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Pacific Interlude
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Author : Sloan Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2014-12-23
Pacific Interlude written by Sloan Wilson and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-23 with Fiction categories.
During the last days of World War II, a young officer braves enemy fire and a maverick crew on the open waters and in the steamy ports of the South Pacific Twenty-five-year-old Coast Guard lieutenant Sylvester Grant, a veteran of the Greenland Patrol, has just been given command of a small gas tanker, running shuttle and convoy duties for the US Army. Sally, his wife of three years, is eager for him to get back to Massachusetts and live a conventional suburban life selling insurance—but Syl longs for adventure and is bound to find it as the captain of a beat-up, unseaworthy vessel carrying extremely flammable cargo across dangerous stretches of the Pacific Ocean. As the Allies prepare to retake the Philippines, the only thing the sailors aboard the Y-18 want is for the war to be over. First, however, they must survive their mission to bring two hundred thousand gallons of high-octane aviation fuel to shore. From below-deck personality clashes to the terrifying possibility of an enemy attack, from combating illness and boredom to the constant stress of preventing an explosion that could blow their ship sky high, the crew of the Y-18 must learn to work together and trust their captain—otherwise, they might never make it home. Based on Sloan Wilson’s own experiences, Pacific Interlude is a thrilling and realistic story of World War II and a moving portrait of a man looking toward the future while trying to survive a precarious present.
Pacific Interlude
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Author : Sloan Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Kensington Books
Release Date : 1983-11-01
Pacific Interlude written by Sloan Wilson and has been published by Kensington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-11-01 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
Pacific Interlude
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Author : Lionel Gentle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
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The World War Ii Novels
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Author : Sloan Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2017-09-05
The World War Ii Novels written by Sloan Wilson and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-05 with Fiction categories.
Three novels of life at sea during World War II from the bestselling author of The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and A Summer Place. Drawing on his own experiences as a US Coast Guard officer, Sloan Wilson sheds a unique light on World War II in these three unforgettable novels. Voyage to Somewhere: Hoping to draw a nice, lengthy shore duty after two years at sea, Lieutenant Barton is instead told that he’s being sent right back out, this time as captain of a supply ship sailing from California to New Guinea and stopping at every small island in between. Despite being homesick for his wife, he has no choice but to accept the assignment and a cargo of pineapples destined for Hawaii. When Barton isn’t battling gale-force winds and monstrous waves, he’s coping with seasick sailors and budding rivalries that threaten to turn mutinous. Hanging over the ship like a storm cloud is the knowledge that the world is at war and the enemy is never far away. “One of the few honest and straightforward sea books that have come out of the war” (New York Herald Tribune). Pacific Interlude: Twenty-five-year-old Coast Guard lieutenant Sylvester Grant, a veteran of the Greenland Patrol, has just been given command of a small gas tanker carrying extremely flammable cargo across dangerous stretches of the Pacific Ocean. As the Allies prepare to retake the Philippines, Grant and his crew must bring two hundred thousand gallons of high-octane aviation fuel to shore. From below-deck personality clashes to the terrifying possibility of an enemy attack, from combating illness and boredom to the constant stress of preventing a deadly explosion, the crew of Y-18 must learn to work together and trust their captain—otherwise, they might never make it home. “Powerful, passionate and authentic . . . Unforgettable” (James Dickey, author of Deliverance). Ice Brothers: After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Paul Schuman, a college senior and summer sailor, enlists in the Coast Guard and is assigned to be the executive officer aboard the Arluk, a converted fishing trawler patrolling the coast of Greenland for secret German weather bases. Led by Lt. Cdr. “Mad” Mowry, the finest ice pilot and meanest drunk in the Coast Guard, Schuman and communications officer Nathan Greenberg battle deadly icebergs, dangerous blizzards, and menacing Nazi gunboats. Surviving the war will require every ounce of courage and intelligence they possess—and that’s before Mowry breaks, forcing the young officers to take command at the worst possible moment. “The best since The Caine Mutiny” (San Francisco Chronicle).
The Fortunate Islands A Pacific Interlude
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Author : Walter Karig
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1948
The Fortunate Islands A Pacific Interlude written by Walter Karig and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1948 with Micronesia categories.
