From The Other Side Of The Gun

Author : Zeljko Goreta
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781491762219

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From the Other Side of the Gun by Zeljko Goreta Pdf

It is April 1941. Belgrade has been bombed, leaving its government in shambles. In a small village in the newly independent state of Croatia, its residents know that a war has started, but nobody senses the tragedy that awaits Kornica, especially a young peasant named Antun. It is not long before Antun is recruited by a new military formation, the Ustashas, where he soon becomes a favorite among the soldiers despite his explosive nature. As the fighting intensifies, Antun joins his fellow soldiers on the battlefields, propelled through time by a series of brutal atrocities that sadly affect his own family and reveal him to be both a hero and a man who recognizes the value of surviving a war in order to feed his family. Will Antun be able to rise above the gunfire and find the freedom he so desperately needs? In this historical novel based on true events, a Bosnian-Croatian peasant’s life is forever changed as World War II begins and he is recruited to fight on the battlefields.

Author : Paul Bennett aka Cralion
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781462836802

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THE OTHER SIDE OF THE GUN by Paul Bennett aka Cralion Pdf

It’s the late 1870’s and Trace Jackson, AKA Doc Shadow is a gunfighter with a deadly reputation that plagues him. There’s always another gun hawk trying to boost his reputation, or another white man believing he’s better, just because he’s white! Many died with surprise on their face. Trace is a man living on the edge where life and death is measured by the fastest draw, deadly accuracy and ice-cold nerves. Trace stops for supplies in the town of Colter Junction, a town owned by Aaron Colter and his two sons who ride rough shod over its citizens. A gunfight is unavoidable and death inevitable as Colter’s two sons push Trace until he has no choice but to fight. Aaron Colter tries to avenge his sons and dies in the attempt. Trace is wounded while fleeing town with a posse hot on his trail. Mitch Colter, older brother of Aaron Colter is a merciless killer who leads the toughest gang in Arizona. He is ruled by hate, greed and lust. Hearing of his brother’s death he goes to Colter Junction seeking revenge. When he discovers the town let the killer escape he hangs the sheriff and sets off in pursuit of his brother’s killer. The trail leads him to the quiet village of the Jicarilla Apache while the warriors are away on a buffalo hunt. The massacre of innocent men, women and children only serves to fuel Mitch Colter’s blood-thirst for revenge. Tela, is a young Apache maiden who, while returning home from the local mission, is pursued by two men intent on having their way with her. Trace saves her, but this time sustains a near fatal wound. Tela saves his life, takes him to her village and gives him the hope of a new life filled with happiness. However, Colter’s raid on the village appears to wipe out any future at all. Trace sets out in pursuit of the gang filled with hate and bent on revenge. His path leads him back to Colter Junction and his rendezvous Mitch Colter. Destiny has determined these two men should meet, and the life of an entire town hangs in the balance!

Author : Kwame Ivery
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-02
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781641293549

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The Problem with the Other Side by Kwame Ivery Pdf

A searing YA debut that follows the joys, complexities, and heartbreaks of an interracial romance between high school sophomores that blossoms during a volatile school election Uly would rather watch old Westerns with his new girlfriend, Sallie, than get involved in his school's politics—why focus on the “bad” and “ugly” when his days with Sallie are so good? His older sister Regina feels differently. She is fed up with the way white school-body presidential candidate Leona Walls talks about Black students. Regina decides to run against Leona . . . and convinces Uly to be her campaign manager. Sallie has no interest in managing her sister's campaign, but how could she say no? After their parents' death, Leona is practically her only family. Even after Leona is accused of running a racist campaign that targets the school's students of color—including Sallie's boyfriend, Uly—Sallie wants to give her sister the benefit of the doubt. But how long can she ignore the ugly truth behind Leona's actions? Together and apart, Uly and Sallie must navigate sibling loyalty and romantic love as the campaign spirals toward a devastating conclusion. CW: Acts of racism and bigotry, racist language, and gun violence are portrayed in this novel.

