is My Beat" written by Ian S. MacNiven and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography—thoughtful and playful—of the man who founded New Directions and transformed American publishing James Laughlin—poet, publisher, world-class skier—was the man behind some of the most daring, revolutionary works in verse and prose of the twentieth century. As the founder of New Directions, he published Ezra Pound's The Cantos and William Carlos Williams's Paterson; he brought Hermann Hesse and Jorge Luis Borges to an American audience. Throughout his life, this tall, charismatic intellectual, athlete, and entrepreneur preferred to stay hidden. But no longer—in "Literchoor Is My Beat": A Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions, Ian S. MacNiven has given us a sensitive and revealing portrait of this visionary and the understory of the last century of American letters. Laughlin—or J, as MacNiven calls him—emerges as an impressive and complex figure: energetic, idealistic, and hardworking, but also plagued by doubts—not about his ability to identify and nurture talent but about his own worth as a writer. Haunted by his father's struggles with bipolar disorder, J threw himself into a flurry of activity, pulling together the first New Directions anthology before he'd graduated from Harvard and purchasing and managing a ski resort in Utah. MacNiven's portrait is comprehensive and vital, spiced with Ezra Pound's eccentric letters, J's romantic foibles, and anecdotes from a seat-of-your-pants era of publishing now gone by. A story about the struggle to publish only the best, it is itself an example of literary biography at its finest.
Author : Ray E. Boomhower
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253029937
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Dispatches from the Pacific written by Ray E. Boomhower and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fall of 1943, armed with only his notebooks and pencils, Time and Life correspondent Robert L. Sherrod leapt from the safety of a landing craft and waded through neck-deep water and a hail of bullets to reach the shores of the Tarawa Atoll with the US Marine Corps. Living shoulder to shoulder with the marines, Sherrod chronicled combat and the marines' day-to-day struggles as they leapfrogged across the Central Pacific, battling the Japanese on Tarawa, Saipan, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. While the marines courageously and doggedly confronted an enemy that at times seemed invincible, those left behind on the American home front desperately scanned Sherrod's columns for news of their loved ones. Following his death in 1994, the Washington Post heralded Sherrod's reporting as "some of the most vivid accounts of men at war ever produced by an American journalist." Now, for the first time, author Ray E. Boomhower tells the story of the journalist in Dispatches from the Pacific: The World War II Reporting of Robert L. Sherrod, an intimate account of the war efforts on the Pacific front.
Author : Christopher Buckley
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312927929
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (279 download)
Download or read book Pacific Beat written by Christopher Buckley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1982 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two things you never do: Kill a cop's wife or kill a cop's sister. Someone's done both.and Newport Beach is about to explode.
Author : T. Jefferson Parker
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312357153
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (571 download)
Download or read book Pacific Beat written by T. Jefferson Parker and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-03-03 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in Newport Beach, California is more nightmare than paradise when ex-cop Jim Weir's pregnant sister is brutally murdered. Life becomes unbearable when Weir is asked to investigate his former department. Political corruption and small town connections make this task even more onerous.
Author : Ray Moseley
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300226349
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Reporting War written by Ray Moseley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “excellent, wonderfully-researched” chronicle of WWII journalism explores the lives and work of embedded reporters across every theater of war (Chris Ogden, former Time magazine bureau chief in London). Luminary journalists Ed Murrow, Martha Gellhorn, Walter Cronkite, and Clare Hollingworth were among the young reporters who chronicled World War II’s daily horrors and triumphs for Western readers. In Reporting War, fellow foreign correspondent Ray Moseley mines their writings to create an exhilarating parallel narrative of the war effort in Europe, Pearl Harbor, North Africa, and Japan. This vivid history also explores the lives, methods, and motivations of the courageous journalists who doggedly followed the action and the story, often while embedded in the Allied armies. Moseley’s sweeping yet intimate history draws on newly unearthed material to offer a comprehensive account of the war. Reporting War sheds much-needed light on an abundance of individual stories and overlooked experiences, including those of women and African-American journalists, which capture the drama as it was lived by reporters on the front lines of history.