The Fortunate Islands A Pacific Interlude
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Author : Walter Karig
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1948
The Fortunate Islands A Pacific Interlude written by Walter Karig and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1948 with Micronesia categories.
Oceanic Interlude
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Author : Matie Manard Hensley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-07
Oceanic Interlude written by Matie Manard Hensley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07 with categories.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Myth And The Greatest Generation
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Author : Kenneth Rose
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-05-13
Myth And The Greatest Generation written by Kenneth Rose and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-13 with History categories.
Myth and the Greatest Generation calls into question the glowing paradigm of the World War II generation set up by such books as The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw. Including analysis of news reports, memoirs, novels, films and other cultural artefacts Ken Rose shows the war was much more disruptive to the lives of Americans in the military and on the home front during World War II than is generally acknowledged. Issues of racial, labor unrest, juvenile delinquency, and marital infidelity were rampant, and the black market flourished. This book delves into both personal and national issues, calling into questions the dominant view of World War II as ‘The Good War’.
Anna Kavan S New Zealand
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Author : Anna Kavan
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2009
Anna Kavan S New Zealand written by Anna Kavan and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Authors, English categories.
New Zealanders live 'in temporary shacks, uneasily, as reluctant campers too far from home', wrote Anna Kavan in a London magazine in 1943. Her seemingly negative comments created a stir both in the UK and New Zealand and suggested Kavan felt nothing but antipathy for the country. However, in researching this prize-winning author of nineteen books, Dr Jennifer Sturm uncovered letters and unpublished short stories written during Kavan's sojourn in New Zealand that show a more complex, affectionate and significant response. Those stories are published here for the first time, along with a fascinating discussion of this experimental writer and talented artist, who struggled with bouts of depression and insecurity, as well as heroin addiction and a stream of unconventional love affairs. Kavan roamed the world trying to find a home, and although her stay in New Zealand was for less than two years, her stories reveal a country where she found temporary peace, a country she captures in a warm and astute gaze. This book provides an intriguing insight, not only into the life and writing of Anna Kavan but also New Zealand of the 1940s . * 'a modest looking book which holds within it a kind of time-bomb. The explosiveness relates to Kavan's strangely powerful, even hypnotic talent . . . For Kavan's writing is really an equal to Katherine Mansfield at her best. It shares a crystalline quality, a hypnotic otherness . . . And the whole point of this book is that Kavan, for a precious and small time, wrote herself into existence as a New Zealand writer. Her language has the rhythm of Sargeson. She is deeply observant - and funny - about Torbay locals. But there's that lament which one senses in Mansfield's best stories about New Zealand: here is a world I have lost. If I can only recreate it in words, it will live again. And I will be happy. Kavan's stories - brief, as sharp as Jean Rhys - are usually told in the first person. Some show a startling prescience about race relations in New Zealand and there are brilliantly surreal evocations. This is an unmissable piece of writing . . .' - Peter Wells in CANVAS
Pacific Lady
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Author : Sharon Sites Adams
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2008-01-01
Pacific Lady written by Sharon Sites Adams and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
It was an age without GPS and the Internet, without high-tech monitoring and instantaneous reporting. And it was a time when women simply didn t do such things. None of this deterred Sharon Sites Adams. In June 1965 Adams made history as the first woman to sail solo from the mainland United States to Hawaii. Four years later, just as Neil Armstrong very publicly stepped onto the moon, the diminutive Adams, alone and unobserved, finally sighted Point Arguello, California, after seventy-four days sailing a thirty-one-foot ketch from Japan, across the violent and unpredictable Pacific. She was the first woman to do so, setting another world record. Inspiring and exciting, Adams s memoir recounts the personal path leading to her historic achievements: a tomboy childhood in the Oregon high desert, an early marriage and painful divorce, and a second marriage that ended when her husband died of cancer. In the wake of his death and almost by accident, Adams discovered sailing. Six weeks after her first sailing lesson she bought a boat, and within eight months she set out to achieve her first world record. Pacific Lady recounts the inward journey that paralleled her sailing feats, as Adams drew on every scrap of courage and navigational skill she could muster to overcome the seasickness, exhaustion, and loneliness that marked her harrowing crossings.