Standing Watch

Author : Jonathan Li-Chung Leung
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817359577

Get Book

Standing Watch by Jonathan Li-Chung Leung Pdf

The first book to capture and preserve the inside story of the exclusive brotherhood that manned the front lines of the Cold War Featuring interviews from seventeen veteran submariners, Standing Watch: American Submarine Veterans Remember the Cold War Era offers the perspective of the submariners themselves—lending them a voice and paying homage to their service. Jonathan Li-Chung Leung provides an original glimpse into a world of unique challenges and characters, a life isolated and submerged, and a duty defined by the juxtaposition of monotonous routine and unparalleled excitement. These personal accounts of life below the surface offer readers a front-row seat to close encounters with Soviet submarines and the naval blockade during the Cuban Missile Crisis, as well as an intimate understanding of daily life onboard the vessels, the culture of military discipline, and the religious-like fervor exercised in honoring traditions big and small. By applying first-hand perspectives to a larger thematic overview, this book uses authentic narratives to deliver a lively and colorful picture of the Silent Service. Set against the backdrop of sobering geo-political disputes and their own role as the nation’s defenders against a seemingly ambiguous super-enemy, these veterans focus on their responsibilities and reflect on careers built on the simple axioms of pride and service. This invigorating and unalloyed account is an unprecedented addition to the existing literature on naval and military history.

Author : Carol Stevens Henley-Hess
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781645449454

Get Book

Standing Watch by Carol Stevens Henley-Hess Pdf

The road of life brings events along the way that may offer changes to a person's destiny. This story is about the life of William Wright Stevens Jr. and the family he descended from. He was one of the heroes on board the USS Houston (Heavy Cruiser C-A-30), which also served the flagship of the US Navy. The life events helped make the heroes they were as they met their destiny still standing watch.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Crime prevention
ISBN : IND:30000050376056

Get Book

Stand Up and Start a School Crime Watch by Anonim Pdf

Author : Eric Vermetten,Anne Germain,Thomas C. Neylan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781493971480

Get Book

Sleep and Combat-Related Post Traumatic Stress Disorder by Eric Vermetten,Anne Germain,Thomas C. Neylan Pdf

There are few clinical problems in the sleep medicine field that are more challenging than the sleep difficulties experienced by individuals suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This book offers a unique, complete resource addressing all the basic concepts and clinical applications in sleep medicine in settings where combat-related PTSD is commonplace. Authored by leading international experts in the field of sleep/military medicine, Sleep and Combat-Related Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is organized in six sections and provides a broad perspective of the field, from the established theories to the most recent developments in research, including the latest neuroscientific perspectives surrounding sleep and PTSD. The result is a full assessment of sleep in relation to combat-related PTSD and a gold standard volume that is the first of its kind. This comprehensive title will be of great interest to a wide range of clinicians -- from academics and clinicians working within or in partnership with the military health care system to veteran hospital physicians and all health personnel who work with war veterans.

Author : William Harnett Blanch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Camberwell (London, England)
ISBN : HARVARD:32044017957085

Get Book

Ye Parish of Camerwell. A Brief Account of the Parish of Camberwell, Its History and Antiquities by William Harnett Blanch Pdf

Author : Terry W. Ervin II
Publisher : Gryphonwood Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

Get Book

Betrayal by Terry W. Ervin II Pdf

Glenn, a college sophomore, hasn’t gotten used to being a gnome healer, trapped in a world that functions under the rules of Monsters, Maces and Magic. Of course, acclimating isn’t the plan. He, along with the other players drawn into the RPG world in the form of their characters, want to escape and return home. Stephi, Kirby, Ron, Derek and Glenn survived their first adventure into the Dark Heart Swamp, and are approached to once again enter the dismal marshland. An elf maiden, daughter of a baronet, has been taken captive by a band of goblins, and gold is offered for her rescue. Gold is needed, not only if the party hopes to escape the game world, but to live and survive its perils. Glenn and his party take the mission, even though they weren’t the first choice. Beyond that, the foul swamp and its evil denizen may not be the greatest danger. A seer warns that their greatest threat lies in betrayal. Praise for Monsters, Maces, and Magic "Exciting and hilarious! It feels like a true game with friends." Dueling Ogres Podcast