Author : Sally Mott Freeman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501104144
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Jersey Brothers written by Sally Mott Freeman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "They are three brothers, all navy men, who end up coincidentally and extraordinarily at the epicenter of three of World War II's most crucial moments. Bill is tapped by Franklin D. Roosevelt to run the first Map Room in Washington. Benny is the gunnery and antiaircraft officer on the USS Enterprise, one of the only ships to escape Pearl Harbor and, by the end of 1942, the last aircraft carrier left in the Pacific to defend against the Japanese. Barton, the youngest, gets a plum commission in the Navy Supply Corps because his mother wants him out of harm's way. But this protection plan backfires when Barton is sent to the Philippines and listed as missing-in-action after a Japanese attack. Now it is up to Bill and Benny to rescue him. Based on ten years of research drawn from archives around the world, interviews with fellow shipmates and POWs, and letters half-forgotten in basements, The Jersey Brothers whisks readers from America's front porches to Roosevelt's White House, from Pearl Harbor to Midway and Bataan, and from the Pacific battlefronts to the stately home of a fierce New Jersey mother. At its heart The Jersey Brothers is a family story, written by one of its own in intimate, novelistic detail. It is a remarkable tale of agony and triumph; of an ordinary young man who shows extraordinary courage as the enemy does everything short of killing him; and of brotherly love tested under the tortures of war."--Jacket.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1052 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Pacific Unitarian written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : E. W. Tompkins, Jr.
Publisher : Linden Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1610350626
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)
Download or read book 101 Road Patrol Tales written by E. W. Tompkins, Jr. and published by Linden Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing to light an entertaining array of anecdotes, this collection of police stories recalls some of the strangest, funniest, and most poignant accounts from the freeways, highways, and country roads throughout California. From the family who pulled over for a picnic on the median strip of a busy freeway to the angelic-looking 5-year-old girl who defused a tense traffic stop by sweetly confessing, "my daddy has a beer under the seat," this is an uncompromising view of the everyday pursuits, enforcement stops, arrests, accidents, and weird encounters that patrolmen must endure. Also featured is a panoply of unlikely drunk-driving suspects, including Santa Claus, a Boy Scout troop leader, a newlywed couple, and an airline pilot on his way to fly a plane; the traffic stop of an elderly driver whose license had expired 35 years earlier--and who explained he was on his way to the DMV; and many more hilarious, odd, and tragic stories of life and death on the open road. Encouraging a renewed respect for the men and women in uniform who risk their lives to protect the public, this compilation also contains advice on highway safety and how to behave when pulled over by a patrol officer.
Author : Jonathan Templin Ritter
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574417819
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)
Download or read book From Texas to Tinian and Tokyo Bay written by Jonathan Templin Ritter and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of J. R. Ritter (1902-1994), a civil engineer from Texas who became a U.S. Navy Seabee officer during World War II. For his memoir he preserved personal papers, letters, photos, and other items, many of which are reproduced in this book. His narrative is edited and annotated by his grandson, Jonathan Templin Ritter. The U.S. Naval Construction Battalions, known as the “Seabees,” were formed in March 1942. Their duties were to build military facilities and airfields overseas, in both the European and Pacific Theaters. In the Pacific Theater alone, including the Aleutians, the Seabees built 111 major airstrips, 441 piers, 2258 ammunition magazines, and much more. Ritter tells the story of two Seabee Battalions, one in the Aleutians and one in the Central Pacific. He describes the Aleutian Islands Campaign during 1942-1943, when there was a real concern that Japan might try to attack Alaska and the continental United States through the “back door.” Ritter also gives an eyewitness account of the building of the airfields on Tinian Island in the Northern Marianas that enabled the B-29 fire raids on Japan—the “Empire Run”—which culminated in the two missions that dropped the atomic bombs in August 1945, ending the Pacific War. This book provides a major contribution to the wartime literature about the Seabees, those brave, resourceful, and hard-working American patriots, whose mottos were “Can do!” and “The difficult we do now; the impossible takes a little longer.”
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Total Pages : 986 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Liberty written by and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald Hamilton
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN 13 : 1783292911
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Matt Helm - The Betrayers written by Donald Hamilton and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matt Helm finds himself in Hawaii, trying to unhatch a plot of unrivalled viciousness. When an agent turns bad, nobody’s business is private anymore, and when that agent decides to start a war, someone has to finish him—fast. Between the rogue agent and the stranger who insists she is his sister-in-law, this won’t be a relaxing Pacific holiday.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Wisconsin Library Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Journal of the United States Artillery written by and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
