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Download or read book Me Gook written by Brian Hartenstein and published by . This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1994, Brian Hartenstein dropped out of graduate school and accepted an English teaching position in the rural South Korean city of ChonJu, seeking adventure and meaning. Ten years later in 2004, after six years living and teaching abroad and experiencing every culture shock imaginable, Korea suddenly came to him in the form of his in laws surprisingly showing up on his doorstep with the birth of his first child and never leaving. Me Gook explores the dark and humorous side of multi culturalism, what it means to be an American from a foreign and expatriate perspective, and how our destinies trap and limit us but also set us free.
Download or read book Just One written by William Roble and published by iUniverse. This book was released on with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Corean Words and Phrases by : John W. Hodge
Download or read book Corean Words and Phrases written by John W. Hodge and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Gook in the Book by : Linda Leggett
Download or read book The Gook in the Book written by Linda Leggett and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could this happen to you? Gooks are known to be very playful. Suddenly, a Gook jumped out of my book to play with me. Then things got really wild as he pulled me in with some of his tricks. How to get that Gook back into the book ended up as a surprise by the Gook himself. A Read-to-me or Read-to-Myself Book.
Download or read book Deceived written by Pat Hale and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The noble people was the name given the Aryans who lived south of the Medes and east of Elam. The Greeks called them PERSIANS. To lie, cheat or steal was forbidden among them. More than 2,500 YEARS AGO their great king prayed that his country be protected from war, famine and THE LIE. Wars and famine came and went, still the Persian place in history was maintained. Only THROUGH LIES is that HISTORY BEING IGNORED AND DESTROYED by the Islamic Republic. Persian Horses, Arabian Gulf (?), the TALES of the Persian Nights; all points of Persian Pride are in danger. Since lying for the sake of Islam has been justified, even praised as clever, the Islamic Republic of Iran is being maintained by LIES. They want all things Persian to go away forever and be replaced by Arabian radicalism. DECEIVED is a story of change and regression, honor and deceit. It is the tale of a modern-day noble Persian who lived in Iran from the early 1900s until the Islamic Revolution in 1979, and the American patriot who befriended him. One was reared to be a sheik, ride horses, and lead caravans across the desert. The other was born in Tenessee, served in the Korean War and eliminated threats to American interests; without question. Fate intervened to change both their lives forever and lead to the beginning of the end for Persia. Although it is historical FICTION, some of the events were actual happenings told to the author by those who were there. Pat Hale has a Masters degree in Divinity from Vanderbilt University in Nashville and is, currently, working on a History Masters at American Public University online. Pat resides in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Book Synopsis Some of My Best Friends by : Emily Bernard
Download or read book Some of My Best Friends written by Emily Bernard and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-08-03 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays in which notable and lesser-known figures examine the complexities and importance of interracial friendships.
Download or read book Bloods written by Wallace Terry and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 1985-07-12 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • The national bestseller that tells the truth about the Vietnam War from the black soldiers’ perspective. An oral history unlike any other, Bloods features twenty black men who tell the story of how members of their race were sent off to Vietnam in disproportionate numbers, and of the special test of patriotism they faced. Told in voices no reader will soon forget, Bloods is a must-read for anyone who wants to put the Vietnam experience in historical, cultural, and political perspective. Praise for Bloods “Superb . . . a portrait not just of warfare and warriors but of beleaguered patriotism and pride. The violence recalled in Bloods is chilling. . . . On most of its pages hope prevails. Some of these men have witnessed the very worst that people can inflict on one another. . . . Their experience finally transcends race; their dramatic monologues bear witness to humanity.”—Time “[Wallace] Terry’s oral history captures the very essence of war, at both its best and worst. . . . [He] has done a great service for all Americans with Bloods. Future historians will find his case studies extremely useful, and they will be hard pressed to ignore the role of blacks, as too often has been the case in past wars.”—The Washington Post Book World “Terry set out to write an oral history of American blacks who fought for their country in Vietnam, but he did better than that. He wrote a compelling portrait of Americans in combat, and used his words so that the reader—black or white—knows the soldiers as men and Americans, their race overshadowed by the larger humanity Terry conveys. . . . This is not light reading, but it is literature with the ring of truth that shows the reader worlds through the eyes of others. You can’t ask much more from a book than that.”—Associated Press “Bloods is a major contribution to the literature of this war. For the first time a book has detailed the inequities blacks faced at home and on the battlefield. Their war stories involve not only Vietnam, but Harlem, Watts, Washington D.C. and small-town America.”