Nightcap At Dawn

Author : J. B. Walker
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 162087170X
Total Pages : 639 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nightcap at Dawn written by J. B. Walker and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of U.S. soldiers emailed their observations and experiences from Iraq and their candid opinions on fighting an insurgency. This book is the result. This startling collection of emails is a thoughtful and compelling narrative that carries the reader from the alleys and city streets to the homes of long-suffering Iraqis, and from the soldiers’ concrete bunkers to the “majestic” army base. Along the way, the reader is asked to consider the puzzles posed for a disciplined army engaged with an enemy that hides amid—and indeed, targets—a civilian population.

Author : J. B. Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780557742950
Total Pages : 639 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nightcap at Dawn written by J. B. Walker and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of U.S. soldiers e-mailed their observations and experiences from Iraq, with their candid opinions on fighting an insurgency. The resulting book is a compelling narrative that carries the reader into alleys. bunkers, and homes. It poses difficult questions about engaging with an enemy that hides amid ' and targets ' the civilian population. "A truly extraordinary book ... of recollections, pooled experiences, and shared sacrifices [written] in the most vivid firsthand manner" (Christopher Hitchens). Read more at: https://sites.google.com/site/soldiersnightcapatdawn/

Author : Marcus Luttrell
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316217255
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Service written by Marcus Luttrell and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcus Luttrell, author of the #1 bestseller Lone Survivor, share war stories about true American heroism from himself and other soldiers who bravely fought alongside him. Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell returned from his star-crossed mission in Afghanistan with his bones shattered and his heart broken. So many had given their lives to save him -- and he would have readily done the same for them. As he recuperated, he wondered why he and others, from America's founding to today, had been willing to sacrifice everything-including themselves-for the sake of family, nation, and freedom. In Service, we follow Marcus Luttrell to Iraq, where he returns to the battlefield as a member of SEAL Team 5 to help take on the most dangerous city in the world: Ramadi, the capital of war-torn Al Anbar Province. There, in six months of high-intensity urban combat, he would be part of what has been called the greatest victory in the history of U.S. Special Operations forces. We also return to Afghanistan and Operation Redwing, where Luttrell offers powerful new details about his miraculous rescue. Throughout, he reflects on what it really means to take on a higher calling, about the men he's seen lose their lives for their country, and the legacy of those who came and bled before. A thrilling war story, Service is also a profoundly moving tribute to the warrior brotherhood, to the belief that nobody goes it alone, and no one will be left behind.

Author : Erik Mortenson
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 080933433X
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ambiguous Borderlands written by Erik Mortenson and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2016-02-03 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The image of the shadow in mid-twentieth-century America appeared across a variety of genres and media including poetry, pulp fiction, photography, and film. Drawing on an extensive framework that ranges from Cold War cultural histories to theorizations of psychoanalysis and the Gothic, Erik Mortenson argues that shadow imagery in 1950s and 1960s American culture not only reflected the anxiety and ambiguity of the times but also offered an imaginative space for artists to challenge the binary rhetoric associated with the Cold War. After contextualizing the postwar use of shadow imagery in the wake of the atomic bomb, Ambiguous Borderlands looks at shadows in print works, detailing the reemergence of the pulp fiction crime fighter the Shadow in the late-1950s writings of Sylvia Plath, Amiri Baraka, and Jack Kerouac. Using Freudian and Jungian conceptions of the unconscious, Mortenson then discusses Kerouac’s and Allen Ginsberg’s shared dream of a “shrouded stranger” and how it shaped their Beat aesthetic. Turning to the visual, Mortenson examines the dehumanizing effect of shadow imagery in the Cold War photography of Robert Frank, William Klein, and Ralph Eugene Meatyard. Mortenson concludes with an investigation of the use of chiaroscuro in 1950s film noir and the popular television series The Twilight Zone, further detailing how the complexities of Cold War society were mirrored across these media in the ubiquitous imagery of light and dark. From comics to movies, Beats to bombs, Ambiguous Borderlands provides a novel understanding of the Cold War cultural context through its analysis of the image of the shadow in midcentury media. Its interdisciplinary approach, ambitious subject matter, and diverse theoretical framing make it essential reading for anyone interested in American literary and popular culture during the fifties and sixties.

Author : Maggie Shayne
Publisher : Oliver-Heber books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Killing Me Softly written by Maggie Shayne and published by Oliver-Heber books. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nightcap Strangler… He terrorized a small Vermont town 16 years ago and recently died in prison. Not a single murder in all that time. Until now. Rookie cop Bryan Kendal’s lover is dead in his bed. Strangled. Nightcap’s signature shot glass on the nightstand. On the opposite coast… Bryan’s high school girlfriend Dawn knows she’s the only one who can help him. But it will mean facing Bryan for the first time, five years after running away without a word. Worse, it’ll mean facing the demons that chased her across the country to begin with. He might never forgive her… But he has accept her help when the victims start to pile up, and they both know they’re the only ones who can stop it. And they can only do it together. The killer knows it, too. He also knows Dawn is just his type. The kind of girl he’d like to share a nightcap with.

Author : Shelagh Mazey
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1783069864
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dawn to Deadly Nightshade written by Shelagh Mazey and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dawn to Deadly Nightshade, the sequel to Brandy Row, is the second in a collection of West Country historical novels by Somerset author Shelagh Mazey.

Author : Dr. Larry S. Mellen
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1645841162
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Druid Standing written by Dr. Larry S. Mellen and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-11-13 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six thousand years ago, in the time before the first megaliths and stone circles, Druids appeared in small numbers throughout Europe. They began an inexplicable migration toward the Western Isles of Scotland. Among these was a Druid prophet, Lazwin. Lazwin predicted the coming of the Beltane child. The child would reunite the rune casters, gather the Druid faithful, and set in motion a series of events that would alter the history of Druid healing magic. Sadly, Lazwin's prophecies were lost to time. In 1820 a Druid child named Finn was playing near the Faerie Pools on Skye. He found a small opening behind a waterfall. Stored within this hollow were the perfectly preserved scrolls containing the prophecies of the elder Lazwin. This is the story of his prophesied Beltane child and his effect on Scottish culture. The pages describe the Beltane child's quest to many of Scotland's sacred sites and his travels around the world, meeting shamans and healers. They share his journey along the eightfold path and his understanding of herbal medicines and essential oils. You will learn of the child's discoveries on a bus trip from Kathmandu to London. In these pages, Dr. Mellen helps you realize there should be some reason for the things that have gone into making you you. If you have ever wondered, "Why am I here?" "Where am I going?" and "How am I going to get there?" Dr. Mellen provides you with a fresh perspective and some rather surprising answers.

Author : Robert Browning
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 950 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red cotton night-cap country. Aristophanes' apology. The inn album. Agamemnon. Dramatic idyls. Parleyings. Asolando, etc written by Robert Browning and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Louis-Sébastien Mercier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nightcap written by Louis-Sébastien Mercier and published by . This book was released on 1786 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Browning
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red cotton night-cap country written by Robert Browning and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: