Never Surrender

Author : General Jerry Boykin
Publisher : FaithWords
ISBN 13 : 0446537586
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Never Surrender written by General Jerry Boykin and published by FaithWords. This book was released on 2008-07-29 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1978, Jerry Boykin joined what would become the world's premier Special Operations unit, Delta Force. The only promise: "A medal and a body bag." What followed was a .50 caliber round in the chest and a life spent with America's elite forces bringing down warlords and war criminals, despots, and dictators. In Colombia, his task force hunted the notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar. In Panama, he helped capture the brutal dictator Manuel Noriega, liberating a nation. From Vietnam to Iran to Mogadishu, Lt. General Jerry Boykin's life reads like an action-adventure novel. Boykin's powerful story will keep you riveted as he reveals how his military duty worked in tandem with his faith to bring him through the bloody storms of foreign battle-and through the political firestorm that ambushed him in his own country.

Author : W. Scott Poole
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820325088
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Never Surrender written by W. Scott Poole and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Near Appomattox, during a cease-fire in the final hours of the Civil War, Confederate general Martin R. Gary harangued his troops to stand fast and not lay down their arms. Stinging the soldiers' home-state pride, Gary reminded them that "South Carolinians never surrender." By focusing on a reactionary hotbed within a notably conservative state--South Carolina's hilly western "upcountry"--W. Scott Poole chronicles the rise of a post-Civil War southern culture of defiance whose vestiges are still among us. The society of the rustic antebellum upcountry, Poole writes, clung to a set of values that emphasized white supremacy, economic independence, masculine honor, evangelical religion, and a rejection of modernity. In response to the Civil War and its aftermath, this amorphous tradition cohered into the Lost Cause myth, by which southerners claimed moral victory despite military defeat. It was a force that would undermine Reconstruction and, as Poole shows in chapters on religion, gender, and politics, weave its way into nearly every dimension of white southern life. The Lost Cause's shadow still looms over the South, Poole argues, in contemporary controversies such as those over the display of the Confederate flag. Never Surrender brings new clarity to the intellectual history of southern conservatism and the South's collective memory of the Civil War.

Author : Michael Dobbs
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007369948
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Never Surrender written by Michael Dobbs and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winston Churchill embarks on a battle of wills with Adolf Hitler in the run-up to Dunkirk. The compelling new historical novel from the acclaimed author of Winston’s War.

Author : John Kelly
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 147112875X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Never Surrender written by John Kelly and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the War Cabinet papers, other government documents, private diaries, newspaper accounts, and memoirs,Never Surrender tells the story of summer of 1940, the summer of the 'Supreme Question' of whether or not the British were to surrender to the impending threat of Hitler's invasion. The events, individuals, and institutions that influenced the War Cabinet's deliberations offer a panoramic view of the summer of 1940. Impressive in scope but attentive to detail, Kelly takes readers from the battlefield to Parliament, to the government ministries, to the British high command, to the desperate Anglo-French conference in Paris and London, to the American embassy in London, and to life with the ordinary Britons. Bringing vividly to life one of the most heroic moments of the twentieth century and intimately portraying some of its largest players - Churchill, Lord Halifax, FDR, Joe Kennedy, Hitler, Stalin and others - Never Surrenderis a character-driven narrative of a crucial period in World War II history and the men and women who shaped it.

Author : Hiroo Onoda
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612515649
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Surrender written by Hiroo Onoda and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1974, Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda of the Japanese army made world headlines when he emerged from the Philippine jungle after a thirty-year ordeal. Hunted in turn by American troops, the Philippine police, hostile islanders, and successive Japanese search parties, Onoda had skillfully outmaneuvered all his pursuers, convinced that World War II was still being fought and that one day his fellow soldiers would return victorious. This account of those years is an epic tale of the will to survive that offers a rare glimpse of man's invincible spirit, resourcefulness, and ingenuity. A hero to his people, Onoda wrote down his experiences soon after his return to civilization. This book was translated into English the following year and has enjoyed an approving audience ever since.

