Don T Be Afraid Of The Bullets

Author : Laura Kasinof
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781628726480

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Don't Be Afraid of the Bullets by Laura Kasinof Pdf

Laura Kasinof studied Arabic in college and moved to Yemen a few years later—after a friend at a late-night party in Washington, DC, recommended the country as a good place to work as a freelance journalist. When she first moved to the capital city of Sanaa in 2009, she was the only American reporter based in the country. She quickly fell in love with Yemen’s people and culture, and even found herself the star of a local TV soap opera. When antigovernment protests broke out in Yemen in 2011, part of the revolts sweeping the Arab world at the time, she contacted the New York Times to see if she could cover the rapidly unfolding events for the newspaper. Laura never planned to be a war correspondent, but found herself in the middle of brutal government attacks on peaceful protesters. As foreign reporters were rounded up and shipped out of the country, Laura managed to elude the authorities but found herself increasingly isolated—and even more determined to report on what she saw. With a new foreword by the author about what has happened in Yemen since the book’s initial publication, Don’t Be Afraid of the Bullets is a fascinating and important debut by a talented young journalist.

Author : Mi MangXiaoDouShi
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781647620899

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My Cold Female Boss by Mi MangXiaoDouShi Pdf

A peerless expert, hidden in the city, yet didn't want to be forced into marriage by the CEO of an ice mountain beauty. From then on, his luck with the flowers never stopped ...

Author : Hubert Verneret
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612005515

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Teenage Resistance Fighter by Hubert Verneret Pdf

“A history book that reads like a novel, this testimony comes from one of the last living eyewitnesses” of the Nazi occupation of France (Christiane Amanpour, CNN Chief International Correspondent). September 5, 1944 The Americans are approaching; we follow their progress impatiently on the radio, by intercepting messages reserved for the commandos. They cannot be beaten now. But it is up to us to do the impossible to speed up the progression of the bulk of their troops, to facilitate the advance of their spearhead, and, above all, to prevent the Germans from withdrawing to the Rhine in good order, with all their equipment. How many human lives will we manage to save? Hubert Verneret was a fourteen-year-old schoolboy in Burgundy when the Nazis invaded Poland and fifteen when France fell. A Boy Scout, he helped refugees and the gendarmerie, moved wounded soldiers, and dug out bodies after air raids. Throughout, he kept a diary recording his actions, thoughts, and feelings as French troops retreated and Germans arrived. In 1944, at nineteen, he decided to join the local maquis resistance fighters, operating from a hidden base in the forest. Though constantly in danger, he found himself frustrated, as he felt fated never to fight the Germans directly, never to take a prisoner. As the Allies approached, the maquisards worked to upset and weaken the retreating Germans to aid the Allied advance. Hubert details the joy with which the maquisards were welcomed in local villages when the fighting ended. Only as he listened to the speech given as the maquisards disbanded did he understand that his part in the war, while perhaps not heroic as that played by others, was still important in gaining the victory. Years later, Hubert interviewed local maquisards to understand more about maquis history; their words and excerpts from the diary of a local civilian during the German retreat provide context to Hubert’s youthful testimony. This first English edition of Hubert’s diary retains the original prefaces by Col. Buckmaster, chief of the French section of the SOE, and Col. d’Escrienne, aide de camp to Gen. de Gaulle.

Author : Robert Rotenberg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476757773

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Stray Bullets by Robert Rotenberg Pdf

A top criminal lawyer presents a new legal thriller set in Toronto. By the author of Old City Hall and The Guilt Plea.

