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Reproduction of the original: The Young Lieutenant by Oliver Optic
Author : Oliver Optic
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 30,51 MB
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3732685179
Reproduction of the original: The Young Lieutenant by Oliver Optic
Author : Oliver Optic
Publisher :
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 42,56 MB
Release : 1865
Category : American fiction
ISBN :
Sequel to The soldier boy. Sequel: Fighting Joe.
Author : Oliver Optic
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 25,14 MB
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The Young Lieutenant follows the life of young Lieutenant Somers, an army officer in Massachusetts who suddenly gets in a deadly train crash. Excerpt: "If Lieutenant Somers needs any further introduction to the reader, we may briefly add, that he was a native of Pinchbrook, a town near Boston, in the State of Massachusetts. He was now entering his eighteenth year, and had enlisted in the great army of the Union as a private, with an earnest and patriotic desire to serve his imperiled country in her death-grapple with treason and traitors."
Author : B.R. Stateham
Publisher : Next Chapter
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,19 MB
Release : 2023-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Jake Reynolds is an art thief. A master artist who can create an exact replica of any famous canvas, in intricate detail. So precise and elegant is his work that even today, hanging on the walls of the most prestigious museums and art galleries around the world, are some of his brilliant recreations. It's the early 20th century, and this brilliant criminal is destined to rub shoulders with the famous and infamous. From Churchill to Mengele, Wright brothers to Picasso. In one fashion or another, he would know them all. But for a lucky and daring man, Jake is plagued with one unlucky, debilitating weakness. Every time he stumbles upon the corpse of a murder victim, a peculiar sense of outrage takes over him. Even though he's a criminal himself, something within him rebels at the thought of a murderer getting away after committing such a heinous crime. Compelled by this, Jake is determined to find any killer that comes across his way, and bring them to justice. And when they do, Jake has no choice. The hunt is on. Whoever said Fate smiled upon the unlucky? A compelling historical mystery, 'Death Of A Young Lieutenant' is the first book in B.R. Stateham's Jake Reynolds Mysteries series.
Author : Orton Jones
Publisher :
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 15,1 MB
Release : 1994-11-01
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 9780941092319
Author : Kate Grenville
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 15,14 MB
Release : 2010-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 080219768X
A young astronomer in colonial Australia faces tragedy on the ground in this follow-up to the award-winning The Secret River—“A triumph. Read it at once” (The Sunday Times, UK). A stunning follow-up to her Commonwealth Writers’ Prize-winning book, The Secret River, Grenville’s The Lieutenant is a gripping story of friendship, self-discovery, and the power of language set along the unspoiled shores of 1788 New South Wales, Australia. As a boy, Daniel Rooke was an outsider. Ridiculed in school for his intellect and misunderstood by his parents, he finds a path for himself in the British Navy—and in his love for astronomy. As a young lieutenant, Daniel joins a voyage to Australia. And while his countrymen struggle to control their cargo of convicts and communicate with nearby Aboriginal tribes, Daniel constructs an observatory to chart the stars and begin the work he prays will make him famous. Out on his isolated point, Daniel becomes involved with the local Aborigines, forging an intimate connection with one girl that will change the course of his life. But when his compatriots come into conflict with the indigenous population, Daniel must turn away from the stars and declare his loyalties on the ground.
Author : Jeff Danziger
Publisher : Steerforth
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 15,9 MB
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1586422731
"A must-read war memoir… with zero punches pulled, related by one of the most incisive observers of the American political scene." —KIRKUS (starred review) "Funny, biting, thoughtful and wholly original." —Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They Carried Jeff Danziger, one of the leading political cartoonists of his generation, captures the fear, sorrow, absurdity, and unintended but inevitable consequences of war with dark humor and penetrating moral clarity. If there is any discipline at the start of wars it dissipates as the soldiers themselves become aware of the pointlessness of what they are being told to do. A conversation with a group of today’s military age men and women about America’s involvement in Vietnam inspired Jeff Danziger to write about his own wartime experiences: “War is interesting,” he reveals, “if you can avoid getting killed, and don’t mind loud noises.” Fans of his cartooning will recognize his mordant humor applied to his own wartime training and combat experiences: “I learned, and I think most veterans learn, that making people or nations do something by bombing or sending in armed troops usually fails.” Near the end of his telling, Danziger invites his audience—in particular the young friends who inspired him to write this informative and rollicking memoir—to ponder: “What would you do? . . . Could you summon the bravery—or the internal resistance—to simply refuse to be part of the whole idiotic theater of the war? . . . Or would you be like me?”
Author : I︠U︡riĭ Nikolaevich Tyni︠a︡nov
Publisher : Marsilio Publishers
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 35,11 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Barbara Frances comtesse de Curson
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 46,47 MB
Release : 1915
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN :
Author : lady Catharine Long
Publisher :
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 28,61 MB
Release : 1856
Category :
ISBN :