Hell Before Breakfast

Author : Robert H. Patton
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101910498

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Hell Before Breakfast by Robert H. Patton Pdf

From acclaimed historian Robert H. Patton, author of The Pattons and Patriot Pirates, a rediscovery and celebration of America’s first chroniclers of foreign war. The first war correspondent, William H. Russell of The Times of London, described himself and his profession as “the miserable parent of a luckless tribe.” But it wasn’t long before others saw it differently. Hell Before Breakfast is the spectacular tale of larger-than-life Americans who made it their business to bring back news from the front; from Bull Run to the Paris Commune, from Africa to the Ottoman Empire, through decades of lightning-fast technological progress and high adventure. As America matured into a great power and the monarchies of Europe battled for dominance through a series of brief, bloody imperial wars, with the storm clouds of World War I drawing rapidly closer, these men and their newspapers were at center stage—the vanguard of a golden age of war correspondence.

Author : WILLIAM W. JOHNSTONE,J. A. Johnstone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1496735331

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Hell for Breakfast by WILLIAM W. JOHNSTONE,J. A. Johnstone Pdf

Author : Meghan Tifft
Publisher : Unnamed Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1944700625

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From Hell to Breakfast by Meghan Tifft Pdf

Lucinda and her boyfriend Dracula, yes, that Dracula, navigate dead end jobs, difficult (and disturbing) neighbors, amateur actors and the underground art world in this darkly funny ode to the weirdness of small town America

Author : Chuck Palahniuk
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385671118

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Damned by Chuck Palahniuk Pdf

Think adolescence is hell? You have no idea... Welcome to Dante's Inferno, by way of The Breakfast Club, from the mind of American fiction's most brilliant troublemaker. "Death, like life, is what you make out of it." So says Madison, the whip-tongued 11-year-old narrator of Damned, Chuck Palahniuk's subversive homage to the young adult genre. Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas while her parents are off touting their new film projects and adopting more orphans. Over the holidays she dies of a marijuana overdose--and the next thing she knows, she's in Hell. This is the afterlife as only Chuck Palahniuk could imagine it: a twisted inferno inspired by both the most extreme and mundane of human evils, where The English Patient plays on repeat and roaming demons devour sinners limb by limb. However, underneath Madison's sad teenager affect there is still a child struggling to accept not only the events of her dysfunctional life, but also the truth about her death. For Madison, though, a more immediate source of comfort lies in the motley crew of young sinners she meets during her first days in Hell. With the help of Archer, Babette, Leonard, and Patterson, she learns to navigate Hell--and discovers that she'd rather be mortal and deluded and stupid with those she loves than perfect and alone.

Author : Robert H. Patton
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307390554

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Patriot Pirates by Robert H. Patton Pdf

In this lively narrative history, Robert H. Patton, grandson of the World War II battlefield legend, tells a sweeping tale of courage, capitalism, naval warfare, and international political intrigue set on the high seas during the American Revolution. Patriot Pirates highlights the obscure but pivotal role played by colonial privateers in defeating Britain in the American Revolution. American privateering-essentially legalized piracy-began with a ragtag squadron of New England schooners in 1775. It quickly erupted into a massive seaborne insurgency involving thousands of money-mad patriots plundering Britain's maritime trade throughout Atlantic. Patton's extensive research brings to life the extraordinary adventures of privateers as they hammered the British economy, infuriated the Royal Navy, and humiliated the crown.

Author : Gary Apple
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : American drama
ISBN : 0573625964

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When God Comes for Breakfast You Don't Burn the Toast by Gary Apple Pdf

"What do you do when 'The Almight' drops over for a casual breakfast? In this one-act comedy, Harry and Beatrice Katzman are faced with such a situation."--Page 3.

Author : Lewis Wolpert
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780571266722

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Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast by Lewis Wolpert Pdf

Why does every society around the world have a religious tradition of some sort? Professor Lewis Wolpert investigates the nature of belief and its causes. He looks at belief's psychological basis and its possible evolutionary origins in physical cause and effect. Wolpert explores the different types of belief - including that of animals, of children, of the religious, and of those suffering from psychiatric disorders. And he asks whether it is possible to live without belief at all, or whether it is a necessary component of a functioning society.

Author : William W. Johnstone,J.A. Johnstone
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786043798

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A Good Day for a Massacre by William W. Johnstone,J.A. Johnstone Pdf

Johnstone Country. Where it’s never quiet on the Western front. Life on the straight and narrow is easier said than done for a pair of crooks like Jimmy “Slash” Braddock and Melvin “Pecos Kid” Baker. But these reprobates are doing their damnedest to make an honest go of it. They’ve managed to safely deliver a church organ to a mountain parish when their sometime employer—Chief U.S. Marshal Luther T. “Bleed-’m-So” Bledsoe—recruits them for a job only fools would take. Marshal Bledsoe wants them to pick up a shipment of gold in the mining town in the Sawatch Mountains. Here’s the catch: Slash and Pecos’s wagon is just a decoy. When a ruthless gang ambushes the real gold shipment, it’s up to Slash and Pecos to go after the trigger-happy bandits. And they won’t be alone. A lady Pinkerton, Hattie Friendly—who is anything but—survived the ambush and is hellbent on getting the gold back. Even if she has to team up with a pair of ornery old cutthroats like Slash and Pecos. . . . The Cutthroats are back. The bad guys are history. Live Free. Read Hard.