Author : Tadayoshi Sakurai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Human Bullets by Tadayoshi Sakurai Pdf

Example in this ebook Recently a retired officer of the Russian army and a correspondent of the “Russ” came to call upon me. When war broke out between Russia and Japan he was at Harbin; soon afterward he was summoned to Port Arthur and set out thither. But by that time communication had been cut off by our army, and in consequence he was obliged to return to Vladivostock. According to my visitor’s story the railway trains from the Russian capital were loaded with decorations and prize money, and the officers and men traveling in the same trains were in the highest of spirits, as if they had been going through a triumphal arch after a victory accomplished. They seemed to believe that the civilized Russian army was to crush into pieces the half-civilized forces of Japan and that the glittering decorations and jingling gold were soon to be theirs. They did not entertain in the least the feeling with which a man enters a tiger’s den or knocks at death’s door. The Japanese fighters, on the contrary, marched bravely to the front, fully prepared to suffer agonies and sacrifice their lives for their sire and their country, with the determination of the true old warrior who went to war ready to die, and never expected to come back alive. The Russian army lacked harmony and cooperation between superiors and inferiors. Generals were haughty, and men weary; while officers were rich, soldiers were left hungry. Such relations are something like those between dogs and monkeys. On the other hand, the Japanese army combined the strictest of discipline with the close friendship of comrades, as if they were all parents and sons, or brothers. Viewed from this standpoint, the success or failure of both armies might have been clearly foreseen even before the first battle. My Russian guest spoke thus, and his observations seem to the point. The army of our country is strict in discipline and yet harmonious through its higher and lower ranks. The soldiers vie with each other in offering themselves on the altar of their country, the spirit of self-sacrifice prevails to a marked degree. This is the true characteristic of the race of Yamato. And in the siege of Port Arthur this sublime national spirit showed itself especially vigorous. Materially calculated, the loss and damage to our besieging army was enormous. If, however, the spiritual activity this great struggle entailed is taken into consideration, our gain was also immense,—it has added one great glory to the history of our race. Even the lowest of soldiers fought in battle-fields with unflinching courage, and faced death as if it were going home, and yet the bravest were also the tenderest. Many a time they must have shed secret tears, overwhelmed with emotion, while standing in the rainfall of bullets. They respected and obeyed the dictates at once of honor and duty in all their service, and shouted Banzai to His Imperial Majesty at the moment of death. Their display of the true spirit of the Japanese Samurai is radically different from the behavior of men who appear on the fighting line with only the prospect of decorations and money before their eyes. To be continue in this ebook

Author : James Robenalt
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780897337168

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Ballots and Bullets by James Robenalt Pdf

On July 23, 1968, police in Cleveland battled with black nationalists.The dramatic shootout in the Glenville neighborhood left ten dead and over fifteen wounded. The event sparked days of heavy rioting and raised myriad questions. Were these shootings an ambush by the nationalists? Or were the nationalists defending themselves from an imminent police assault? Mystery still surrounds how the urban warfare started and the role the FBI might have played in its origin. Cleveland's story intersected with with some of the most important African American figures of the time. Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X both came to Cleveland, shaping the debate over how to address systemic racism. Should it be with nonviolence or armed self-defense? Malcolm X first delivered his iconic "The Ballot or the Bullet" speech in Cleveland. Three years later, in 1967, Carl Stokes, with King's help, became the first black mayor of a major US city. The ballot seemed to have triumphed over the bullet—and then Dr. King was assassinated. In the spring of 1968, while Mayor Stokes kept peace in Cleveland and Bobby Kennedy came to deliver his "Mindless Menace of Violence" speech, nationalists used an antipoverty program Stokes created in King's honor to buy rifles and ammunition. Ballots and Bullets examines the revolutionary calls for addressing racism through guerrilla warfare in America's streets. It also puts into perspective the political aftermath, as racial violence and rebellions in most American cities led to white backlash and provided lift to the counterrevolution that brought Richard Nixon to power, effectively marking an end to President Johnson's "War on Poverty." Fifty years later, many politicians still call for "law and order" to combat urban unrest. The Black Lives Matter movement and continued instances of police misconduct and brutality show that the cycle of race-based violence continues. The root causes—racism and poverty—remain largely unaddressed.