Author : Lacy M. Johnson
Publisher : Tin House Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781935639848

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The Other Side: A Memoir by Lacy M. Johnson Pdf

Lacy Johnson's rich and poetic memoir, The Other Side, chronicles her brutal kidnapping and imprisonment at the hands of an ex-boyfriend, her dramatic escape, and her hard-fought struggle to recover. Lacy Johnson bangs on the glass doors of a sleepy local police station in the middle of the night. Her feet are bare; her body is bruised and bloody; U-bolts dangle from her wrists. She has escaped, but not unscathed. The Other Side is the haunting account of a first passionate and then abusive relationship; the events leading to Johnson’s kidnapping, rape, and imprisonment; her dramatic escape; and her hard-fought struggle to recover. At once thrilling, terrifying, harrowing, and hopeful, The Other Side offers more than just a true crime record. In language both stark and poetic, Johnson weaves together a richly personal narrative with police and FBI reports, psychological records, and neurological experiments, delivering a raw and unforgettable story of trauma and transformation.

Author : Iain Overton
Publisher : Signal
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780771068690

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The Way of the Gun by Iain Overton Pdf

A "riveting," "relentlessly engrossing," and "brilliantly researched" investigation of the life of the gun -- its manufacture, its sale, and its impact -- and of our world's hugely complex relationship with firearms. In some places of the world, getting a gun is easier than getting a glass of water. In some parts of the world, an individual is allowed to carry concealed firearms into schools. In some parts of the world, there are more guns than people to shoot them. There are almost 1 billion guns across the globe today, a shocking number that is higher than ever before in history. Each year, 12 billion bullets are produced -- almost two bullets for every person on the planet. And over 300,000 people are shot dead over an average year worldwide. In The Way of the Gun award-winning investigative journalist Iain Overton takes readers on a shocking and eye-opening journey to over 25 cities all across the globe, from Cape Town to Tokyo, from San Pedro Sula to Phnom Penh, along the way encountering people from all walks of life affected by guns: Zionist anti-terror gun trainers; El Salvadoran gangland killers; porn starlets who appear as snipers in triple-X films; and South African doctors soaked in the blood of gunshot victims -- unearthing some hard truths about the terrible realities of war and gun crime. Harrowing and sobering, this riveting expose on the long-reaching and mostly unknown life of a gun is an essential and important book in today's world.

Author : Erica R. Edwards
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781479808427

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The Other Side of Terror by Erica R. Edwards Pdf

Reveals the troubling intimacy between Black women and the making of US global power The year 1968 marked both the height of the worldwide Black liberation struggle and a turning point for the global reach of American power, which was built on the counterinsurgency honed on Black and other oppressed populations at home. The next five decades saw the consolidation of the culture of the American empire through what Erica R. Edwards calls the “imperial grammars of blackness.” This is a story of state power at its most devious and most absurd, and, at the same time, a literary history of Black feminist radicalism at its most trenchant. Edwards reveals how the long war on terror, beginning with the late–Cold War campaign against organizations like the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense and the Black Liberation Army, has relied on the labor and the fantasies of Black women to justify the imperial spread of capitalism. Black feminist writers not only understood that this would demand a shift in racial gendered power, but crafted ways of surviving it. The Other Side of Terror offers an interdisciplinary Black feminist analysis of militarism, security, policing, diversity, representation, intersectionality, and resistance, while discussing a wide array of literary and cultural texts, from the unpublished work of Black radical feminist June Jordan to the memoirs of Condoleezza Rice to the television series Scandal. With clear, moving prose, Edwards chronicles Black feminist organizing and writing on “the other side of terror”, which tracked changes in racial power, transformed African American literature and Black studies, and predicted the crises of our current era with unsettling accuracy.

Author : United States. Department of the Army
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : United States
ISBN : UIUC:30112008691286

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Principles of Automotive Vehicles by United States. Department of the Army Pdf

Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2074 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C2539687

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Specifications and Drawings of Patents Issued from the U.S. Patent Office by United States. Patent Office Pdf

Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1620 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Patents
ISBN : WISC:89119133809

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office by United States. Patent Office Pdf

Author : Mary Lawson
Publisher : Dial Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780440336372

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The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson Pdf

From the author of the beloved #1 national bestseller Crow Lake comes an exceptional new novel of jealously, rivalry and the dangerous power of obsession. Two brothers, Arthur and Jake Dunn, are the sons of a farmer in the mid-1930s, when life is tough and another world war is looming. Arthur is reticent, solid, dutiful and set to inherit the farm and his father’s character; Jake is younger, attractive, mercurial and dangerous to know – the family misfit. When a beautiful young woman comes into the community, the fragile balance of sibling rivalry tips over the edge. Then there is Ian, the family’s next generation, and far too sure he knows the difference between right and wrong. By now it is the fifties, and the world has changed—a little, but not enough. These two generations in the small town of Struan, Ontario, are tragically interlocked, linked by fate and community but separated by a war which devours its young men—its unimaginable horror reaching right into the heart of this remote corner of an empire. With her astonishing ability to turn the ratchet of tension slowly and delicately, Lawson builds their story to a shocking climax. Taut with apprehension, surprising us with moments of tenderness and humour, The Other Side of the Bridge is a compelling, humane and vividly evoked novel with an irresistible emotional undertow.

