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The Crouching Beast

Frank Boccia
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Author : Frank Boccia
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786474394

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As a first lieutenant in Bravo Company of the Third Battalion, 187th Infantry, Frank Boccia led a platoon in two intense battles in the Vietnamese mountains in April and May 1969: Dong Ngai and the grinding, 11-day battle of Dong Ap Bia--the Mountain of the Crouching Beast, in Vietnamese, or Hamburger Hill as it is popularly known. The Rakkasans, the 3/187th, are the most highly decorated unit in the history of the United States Army, and two of those decorations were awarded for these two battles. This vivid account of the author's first seven months in Vietnam gives special attention to the events at Dong Ap Bia, following the hard-hit 3/187th hour by hour through its repeated assaults on the mountain, against an unseen enemy in an ideal defensive position. It also corrects several errors that have persisted in histories and official reports of the battle. Beyond describing his own experiences and reactions, the author writes, "I want to convey the real face of war, both its mindless carnage and its nobility of spirit. Above all, I want to convey what happened to both the casual reader and the military historian and make them aware of the extraordinary spirit of the men of First Platoon, Bravo Company. They were ordinary men doing extraordinary things."

The Crouching Beast

Valentine Williams
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Author : Valentine Williams
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066361365

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This is a spy thriller set in WWI in Germany. A young woman who is living near a castle used as a prison for German officers who have committed minor crimes, encounters an escaped British prisoner who asks for her help.

The Crouching Beast

Valentine Williams
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Author : Valentine Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798640137644

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Was the hush that rested over the garden of the old Kommandanten-Haus, that breathless July evening of 1914 which launched me on my strange adventure, symbolical of the lull before the storm which was about to break over Europe? Now that I look back upon that summer I spent at Schlatz I think it was. Personally, I was far too busy absorbing first impressions of life in a pleasant German garrison town to have ears to hear the ominous beat of the war drums, faint at first but growing steadily louder, like the tomtoms of "Emperor Jones." But later, when I was a V.A.D. at Dover and at night the wind from the Channel would awaken us with the throbbing of the guns in France, thinking of those glorious summer days, I would picture myself sleeping peacefully, like almost everybody else, through the growling thunder of the approaching catastrophe. On this evening, as I remember, dusk had fallen early. The sun had died in a riot of wrathful colour, and beyond the end of the garden the lemon-tinted sky set off in sharp silhouette the high wall of Schlatz Castle and the square tower, still higher, that rose to heaven above it like a stern prayer in stone.

Beast in the Jungle

Henry James
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Author : Henry James
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783736806856

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The Beast in the Jungle is a novella by Henry James. Almost universally considered one of James' finest short narratives, this story treats appropriately universal themes: loneliness, fate, love and death. The parable of John Marcher and his peculiar destiny has spoken to many readers who have speculated on the worth and meaning of human life. John Marcher, the protagonist, is reacquainted with May Bartram, a woman he knew ten years earlier, who remembers his odd secret: Marcher is seized with the belief that his life is to be defined by some catastrophic or spectacular event, lying in wait for him like a "beast in the jungle." May decides to buy a house in London with the money she inherited from a great aunt, and to spend her days with Marcher, curiously awaiting what fate has in store for him. Marcher is a hopeless egoist, who believes that he is precluded from marrying so that he does not subject his wife to his "spectacular fate". He takes May to the theater and invites her to an occasional dinner, but does not allow her to get close to him. As he sits idly by and allows the best years of his life to pass, he takes May down as well, until the denouement where he learns that the great misfortune of his life was to throw it away, and to ignore the love of a good woman, based upon his preposterous sense of foreboding.

The Beast in the Jungle

Henry James
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Author : Henry James
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1963-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Presents the full text of the novel "The Beast in the Jungle" by Henry James, compiled by the English Department of the University of Colorado at Boulder, a state-supported institution as part of an online collection of American novels.

The Talmud of the Land of Israel, Volume 28

Jacob Neusner
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Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0226576884

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Edited by the acclaimed scholar Jacob Neusner, this thirty-five volume English translation of the Talmud Yerushalmi has been hailed by the Jewish Spectator as a "project...of immense benefit to students of rabbinic Judaism."

Earth's Earliest Ages

James E. Smith, Ph.D.
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Author : James E. Smith, Ph.D.
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781365010507

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A verse-by-verse commentary on the Old Testament Book of Genesis 4-11.

Reading Henry James

George Monteiro
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Author : George Monteiro
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476625508

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Henry James (1843-1916) has been championed as an historian of social conscience and attacked as a spokesman for social privilege. His Americanness has been questioned by nativists and defended by Brahmins. Critics took issue with his lucidly complex style. "It's not that he bites off more than he can chew, but that he chews more than he bites off," a contemporary complained. Although he was an acknowledged master in his final years, James' narrow readership has dwindled in the century since his death. This book examines allusions, sources and affinities in James' vast body of work to interpret his literary intentions. Chapters provide close analysis of Daisy Miller, The American, The Beast in the Jungle and The Wings of the Dove. His fascination with poet Robert Browning is discussed, along with his complicated relationship with Marian "Clover" Adams and her husband, Henry, who was the author of The Education of Henry Adams. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

A Thing Divided

John Landau
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Author : John Landau
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0838636268

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The subject of the book is representation in the three major novels of the late phase of James's work: The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl. A chapter is also devoted to a discussion of The Tragic Muse written some ten years earlier, which shows James's schematic focus on this question at the middle stage of his career.

