Hacksaw Ridge The True Story Of Desmond Doss

Author : Ronald Kruk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-14
Category : Medal of Honor
ISBN : 1546685030

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Hacksaw Ridge : the True Story of Desmond Doss by Ronald Kruk Pdf

According to Doss's account in a documentary film titled "The Contentious Objector", as he rescued soldiers one-by-one, he breathed into the air with each go-around, "Lord, please help me get one more."The modest man of faith claims to have saved 50 wounded soldiers from certain death. His comrades claim that he saved 100. President Harry S. Truman presented him with the Congressional Medal of Honor upon his return to the United States, for his heroics on Okinawa, and the citation credits him with saving 75 lives, splitting the difference."From a human standpoint, I shouldn't be here to tell the story," said Doss in an interview with the Richmond Times-Dispatch. "No telling how many times the Lord has spared my life." During World War II, 16,112,556 American soldiers served their country and the cause of the Allies, and only 43 received the Medal of Honor. Doss, who held a powerful allegiance to Christ, and was a devoted member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, became the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. military's highest honor. Today, he is one of two conscientious objectors to have received it.

Author : Booton Herndon
Publisher : Remnant Publications
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Redemption at Hacksaw Ridge by Booton Herndon Pdf

Author : Booton Herndon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1629131547

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Hero of Hacksaw Ridge by Booton Herndon Pdf

Author : Booton Herndon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1629131555

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Redemption at Hacksaw Ridge: The Gripping Story That Inspired the Movie by Booton Herndon Pdf

"The gripping true story that inspired the movie."

Author : Adam Palmer
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-26
Category : Biographical fiction
ISBN : 1492898562

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The Medic by Adam Palmer Pdf

During WWII, a young man from Lynchburg, Virginia was drafted into the Army and sent to the 77th Infantry Division. When he arrived at camp for basic training, he promptly made it known that he was a pacifist and would be unwilling to take a life or even so much as touch a weapon. He did however say that he would be proud to serve his country as a medic, if they would let him. No matter how much pressure the Army applied, the medic was unwilling to compromise his convictions. The other soldiers in his unit came to hate the conscientious objector, going so far as to throw their boots at him while he knelt by his bunk at night to pray. When the men of Company B assaulted "Hacksaw Ridge" on the island of Okinawa, something happened that would change their opinion of the medic forever.

Author : Booton Herndon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0816305277

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Unlikeliest Hero by Booton Herndon Pdf

Author : E.B. Sledge
Publisher : Presidio Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780891419198

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With the Old Breed by E.B. Sledge Pdf

“Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed. He became a chronicler, a historian, a storyteller who turns the extremes of the war in the Pacific—the terror, the camaraderie, the banal and the extraordinary—into terms we mortals can grasp.”—Tom Hanks NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In The Wall Street Journal, Victor Davis Hanson named With the Old Breed one of the top five books on epic twentieth-century battles. Studs Terkel interviewed the author for his definitive oral history, The Good War. Now E. B. Sledge’s acclaimed first-person account of fighting at Peleliu and Okinawa returns to thrill, edify, and inspire a new generation. An Alabama boy steeped in American history and enamored of such heroes as George Washington and Daniel Boone, Eugene B. Sledge became part of the war’s famous 1st Marine Division—3rd Battalion, 5th Marines. Even after intense training, he was shocked to be thrown into the battle of Peleliu, where “the world was a nightmare of flashes, explosions, and snapping bullets.” By the time Sledge hit the hell of Okinawa, he was a combat vet, still filled with fear but no longer with panic. Based on notes Sledge secretly kept in a copy of the New Testament, With the Old Breed captures with utter simplicity and searing honesty the experience of a soldier in the fierce Pacific Theater. Here is what saved, threatened, and changed his life. Here, too, is the story of how he learned to hate and kill—and came to love—his fellow man. “In all the literature on the Second World War, there is not a more honest, realistic or moving memoir than Eugene Sledge’s. This is the real deal, the real war: unvarnished, brutal, without a shred of sentimentality or false patriotism, a profound primer on what it actually was like to be in that war. It is a classic that will outlive all the armchair generals’ safe accounts of—not the ‘good war’—but the worst war ever.”—Ken Burns

Author : Gregory Crosby and
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1389372987

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The Birth of Hacksaw Ridge: How It All Began by Gregory Crosby and Pdf

The authorized and only book ever written on the childhood and teenage years of Desmond T Doss. Find out what inspired this young man to honor God, family, and country, and to go on to become one of America's greatest heroes. BOY, DO WE NEED MORE LIKE HIM TODAY! A great book for all ages.

Author : Peter Collier
Publisher : Artisan Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781579656607

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Choosing Courage by Peter Collier Pdf

How does an ordinary person become a hero? It happens in a split second, a moment of focus and clarity, when a choice is made. Here are the gripping accounts of Medal of Honor recipients who demonstrated guts and selflessness on the battlefield and confronted life-threatening danger to make a difference. There are the stories of George Sakato and Vernon Baker—both of whom overcame racial discrimination to enlist in the army during World War II (Sakato was a second-generation Japanese American, Baker an African American) and went on to prove that heroes come in all colors—and Clint Romesha, who led his outnumbered fellow soldiers against a determined enemy to prevent the Taliban from taking over a remote U.S. Army outpost in Afghanistan. Also included are civilians who have been honored by the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation for outstanding acts of bravery in crisis situations, from a school shooting to the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Adding depth and context are illuminating essays on the combat experience and its aftermath, covering topics such as overcoming fear; a mother mourning the loss of her son; and “surviving hell” as a prisoner of war.

