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The Ragged Edge
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Author : Michael Zacchea
language : en
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Release Date : 2017-04-01
The Ragged Edge written by Michael Zacchea and has been published by Chicago Review Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-01 with History categories.
Deployed to Iraq in March 2004 after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, US Marine Michael Zacchea thought he had landed a plum assignment. His team's mission was to build, train, and lead in combat the first Iraqi Army battalion trained by the US military. Quickly, he realized he was faced with a nearly impossible task. With just two weeks' training based on outdated and irrelevant materials, no language instruction, and few cultural tips for interacting with his battalion of Shiites, Sunnis, Kurds, Yazidis, and others, Zacchea arrived at his base in Kirkush to learn his recruits would need beds, boots, uniforms, and equipment. His Iraqi officer counterparts spoke little English. He had little time to transform his troops—mostly poor, uneducated farmers—into a cohesive rifle battalion that would fight a new insurgency erupting across Iraq. In order to stand up a fighting battalion, Zacchea knew, he would have to understand his men. Unlike other combat Marines in Iraq at the time, he immersed himself in Iraq's culture: learning its languages, eating its foods, observing its traditions—even being inducted into one of its Sunni tribes. A constant source of both pride and frustration, the Iraqi Army Fifth Battalion went on to fight bravely at the Battle of Fallujah against the forces that would eventually form ISIS. The Ragged Edge is Zacchea's deeply personal and powerful account of hopeful determination, of brotherhood and betrayal, and of cultural ignorance and misunderstanding. It sheds light on the dangerous pitfalls of training foreign troops to fight murderous insurgents and terrorists, precisely when such wartime collaboration is happening more than at any other time in US history.
The Ragged Edge Illustrated
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Author : Harold Macgrath
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-12-24
The Ragged Edge Illustrated written by Harold Macgrath and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-24 with categories.
The Master is inordinately fond of young fools. That is why they are permitted to rush in where angels fear to tread-and survive their daring! This supreme protection, this unwritten warranty to disregard all laws, occult or apparent, divine or earthly, may be attributed to the fact that none but young fools dream gloriously. For such of us as pretend to be wise-and we are but fools in a lesser degree-we know that humanity moves onward only by the impellant of fine dreams. Sometimes these dreams are simple and tender; sometimes they are magnificent. With what airs we human atoms invest ourselves! What ridiculous fancies of our importance! We believe we have destinies, when we have only destinations: that we are something immortal, when each of us is in truth only the repository of a dream. The dream flowers and is harvested, and we are left by the wayside, having served our singular purpose in the scheme of progress: as the orange is tossed aside when sucked of its ruddy juice.
The Ragged Edge
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Author : Harold MacGrath
language : en
Publisher: Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.
Release Date : 2011-12-15
The Ragged Edge written by Harold MacGrath and has been published by Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-15 with Foreign Language Study categories.
The Ragged Edge Of Silence
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Author : John Francis, Ph.D.
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2011-03-15
The Ragged Edge Of Silence written by John Francis, Ph.D. and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-15 with Self-Help categories.
By the author of Planetwalker, The Ragged Edge of Silence takes us to another level of appreciating, through silence, the beauty of the planet and our place in it. John Francis's real and compelling prose forms a tapestry of questions and answers woven from interviews, stories, personal experience, science, and the power of silence through history, including practice by Native American, Hindu, and Buddhist cultures. Through their time-honored traditions and his own experience of communicating silently for 17 years, Francis's practical exercises lay the groundwork for the reader to build constructive silence into everyday life: to learn more about oneself, to set goals and accomplish dreams, to build strong relationships, and to appreciate and be a steward of the Earth. With its amazing human interest element and first-person expertise, this book is energizing and universally instructive.
Living On The Ragged Edge
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Author : Charles R. Swindoll
language : en
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Release Date : 1990-04-19
Living On The Ragged Edge written by Charles R. Swindoll and has been published by Thomas Nelson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-04-19 with Religion categories.
This is a book for people living in the trenches--for those who are searching for a deeper sense of satisfaction from the daily grind of being alive in the l990sWord to laypeople who feel the call of the Great Commission upon their lives.ess, a better friend.
The Ragged Edge Annotated
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Author : Harold Macgrath
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
The Ragged Edge Annotated written by Harold Macgrath and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with categories.
This book is part of the TRADITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tradition we believe that a great book never goes out of style.
The Ragged Edge A Tale Of Ward Life Politics
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Author : John Thomas Mcintyre
language : en
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Release Date : 2012-01
The Ragged Edge A Tale Of Ward Life Politics written by John Thomas Mcintyre and has been published by Hardpress Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01 with categories.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Reconstruction S Ragged Edge
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Author : Steven E. Nash
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2016-01-13
Reconstruction S Ragged Edge written by Steven E. Nash 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 2016-01-13 with History categories.
In this illuminating study, Steven E. Nash chronicles the history of Reconstruction as it unfolded in the mountains of western North Carolina. Nash presents a complex story of the region's grappling with the war's aftermath, examining the persistent wartime loyalties that informed bitter power struggles between factions of white mountaineers determined to rule. For a brief period, an influx of federal governmental power enabled white anti-Confederates to ally with former slaves in order to lift the Republican Party to power locally and in the state as a whole. Republican success led to a violent response from a transformed class of elites, however, who claimed legitimacy from the antebellum period while pushing for greater integration into the market-oriented New South. Focusing on a region that is still underrepresented in the Reconstruction historiography, Nash illuminates the diversity and complexity of Appalachian political and economic machinations, while bringing to light the broad and complicated issues the era posed to the South and the nation as a whole.
The Ragged Edge
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Author : Harold MacGrath
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2019-04-22
The Ragged Edge written by Harold MacGrath and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-22 with categories.
DescriptionThe Ragged Edge by Harold MacGrath Deployed to Iraq in March 2004 after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, US Marine Michael Zacchea thought he had landed a plum assignment. His team's mission was to build, train, and lead in combat the first Iraqi Army battalion trained by the US military.
The Ragged Edge Of The World
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Author : Eugene Linden
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2011-03-17
The Ragged Edge Of The World written by Eugene Linden and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-17 with Nature categories.
A pioneering work of environmental journalism that vividly depicts the people, animals and landscapes on the front lines of change's inexorable march. A species nearing extinction, a tribe losing centuries of knowledge, a tract of forest facing the first incursion of humans-how can we even begin to assess the cost of losing so much of our natural and cultural legacy? For forty years, environmental journalist and author Eugene Linden has traveled to the very sites where tradition, wildlands and the various forces of modernity collide. In The Ragged Edge of the World, he takes us from pygmy forests to the Antarctic to the world's most pristine rainforest in the Congo to tell the story of the harm taking place-and the successful preservation efforts-in the world's last wild places. The Ragged Edge of the World is a critical favorite, and was an editors' pick on Oprah.com.
