Hogs In The Shadows

Author : Milo S. Afong
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780425217511
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book HOGs in the Shadows written by Milo S. Afong and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author draws on his own combat experiences to offer an insider's look at the role of a HOG (Hunter of Gunman) sniper in Operation Iraqi Freedom, detailing the work of a Marine Scout/Sniper team and the perils they confronted on the battlefield.

Author : Milo S. Afong
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 042525920X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hogs in the Shadows written by Milo S. Afong and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a special breed of Marine for whom the prey is the enemy—and every day is hunting season. This Marine is a HOG—a Hunter of Gunmen. These are the gripping, gut-wrenching true stories of those Marines in Iraq whose sole purpose on the battlefield is to eliminate the enemy—one combatant at a time. Every time a HOG puts his eye to the glass, it means death for his target. Here, former Scout/Sniper Team leader Milo S. Afong reveals what it takes to be a Hunter of Gunmen. He describes the intensive training that turns expert infantrymen into one-shot life-takers, how they operate in the field—and under fire—and how HOGs get the job done under any conditions. From sniping from a rooftop in Baghdad, to unknowingly being surrounded in a palm grove in the city of Hit, these stories will transport you right into the heat of the desert war, where one squeeze of the trigger can make all the difference.

Author : Milo S. Afong
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780425223826
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hogs in the Shadows written by Milo S. Afong and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author draws on his own combat experiences and those of others to furnish an insider's look at the role of a HOG (Hunter of Gunman) sniper in Operation Iraqi Freedom, detailing the work of a Marine Scout/Sniper team and the perils they confront on the battlefield. Reprint.

Author : Milo S. Afong
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0425269426
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hunters written by Milo S. Afong and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the War on Terror, there are no set battles. The fanatical enemy adheres to no warrior code or international law. Their only desire is to kill—or be killed. That’s where the snipers of the U.S. Marines, Army, and Navy SEALs come in . . . Here, in their own words, are the compelling true stories of the snipers whose sole purpose is to eliminate the enemy with a single bullet. From Iraq to Afghanistan, this is life and death as seen through the scope of a high-powered rifle. These snipers’ stories illustrate the mental discipline and psychological strength that they must possess to accomplish their missions, the effect a sniper’s skill and reputation has on the enemy, and how they deal with the stark reality of their work after the target is neutralized—and after a sniper returns to civilian life. Part wartime chronicle, part psychological exploration of the warrior mind, and part exposé into a secretive brotherhood of military snipers, Hunters is a must-read for anyone who wants to learn the truth about war when it’s fought one kill at a time. Includes photographs

Author : Milo S. Afong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781322769158
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Author : Peter Matthiessen
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 1588368246
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadow Country written by Peter Matthiessen and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2008-08-19 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • “Altogether gripping, shocking, and brilliantly told, not just a tour de force in its stylistic range, but a great American novel, as powerful a reading experience as nearly any in our literature.”—Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man’s River, and Bone by Bone—Peter Matthiessen’s great American epic about Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson on the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the twentieth century—were originally conceived as one vast, mysterious novel. Now, in this bold new rendering, Matthiessen has marvelously distilled a monumental work while deepening the insights and motivations of his characters with brilliant rewriting throughout. Praise for Shadow Country “Magnificent . . . breathtaking . . . Finally now we have [this three-part saga] welded like a bell, and with Watson’s song the last sound, all the elements fuse and resonate.”—Los Angeles Times “Peter Matthiessen has done great things with the Watson trilogy. It’s the story of our continent, both land and people, and his writing does every justice to the blood fury of his themes.”—Don DeLillo “The fiction of Peter Ma­­tthiessen is the reason a lot of people in my generation decided to be writers. No doubt about it. Shadow Country lives up to anyone’s highest expectations for great writing.” —Richard Ford “Shadow Country, Matthiessen’s distillation of the earlier Watson saga, represents his original vision. It is the quintessence of his lifelong concerns, and a great legacy.”—W. S. Merwin “[An] epic masterpiece . . . a great American novel.”—The Miami Herald

Author : Harry W. Greene
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520232755
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tracks and Shadows written by Harry W. Greene and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracks and Shadows is both an absorbing autobiography of a celebrated field biologist and a celebration of beauty in nature. Harry W. Greene, award-winning author of Snakes, delves into the poetry of field biology, showing how nature eases our existential quandaries. More than a memoir, the book is about the wonder of snakes, the beauty of studying and understanding natural history, and the importance of sharing the love of nature with humanity. Illustrations.

Author : Jerry Pallotta
Publisher : Cartwheel Books
ISBN 13 : 9780545472753
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Will See Their Shadows This Year? written by Jerry Pallotta and published by Cartwheel Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A winter-weary group of animals try for the groundhog's coveted status as the predictor of spring.

Author : Gina Cavallaro
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762784326
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sniper written by Gina Cavallaro and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heart-pounding real-life tales from the military’s most experienced snipers, the best of the best snipers in action today. Gunfights, long distance shots, stalking, and more.

Author : Tanya Amyx Berry
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 1950564029
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book For the Hog Killing, 1979 written by Tanya Amyx Berry and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The traditional neighborly work of killing a hog and preparing it as food for humans is either a fine art or a shameful mess. It requires knowledge, experience, skill, good sense, and sympathy," writes Wendell Berry in the essay portion of this book. In November 1979 as in years before, neighborly families gathered to do one of the ceremonious jobs of farm life: hog killing. Tanya Berry had been given a camera by New Farm magazine to photograph Kentucky farmers at work, and for two days at the farm of Owen and Loyce Flood in Henry County, she captured this culmination of a year's labor raising livestock. Here, in the resulting photographs, published for the first time, the American agrarian tradition is shown at its most harmonious, with strong men and women toiling with shared purpose towards a common wealth. Tanya Berry reveals intimate, expressive moments: the teams of young men hoisting animals by physical strength onto a gambrel and wagon for butchering, women grinding meat and mixing sausage and readying hams for preservation, and the solidarity of human beings coming together in reverence for the food they would eat, the lives and bodies which would be taken, and those which would be strengthened.