A Few Bad Men

Author : Major Fred Galvin USMC (Ret.),Sal Manna
Publisher : Post Hill Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781637584149

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A Few Bad Men by Major Fred Galvin USMC (Ret.),Sal Manna Pdf

Ambushed in Afghanistan and betrayed by their own leaders—these elite Marines fought for their lives again, back home. A cross between A Few Good Men and American Sniper, this is the true story of an elite Marine special operations unit bombed by an IED and shot at during an Afghanistan ambush. The Marine Commandos were falsely accused of gunning down innocent Afghan civilians following the ambush. The unit’s leader, Maj. Fred Galvin, was summarily relieved of duty and his unit was booted from the combat zone. They were condemned by everyone, from the Afghan president to American generals. When Fox Company returned to America, Galvin and his captain were the targets of the first Court of Inquiry in the Marines in fifty years. “Fred Galvin is the real deal. His dramatic retelling of his experience as commander of Fox Company reads like a thriller, full of twists and turns, filled with unassuming heroes and deceitful villains.” — Rob Lorenz, Producer/Director, American Sniper, Flags of Our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima, Mystic River, The Marksman “Fred Galvin has written a real ‘page turner’ that demonstrates how politics permeates The Pentagon and posts abroad…I highly recommend this book.” — J.D. Hayworth, U.S. House of Representatives (Arizona), TV/Radio Host “This book is a must-read for every American who wants to know why, after twenty long years in Afghanistan, we did not win.” — Jessie Jane Duff, USMC, Analyst, CNN and FOX “A Few Bad Men is a must-read story of valor, betrayal, and keeping the Marines’ honor clean.” — Jed Babbin, USAF Judge Advocate, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Journalist, National Review, Washington Post “An incredible account and history of the fighting spirit of the ‘Marine Raiders’ under fire and the relentless fourteen-year campaign by their leader to clear their names.” — Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely, U.S. Army (Ret.), Deputy Commander, U.S. Pacific Command

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-08T22:59:00Z
Category : History
ISBN : 9798822582798

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Summary of Fred Galvin & Sal Manna's A Few Bad Men by Everest Media, Pdf

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I had been the commander of Fox Company, the first Marine Special Operations Company in the Corps’ 230-year history. I had led my men on what was supposed to be just another day and another routine mission. But on that day, Fox Company was ambushed. #2 In a press conference two months after the incident, Colonel John W. Nicholson said: I stand before you today, deeply, deeply ashamed and terribly sorry that Americans have killed and wounded innocent Afghan people. We are filled with grief and sadness at the death of any Afghan, but the death and wounding of innocent Afghans at the hands of Americans is a stain on our honor. #3 The two highest-ranking Marines had proclaimed us guilty, either of negligent homicide or dereliction of duty. We were front page news. #4 American troops opened fire on a highway filled with civilian cars and bystanders in eastern Afghanistan, killing 16 civilians and wounding 24, according to American and Afghan officials.

Author : John Connolly
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451668803

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Bad Men by John Connolly Pdf

Years after the massacre that wiped out a colony of settlers on the small Maine island of Sanctuary, rookie officer Sharon Macy and policeman Joe Dupree team up to protect the island's residents from a band of vengeful killers.

Author : Wayne C. Lee
Publisher : Caxton Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0870043498

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Bad Men and Bad Towns by Wayne C. Lee Pdf

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Wayne C. Lee chronicles the violent history of the Nebraska Territory. The state's history is full of stories about violent feuds between settlers and landowners, native peoples and soldiers, con-artists and bandits. Many of these stories end abruptly at the end of a vigilante rope.

Author : Charley F. Eckhardt
Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0896724204

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Tales of Badmen, Bad Women, and Bad Places by Charley F. Eckhardt Pdf

Presents twenty-one true stories and legends about outlaws in Texas history, including such famous and lesser-known figures as Bonnie and Clyde, Judge Roy Bean, John Wesley Hardin, the Yokums of the Big Thicket, and the Papworths of Erath County.

