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My Detachment
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Author : Tracy Kidder
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2005-09-06
My Detachment written by Tracy Kidder and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-09-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
My Detachment is a war story like none you have ever read before, an unromanticized portrait of a young man coming of age in the controversial war that defined a generation. In an astonishingly honest, comic, and moving account of his tour of duty in Vietnam, master storyteller Tracy Kidder writes for the first time about himself. This extraordinary memoir is destined to become a classic. Kidder was an ROTC intelligence officer, just months out of college and expecting a stateside assignment, when his orders arrived for Vietnam. There, lovesick, anxious, and melancholic, he tried to assume command of his detachment, a ragtag band of eight more-or-less ungovernable men charged with reporting on enemy radio locations. He eventually learned not only to lead them but to laugh and drink with them as they shared the boredom, pointlessness, and fear of war. Together, they sought a ghostly enemy, homing in on radio transmissions and funneling intelligence gathered by others. Kidder realized that he would spend his time in Vietnam listening in on battle but never actually experiencing it. With remarkable clarity and with great detachment, Kidder looks back at himself from across three and a half decades, confessing how, as a young lieutenant, he sought to borrow from the tragedy around him and to imagine himself a romantic hero. Unrelentingly honest, rueful, and revealing, My Detachment gives us war without heroism, while preserving those rare moments of redeeming grace in the midst of lunacy and danger. The officers and men of My Detachment are not the sort of people who appear in war movies–they are the ones who appear only in war, and they are unforgettable.
My Detachment
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Author : Tracy Kidder
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-05-22
My Detachment written by Tracy Kidder and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The award-winning author of Mountains Beyond Mountains reminisces about his own life, in a unromanticized profile of a young man coming of age during the Vietnam War, chronicling his experiences as a former ROTC intelligence officer in command of a motley group of enlisted men on assignment in Vietnam. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.
Narrative Of The Operations Of A Detachment In An Expedition To Candy In The Island Of Ceylon In 1804
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Author : Arthur Johnston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1854
Narrative Of The Operations Of A Detachment In An Expedition To Candy In The Island Of Ceylon In 1804 written by Arthur Johnston and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1854 with categories.
Narrative Of The Operations Of A Detachment In An Expedition To Candy In The Island Of Ceylon In The Year 1804
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Author : A. Johnston (Major.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1810
Narrative Of The Operations Of A Detachment In An Expedition To Candy In The Island Of Ceylon In The Year 1804 written by A. Johnston (Major.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1810 with Kandy (Sri Lanka) categories.
Narrative Of The Operations Of A Detachment In An Expedition To Candy In The Island Of Ceylon In The Year 1804
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Author : Arthur Johnston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1810
Narrative Of The Operations Of A Detachment In An Expedition To Candy In The Island Of Ceylon In The Year 1804 written by Arthur Johnston and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1810 with Kandy (Kingdom) categories.
Retinal Detachment Surgery And Proliferative Vitreoretinopathy
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Author : Ulrich Spandau
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-09-12
Retinal Detachment Surgery And Proliferative Vitreoretinopathy written by Ulrich Spandau and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-12 with Medical categories.
This clinically oriented book provides a complete overview of Proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) Retinal Detachment, a difficult surgical challenge faced by ophthalmologists. Small gauge vitrectomy offers new possibilities to tackle this difficult pathology however this surgical approach may differ from one retinal surgeon to the next. To reflect the various approaches to treating PVR, the book is divided up in three parts. In the first part the authors describe the complete variety of surgical techniques applied to PVR detachment. In the second section, well-known international surgeons from Europe to Asia describe their personal surgical approach for PVR detachment and demonstrate their surgery in videos. In the third part, a large variety of retinal surgeons show case reports of PVR retinal detachment to give a complete overview of dealing with this complex retinal disorder.
Publication Fund Series
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1874
Publication Fund Series written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1874 with Local history categories.
Publication Fund Series
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Author : New-York Historical Society
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1874
Publication Fund Series written by New-York Historical Society and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1874 with Local history categories.
The Final Elegy The Consolation Of The Classics In Old Age
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Author : Richard Oliver Brooks
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2022-08-01
The Final Elegy The Consolation Of The Classics In Old Age written by Richard Oliver Brooks and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-01 with Philosophy categories.
Old age is a time of losses- permanent, cumulative and irreversible. These losses include our loss of work in retirement, the eclipse of our past, our biological decline, dependency resulting from such decline, the foreshortening of our future, the abandonment of belief in our own improvement and our society’s progress, and, of course, our death. This book views these losses as part of an elegy of old age. Elegy is a poetic or prose mourning of loss. Sadness and other emotions result. With elegiac understanding we detach ourselves from these losses to seek and find consolation. This book is concerned with achieving intellectual detachment through meditative reflection with the help of reading and appreciating the classics. The final stage of the old age elegy- consolation can be found, at least in part, within the classics-“the garlands of repose”. The classics are broadly defined by Matthew Arnold as: “the best that [has} been thought and said: { or found in the fine arts}. To benefit from the classis requires a life-long liberal education. This education begins with an introduction to the classics in youth, makes use of them during our adult lives, and supplies their conclusion for old age meditation. Such significant works enable us to place the losses we suffer within an intellectual framework of perennial ideas. It is by means of such an intellectual framework that we secure consolation in old age. Classic works familiarize us deeply with the losses and emotions we endure-suggest substitutes for the goods of the life we have lost in old age, offer opportunities of catharsis for the sadness we experience and help us transform ourselves in old age. Classics help us see old age and its losses as part of a complete life which hold a unique value of its own, while remaining part of larger nature processes, history and intellectual traditions.
James Outram
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Author : Sir Frederic John Goldsmid
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1881
James Outram written by Sir Frederic John Goldsmid and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1881 with India categories.