Author : William W. Johnstone,J.A. Johnstone
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786043811

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The Wicked Die Twice by William W. Johnstone,J.A. Johnstone Pdf

Once upon a time in the Old West, Slash and Pecos were two of the wiliest robbers this side of the Rio Grande. Now they’re fighting three of the nastiest killers this side of Hell. . . . Johnstone Country. Where Two Guns Kill Better Than One. Not many men get a second chance at life. But thanks to a chief U.S. marshal who needs their help, the bank-robbing duo of Jimmy “Slash” Braddock and Melvin “Pecos Kid” Baker are on the right side of the law. As unofficial marshals, they’ve agreed to pick up three prisoners from a Milestown jail and escort them to Denver. Sounds easy enough—until they learn the prisoners are an unholy trio of sadistic cutthroat killers known as Talon, “Hellraisin’” Frank, and the Sioux called Black Pot. And they’ve managed to escape before Slash and Pecos even show up . . . The three convicts have turned Milestown into their own savage slayground. Drinking, killing, ravaging—and worse—they’re painting the town red with blood and burning it to the ground. Slash and Pecos manage to stop them in a nick of time. But getting these three to Denver is another story—because the trio’s leader has offered a thousand-dollar bounty to anyone who can kill Slash and Pecos. This is going to be one wicked ride that Slash and Pecos will never forget—if they live to tell about it . . . Live Free. Read Hard.

Author : Robert H. Patton
Publisher : Potomac Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1574886908

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The Pattons by Robert H. Patton Pdf

Originally published: New York: Crown Publishers, c1994.

Author : John Ringo
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618246844

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The Last Centurion by John Ringo Pdf

Centurions were the guardians of Rome. At the height of the Roman Republic there were over five thousand qualified Roman Centurions in the Legions. To be a Centurion required that, in a mostly illiterate society, one be able to read and write clearly, to be able to convey and create orders, to be capable of not only performing every skill of a Roman soldier but teach every skill of a Roman soldier. Becoming a Centurion required intense physical ability, courage beyond the norm, years of sacrifice and a total devotion to the philosophy which was Rome. When Rome fell to barbarian invaders, there were less than five hundred qualified Centurions. Not because Rome had fewer people but because it had fewer willing to make the sacrifices. And the last Centurions left their shields in the heather and took a barbarian bride . . . We are . . . The Last Centurions. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Author : Mitch Omer,Ann Bauer
Publisher : Borealis Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0873517245

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Damn Good Food by Mitch Omer,Ann Bauer Pdf

A collection of 157 recipes from Mitch Omer, chef-owner of the wildly popular Hell's Kitchen, named one of the Best Breakfasts across America by Esquire magazine.

Author : Anthony Bourdain
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408845042

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Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain Pdf

After twenty-five years of 'sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine', chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain has decided to tell all. From his first oyster in the Gironde to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky-tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown; from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop the Rockefeller Center to drug dealers in the East Village, from Tokyo to Paris and back to New York again, Bourdain's tales of the kitchen are as passionate as they are unpredictable, as shocking as they are funny.

Author : Rick Shelley
Publisher : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781625675682

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Until Relieved by Rick Shelley Pdf

The first thrilling novel in Rick Shelley’s sci-fi military action trilogy following the exploits of The Lucky 13th—in which a simple diversionary tactic may well end in the death of every soldier in the outfit. Three thousand years ago, humanity expanded its presence by settling hundreds of worlds across the galaxy. Yet even as technology allowed them to boldly travel light years, the nature of humanity changed very little. Over time, countless regimes and governments rose and fell in a quest for power. In the end, only two remained—the industrial dictatorship of the Schlinal Hegemony, and the feudal-based Dogel Worlds. The last independent worlds of the Terran Cluster finally united as the Accord of Free Worlds—and fought back against the conquerors as no one had before. So, the war continues... When the Schlinal Hegemony goes on the offensive, the Accord decides to send their forces to several other planets to disperse the Hegemony forces. The planet Porter is where Sgt. Joe Baerclau and his 13th Spaceborne Assault Team are deployed. Unfortunately, what begins as a holding action soon becomes a brutal battle against a relentless foe. And it soon becomes clear that they only have three options left: keep the enemy at bay until backup arrives, hope the enemy decides to quit the fight in frustration, or be buried on Porter...

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007378678

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Briefing for a Descent Into Hell by Doris Lessing Pdf

A study of a man beyond the verge of a nervous breakdown, this is a brilliant and disturbing novel by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.