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The Longer We Were There
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Author : Steven Moore
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2019-09-15
The Longer We Were There written by Steven Moore and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The war in Afghanistan creates an urgency for telling stories--between soldiers, as they hand off missions to each other, and between soldiers and civilians, trying to explain what is going on--while also denying a lot of the context that is important for the telling of that story. The landscape is so mountainous and isolating that one incident or anecdote might not fit into a bigger picture beyond itself. A patrol may have no effect on the one that comes next. The war has ground itself into such a stasis that it is hard to see movement or plot. Yet we're there. We have to say something. We have to be accountable, even though the circumstances complicate the ability to talk about it while simultaneously creating a constant yearning to do so. The Longer We Were There follows a part-time soldier's experience over seven years in the Iowa Army National Guard. He enlists at seventeen into the infantry, then bounces between college classes, army training, disaster relief, civilian jobs, a deployment in Afghanistan--first on the Afghan-Pakistani border, then into a remote valley in the Hindu Kush Mountains--and finally comes home. His stories are about having one foot on each side of the civilian-military divide, the difficulty of describing one side to those on the other, and how, as a consequence of this difficulty, that divide gets replicated within the self.
The Longer We Were There
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Author : Steven Moore
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2019-09-15
The Longer We Were There written by Steven Moore and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The war in Afghanistan creates an urgency for telling stories—between soldiers, as they hand off missions to each other, and between soldiers and civilians, trying to explain what is going on—while also denying a lot of the context that is important for the telling of that story. The landscape is so mountainous and isolating that one incident or anecdote might not fit into a bigger picture beyond itself. A patrol may have no effect on the one that comes next. The war has ground itself into such a stasis that it is hard to see movement or plot. Yet we’re there. We have to say something. We have to be accountable, even though the circumstances complicate the ability to talk about it while simultaneously creating a constant yearning to do so. The Longer We Were There follows a part-time soldier’s experience over seven years in the Iowa Army National Guard. He enlists at seventeen into the infantry, then bounces between college classes, army training, disaster relief, civilian jobs, a deployment in Afghanistan—first on the Afghan-Pakistani border, then into a remote valley in the Hindu Kush Mountains—and finally comes home. His stories are about having one foot on each side of the civilian-military divide, the difficulty of describing one side to those on the other, and how, as a consequence of this difficulty, that divide gets replicated within the self.
A Long Way Gone
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Author : Ishmael Beah
language : en
Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books
Release Date : 2007-04-01
A Long Way Gone written by Ishmael Beah and has been published by Sarah Crichton Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In A Long Way Gone Ishmael Beah tells a riveting story in his own words: how, at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. My new friends have begun to suspect I haven't told them the full story of my life. "Why did you leave Sierra Leone?" "Because there is a war." "You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?" "Yes, all the time." "Cool." I smile a little. "You should tell us about it sometime." "Yes, sometime." This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived. This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.
The Last True Story I Ll Ever Tell
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Author : John Crawford
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2006-04-04
The Last True Story I Ll Ever Tell written by John Crawford and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In the tradition of Michael Herr's Dispatches, a National Guardsman's account of the war in Iraq. John Crawford joined the Florida National Guard to pay for his college tuition, willingly exchanging one weekend a month and two weeks a year for a free education. But in Autumn 2002, one semester short of graduating and newly married—in fact, on his honeymoon—he was called to active duty and sent to the front lines in Iraq. Crawford and his unit spent months upon months patrolling the streets of Baghdad, occupying a hostile city. During the breaks between patrols, Crawford began recording what he and his fellow soldiers witnessed and experienced. Those stories became The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell—a haunting and powerful, compellingly honest book that imparts the on-the-ground reality of waging the war in Iraq, and marks as the introduction of a mighty literary voice forged in the most intense of circumstances.
The American
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
The American written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with categories.
We Were There Vol 9
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Author : Yuuki Obata
language : en
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
Release Date : 2010-03-02
We Were There Vol 9 written by Yuuki Obata and has been published by VIZ Media LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-02 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
The award-winning series known as Bokura ga Ita in Japan! Nanami Takahashi falls for Motoharu Yano, the most popular, carefree boy in class. For Nanami, it's first love, but Yano is still grieving the death of his girlfriend who died the year before. In my memory I link together fragments from the past when we were together... ...to create a clear image of him in my mind. But I no longer know if that image is really him. That moment I see in my mind may have never existed.
Once We Were There
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Author : Bernice Chauly
language : en
Publisher: Epigram Books
Release Date : 2019-01-30
Once We Were There written by Bernice Chauly and has been published by Epigram Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-30 with Fiction categories.
Shortlisted for Singapore Book Awards 2018, Best Book Cover Design Winner of the Penang Monthly Book Prize 2017 Journalist Delonix Regia chances upon the cultured and irresistible Omar amidst the upheaval of the Reformasi movement in Kuala Lumpur. As the city roils around them, they find solace in love, marriage, and then parenthood. But when their two-year-old daughter Alba is kidnapped, Del must confront the terrible secret of a city where babies are sold and girls trafficked. By turns heart-breaking and suspenseful, Once We Were There is a debut novel of profound insight. It is Bernice Chauly at her very best.
The Distance From Slaughter County
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Author : Steven Moore
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2023-02-03
The Distance From Slaughter County written by Steven Moore and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
As a soldier and civilian, Steven Moore has traveled from the American Midwest to Afghanistan and beyond. In those travels, he's seen what place can mean, specifically rural places, and how it follows us, changes us. What Moore has to say about rural places speaks to anyone who has driven a lonely road at night, with nothing but darkness as a cushion between them and the emptiness that surrounds. Place and how we define it—and how it defines us—is a through line throughout the collection of eleven essays. Moore writes about where we come from and the disconnection we often feel between each other: between veterans and nonveterans, between people of different political beliefs, between regions, between eras. These pieces build into a contemplative whole, one that is a powerful meditation on why where we come from means something and how we'll always bring where we are with us, no matter where we go.
Journals Of The House Of Commons Of The Dominion Of Canada
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Author : Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1874
Journals Of The House Of Commons Of The Dominion Of Canada written by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1874 with Canada categories.
We Were There Too
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Author : Phillip Hoose
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2001-08-08
We Were There Too written by Phillip Hoose and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-08-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
THE STORY OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE PLAYED IN AMERICAN HISTORY.