—Atlanta Journal-Constitution “I wish Bloods were longer, and I hope it makes the start of a comprehensive oral and analytic history of blacks in Vietnam. . . . They see their experiences as Americans, and as blacks who live in, but are sometimes at odds with, America. The results are sometimes stirring, sometimes appalling, but this three-tiered perspective heightens and shadows every tale.”—The Village Voice “Terry was in Vietnam from 1967 through 1969. . . . In this book he has backtracked, Studs Terkel–like, and found twenty black veterans of the Vietnam War and let them spill their guts. And they do; oh, how they do. The language is raw, naked, a brick through a window on a still night. At the height of tension a sweet story, a soft story, drops into view. The veterans talk about fighting two wars: Vietnam and racism. They talk about fighting alongside the Ku Klux Klan.”—The Boston Globe
Download or read book Hell's Blessing written by Martin Kaynan and published by Martin Kaynan. This book was released on 2012-06-11 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's Vietnam, 1969. After a Vietcong ambush, Navy SEAL MEL STONE recovers from a prolonged coma in a Montagnard village with no memory and an aging process that ended at age twenty-two. Decades latter as his memory returns bit-by-bit, he realizes he has developed a miraculous medical condition. What some consider a blessing becomes a living hell when powerful men hunt him across four continents to tear the secret from Mel, dead or alive. He evolves from a SEAL's aggressive militancy, to Buddhist pacifism, to POW despair, to the terror of a fugitive-until he reverts to being a warrior--protecting the love of his life. Fast paced, with intrigue, romance, and action, yet lightened by flippant dialogue in the face of peril, Hell's Blessing describes the price paid by egos attempting to tamper with Mother Nature
Book Synopsis TREASON by : Susana Rodriguez Concejo
Download or read book TREASON written by Susana Rodriguez Concejo and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-09-11 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treason is a novel in which the suspense is increasing exponentially with every page, until the end of the book where the suspense is maximum.
Book Synopsis Korean in Plain English by : Boye De Mente
Download or read book Korean in Plain English written by Boye De Mente and published by Contemporary Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 1,200 high-frequency words have been romanized in plain English illustrated in a wealth of sample sentences. Includes a grammar section and many insights into Korean culture.
Download or read book Slant written by Laura E. Williams and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2008 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lauren, a Korean-American adoptee, has been saving for years to pay for a special eye surgery that will deepen the crease of her eyelids. However, Lauren wonders whether the operation will make her more confident and popular, or if she can find that confidence within herself.
Book Synopsis Fortune Favours the Brave by : A.J. Barker
Download or read book Fortune Favours the Brave written by A.J. Barker and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2001-03-15 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All too little remembered today, the Korean War was bitterly fought out under atrocious conditions of weather and terrain. Greatly outnumbered by their Communist Chinese and North Korean enemy, the United Nations forces fought with extraordinary resolve and gallantry. The Hook, the name given to a prominent ridge on the Peninsula, saw more blood spilt than any other feature in this prolonged and grisly war. Not surprisingly it became known as 'the bloody Hood'.The two costliest battles are described in detail in Fortune Favours The Brave, a classic account of the war. Both involved British infantry battalions of 29 Commonwealth Brigade. In November 1952, The Black Watch saw off a major Chinese attack against all odds. In May 1953 it was the turn of 1st Battalion, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment to face what must have seemed an overwhelming onslaught. Along a 1,000 yard front the greatest concentration of artillery fire since the Great War was brought to bear on Chinese human-wave attacks.In the morning the Dukes still held the ground despite heavy casualties. This feat of arms, achieved by battalion made up mainly of young National Servicemen from yorkshire, ranks among the finest in the long and glorious history of the British Army.
Book Synopsis The Proud Bastards by : E. Michael Helms
Download or read book The Proud Bastards written by E. Michael Helms and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-02-20 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting memoir of one marine rifleman's journey from Parris Island through the hell of Vietnam and the Tet Offensive with the Second Battalion, Fourth Marines. In 1967, a young E. Michael Helms boarded a bus to the legendary grounds of Parris Island, where mere boys were forged into hardened Marines—and sent to the jungles of Vietnam. It was the first stop on a journey that would forever change him—and by its end, he would be awarded the Purple Heart Medal, Combat Action Ribbon, Presidential Unit Citation, Navy Unit Citation, and the Vietnam Cross of Gallantry. From the brutality and endurance-straining ordeals of boot camp to the endless horror of combat, Helms paints a vivid, unflinchingly realistic depiction of the lives of Marines in training and under fire. As powerful and compelling a battlefield memoir as any ever written, Helms's “grunt's-eye” view of the Vietnam War, the men who fought it, and the mindless chaos that surrounded it, is truly a modern military classic.