Author : Juan J. Alonzo
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780816528127

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Badmen, Bandits, and Folk Heroes by Juan J. Alonzo Pdf

Badmen, Bandits, and Folk Heroes is a comparative study of the literary and cinematic representation of Mexican American masculine identity from early twentieth-century adventure stories and movie Westerns through contemporary self-representations by Chicano/a writers and filmmakers. In this deeply compelling book, Juan J. Alonzo proposes a reconsideration of the early stereotypical depictions of Mexicans in fiction and film: rather than viewing stereotypes as unrelentingly negative, Alonzo presents them as part of a complex apparatus of identification and disavowal. Furthermore, Alonzo reassesses Chicano/a self-representation in literature and film, and argues that the Chicano/a expression of identity is characterized less by essentialism than by an acknowldgement of the contingent status of present-day identity formations. Alonzo opens his provocative study with a fresh look at the adventure stories of Stephen Crane and the silent Western movies of D. W. Griffith. He also investigates the conflation of the greaser, the bandit, and the Mexican revolutionary into one villainous figure in early Western movies and, more broadly, traces the development of the badman in Westerns. He newly interrogates the writings of Américo Paredes regarding the makeup of Mexican masculinity, and productively trains his analytic eye on the recent films of Jim Mendiola and the contemporary poetry of Evangelina Vigil. Throughout Badmen, Bandits, and Folk Heroes, Alonzo convincingly demonstrates how fiction and films that formerly appeared one-dimensional in their treatment of Mexicans and Mexican Americans actually offer surprisingly multifarious and ambivalent representations. At the same time, his valuation of indeterminacy, contingency, and hybridity in contemporary cultural production creates new possibilities for understanding identity formation.

Author : Clive Stafford Smith
Publisher : George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015069330085

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Bad Men by Clive Stafford Smith Pdf

Explosively personal account by a British lawyer who defends Death Row prisoners and Guantanamo Bay detainees.

Author : William B. Secrest
Publisher : Quill Driver Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1884995519

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California Badmen by William B. Secrest Pdf

""California Badmen"" is a exploration of little-known Western frontier gunfighters. Billy Mulligan, Sam Temple, Peter Olsen, Joe Dye, Bob McFarlane and those responsible for the Rancheria killings are brought back through the pages and taking their stand in Californian history. The riotous lives of these unique collection of mean men with guns spill over the California frontier and rival the likes of ""Wild Bill"" Hickok, Billy the Kid, and the Earp Family.

Author : Robert I. Simon
Publisher : American Psychiatric Pub
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781585628858

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Bad Men Do What Good Men Dream by Robert I. Simon Pdf

Robert Simon's Bad Men Do What Good Men Dream: A Forensic Psychiatrist Illuminates the Darker Side of Human Behavior is that rare title that is both essential reading for the mental health professional and accessible in style and content to the fascinated lay reader. In twelve powerful and provocative chapters, the author introduces readers to a psychological perspective on evil, character and destiny, as well as the making of good men and women. Simon also illuminates the psychology of psychopaths, serial killers, rapists and all manner of evil characters who appall and challenge us by their very existence. He rejects the common belief that his subjects are "monsters" with nothing in common with the more "normal" among us. Simon posits that if we deny our dark side, it can only obscure our understanding of violent offenders and impede our ability to both know ourselves and control our own, at times, unacceptable impulses. The author is among the foremost experts in forensic psychiatry. He is Director of the Program in Psychiatry and Law at Georgetown University School of Medicine. Author or co-author of more than two dozen books and editions, including the foundational Textbook of Forensic Psychiatry, Simon has made important contributions to the field of forensic psychiatry for more than 30 years. He is also an eloquent writer with a dramatic, yet nuanced, narrative style that takes the reader inside the mind of the evildoer. The first edition of this groundbreaking work garnered uniformly superlative reviews and was translated into several languages. This updated version retains Simon's engrossing portrayals and keen insight, while offering a number of key enhancements. The highlights include: Explorations of the Internet and violence, "corporate" psychopaths, cyberstalkers, perpetrators of school violence, and a new cast of serial killers, terrorists, and other evildoers. A psychological perspective on evil, serial killers, and us. Updates on the neuroscience and genetics of deviant behaviors. Reflections on empathy, character, and destiny: the making of good men and women. A new foreword by Thomas G. Gutheil, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Co-Founder, Program in Psychiatry and the Law at Harvard Medical School, that illuminates Simon's thesis and grounds it in historical context. Graphic but never sensational, unsparing but never cold, Simon's writing transcends the theoretical and achieves that most difficult of aims: leading readers to discover, contain, and transform the darkness within us all, to the betterment of our human condition.

