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Author : Charles A. Fenton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UCAL:$B116892
Author : Humphrey Cotton Minchin,H. Cotton Minchin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Short stories
ISBN : UOM:39015014448982
Author : Jim Kay Jim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1406370711
Author : Matt Gallagher,Roy Scranton
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780306821776
Fire and Forget includes the title story from Redeployment by Phil Klay, 2014 National Book Award Winner in Fiction These stories aren't pretty and they aren't for the faint of heart. They are realistic, haunting and shocking. And they are all unforgettable. Television reports, movies, newspapers and blogs about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have offered images of the fighting there. But this collection offers voices -- powerful voices, telling the kind of truth that only fiction can offer. What makes the collection so remarkable is that all of these stories are written by those who were there, or waited for them at home. The anthology, which features a Foreword by National Book Award winner Colum McCann, includes the best voices of the wars' generation: award-winning author Phil Klay's "Redeployment" Brian Turner, whose poem "Hurt Locker" was the movie's inspiration; Colby Buzzell, whose book My War resonates with countless veterans; Siobhan Fallon, whose book You Know When the Men Are Gone echoes the joy and pain of the spouses left behind; Matt Gallagher, whose book Kaboom captures the hilarity and horror of the modern military experience; and ten others.
Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne,Talbot Mundy,Luigi Pirandello,William Dean Howells,Stephen Crane,Guy de Maupassant,Ambrose Bierce,August Nemo
Publisher : Tacet Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783968580081
War has been part of human history since its inception. Of course, it has also left a strong imprint on the imagination of the writers of all times. Check out the stories that have war as their theme, especially selected by the critic August Nemo: - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce - Two Friends by Guy de Maupassant - The Upturned Face by Stephen Crane - Editha by William Dean Howells - War by Luigi Pirandello - The Soul of a Regiment by Talbot Mundy - Roger Malvin's Burial by Nathaniel Hawthorne For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!
Author : C. Brian Kelly
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781402254857
The untold stories of bravery, triumph, and redemption in the depths of the darkest world war. Behind the great powers, global military conflict, and infamous battles are more than 100 incredible stories that bring to life the Second World War. During the six years of war were countless little-known moments of profound triumph and tragedy, bravery and cowardice, and good and evil. These amazing and unbelievable stories of brotherhood, redemption, escape, and civilian courage shed new light on the war that gripped the entire world. Experience the action through the eyes of people like: Lieutenant Jacob Beser, who was aboard both the Enola Gay and Bock's Car and felt the force of the shockwave that nearly destroyed the planes after dropping the H-bombs that obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Professor William Miller, who collapsed during a death march of POWs in Germany and was saved by the same man who had rescued him from what would have been a fatal car wreck in Pennsylvania five years earlier. The brave civilians who answered the British Admiralty's call to help rescue an army from Dunkirk during the height of a dangerous battle and sailed small fishing boats into relentless German fire, ultimately saving 335,000 men from This is the perfect book for any history buff looking for the untold stories of military and civilian daring during World War 2.
Author : Gordon Korman
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338290219
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Restart, a story of telling truth from lies -- and finding out what being a hero really means. There are two things Trevor loves more than anything else: playing war-based video games and his great-grandfather Jacob, who is a true-blue, bona fide war hero. At the height of the war, Jacob helped liberate a small French village, and was given a hero's welcome upon his return to America.Now it's decades later, and Jacob wants to retrace the steps he took during the war -- from training to invasion to the village he is said to have saved. Trevor thinks this is the coolest idea ever. But as they get to the village, Trevor discovers there's more to the story than what he's heard his whole life, causing him to wonder about his great-grandfather's heroism, the truth about the battle he fought, and importance of genuine valor.