Author : Philip Snow
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300103735

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The Fall of Hong Kong by Philip Snow Pdf

The definitive account of the wartime history of Hong Kong On Christmas Day 1941 the Japanese captured Hong Kong, and Britain lost control of its Chinese colony for almost four years, a turning point in the process by which the British were to be expelled from the colony and from East Asia. This book unravels for the first time the dramatic story of the Japanese occupation and reinterprets the subsequent evolution of Hong Kong. "Magnificent. . . . The clarity of mind Snow brings to his labor of storytelling and contextualizing is] amazing."--John Lanchester, Daily Telegraph "Beautifully written, with many telling anecdotes."--Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs "Very good. . . . Provides] a much more nuanced picture than has appeared before in English of life among Hong Kong's different communities before and during the Japanese occupation."--Economist

Author : Brian Tome
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493448203

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The Five Marks of a Man by Brian Tome Pdf

A boy doesn't automatically become a man at age 18. What differentiates a man from a boy is the way he lives. A boy lives day to day, wants to be MVP, plays, wants the reassurance of the crowd, and is a predator. A man has a vision for his life, is a team player, works, has the courage to take a minority position, and is a protector. These are the five marks of a man. It's not enough to just know them. A real man aggressively pursues them on a daily basis. Drawing from his own experience and the lives of others, pastor Brian Tome calls on men to examine themselves and take steps in the direction of a fully realized manhood that honors God, respects women, elevates others, and works purposefully for an end greater than their own satisfaction or pleasure. It's time for men to step into their honorable place in the world and lean into a new reality--one defined by strength, purpose, and honor.

Author : Chester Nez,Judith Schiess Avila
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101552124

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Code Talker by Chester Nez,Judith Schiess Avila Pdf

The first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII. His name wasn’t Chester Nez. That was the English name he was assigned in kindergarten. And in boarding school at Fort Defiance, he was punished for speaking his native language, as the teachers sought to rid him of his culture and traditions. But discrimination didn’t stop Chester from answering the call to defend his country after Pearl Harbor, for the Navajo have always been warriors, and his upbringing on a New Mexico reservation gave him the strength—both physical and mental—to excel as a marine. During World War II, the Japanese had managed to crack every code the United States used. But when the Marines turned to its Navajo recruits to develop and implement a secret military language, they created the only unbroken code in modern warfare—and helped assure victory for the United States over Japan in the South Pacific. INCLUDES THE ACTUAL NAVAJO CODE AND RARE PICTURES

Author : Robert Leckie
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101196298

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Okinawa by Robert Leckie Pdf

Penguin delivers you to the front lines of The Pacific Theater with the real-life stories behind the HBO miniseries. Former Marine and Pacific War veteran Robert Leckie tells the story of the invasion of Okinawa, the closing battle of World War II. Leckie is a skilled military historian, mixing battle strategy and analysis with portraits of the men who fought on both sides to give the reader a complete account of the invasion. Lasting 83 days and surpassing D-Day in both troops and material used, the Battle of Okinawa was a decisive victory for the Allies, and a huge blow to Japan. In this stirring and readable account, Leckie provides a complete picture of the battle and its context in the larger war.

Author : Brian Godawa
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830869534

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Hollywood Worldviews by Brian Godawa Pdf

Do you watch movies with your eyes open? You buy your tickets and concessions, and you walk into the theater. Celluloid images flash at twenty-four frames per second, and the hypnotic sequence of moving pictures coaxes you to suspend disbelief and be entertained by the implausible. Unfortunately, many often suspend their beliefs as well, succumbing to subtle lessons in how to behave, think and even perceive reality. Do you find yourself hoping that a sister will succeed in seducing her sibling's husband, that a thief will get away with his crime, that a serial killer will escape judgment? Do you, too, laugh at the bumbling priest and seethe at the intolerant and abusive evangelist? Do you embrace worldviews that infect your faith and then wonder, after your head is clear, whether your faith can survive the infection? In this thoroughly revised and updated edition of his popular book, Brian Godawa guides you through the place of redemption in film, the tricks screenwriters use to communicate their messages, and the mental and spiritual discipline required for watching movies. Hollywood Worldviews helps you enter a dialogue with Hollywood that leads to a happier ending, one that keeps you aware of your culture and awake to your faith.

Author : Gretchen Hailer,Rose Pacatte
Publisher : Saint Mary's Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780884899051

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Media Mindfulness by Gretchen Hailer,Rose Pacatte Pdf

Whether you are a Catholic high school teacher of any discipline, a catechist, or a youth minister, feel confident that you can educate teens in one of the most difficult yet crucial areas of their growth in faith. Beware! Sister Media and Sister Catechist have written an information-packed resource that also shares their sense of fun and exploration. You and your students might consider this study of Media Mindfulness to be one of the most enjoyable and meaningful educational experiences in high school!