Author : Christian Jennings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Soldiers
ISBN : 0671728016
Mouthful of Rocks
Christian Jennings
Mouthful Of Rocks
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Mouthful of Rocks
Christian Jennings
Author : Christian Jennings
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Foreign Legion
ISBN : 0747505799
Mouthful of Rocks by Christian Jennings Pdf
An account of the author's experiences in the French Foreign Legion. He was attached to the Amphibious Warfare Company in East Africa where he deserted before being recaptured by native bounty hunters and jailed. Returning to Europe in 1986 he deserted again, this time reaching Britain.;Christian Jennings is one of 11 children, is now in his mid twenties, and is a freelance journalist.
How to Rock Braces and Glasses
Meg Haston
Author : Meg Haston
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316192897
How to Rock Braces and Glasses by Meg Haston Pdf
Read the book that inspired the Nickelodeon TV show! Perfect for fans of Middle School and Awkward. Super-stylish and uber-harsh, Kacey Simon is the social dictator of Marquette Middle School. But when an eye infection and a visit to the dentist leave her with giant glasses, a mouth full of metal, and...a littthp, Kacey is dismissed by her popular friends, falling so far down the social ladder she can barely see the top, even with her magnifying specs. With nowhere else to turn, Kacey has to hang with her nerdy neighbor and a boy who walks to beat of his own drum, but she's determined to reclaim her throne. Will she climb back to the top? Or will she discover that hitting rock bottom kind of...rocks?
The Naked Soldier
Tony Sloane
Author : Tony Sloane
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781445780474
The Naked Soldier by Tony Sloane Pdf
This powerful look at the French Foreign Legion explores Sloane's experiences with the brutalities, adventure, destruction, danger, and criminal encounters over his five years of service in this dehumanizing regime. Well known as the most notorious, bloody and ruthless band of mercenaries in the world, in 1998 the Legion accepted Tony Sloane at the age of 18, inviting him as an elite member of this secret and mysterious fighting force. The legend and the myths of the Legion captivated Sloane and he quickly learned that life as a legionnaire was not just about physical training, but also about pledging mind and soul to the missions and operations.
A Rip in Heaven
Jeanine Cummins
Author : Jeanine Cummins
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781440627910
A Rip in Heaven by Jeanine Cummins Pdf
The acclaimed author of American Dirt reveals the devastating effects of a shocking tragedy in this landmark true crime book—the first ever to look intimately at the experiences of both the victims and their families. A Rip in Heaven is Jeanine Cummins’ story of a night in April, 1991, when her two cousins Julie and Robin Kerry, and her brother, Tom, were assaulted on the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge, which spans the Mississippi River just outside of St. Louis. When, after a harrowing ordeal, Tom managed to escape the attackers and flag down help, he thought the nightmare would soon be over. He couldn’t have been more wrong. Tom, his sister Jeanine, and their entire family were just at the beginning of a horrific odyssey through the aftermath of a violent crime, a world of shocking betrayal, endless heartbreak, and utter disillusionment. It was a trial by fire from which no family member would emerge unscathed.
A Lot Like Fun - Only Different
Jack Livingston
Author : Jack Livingston
Publisher : Nfb Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1953610056
A Lot Like Fun - Only Different by Jack Livingston Pdf
Author Jack Livingston Describes the Book"Clearing out the high school with a smoke bomb prank in our senior year, raising a family of pigs in a village yard, saving a drowning man in Singapore, and overcoming the trauma of a childhood abduction are part of my friend, Chris Kelley's past. I knew little about them. To me, Chris was the guy who was always up for doing two fun things in one day (sometimes three). When Chris was diagnosed with Pick's disease (a rare type of dementia) in his mid-fifties, it signaled the end to what we had taken for granted. It changed our friendship. No longer would I follow him on epic adventures he planned. These days, I take him for hikes, hold both sides of our conversations, and help him across a two-foot stream. But because I didn't want to forget the times we'd had together, I started to write, and as a result found out there was more to my friend. In A Lot Like Fun -- Only Different I share incredible stories of our improbable friendship where Chris met life head on while I asked, "Are you sure we want to do this?" It contains dozens of stories and photos from our past that contrast 'current day' Chris, diminished by Pick's, with the Chris I knew so well. No longer are we barreling down the 219 to ski or mountain bike the Bent Rim Trail, and celebrating with a 'couple tree' beers. We aren't breaking trails with our snowshoes in the Adirondack High Peaks or cruising through Appalachia on the way to a 24-hour mountain bike race. We still get together every week. And I look forward to those times. It's fun -- only different. Chris greets me with a smile and a hearty laugh. He doesn't speak, but I know if he could, he'd tell me, 'Thanks for coming out, Jack. Today was great.' And then it breaks my heart when he stands next to my car, wanting to ride home with me and I have to tell him, 'Chris, you're riding with your brother. I'll see you next week, okay buddy.' And I hear his words of the past. 'Good deal.'"