Author : James L. Nelson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466847026

Get Book

The French Prize by James L. Nelson Pdf

Acclaimed, award-winning author James L. Nelson - praised as "a master of both his period and the English language" by Patrick O'Brian - returns to the world of sea and sail in this page-turning historical novel. Jack Biddlecomb has much to live up to, being as he is the eldest son of the esteemed Captain Isaac Biddlecomb, wealthy merchant captain, leading light of the War for American Independence, and newly-minted congressman. Jack finds himself off to a promising start, however, when he's given command of the merchant vessel Abigail bound from Philadelphia for Barbados. But even before the docklines are cast off, the voyage, which should have been routine, begins to look like a stormy passage indeed. Jack is saddled with two passangers, one as unpleasant as he is highborn, the other a confidant of the Abigail's owner who cannot help but meddle in the running of the ship. What's more, with the French making prizes of American merchantmen, Abigail's owner has armed the ship and instructed Jack to fight if need be, thrusting the first-time captain and his small crew into a naval war for which they are totally unprepared. What Jack does not know, but soon begins to suspect, is that he is being used as part of a bigger plot, one that will have repercussions on an international scale.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1086 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : United States
ISBN : CORNELL:31924069759995

Get Book

The United States Army and Navy Journal and Gazette of the Regular and Volunteer Forces by Anonim Pdf

Author : Theodore I. Armstrong
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781441599179

Get Book

CAPTAIN BLACK MARK by Theodore I. Armstrong Pdf

A true story told through the eyes of an Officer who served twenty-two months aboard the LST. The ship was scheduled for a six-month tour in the Mediterranean. On January 7, 1952, the ship sailed into a devastating storm, and six hours later, they were losing cargo overboard. In addition to the loss of cargo, the ship is plagued with a navigator threatened with failure to carry out a direct order. In Malta, the LST hits two water barges and one British LCM. Two crewmen were fighting in Naples return to the ship, where one stabs the other; the LST collides with the refueling tanker; two crewmen fighting aboard ship and one threatens the Exec; forty crewmen end up fighting on the main deck; and a duty officer nearly falls overboard. Finally, the ship is beached in Terceria with a large hole in the bottom of its hull. As if that’s not enough, the Captain and Exec bring lady friends aboard the ship; the crew attempts to sail without the Captain and Exec and end up sailing into a force 3 hurricane. Captain Black Mark is the story of all these things. As incredible as it sounds, is it any wonder that the captain develops irrational fixations that his superiors were aware of everything that was happening and that it was these things that prevented him from being promoted.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Questions and answers
ISBN : UVA:X030221927

Get Book

Notes and Queries by Anonim Pdf

Author : George Michelsen Foy
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501184901

Get Book

Run the Storm by George Michelsen Foy Pdf

In the bestselling tradition of The Perfect Storm and The Finest Hours, “an exquisitely written and dramatic book…a literary page-turner” (Doug Stanton, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Horse Soldiers)—the 2015 mysterious disappearance of the SS El Faro, a gigantic American cargo ship that sank in the Bermuda Triangle, taking with it thirty-three lives. On October 1, 2015, the SS El Faro, a massive American cargo ship disappeared in Hurricane Joaquin, a category 4 storm. The ship, its hundreds of shipping containers, and its entire crew plummeted to the bottom of the ocean, three miles down. It was the greatest seagoing US merchant marine shipping disaster since World War II. The massive ship had a seasoned crew, state-of-the-art navigation equipment, and advance warning of the storm. It seemed incomprehensible that such a ship could sink so suddenly. How, in this day and age, could something like this happen? Relying on Coast Guard inquest hearings, as well as on numerous interviews, George Michelsen Foy brings us “the most insightful exploration of this unthinkable disaster” (Outside), a story that lasts only a few days, but which grows almost intolerably suspenseful as deep-rooted flaws leading to the disaster inexorably link together and worsen. We see captain, engineers, and crew fight for their lives, and hear their actual words (as recorded on the ship’s black box) while the hurricane relentlessly tightens its noose around the ship. We watch, minute by minute, all that is happening on board—the ship’s mysterious tilt to one side, worried calls to the engine room, ship-to-shore reports, the courage of the men and women as they fight to survive, and the berserk ocean’s savage consumption of the massive hull. And through it all, the pain and ultimate resilience of the families of El Faro’s crew. Now with a new afterword, this “tour de force of nautical expertise” (Ocean Navigator) is a masterwork of stunning power.

