Hard Fighting

Author : Jonathan Hunt
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473856721

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Hard Fighting by Jonathan Hunt Pdf

This account, following on from Unicorns - The History of the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry 1794- 1899, covers the Regiments war service between 1900 and 1945.During the Boer War the SRY formed part of the first volunteer unit to see active service overseas fighting the Boer Commandos as cavalry. For its role in the ill-fated 1915 Gallipoli campaign, the Regiment was awarded the Kings Colour and then fought Allenbys victorious campaign against the Turks.During the Second World War the Regiment initially saw service in Palestine, at the siege of Tobruk and the fall of Crete. After acting as Special Forces in Ethiopia, they were converted to armour and fought through from Alamein to Tripoli before returning to North-west Europe for D-Day and the advance to Germany. In so doing they won thirty Battle Honours and 159 awards including eighty-three for gallantry.General Sir Brian Horrocks later wrote no armoured regiment can show a finerrecord of hard fighting. Hence the title of this invaluable regimental history.

Author : Chette Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09
Category : Alabama
ISBN : 1929619316

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Hard Fighting Soldier by Chette Williams Pdf

Rev. Chette Williams, full-time chaplain of the Auburn University football team, tells how God transformed his life and how God continues to use him to influence football players at Auburn and beyond. As a player in the 1980s, some of Williams' Auburn teammates said he "wasn't worth praying for." He was a mean, bitter, angry young man, and when Coach Pat Dye kicked him off the team, nobody was surprised. With God's help, Williams turned his life around and he vowed to help others do the same.

Author : Birister Sharma
Publisher : Birister Sharma
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Fighting With HARD TIMES! by Birister Sharma Pdf

Your life is a cycle of good times and bad times. Without this cycle, your life is not possible. This is the law of this world. If the good times will arrive today, the bad times will naturally follow the next day. In the similar fashion, if the bad times will strike in your life today, the good times will naturally follow the next day. This is the continuous cycle. Nobody can stop it. This is the fact. This is the part of your life. You can’t deny it. And you’ve to accept this truth. Good Times ⇋ Bad Times Bad Times ⇋ Good Times You never expect only good times in your life. If there is life, there are both good times and bad times like day and night. If this part of the beach is full of hard times, then the other part of the beach is full of good times; and vice versa. You’ve to cross these beaches of life all alone. You’ve to sail all alone. You’ve to swim all alone. Then only you can reach to your ultimate destination of your life. Whenever the hard times will strike in your life, don’t get scared, but face them like a brave soldier. Be positive! Believe in yourself. Fight with full might. Keep your hopes alive. Be patient! And never give up! You’ll definitely come over your hard times. ∽***∽

Author : Leslie A. Schwalm
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252054686

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A Hard Fight for We by Leslie A. Schwalm Pdf

African-American women fought for their freedom with courage and vigor during and after the Civil War. Leslie Schwalm explores the vital roles of enslaved and formerly enslaved women on the rice plantations of lowcountry South Carolina, both in antebellum plantation life and in the wartime collapse of slavery. From there, she chronicles their efforts as freedwomen to recover from the impact of the war while redefining their lives and labor. Freedwomen asserted their own ideas of what freedom meant and insisted on important changes in the work they performed both for white employers and in their own homes. As Schwalm shows, these women rejected the most unpleasant or demeaning tasks, guarded the prerogatives they gained under the South's slave economy, and defended their hard-won freedoms against unwanted intervention by Northern whites and the efforts of former owners to restore slavery's social and economic relations during Reconstruction. A bold challenge to entrenched notions, A Hard Fight for We places African American women at the center of the South's transition from a slave society.

