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One of only two Confederate generals who are buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Author : Edward G. Longacre
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 23,9 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1597974056
One of only two Confederate generals who are buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Author : Georg Gaertner
Publisher : Scarborough House
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 37,59 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : John Crawford
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 30,97 MB
Release : 2006-04-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1101217391
In the tradition of Michael Herr's Dispatches, a National Guardsman's account of the war in Iraq. John Crawford joined the Florida National Guard to pay for his college tuition, willingly exchanging one weekend a month and two weeks a year for a free education. But in Autumn 2002, one semester short of graduating and newly married—in fact, on his honeymoon—he was called to active duty and sent to the front lines in Iraq. Crawford and his unit spent months upon months patrolling the streets of Baghdad, occupying a hostile city. During the breaks between patrols, Crawford began recording what he and his fellow soldiers witnessed and experienced. Those stories became The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell—a haunting and powerful, compellingly honest book that imparts the on-the-ground reality of waging the war in Iraq, and marks as the introduction of a mighty literary voice forged in the most intense of circumstances.
Author : ROBIN ABRAHAM
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,29 MB
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1684669200
The Last Letter is the love story of an Army officer since his school times, who did everything for the respect of his love. One look and John fell in love with Veronica. A love so deep that his life revolved around their promises. From the school classrooms to cafes to the corridors of NDA and across cities, John follows the path of love, yearning for Veronica. His aim is to become an Army Officer and marry Veronica. Veronica loves and supports him but will she wait for him? Do circumstances keep them apart or can love bridge the distance? The passion and ambition that drives him almost ruins him, until he realises the meaning of true love. Forgetting his passion, aim and himself in the struggle to earn respect in his own eyes, he wants to keep his promises but can he? When did he write letters? And even if he wrote letters, why was there a last letter? Let’s find out and go back to his school days………
Author : Sara Jane Arnett
Publisher : High-Pitched Hum Publishing
Page : pages
File Size : 18,42 MB
Release : 2012
Category :
ISBN : 9781934666876
Author : Nataniel Aguirre
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 35,32 MB
Release : 1999-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0199938873
Long considered a classic in Bolivia, Juan de la Rosa tells the story of a young boy's coming of age during the violent and tumultuous years of Bolivia's struggle for independence. Indeed, in this remarkable novel, Juan's search for his personal identity functions as an allegory of Bolivia's search for its identity as a nation. Set in the early 1800s, the novel is narrated by one of the last surviving Bolivian rebels, octogenarian Juan de la Rosa. Juan recreates his childhood in the rebellious town of Cochabamba, and with it a large cast of full bodied, Dickensian characters both heroic and malevolent. The larger cultural dislocations brought about by Bolivia's political upheaval are echoed in those experienced by Juan, whose mother's untimely death sets off a chain of unpredictable events that propel him into the fiery crucible of the South American Independence Movement. Outraged by Juan's outspokenness against Spanish rule and his awakening political consciousness, his loyalist guardians banish him to the countryside, where he witnesses firsthand the Spaniards' violent repression and rebels' valiant resistance that crystallize both his personal destiny and that of his country. In Sergio Gabriel Waisman's fluid translation, English readers have access to Juan de la Rosa for the very first time.
Author : Karen DeYoung
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 40,6 MB
Release : 2007-11-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1400075645
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The definitive biography of Colin Powell, from his Bronx childhood to his military career to his controversial tenure as secretary of state, with an updated afterword detailing his life after the Bush White House. Over the course of a lifetime of service to his country, Colin Powell became a national hero, a beacon of wise leadership and one of the most trusted political figures in America. In Soldier, the award-winning Washington Post editor Karen DeYoung takes us from Powell’s humble roots as the son of Jamaican immigrants to his meteoric rise through the military ranks during the Cold War and Desert Storm to his agonizing deliberations over whether to run for president. Culminating in his stint as Secretary of State in the Bush Administration and his role in making the case for war with Iraq, this is a sympathetic but objective portrait of a great but fallible man.
Author : Rich Hawkins
Publisher :
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 46,62 MB
Release : 2014-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780992883836
A pestilence has fallen across the land. Run and hide. Seek shelter. Do not panic. The infected WILL find you. When Great Britain is hit by a devastating epidemic, four old friends must cross a chaotic, war-torn England to reach their families. But between them and home, the country is teeming with those afflicted by the virus - cannibalistic, mutated monsters whose only desires are to infect and feed. THE LAST PLAGUE is here.
Author : Rebecca West
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 10,1 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Man-woman relationships
ISBN :
Author : Tom Wiener
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,15 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780792262077
Contains thirty-seven narratives, drawn from letters, diaries, private memoirs, and oral histories in which American veterans describe their experiences serving in conflicts from the First World War to the twenty-first-century war in Iraq.