The Making of a Legionnaire
Bill Parris
Author : Bill Parris
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0304366978
The Making of a Legionnaire by Bill Parris Pdf
A British soldier reveals what it takes to serve in the elite French Foreign Legion Penniless, divorced and AWOL from the British forces, Bill Parris volunteered for the French Foreign Legion in the early 1980s. Unlike many British volunteers to the Legion, Bill did not desert. He endured a horrendous training regime and, despite a fear of heights (!) joined the elite Foreign Legion Parachute Regiment. This is more than a war story - it is a personal journey too, as Bill comes to terms with his own inner demons. His five years' service included brutal combat in Rwanda and Chad, events that still trigger nightmares. But he emerged as a man at peace with himself, and with a story to tell.
Sgt. Rock
Rocky Olson
Author : Rocky Olson
Publisher : Zeroed-In Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0983148902
Sgt. Rock by Rocky Olson Pdf
A first-hand account of life in a combat zone of the Vietnam War offering a raw description of a war experience that deserves our attention and awareness on the merit of going to war.
Life in the French Foreign Legion
Evan McGorman
Author : Evan McGorman
Publisher : Hellgate Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1555716334
Life in the French Foreign Legion by Evan McGorman Pdf
Forget all your preconceptions about the French Foreign Legion. Many of the legends you grew up with no longer apply, so whatever you've heard probably does not reflect the reality of service today. Evan McGorman explains in detail how to apply to get into this elite corps, what to expect if accepted, and how to make the most of the experience.
Mouthful of Forevers
Clementine von Radics
Author : Clementine von Radics
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781449470852
Mouthful of Forevers by Clementine von Radics Pdf
Clementine von Radics writes of love, loss, and the uncertainties and beauties of life with a ravishing poetic voice and piercing bravura that speak directly not only to the sensibility of her generation, but to anyone who has ever been young.
Voices of the Foreign Legion
Adrian D. Gilbert
Author : Adrian D. Gilbert
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781626367845
Voices of the Foreign Legion by Adrian D. Gilbert Pdf
The French Foreign Legion has established a reputation as the most formidable of military forces. Created as a means of protecting French interests abroad, the legion spearheaded French colonialism in North Africa during the nineteenth century. Accepting volunteers from all parts of the world, the legion acquired an aura of mystery—and a less than enviable reputation for brutality within its ranks. Attracting recruits from all over the world, these new soldiers explain in their own words why they submitted themselves to such brutal training. Voices of the Foreign Legion looks at how the legion selects its recruits, where they come from, and why they seek a life of incredible hardship and danger. It also analyzes the legion’s strict attitude toward discipline, questions why desertion is a perennial problem, and assesses the legion’s military achievements since its formation in 1831. Its scope ranges from the conquest of the colonies in Africa and the Far East, through the horrors of the two World Wars, to the bitter but ultimately hopeless battles to maintain France’s imperial possessions.
WineSpeak
Bernard Klem
Author : Bernard Klem
Publisher : Board and Bench Publishing
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780980064803
WineSpeak by Bernard Klem Pdf
If you read wine reviews, you're already either amused or confused by the soaring language wine writers often use to describe what they're smelling and tasting. But do you always know what they mean? Have you ever sipped a complex white and sensed what's so colorfully described as a peacock's tail? Have you ever savored a full-bodied red only to detect the ripe acrid smell of a horse stall? If not, you're in for a treat, because these terms and thousands more are all here to amuse, dismay, enlighten, inspire, puzzle, and utterly shock you . Welcome to the rich linguistic universe of wine speak: a world where words and wine intersect in an uncontrolled riot of language guaranteed to keep you entertained for hours. The author, a lifelong lover of both wine and words, has compiled and organized this unique thesaurus of 36,975 wine tasting descriptors into 20 special collections extracted from 27 categories so you can locate exactly the right term or phrase to express yourself clearly or to understand others. May your path across the galaxy of wine be paved only with labels from the very best bottles on earth. Or, much more cautiously, with wines that could introduce you to angel pee, citronella, eastern European fruit soup, Godzilla, iodine, ladies' underwear, mustard gas, old running shoes, rawhide, hot tar roads, bubblegum, sweaty saddles, crushed ants, kitchen drains, or even turpentine.
Mr. Chartwell
Rebecca Hunt
Author : Rebecca Hunt
Publisher : Dial Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679604341
Mr. Chartwell by Rebecca Hunt Pdf
July 1964. Chartwell House, Kent: Winston Churchill wakes at dawn. There’s a dark, mute “presence” in the room that focuses on him with rapt concentration. It’s Mr. Chartwell. Soon after, in London, Esther Hammerhans, a librarian at the House of Commons, goes to answer the door to her new lodger. Through the glass she sees a vast silhouette the size of a mattress. It’s Mr. Chartwell. Charismatic, dangerously seductive, Mr. Chartwell unites the eminent statesman at the end of his career and the vulnerable young woman. But can they withstand Mr. Chartwell’s strange, powerful charms and his stranglehold on their lives? Can they even explain who or what he is and why he has come to visit? In this utterly original, moving, funny, and exuberant novel, Rebecca Hunt explores how two unlikely lives collide as Mr. Chartwell’s motives are revealed to be far darker and deeper than they at first seem.
Appalachian Journal
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Appalachian Region, Southern
ISBN : UVA:X006067796
Appalachian Journal by Anonim Pdf
A regional studies review.
Ecosystems, Cultures, and Connections
Kristen P. Patterson
Author : Kristen P. Patterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89082963133