Author : Alison Dean
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781770566668

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Seconds Out by Alison Dean Pdf

Kicking ass and taking notes—what it’s like to be a woman in the ring. Alison Dean teaches English literature. She also punches people. Hard. But despite several amateur fights under her belt, she knows she will never be taken as seriously as a male boxer. “You punch like a girl” still isn’t a compliment — women aren’t supposed to choose to participate in violence. Her unique perspective as a 30-something university lecturer turned amateur fighter allows Dean to articulately and with great insight delve into the ways martial arts can change a person’s — and particularly a woman’s — relationship to their body and to the world around them, and at the same time considers the ways in which women might change martial arts. Combining historical research, anecdotal experience, and interviews with coaches and fighters, Seconds Out explores our culture’s relationship with violence, and particularly with violence practiced by women. "An important addition to women’s martial arts scholarship, Dean provides personal insight into the radical space women occupy in sport fighting. Seconds Out is a must-read for all fighters looking for mentors in the complicated world of martial arts." —L.A. Jennings, author of Mixed Martial Arts: A History from Ancient Fighting Sports to the UFC "Dean brings a fresh new female voice to the topic of combat sports." —Trevor Wittman, renowned MMA trainer, UFC analyst, and founder of ONX Sports "Trained in the discipline and art of both fighting and literature, Dean combines both with style. She honors the fighters, writers, and historians who have come before her and definitively ends the idea of women fighters as a novelty. Seconds Out is a must-read for anyone who feels the call of the bell and reverence for a good fight." —Sue Jaye Johnson

Author : Steve Springer,Blake Chavez
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780762768639

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Hard Luck by Steve Springer,Blake Chavez Pdf

The story of boxing legend Jerry Quarry has it all: rags to riches, thrilling fights against the giants of the Golden Age of Heavyweights (Ali—twice, Frazier—twice, Patterson, Norton), a racially and politically electric sports era, the thrills and excesses of fame, celebrities, love, hate, joy, and pain. And tragedy. Like the man he fought during two highly controversial fight cards in 1970 and '72—Muhammad Ali—boxing great Jerry Quarry was to suffer gravely. He died at age fifty-three, mind and body ravaged by Dementia Pugilistica. In Hard Luck, “Irish” Jerry Quarry comes to life—from his Grapes of Wrath days as the child of an abusive father in the California migrant camps to those as the undersized heavyweight slaying giants on his way to multiple title bouts and the honor of being the World's Most Popular Fighter in '68, '69, '70, and '71. The story of Jerry Quarry is one of the richest in the annals of boxing, and through painstaking research and exclusive access to the Quarry family and its archives, Steve Springer and Blake Chavez have captured it all.

Author : Boyd A. Taylor
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781622301010

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Cb and Sam Fight Hard, Hold Fast by Boyd A. Taylor Pdf

What would you do if your friend was in trouble-real life-or-death trouble? Christopher Benjamin needs to find out what risks he is willing to take, but he only has seconds to make his decision. There are machine guns, speeding trains, and a vicious lion, but Chris has his own weapons and sage advice from a strange, old lady. Will it be enough for Christopher to save Samantha? Find out in this Christian adventure story written especially for young people not afraid of a little danger.

Author : David E. Johnson
Publisher : RAND Corporation
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0833058509

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Hard Fighting by David E. Johnson Pdf

Like Israel in 2006, the United States today is likely ill prepared for hybrid warfare. To identify lessons that the U.S. military might learn from the Israeli experience in Lebanon, the author examines the state of the Israeli military before the Second Lebanon War, the lessons it learned during that conflict, the reforms it undertook to address its deficiencies, and how it fared during Operation Cast Lead three years later.

Author : William Henry Fitchett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Battles
ISBN : MINN:319510023358667

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Fights for the Flag by William Henry Fitchett Pdf

Author : Andre Henry
Publisher : Convergent Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780593239896

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All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep by Andre Henry Pdf

