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Running Toward the Guns

Author : Chanty Jong

Publisher : McFarland

Page : 167 pages

File Size : 47,86 MB

Release : 2020-12-23

Category : History

ISBN : 1476682534

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Running Toward the Guns is an autobiographical story and an accounting of Chanty Jong's personal inner self-healing journey that led to a successfully unexpected discovery. Jong survived the Cambodian genocide during the Khmer Rouge regime of 1975-1979, witnessing the horrors of the killing fields, torture, starvation and much more. Her vivid narrative recounts the suffering under the Khmer Rouge, her perseverance to survive physically and emotionally and her perilous escape to America. Her memoir relives the traumatic memories of her experiences and traces her arduous personal transformation toward a life of inner peace through intensive meditation.



Run to the Sound of the Guns

Author : Nicholas Moore

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 338 pages

File Size : 42,94 MB

Release : 2018-11-29

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1472827074

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As part of an elite special operations unit at the fighting edge of the Global War on Terrorism, Nicholas Moore spent over a decade with the US Army's 75th Ranger Regiment on the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq. In this compelling biography, a detailed narrative of gruelling life on the ground combines with accounts of some of the most dramatic search and rescue operations of the period to tell the true story of life on the line in the War on Terror. Charting his rise from private to senior non-commissioned officer, this title follows Moore as he embarks on a series of dangerous deployments, engaging in brutal street combat and traversing inhospitable terrain in pursuit of Taliban fighters and Iraq's Most Wanted. Including revelatory first-hand accounts of high-profile special operations missions including the tense rescue of Private First Class Jessica Lynch and the search and rescue mission for US Navy Seal Marcus Luttrell, Moore recounts, in vivid detail, the realities of life on the front line.



Running Guns

Author : Lora Lumpe

Publisher : Zed Books

Page : 264 pages

File Size : 15,47 MB

Release : 2000-07

Category : Political Science

ISBN :

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This volume is about the guns that fuel the huge toll of deaths in the world's most bloody conflicts at the turn of the century. Whether it is Africa, Sri Lanka or even Chechnya and Afghanistan, it is not heavy weaponry or hi-tech devices that kill the most people, but the flood of cheap, easy to get, small arms that has swept over so many countries in the 80s and 90s. Crime rates involving guns within countries have also soared, as South Africa and Kenya, for example, have experienced. Yet a lot of this cross-border arms trade is illegal. So much so that several governments, including the United States, Canada and Mexico, are now pressing for rapid negotiation of a new global treaty on illegal trafficking in small arms.



American Gun

Author : Chris Kyle

Publisher : Harper Collins

Page : 298 pages

File Size : 49,19 MB

Release : 2013-06-04

Category : History

ISBN : 0062242733

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING FOLLOW-UP TO AMERICAN SNIPER Join Chris Kyle on a journedy to discover “how 10 firearms changed United States history” (New York Times Book Review) Drawing on his legendary firearms knowledge and combat experience, U.S. Navy SEAL and #1 bestselling author of American Sniper Chris Kyle dramatically chronicles the story of America—from the Revolution to the present—through the lens of ten iconic guns and the remarkable heroes who used them to shape history: the American long rifle, Spencer repeater, Colt .45 revolver, Winchester 1873 rifle, Springfield M1903 rifle, M1911 pistol, Thompson submachine gun, M1 Garand, .38 Special police revolver, and the M16 rifle platform Kyle himself used. American Gun is a sweeping epic of bravery, adventure, invention, and sacrifice. Featuring a foreword and afterword by Taya Kyle and illustrated with more than 100 photographs, this new paperback edition features a bonus chapter, “The Eleventh Gun,” on shotguns, derringers, and the Browning M2 machine gun.



Give Us More Guns

Author : Mark Shaw

Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers

Page : 252 pages

File Size : 20,58 MB

Release : 2021-03-24

Category : True Crime

ISBN : 1868428796

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'With remarkable courage, insight and access, Mark Shaw takes the reader into the darkest corners of South Africa's ganglands.' – Mandy Wiener The assassination of police investigator Charl Kinnear in Cape Town in 2020 was yet one more in a spate of murders related to the so-called 'guns to gangs' saga, in which state weapons are sold to South Africa's criminal underworld. It began in 2007 when Colonel Christiaan Prinsloo and his cronies began selling thousands of decommissioned police weapons to gang lords. Prinsloo's motive: to fund his son's university fees. The sale of weapons to criminals, which the police service has tried to downplay, has resulted in a killing spree of unprecedented proportions. Cape Town is now one of the most violent places on earth, and in 2019 the army was called in to patrol gang-infested areas. Give us more Guns, based on hundreds of interviews with police, experts and the gangsters themselves, tells the story of this callous crime for the first time. Mark Shaw explores how the guns get into the hands of South Africa's crime bosses and describes the bloodshed that ensues. He also uncovers accounts of rampant corruption within the police and in the state's gun-licensing system, probing the government failure that has been instrumental in arming the country's gangsters.