Author : Biff Byford
Publisher : IP Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783931624446
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saxon written by Biff Byford and published by IP Verlag. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over thirty years, Saxon has been led from the front by charismatic and larger-than-life vocalist Biff Byford. In 'Never Surrender', he tells his story for the first time, from his working class childhood as a terribly shy schoolboy in Yorkshire through the mega-days of the early Eighties to the band's Twenty-First Century rise to fame once more. Sometimes tragic, sometimes funny, but always brutally honest, 'Never Surrender' lifts the lid on the myths surrounding Saxon, as well as revealing the hard work and heartaches it takes to make it to the top and stay there.

Author : Mark Peel
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 178531999X
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Never Surrender written by Mark Peel and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2021-08-16 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never Surrender: The Life of Douglas Jardine is the enthralling story of England's most controversial cricket captain, forever associated with bodyline bowling on MCC's tour to Australia in 1932/33. Despite his privileged upbringing and amateur status, Jardine's steely personality and win-at-all-costs ethos was more akin to the professional game. Confronted with the run-making genius of Australia's Don Bradman in 1932/33, Jardine resorted to a form of intimidatory bowling that helped England regain the Ashes, but his tactics shocked Australia and brought relations between the two countries to the point of collapse. To restore harmony, Jardine was disowned by the MCC cricket establishment and shunned thereafter, but now - in a more modern, competitive age - his reputation has undergone a rehabilitation, not least in Australia. Drawing on fresh material, award-winning cricket author Mark Peel reappraises an outstanding leader whose care for those he valued knew no bounds.

Author : Mark Felton
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783830107
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Never Surrender written by Mark Felton and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2013-06-30 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there have been many fine books covering the appalling experiences and great courage of the many thousands of POWscaptured by the victorious Japanese during late 1941 and early 1942, escape accounts are much rarer. This is due in large part tothe fact that only a comparatively small number of brave souls attempted to escape to freedom rather than suffer brutality,starvation and very possibly death as POWs. However, as Never Surrender vividly describes, there were a significant number who took this desperate course. Escapersfaced challenges far more daunting than those in German hands. They were Westerners in an alien, hostile environment; the terrain and climate were extreme; disease was rife; their physical condition was weak; there was every chance of starvation andbetrayal and, if captured, they faced, at best, the harshest punishment and, at worst, execution. The author draws on escapeattempts from Hong Kong, Thailand, the Philippines, Borneo and China by officers and men of the British, Commonwealth andUS armed forces. As this superbly researched and uplifting book reveals, few escapers found freedom but all are inspiring examples of outstandingand, indeed, desperate courage. The stories told within these pages demonstrate the best and worst of human spirit.

Author : Christine Kohler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1440565627
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Surrender Soldier written by Christine Kohler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up on Guam in 1972, fifteen-year-old Kiko is beset by worries: He's never kissed a girl, the popular guys get all the attention at school--but the worst part is the serious problems at home. His older brother is missing in Vietnam, his grandfather is losing it to dementia, and he just learned that his mother was raped by a Japanese soldier during World War II. It all comes together when he discovers an old man, a Japanese soldier, hiding in the jungle behind his house. It's not the same man who raped his mother, but, in his rage, Kiko cares only about protecting his family and avenging his mom--no matter what it takes. And so, a shy, peaceable boy begins to plan a murder. But how far will Kiko go to prove to himself that he's a man? Based on a true incident in history, No Surrender Soldier is the story of a boy grappling with ancient questions of courage and manhood before he can move on.

Author : Jeff Burlingame
Publisher : Enslow Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780766033535
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jesse James written by Jeff Burlingame and published by Enslow Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Discusses the life of Jesse James, including his childhood, the James-Younger gang, the many robberies he committed, his murder, and his legacy in American history"--Provided by publisher.