A leading voice for social justice reveals how he stopped arguing with white people who deny the ongoing legacy of racism—and offers a proven path forward for Black people and people of color based on the history of nonviolent struggle. “A moving personal journey that lends practical insight for expanding and strengthening the global antiracist movement.”—Patrisse Khan-Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter, bestselling author of When They Call You a Terrorist When the rallying cry “Black Lives Matter” was heard across the world in 2013, Andre Henry was one of the millions for whom the movement caused a political awakening and a rupture in some of his closest relationships with white people. As he began using his artistic gifts to share his experiences and perspective, Henry was aggrieved to discover that many white Americans—people he called friends and family—were more interested in debating whether racism existed or whether Henry was being polite enough in the way he used his voice. In this personal and thought-provoking book, Henry explores how the historical divides between Black people and non-Black people are expressed through our most mundane interactions, and why this struggle won’t be resolved through civil discourse, diversity hires, interracial relationships, or education. What we need is a revolution, one that moves beyond symbolic progress to disrupt systems of racial violence and inequality in tangible, creative ways. Sharing stories from his own path to activism—from studying at seminary to becoming a student of nonviolent social change, from working as a praise leader to singing about social justice—and connecting those experiences to lessons from successful nonviolent struggles in America and around the world, Andre Henry calls on Black people and people of color to divest from whiteness and its false promises, trust what their lived experiences tell them, and practice hope as a discipline as they work for lasting change.

Author : Leslie A. Schwalm
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0252066308

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A Hard Fight for We by Leslie A. Schwalm Pdf

African-American women fought for their freedom with courage and vigor during and after the Civil War. Leslie Schwalm explores the vital roles of enslaved and formerly enslaved women on the rice plantations of lowcountry South Carolina, both in antebellum plantation life and in the wartime collapse of slavery. From there, she chronicles their efforts as freedwomen to recover from the impact of the war while redefining their lives and labor. Freedwomen asserted their own ideas of what freedom meant and insisted on important changes in the work they performed both for white employers and in their own homes. As Schwalm shows, these women rejected the most unpleasant or demeaning tasks, guarded the prerogatives they gained under the South's slave economy, and defended their hard-won freedoms against unwanted intervention by Northern whites and the efforts of former owners to restore slavery's social and economic relations during Reconstruction. A bold challenge to entrenched notions, A Hard Fight for We places African American women at the center of the South's transition from a slave society.

Author : Richard Broome
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 1922059862

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Fighting Hard by Richard Broome Pdf

My late twenties have felt like a series of slow-motion epiphanies, each one sneaking up before slapping me in my newly acquired jowls. Everything I said I'd do 'by the time I'm thirty' as a glassy-eyed graduate is now in the 'by the time I'm forty' box.Much has been made of delayed adulthood of Gen Y'ers - that they flit from job to job and take their sweet time earning the traditional adult badges: marriage, children, a mortgage. But what makes this generation tick?In We're All Going to Die (Especially Me), award-winning journalist Joel Meares reflects on the muddle of Gen Y existence with razor-sharp insight and riotous good humour. From 'My hands are pretty, and little' and 'I can't handle my drugs' to 'I am not a New Yorker' and 'I make an excellent bridesmaid', Meares' essays are self-deprecating, confessional and rollicking good fun.For lovers of David Sedaris and Benjamin Law.'We're All Going to Dieis like a series of late-night conversations with someone so smart, perceptive and wry, you're already secretly planning to make them be your new best friend.' - Benjamin Law.

Author : Amy Vastine
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460385050

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The Hardest Fight by Amy Vastine Pdf

There's no backing down this time Lucy Everhart expected her opposing counsel to be a slick, soulless corporate lawyer. Who else would represent developers intent on turning Chicago's Safe Haven women's shelter into condos? But she never imagined it would be Dylan Hunt. Clearly, he's no longer the idealistic young man she fell for in law school. This is Dylan 2.0. The man who let her go without a fight five years ago—along with his passion for social justice, apparently. He may have compromised what he believed in, but Lucy hasn't. Dylan has no idea what kind of fight he's in for. But then again, neither does she.

Author : Laura Valentine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600018871

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Sea fights and land battles: from Alfred to Victoria by Laura Valentine Pdf

Author : David Glantz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135774776

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Soviet Operational and Tactical Combat in Manchuria, 1945 by David Glantz Pdf

At the request of the other Allies, on 9th August 1945, a force of over 1.5 million Red Army soldiers unleashed a massive attack against the Japanese in Manchuria. Volume 2 covers the detailed course of operational and tactical fighting in virtually every combat sector.