Run To Earth

Author : SF Mazhar

Publisher : SF MAZHAR

Page : 286 pages

File Size : 46,1 MB

Release : 2014-02-10

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN :

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He never knew how different he was. Until his fourteenth birthday. When his life changed. Forever. When Aaron Adams sneaks out to celebrate his fourteenth birthday, he has no idea a tragedy awaits him. After a shocking secret is revealed, Aaron is forced to leave his world and enter...a new one. Thrust into a world he doesn't understand, Aaron struggles to find his place in a society that seems to despise him. Desperate to find why his name is so fervently hated, Aaron sets out on a path of discovery – only to find demons, dangerous hybrids and more secrets; ones that threaten everything Aaron thought he knew.



Chutes, Beer, & Bullets

Author : Jesse C. Holder

Publisher : AuthorHouse

Page : 219 pages

File Size : 13,43 MB

Release : 2012-05-19

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1468575104

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Chutes, Beer, & Bullets: Not Your Grandpa's War Story is a humor filled narrative that takes place during the peak of The War on Terror. Follow Jesse is this uncut and unscripted adventure as he leads you through United States Army Airborne School, Europe, and ultimately to Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. Chutes, Beer, & Bullets is assured to have you laughing, sighing, looking away, and possibly even shedding a tear as you connect with the real life characters within. No doubt you will be longing for more as you turn the final page.





Ed McGivern's Book of Fast and Fancy Revolver Shooting

Author : Ed McGivern

Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

Page : 500 pages

File Size : 12,35 MB

Release : 2007-10-17

Category : Antiques & Collectibles

ISBN : 9781602390867

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Ed McGivern needs no introduction to gun enthusiasts and serious marksmen. For more than 50 years he was revered as one of the top authorities in the field of small firearms. A world champion marksmen who made The Guinness Book of World Records, he trained scores of law enforcement officers and developed a system of teaching that is as effective today as it was when this book was originally published. It resulted from years of experimentation and research conducted by McGivern, who utilized electric timers and other devices to determine the angles and techniques that would produce the fastest, most accurate revolver shooting. Packed with handgun lore and original photographs from the first edition, this much-sought-after classic contains a wealth of facts for marksmen everywhere.



Guns Will Keep Us Together

Author : Leslie Langtry

Publisher : Gemma Halliday Publishing

Page : 148 pages

File Size : 20,94 MB

Release : 2015-01-13

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 098541183X

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From National Bestselling author, Leslie Langtry... Dakota Bombay prided himself on his Bond-like image—bad-guy killer by day, lady-killer by night. But his life gets both shaken and stirred by an irate grandmother demanding a marketing plan for the family assassination business, a precocious six-year-old son he never knew he had, and a mysterious redheaded funeral director who's got him intrigued in more ways than one. Suddenly the perennial playboy is knee deep in pie charts and play-dates, while juggling the demands of the not-so-family-friendly family business. Throw in a team of rival assassins, and Dak's dreams of living trigger-happily ever after just may be put on ice. Greatest Hits Mysteries: 'Scuse Me While I Kill This Guy – book #1 Guns Will Keep Us Together – book #2 Stand By Your Hitman – book #3 I Shot You Babe – book #4 Paradise by the Rifles Sights – book #5 Snuff the Magic Dragon - book #6 My Heroes Have Always Been Hitmen – book #7 Four Killing Birds – a holiday short story Have Yourself a Deadly Little Christmas – a holiday short story What critics are saying: "Langtry's ability to make this lethal and outrageous clan both funny and somewhat endearing is a testament to her style. Who knew the assassination business could produce so many laughs…" ~ RT BOOKReviews "If you need a really good laugh, then get Guns Will Keep Us Together. The characters and plot emphasize a funny, even wacky view of life and a guaranteed happily ever after." -Romance Reviews Today "This novel is uproariously funny and will have you chuckling until the last page is turned…Guns Will Keep Us Together proves to be a definite keeper novel as it is one of the funniest romances I have read in a long, long time." -Romance Reader at Heart "Another wicked blend of action, romance, mystery and dark humor, Guns Will Keep Us Together gives readers bullets, buff guys and bad boys…I hope the Bombay family continues on with their deadly misadventures." -Newsandsentinel.com