Author : Natalie C. Parker
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780451478856

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Steel Tide by Natalie C. Parker Pdf

The second book in a heart-stopping trilogy that follows the captain of an all-female ship intent on taking down a vicious warlord's powerful fleet. Caledonia may have lost her crew, but she's not done fighting yet. After nearly dying at the hand of a powerful foe, Caledonia is pulled from the sea and nursed back to health by a crew of former Bullets that call themselves Blades. The Blades escaped Aric Athair's clutches and now live a nomadic existence, ready to disappear at a moment's notice should trouble come their way. But Caledonia wants to do more than just hide. She wants to find the Mors Navis and her beloved sisters. She wants to continue fighting Aric's fleet and to take back the Bullet seas. She'll need to do everything in her power to convince the Blades that fighting is their only option, that there has to be a life better than the one under Aric Athair's reign, and that finding the women of the Mors Navis is the first step to revolution.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Bullets
ISBN : PURD:32754078045915

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Armor-piercing and Exploding Bullets by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime Pdf

Author : Michael Hittman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0803223765

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Corbett Mack by Michael Hittman Pdf

This is the compelling yet disturbing story of Corbett Mack (1892-1974), an opiate addict who was a member of the Nuumuu (Numa), or Northern Paiute. The Northern Paiute are best known as the people who produced Wovoka, the Ghost Dance prophet whose revitalistic teachings swept the Indian world in the 1890s. Mack is from the generation following the collapse of the Ghost Dance religion, a generation of Nomogweta or "half-breeds" (also called "stolen children")-Paiute of mixed ancestry who were raised in an increasingly bicultural world and who fell into virtual peonage to white (often Italian) potato farmers. Around the turn of the century, the use of opium became widespread among the Paiute, adopted from equally victimized Chinese laborers with whom they worked closely in the fields. The story of Corbett Mack is an uncompromising account of a harsh and sometimes traumatic life that was typical of an entire generation of Paiute. It was a life born out of the turmoil and humiliation of an Indian boarding school, troubled by opiate addiction, bound to constant labor in the fields, yet nonetheless made meaningful through the perseverance of Paiute cultural traditions. Michael Hittman is chairman of the Anthropology and Sociology Department and a professor at Long Island University, Brooklyn. He is the author of Wovoka and the Ghost Dance: A Sourcebook and A Numa History: The Yerington Paiute Tribe.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1140 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11548421

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Senate documents by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christy Boulware
Publisher : ACU Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781684268849

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Nervous Breakthrough by Christy Boulware Pdf

Exhaustion and hurry aren’t a badge of honor. Fear and anxiety rage in our world―a weight we carry, producing profound physical consequences. We hustle hard and strive more each day, our priorities mismatched with our Savior’s―struggling to surrender our lives to his will. We believe our superwoman tendencies are amazing when they are in fact alarming. What will it take to rock the boat enough to awaken our souls? A total nervous breakdown? A diagnosis of severe panic and anxiety disorder answered that question for Christy Boulware. Her fast-paced, highly driven, mis-prioritized life finally caught up with her. Eventually she went from being superwoman to staring at guns on her bedroom floor. Through her journey to recovery, Christy learned how to overcome fear and anxiety in a world that feeds both emotions. Whether you’re on the verge of a breakdown, in the middle of one, or worried you’re headed toward one―this book will show you how a breakdown can lead to a breakthrough. We have wasted enough time living in fear; let’s start living in freedom! Through this book, the reader will: • Lay down superwoman tendencies and discover how to fully surrender to a trustworthy God. • Stop anxiety before it starts by recognizing its smoke alarms. • Recognize ungodly thoughts and replace them before they snowball out of control. • Learn why the presence of fear does not mean your faith is weak. • Discover where science complements God’s Word to achieve a balanced approach for overcoming anxiety.

Author : Maria Alves,Philip Evanson
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439900055

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Living in the Crossfire by Maria Alves,Philip Evanson Pdf

Communities organizing to end Brazil's urban war on drugs

Author : Kevin Heppner,Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Child soldiers
ISBN : 1564322793

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"My Gun was as Tall as Me" by Kevin Heppner,Human Rights Watch (Organization) Pdf

Life as a Soldier

Author : Baron Brady
Publisher : Baron's Books
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Umbra by Baron Brady Pdf

Into every family a little insanity must fall, or so it would seem for the members of the Friend family; though it’s the fear of insanity that divides them and only the most deadly of confrontations that might bring them together again. UMBRA details the strained relationship between two brothers, Sam and Jacob Friend, and the havoc which ensues from their failure to come to terms. Told from the standpoint of five characters, UMBRA, examines not only failed family relationships but the nature of sanity itself. And just as unresolved feelings spill over from one generation to the next, perhaps insanity becomes the unwelcome and unavoidable inheritance of the past. With the second generation of the Friend family poised to repeat the same tragedies of the former generation, is there any hope that the future will one day free itself from the past?