Author : Scott Allen Nollen
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476601601

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Three Bad Men by Scott Allen Nollen Pdf

These were unique, complex, personal and professional relationships between master director John Ford and his two favorite actors, John Wayne and Ward Bond. The book provides a biography of each and a detailed exploration of Ford's work as it was intertwined with the lives and work of both Wayne and Bond (whose biography here is the first ever published). The book reveals fascinating accounts of ingenuity, creativity, toil, perseverance, bravery, debauchery, futility, abuse, masochism, mayhem, violence, warfare, open- and closed-mindedness, control and chaos, brilliance and stupidity, rationality and insanity, friendship and a testing of its limits, love and hate--all committed by a "half-genius, half-Irish" cinematic visionary and his two surrogate sons: Three Bad Men.

Author : Julie Mae Cohen
Publisher : Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781804182154

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Bad Men by Julie Mae Cohen Pdf

'Fans of How To Kill Your Family will love Saffy, the serial-killing heroine of Bad Men' - RED MAGAZINE 'Silence of the Lambs meets Sex and the City' - FT From million-copy bestselling author Julie Mae Cohen comes the razor-sharp, edge-of-your-seat feminist rage thriller of Summer 2023. *A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK* Saffy has a secret. A secret that she is deeply ashamed of. It's not the fact that she's a serial killer in her free time. In fact, she's quite proud of that. After all she's only killing the bad men. She is making the world a better place. No, her secret is far worse than that. Saffy has a messy, inexplicable, uncontrollable crush. So while she's busy plotting her next murder, she also has the much harder task of figuring out how to get a boyfriend. But if there's one thing Saffy knows, it's how to get her man . . . Praise for BAD MEN: 'The feminist serial killer you didn't know you were waiting for. Sensational' - CLARE MACKINTOSH 'I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a thriller this much' - ERIN KELLY 'Had me turning the pages like a fiend' - CJ SKUSE 'Fast and furious and very, very funny' - TAMMY COHEN 'Bloody brilliant. Sharp and darkly hilarious' - ANNA MAZZOLA 'Will have you cheering and laughing in equal measure' - PRIMA

Author : Laura Oles
Publisher : Red Adept Publishing, LLC
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Daughters of Bad Men by Laura Oles Pdf

Jamie Rush understands what it takes to disappear because her parents taught her that long ago. Leveraging her knowledge of why and how people run from their own lives, Jamie has built a business based on bringing those in hiding back to answer for their actions. She takes pride in using her somewhat shady skills to work both inside and outside the law. When her estranged brother, Brian, calls and says his daughter is missing, Jaime initially turns down the case. Kristen has always been a bit wild, frequently dropping off the grid then showing up a few days later. But Brian swears this time is different, and even though Jamie vowed years ago to keep her conniving sibling at arm’s length, she can’t walk away if Kristen could be in real trouble. As Jamie begins digging into Kristen’s life, she uncovers her niece’s most guarded secrets. Uncovering the truth will put a target on Jamie’s back and endanger the lives of those she loves.

Author : James Henry Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Northwest boundary of the United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011976243

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Brown's Political History of Oregon ... by James Henry Brown Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105049348654

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Stories of Great Men by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:79286161

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The Wide World Magazine by Anonim Pdf