Author : John Wukovits
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780306823251

Get Book

Hell from the Heavens by John Wukovits Pdf

Looking toward the heavens, the destroyer crew saw what seemed to be the entire Japanese Air Force assembled directly above. Hell was about to be unleashed on them in the largest single-ship kamikaze attack of World War II. On April 16, 1945, the crewmen of the USS Laffey were battle hardened and prepared. They had engaged in combat off the Normandy coast in June 1944. They had been involved in three prior assaults of enemy positions in the Pacific-at Leyte and Lingayen in the Philippines and at Iwo Jima. They had seen kamikazes purposely crash into other destroyers and cruisers in their unit and had seen firsthand the bloody results of those crazed tactics. But nothing could have prepared the crew for this moment-an eighty-minute ordeal in which the single small ship was targeted by no fewer than twenty-two Japanese suicide aircraft. By the time the unprecedented attack on the Laffey was finished, thirty-two sailors lay dead, more than seventy were wounded, and the ship was grievously damaged. Although she lay shrouded in smoke and fire for hours, the Laffey somehow survived, and the gutted American warship limped from Okinawa's shore for home, where the ship and crew would be feted as heroes. Using scores of personal interviews with survivors, the memoirs of crew members, and the sailors' wartime correspondence, historian and author John Wukovits breathes life into the story of this nearly forgotten historic event. The US Navy described the kamikaze attack on the Laffey "as one of the great sea epics of the war." In Hell from the Heavens, the author makes the ordeal of the Laffey and her crew a story for the ages.

Author : Royal Irish Academy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012109364

Get Book

Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy Pdf

Author : Gordon L. Rottman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782004677

Get Book

Japanese Infantryman 1937–45 by Gordon L. Rottman Pdf

This book examines in detail the Japanese Infantryman who was, despite comparisons with the notorious German Waffen SS, an enigma to Westerners. Brutal in its treatment of prisoners as well as the inhabitants of the areas that it conquered, the Imperial Japanese Army also had exacting standards for its own men strict codes of honor compelled Japanese soldiers to fight to the death against the more technologically advanced Allies. Identifying the ways in which the Japanese soldier differed from his Western counterpart, the author explores concepts such as Bushido, Seppuku, Shiki and Hakko Ichi-u in order to understand what motivated Japanese warriors.

Author : Christopher David Petersen
Publisher : christopher david petersen
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

Get Book

Curse of Atlantis by Christopher David Petersen Pdf

Curse of Atlantis: There are 5 books in the Atlantis series: Hidden Courage; Tomb of Atlantis; Curse of Atlantis; Tomb of Zeus and Weapons of Atlantis. Please see recommended order of reading below. Hidden Courage: is the back story of the main character in the Atlantis series (Interesting, but not essential) Tomb of Atlantis: is book 1 Curse of Atlantis: is book 2 Tomb of Zeus: is book 3 Weapons of Atlantis: is book 4 Curse of Atlantis: In Tomb of Atlantis, Jack Roberts, an adventurer, discovered an artifact that may have belonged to a pyramid contained within the lost city of Atlantis. In Curse of Atlantis, the search for the pyramids continues. Jack and his archaeologist friends, Serena and Javier Arista, plan to take the artifact to Greece in order to find its connection to the lost pyramids of Atlantis. However, prior to leaving on the trip, Serena and the artifact are taken hostage by unscrupulous thieves who only want the riches contained within the pyramids. For Jack and Javier, it is a race against time to discover where the pyramid is, that contains the key to the lost civilization in order to save Serena and the ancient secrets of Atlantis. 79,000 words