Author : A. Hamilton Gibbs
Publisher : BIG BYTE BOOKS
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Gun Fodder by A. Hamilton Gibbs Pdf

In the tradition of T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia) and Robert Graves is A. Hamilton Gibbs' classic World War I memoir of his time in service to king and country. With humor, intelligence, sorrow, and bitterness he truthfully, nakedly, vividly, reveals the experience not only of one soldier in the British Army, but of thousands, and hundreds of thousands. It was the first time I'd seen men killed and it left me silent, angry. Why "go out" like that on some damned Serbian hill? What was it all about that everybody was trying to kill everybody else? Wasn't the sun shining and the world beautiful? What was this disease that had broken out like a scab over the face of the world? — Why did those particular dots have to fall? Why not the ones a yard away? What was the law of selection? Was there a law? Did every bullet have its billet? Was there a bullet for the Colonel? — For me? — No. It was impossible! But then, why those others and which of us? He was the brother of Cosmo Hamilton (playwright-novelist) and Sir Philip Gibbs (journalist-novelist). His novels include The Persistent Lovers (adapted into a 1922 film), Soundings (1925) and Chances (1930). For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338050878

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Six-Gun Gorilla by Anonymous Pdf

"Six-Gun Gorilla" by Anonymous. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Dennis A. Henigan
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807088845

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"Guns Don't Kill People, People Kill People" by Dennis A. Henigan Pdf

“A must-read for every American who longs to bring sanity to our nation’s gun laws,” this book debunks the lethal logic behind the myths that have framed the gun control debate (Ariana Huffington, co-founder of HuffingtonPost) The gun lobby’s remarkable success in using engaging slogans to frame the gun control debate has allowed it to block lifesaving gun legislation for decades. But is there any truth to this bumper-sticker logic? Dennis Henigan exposes the mythology and misguided thinking at the core of these pro-gun catchphrases, which continue to have an outsized influence on public attitudes toward guns and gun control. He counters the gun lobby’s messages by weaving together the most compelling current research and insights drawn from the grim reality of deadly gunfire in our homes and communities. Henigan charts a new path toward ending the American nightmare of gun violence. Pro-Gun Myths Include: “When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.” “An armed society is a polite society.” “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” “Gun control doesn’t work because criminals don’t follow the law.” “Gun manufacturers shouldn’t be responsible for gun crime, any more than Budweiser is responsible for drunk driving.” “We don’t need new gun laws. We just need to enforce the ones we have.” “Gun control is a slippery slope to complete gun bans.”

Author : Ryan W. Davis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000953688

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Why It's OK to Own a Gun by Ryan W. Davis Pdf

Why It’s OK to Own a Gun explores the right to self-defense, but also looks beyond it to what gun ownership fundamentally means in American life. Guns can provide a source of meaning that doesn’t depend on how much money you have or how important your job is. Guns can offer a sense of shared identity that’s not hung up on intellectual credentials or ideological orthodoxy. For many responsible gun owners, owning a gun is a way of positively reclaiming one’s own agency in the world. It’s true that guns matter to only a minority of Americans, but the same could be said for many important political liberties. Like freedom of religion and freedom of expression, guns should be on the list of basic rights. In fact, they are: as some in America’s founding generation anticipated, gun rights have offered a bulwark for republican freedom. Because there is nothing morally wrong with any of these values, owning a gun is OK. Key Features: Discusses the grounds of the political rights of gun ownership Connects the debate over guns with the sociology of gun ownership Describes genuinely worthwhile features of a way of life that’s unfamiliar to many readers Considers empirical and normative aspects of the gun debate Thinks about individual rights in the context of state power

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Law
ISBN : LOC:0018385642A

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Gun Laws and the Need for Self-defense by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime Pdf