Author : Mark Twain,James Fenimore Cooper,Max Brand,James Oliver Curwood,B. M. Bower,Zane Grey,Jackson Gregory,Jack London,Emerson Hough,Will Lillibridge,Andy Adams,Bret Harte,Owen Wister,Washington Irving,Willa Cather,O. Henry,Grace Livingston Hill,Charles King,Charles Alden Seltzer,Stephen Crane,Dane Coolidge,Marah Ellis Ryan,Francis William Sullivan,Frederic Homer Balch,Frederic Remington,Robert W. Chambers,Forrestine C. Hooker,Frank H. Spearman,J. Allan Dunn,Ann S. Stephens,Robert E. Howard,R.M. Ballantyne,Charles Siringo,Isabel E. Ostrander
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 12829 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-17
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547813569

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WILD WEST Boxed Set: 150+ Western Classics in One Volume by Mark Twain,James Fenimore Cooper,Max Brand,James Oliver Curwood,B. M. Bower,Zane Grey,Jackson Gregory,Jack London,Emerson Hough,Will Lillibridge,Andy Adams,Bret Harte,Owen Wister,Washington Irving,Willa Cather,O. Henry,Grace Livingston Hill,Charles King,Charles Alden Seltzer,Stephen Crane,Dane Coolidge,Marah Ellis Ryan,Francis William Sullivan,Frederic Homer Balch,Frederic Remington,Robert W. Chambers,Forrestine C. Hooker,Frank H. Spearman,J. Allan Dunn,Ann S. Stephens,Robert E. Howard,R.M. Ballantyne,Charles Siringo,Isabel E. Ostrander Pdf

This collection of world's greatest western novels and stories include rip roarin' cowboy adventures, tales of the famous outcasts, the heroes of the Wild West, conniving villains and intriguing sagas: Introduction Story of the Cowboy Story of the Outlaw Novels & Stories Riders of the Purple Sage Saga (Zane Grey) Ohio River Trilogy Dan Barry Series (Max Brand) The Virginian (Owen Wister) Lin McLean Leatherstocking Series (James F. Cooper) Flying U Series (B. M. Bower) Cabin Fever Rimrock Trail (J. Allan Dunn) Breckinridge Elkins Series (Robert E. Howard) In a Hollow of the Hills (Bret Harte) Roughing It (Mark Twain) Outcasts of Poker Flat Call of the Wild (Jack London) Heart of the West (O. Henry) White Fang Wolf Hunters (James Oliver Curwood) Gold Hunters Last of the Plainsmen Border Legion Smoke Bellew Country Beyond Lone Star Ranger Ronicky Doone Trilogy Riders of the Silences Three Partners Man of the Forest Lure of the Dim Trails Tennessee's Partner Covered Wagon (Emerson Hough) Luck of Roaring Camp Rustlers of Pecos County Pike Bearfield Series O Pioneers! (Willa Cather) My Ántonia Log of a Cowboy (Andy Adams) Two-Gun Man (Charles Alden Seltzer) Short Cut (Jackson Gregory) Astoria (Washington Irving) Ungava (R.M. Ballantyne) Valley of Silent Men Black Jack Whispering Smith (Frank H. Spearman) A Texas Cow Boy (Charles Siringo) Trail Horde Golden Dream (Ballantyne) Blue Hotel (Stephen Crane) Long Shadow Girl from Montana (Grace Livingston Hill) Hidden Children (Robert W. Chambers) Where the Trail Divides Desert Trail (Dane Coolidge) Bride Comes to Yellow Sky Hidden Water...