Henry James’s Psychology of Experience

Granville H. Jones
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Author : Granville H. Jones
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110890594

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A Shau

Jay Phillips
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Author : Jay Phillips
Publisher : Izzard Ink
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781642280425

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Nestled in Vietnam’s Thua Thien Province, west of the city of Hue, and bordering Laos, the narrow 40-kilometer long A Shau Valley, situated between densely forested mountain ranges, witnessed prolonged campaigning throughout the Vietnam War and served as a hub of the Communist supply network as well as a key point of access to South Vietnam. Drawing upon an impressive array of archival materials, this deeply researched book offers the first comprehensive account of operations and battles that transpired there during the war, coupled with a trenchant analysis of the American failure to wrest control of the Valley despite years of commitment of troops and resources, and how that failure contributed to the final outcome of the war. In so doing, it not only sheds light on where military tactics and strategy devised by American leaders went awry, but also traces the extraordinary acts of heroism on the part of American soldiers, many of whom lost their lives fighting the North Vietnamese in this hostile, forbidding terrain. This book, which fills a gap in the historiography of the Vietnam War, will appeal to scholars seeking to enhance their understanding of major events and turning points in the war, as well as to students of military history and strategy.

The Path of Chaos

H. T. Martin
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Author : H. T. Martin
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781456822552

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Born into a village whose foundations were forged from strength and destruction, Shadow is trained in the art of chakra manipulation from an early age to become a ruthless warrior. As Shadow matures, he unlocks a devastating power that has been hidden in the blood of his lineage for the past fi ve-hundred years. A power that has not been seen since Shadow’s great-grandfather, Lord Th eron, unleashed it upon the world in a black storm of fury and annihilation, earning him the title of the most ruthless warlord in all of history. Th e leader of the Village of Chaos sends Shadow on a deadly mission to the Forbidden Lands to train and master his newly acquired abilities. An unfortunate death forces Shadow to end his training early and return home to mourn for the lost life. An enormous war between rival clans is on the brink of erupting when the leader of the Village of Chaos approaches Shadow and informs him of his true role. Shadow is to lead a massive army into battle just like his great-grandfather did fi ve-hundred years ago. With this daunting task placed before him Shadow must decide whether to heed his great-grandfathers warning and stay away from a life of power and bloodlust or to do what is best for his home and unleash his inner strength, his inner demon.

Gothic Reflections

Peter Garrett
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Author : Peter Garrett
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501724282

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The Gothic has long been seen as offering a subversive challenge to the norms of realism. Locating both Gothic and mainstream Victorian fiction in a larger literary and cultural field, Peter K. Garrett argues that the oppositions usually posed between them are actually at work within both. He further shows how, by offering alternative versions of its stories, nineteenth-century Gothic fiction repeatedly reflects on narrative force, the power exerted by both writers and readers.Beginning with Poe's theory and practice of the Gothic tale as an exercise (or fantasy) of authorial power, Garrett then reads earlier eighteenth-century and Romantic Gothic fiction for comparable reflexive implications. Throughout, he stresses the ways authors doubled both characters and narrative perspectives to raise issues of power and authority in the tension between central deviant figures and social norms. Garrett then shows how the great nineteenth-century monster stories Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Dracula self-consciously link the extremity and isolation of their deviant figures with the social groups they confront. These narratives, he argues, move from a Romantic concern with individual creation and responsibility to a Victorian affirmation of social solidarity that also reveals its dependence on the binding force of exclusionary violence. The final section of the book extends its investigation of Gothic reflections on narrative force into the more realistic social and psychological fiction of Dickens, Eliot, and James.

The Gathering Book 2

Paul Hacker
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Author : Paul Hacker
Publisher : Ukiyoto Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789354907296

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As the evil scourge ravaged the kingdoms of Stelvose, chaos reigned. Two young boys become responsible for the fates of many as they become young men. Experience the exciting story of two young men who are divided by righteousness and evil. During the Haugernaut Wars, love for fellow men has become a distant memory. The last Gallen Heart Knight, Rondo ironson, can he prevent the last vestiges of righteousness from being destroyed? Can Vilmare, a once beloved friend, find hope in his fragile heart? Indulge yourself in the non-stop story as you are swarm by the mighty of magic, emergent gallantry, and diabolical rituals to conquer the world of Stelvose. Experience parallel adventures featuring new characters, brave acts of survival, love reawakened by disillusionment, and an unlikely collection of righteous hearts. Bring forth the Knights of Salvation, the last hope. Let the adventure begin! Hope you enjoy the third novel of The Gathering Series!

Hearts of Darkness

Bertram Wyatt-Brown
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Author : Bertram Wyatt-Brown
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780807155431

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