Book Synopsis Haunted by a Shadow; Or, Hunted Down by : George B. Chase
Download or read book Haunted by a Shadow; Or, Hunted Down written by George B. Chase and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Letters to Louise by : Russell J Jewett
Download or read book Letters to Louise written by Russell J Jewett and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-06-07 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must read for anyone who was in Vietnam or has a loved one deployed to a combat area. An engaging story of a young life, a challenging tale of life in the military service during the Vietnam war, and a heartwarming love affair is all set to captivate anyone’s heart. Letters to Louise is an autobiography about a naive young man coming from a very stable and protected environment enlisting in the navy. As a hospital corpsman, he became a combat medic with the US Marines. This memoir recounts his life in the military service where he experienced living, eating, fighting and sleeping in the mud and jungles of South Vietnam. But more than that, it also chronicles the memories of events and includes the actual text of letters written over a period of four years to his girlfriend who was still back home in high school while he was stationed in the United States, Japan, and Vietnam. Through Letters to Louise, readers will find an interesting journey of life and love through the story of the author. They will find this book entertaining and inspiring while they engross themselves into the pages filled with thrills, excitement, passion, dreams, and love.
Book Synopsis Like Killing Rats by : Cpl. Osborn R. E.
Download or read book Like Killing Rats written by Cpl. Osborn R. E. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Corps, Republic of South Vietnam, bloody 1968 Live the harrowing highs and traumatic lows of one marine youth who finds his seven-month “in country” war-weary self carrying a field radio burden for a suspect glory-minded forward observer artillery officer who’d yet to learn the undeclared war was a government sham, a political ruse that would one tragic day force the FO team’s “command structured” relationship to a “who’s responsible” head over a short round of friendly artillery, which put their field commander permanently out of action. The resolve-testing war with the North Vietnamese Army, the near immobilizing, ever-sweltering jungle mountains and sandy flatlands, the thought-friendly villages, the two of our people executed, the four enemy prisoners executed in turn, as well as President Johnson’s bombing halts and retaking enemy positions are the nerve-pickling building blocks shackled themselves together like a confrontation-packed novel about combat-weary vets not taught to run from a political fight either. Experience the combative days, literally sweat the chancy nights, devour the popular songs . . . when lucky enough to hear such haunting “sounds” as “Get Off My Cloud” by the Rolling Stones. For one can’t simply “throw their rifle down and quit!” The corps will toss said shameless in the brig for untold years; though a panicked one can steal away into the masking jungle and surrender, yet hard-core enemy will put a bullet through a deserter’s enlisted head like a pesky bunker rat, unless one’s a commissioned officer, then the VC “might” keep said alive as a “peace”-bargaining chip. One may understand the historic reason why many the combat marine during such oh-so-questioning times likened themselves to the politically used, if not correct, title of Uncle Sam’s misguided children—know what it’s truly like to stalk and be stalked, kill or be killed, fear and be feared.
Download or read book Jangala written by Sharon Rose Anderson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliant, native-American protest poet, Kore, follows her egocentric lover to Vegas where he holds blockbuster-writing seminars in a glitzy hotel on the "Strip". The voyeuristic Carlton improvises a lover's quarrel in his workshop, choosing Kore and Nev, the brooding class pariah, secretly back from Vietnam, to roleplay. When the antiwar activist, pampered by her rich, white parents, angers the down-and-out Nev, the skit erupts in violence, and Carlton bans the two from class. Kore heads for the mountains with Nev where he lives in abandoned mining caves and stashes stolen ammo to blow up the government that sent him to Nam. The tough, in-your-face Kore and the vet, haunted by the death of a woman he loved, face each other alone in the wilderness where their conflicting needs explode into a nightmarish battle, and Kore must choose between the barren, rocky road of love for the sorrowing Nev or the easy life with Carlton in return for slavish idolatry. A dark, gritty memoir-like novel, both a psychological thriller and a powerful love story, told with rare honesty in riveting prose, confronts the huge emotional cost of today's guerrilla warfare on the young men and women thrust into its hit-and-run horror.
