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Book Synopsis Our Casualty, and Other Stories by : George A. Birmingham
Download or read book Our Casualty, and Other Stories written by George A. Birmingham and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Our Casualty, and Other Stories" by George A. Birmingham. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Book Synopsis Our Casualty and Other Stories... by : George A. Birmingham
Download or read book Our Casualty and Other Stories... written by George A. Birmingham and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book First Casualty written by Toby Harnden and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning journalist reveals the dramatic true story of the CIA's Team Alpha, the first Americans to be dropped behind enemy lines in Afghanistan after 9/11. America is reeling; Al-Qaeda has struck and thousands are dead. The country scrambles to respond, but the Pentagon has no plan for Afghanistan—where Osama bin Laden masterminded the attack and is protected by the Taliban. Instead, the CIA steps forward to spearhead the war. Eight CIA officers are dropped into the mountains of northern Afghanistan on October 17, 2001. They are Team Alpha, an eclectic band of linguists, tribal experts, and elite warriors: the first Americans to operate inside Taliban territory. Their covert mission is to track down Al- Qaeda and stop the terrorists from infiltrating the United States again. First Casualty places you with Team Alpha as the CIA rides into battle on horseback alongside the warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum. In Washington, DC, few trust that the CIA men, the Green Berets, and the Americans’ outnumbered Afghan allies can prevail before winter sets in. On the ground, Team Alpha is undeterred. The Taliban is routed but hatches a plot with Al-Qaeda to hit back. Hundreds of suicidal fighters, many hiding weapons, fake a surrender and are transported to Qala-i Jangi—the “Fort of War.” Team Alpha’s Mike Spann, an ex-Marine, and David Tyson, a polyglot former Central Asian studies academic, seize America’s initial opportunity to extract intelligence from men trained by bin Laden—among them a young Muslim convert from California. The prisoners revolt and one CIA officer falls—the first casualty in America’s longest war, which will last two decades. The other CIA man shoots dead the Al-Qaeda jihadists attacking his comrade. To survive, he must fight his way out against overwhelming odds. Award-winning author Toby Harnden gained unprecedented access to all living Team Alpha members and every level of the CIA. Superbly researched, First Casualty draws on extensive interviews, secret documents, and deep reporting inside Afghanistan. As gripping as any adventure novel, yet intimate and profoundly moving, it tells how America found a winning strategy only to abandon it. Harnden reveals that the lessons of early victory and the haunting foretelling it contained—unreliable allies, ethnic rivalries, suicide attacks, and errant US bombs—were ignored, tragically fueling a twenty-year conflict. "Masterful, complex, and heartfelt, from the deeply personal to the critically strategic. Captures many lessons on many levels." —Ambassador Hank Crumpton, former senior CIA officer
Book Synopsis Our Casualty and Other Stories by : A. G. Birmingham
Download or read book Our Casualty and Other Stories written by A. G. Birmingham and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On American Soil written by Jack Hamann and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the 1944 lynching murder of an Italian POW at Seattle's Fort Lawton, the international outcry that followed, and the court-martial, the largest of World War II, that accused more than forty African-American soldiers of the crime.
Download or read book Final Salute written by Jim Sheeler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning story, Jim Sheeler's unprecedented look at the way our country honors its dead; Final SaluteIs a stunning tribute to the brave troops who have lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan and to the families who continue to mourn them They are the troops that nobody wants to see, carrying a message that no military family ever wants to hear. It begins with a knock at the door. "The curtains pull away. They come to the door. And they know. They always know," said Major Steve Beck. Since the start of the war in Iraq, marines like Major Beck found themselves thrown into a different kind of mission: casualty notification. It is a job Major Beck never asked for and one for which he received no training. They are given no set rules, only impersonal guidelines. Marines are trained to kill, to break down doors, but casualty notification is a mission without weapons. For Beck, the mission meant learning each dead marine's name and nickname, touching the toys they grew up with and reading the letters they wrote home. He held grieving mothers in long embraces, absorbing their muffled cries into the dark blue shoulder of his uniform. He stitched himself into the fabric of their lives, in the simple hope that his compassion might help alleviate at least the smallest piece of their pain. Sometimes he returned home to his own family unable to keep from crying in the dark. In Final Salute, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jim Sheeler weaves together the stories of the fallen and of the broken homes they have left behind. It is also the story of Major Steve Beck and his unflagging efforts to help heal the wounds of those left grieving. Above all, it is a moving tribute to our troops, putting faces to the mostly anonymous names of our courageous heroes, and to the brave families who have made the ultimate sacrifice for this country. Final Saluteis the achingly beautiful, devastatingly honest story of the true toll of war. After the knock on the door, the story has only begun.
Book Synopsis Among Our Books by : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Download or read book Among Our Books written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Fiction, a Finding List of Novels, Stories and Other Forms of Prose Fiction in English for Adults in the Chicago Public Library, January 1, 1921 by : Chicago Public Library
Download or read book Fiction, a Finding List of Novels, Stories and Other Forms of Prose Fiction in English for Adults in the Chicago Public Library, January 1, 1921 written by Chicago Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Mermaid's Prophecy and Other Stories by : T. Crofton Croker
Download or read book The Mermaid's Prophecy and Other Stories written by T. Crofton Croker and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Varla Ventura, fan favorite on Huffington Post’s Weird News, frequent guest on Coast to Coast, and bestselling author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces a new Weiser Books Collection of forgotten crypto-classics. Magical Creatures is a hair-raising herd of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla’s affectionate and unerring eye for the fantastic. From T.Crofton Croker's funereal tale of a graven world under the sea to the traditional chant of the Mermaid's Prophecy, this collection will charm any lover of the ladies (and gentlemen) of the deep blue sea.
Book Synopsis Supplement, 1953 by : Isabel S. Monro
Download or read book Supplement, 1953 written by Isabel S. Monro and published by H. W. Wilson. This book was released on 1953-12 with total page 1576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Short Story Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 1562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quinquennial supplements,1950/1954-1979/1983, compiled by Estelle A. Fidell, and others, published 1956-1984.
Book Synopsis Our Casualty and Other Stories by : George A Birmingham
Download or read book Our Casualty and Other Stories written by George A Birmingham and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Casualty and Other Stories George A. Birmingham
Book Synopsis The Short Story and the First World War by : Ann-Marie Einhaus
Download or read book The Short Story and the First World War written by Ann-Marie Einhaus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering a range of topics, settings and styles, the book offers the first comprehensive study of short fiction from the First World War.
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Book Synopsis Our Casualty, and Other Stories by : George A. Birmingham
Download or read book Our Casualty, and Other Stories written by George A. Birmingham and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Northern Iron by : George A. Birmingham
Download or read book The Northern Iron written by George A. Birmingham and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Northern Iron" by George A. Birmingham. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Book Synopsis The Smuggler's Cave by : George A. Birmingham
Download or read book The Smuggler's Cave written by George A. Birmingham and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Smuggler's Cave by George A. Birmingham relates the story of the Hailey Compton Village Pageant, a show where beauty contestants mingled with statesmen causing local scandal and outrage in the newspapers at the time.