Author : John T. Halliday
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743281997
Riveting, novelistic, and startlingly candid, John T. Halliday's combat memoir begins in 1970, when Halliday has just landed in the middle of the Vietnam War, primed to begin his assignment with the 606th Special Operations Squadron. But there's a catch: He's stationed in a kind of no-man's-land. No one on his base flies with ID, patches, or rank. Even as Richard Nixon firmly denies reporters' charges that the United States has forces in Laos, Halliday realizes that from his base in Thailand, he will be flying top-secret, black-ops night missions over the Laotian Ho Chi Minh Trail. A naive yet thoughtful twenty-four-year-old, Halliday was utterly unprepared for the horrors of war. On his first mission, Halliday's C-123 aircraft dodges more than a thousand antiaircraft shells, and that is just the beginning. Nothing is as he expected -- not the operations, not the way his shell-shocked fellow pilots look and act, and certainly not the squadron's daredevil, seat-of-one's-pants approach to piloting. But before long, Halliday has become one of those seasoned and shell-shocked pilots, and finds himself in a desperate search for a way to elude certain death. Using frank, true-to-life dialogue, potent imagery, and classic 1970s song lyrics, Halliday deftly describes the fraught Laotian skies and re-creates his struggle to navigate the frustrating Air Force bureaucracy, the deprivations of a remote base far from home and his young wife, and his fight to preserve his sanity. The resulting nonfiction narrative vividly captures not only the intricate, distorted culture of war but also the essence of the Vietnam veteran's experience of this troubled era. A powerhouse fusion of pathos and humor, brutal realism and intimate reflection, Flying Through Midnight is a landmark contribution to war literature, revealing previously top-secret intelligence on the 606th's night missions. Fast-paced, thrilling, and bitingly intelligent, Halliday illuminates it all: the heart-pounding air battles, the close friendships, the crippling fear, and the astonishing final escape that made the telling of it possible.
Author : Ambrose Bierce,Stephen Crane,Henry James,Kate Chopin,Louisa May Alcott,Willa Cather,Thomas Nelson Page
Publisher : Tacet Books
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9788577772513
The US Civil War (1861–1865) still serves as one of the milestones in American literary history, commonly representing the dividing line in survey courses and reference works on 19th-century American literature. Through seven short stories selected by the critic August Nemo you will be able to understand the different nuances of this historical moment: - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce - The Veteran by Stephen Crane - The Story of a Year by Henry James - The Locket by Kate Chopin - The Brothers by Louisa May Alcott - The Namesake by Willa Cather - The Burial of the Guns by Thomas Nelson Page The Burial of the Guns by Thomas Nelson Page
Author : Charles A. Fenton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Short stories, American
ISBN : UOM:39015028717265
Author : Ann-Marie Einhaus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107038431
Covering a range of topics, settings and styles, the book offers the first comprehensive study of short fiction from the First World War.
Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486111568
Sixteen dark and vivid tales by great satirist: "A Horseman in the Sky," "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," "Chicakamauga," "A Son of the Gods," "What I Saw of Shiloh," more. Note.
Author : Laird Barron,Simon Strantzas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1937408078
"[This collection] features all new tales in tribute to the creations of Robert W. Chambers"--P. [4] of cover.
Author : Rudyard Kipling,Katherine Mansfield,F. Scott Fitzgerald,H. P. Lovecraft,Arthur Machen,Arthur Conan Doyle,August Nemo
Publisher : Tacet Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783968583532
Contemporaneously described as "the war to end all wars", World War I was one of the largest wars in history and also one of the deadliest conflicts in history. Writers often function as the memory of the world, eternalizing in words difficult moments that we can not forget. The critic August Nemo selected seven short stories that allow us to look at the various faces of the war: - Mary Postgate by Rudyard Kipling - The Fly by Katherine Mansfield - May Day by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Dagon by H.P. Lovecraft - The Bowmen by Arthur Machen - His Last Bow by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - At the Bay by Katherine Mansfield For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!
Author : Tim O'Brien
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547420295
Look for O’Brien’s new book, American Fantastica, on sale October 24th A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. Taught everywhere—from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing—it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing. The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.