Those Gallant Men
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All The Gallant Men
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Author : Donald Stratton
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2016-11-22
All The Gallant Men written by Donald Stratton and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-22 with History categories.
The New York Times bestselling memoir of survival and heroism at Pearl Harbor “An unforgettable story of unfathomable courage.” —Reader’s Digest In this, the first memoir by a USS Arizona sailor, Donald Stratton delivers an inspiring and unforgettable eyewitness account of the Pearl Harbor attack and his remarkable return to the fight. At 8:10 a.m. on December 7, 1941, Seaman First Class Donald Stratton was consumed by an inferno. A million pounds of explosives had detonated beneath his battle station aboard the USS Arizona, barely fifteen minutes into Japan’s surprise attack on American forces at Pearl Harbor. Near death and burned across two thirds of his body, Don, a nineteen-year-old Nebraskan who had been steeled by the Great Depression and Dust Bowl, summoned the will to haul himself hand over hand across a rope tethered to a neighboring vessel. Forty-five feet below, the harbor’s flaming, oil-slick water boiled with enemy bullets; all around him the world tore itself apart. In this extraordinary, never-before-told eyewitness account of the Pearl Harbor attack—the only memoir ever written by a survivor of the USS Arizona—ninety-four-year-old veteran Donald Stratton finally shares his unforgettable personal tale of bravery and survival on December 7, 1941, his harrowing recovery, and his inspiring determination to return to the fight. Don and four other sailors made it safely across the same line that morning, a small miracle on a day that claimed the lives of 1,177 of their Arizona shipmates—approximately half the American fatalaties at Pearl Harbor. Sent to military hospitals for a year, Don refused doctors’ advice to amputate his limbs and battled to relearn how to walk. The U.S. Navy gave him a medical discharge, believing he would never again be fit for service, but Don had unfinished business. In June 1944, he sailed back into the teeth of the Pacific War on a destroyer, destined for combat in the crucial battles of Leyte Gulf, Luzon, and Okinawa, thus earning the distinction of having been present for the opening shots and the final major battle of America’s Second World War. As the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack approaches, Don, a great-grandfather of five and one of six living survivors of the Arizona, offers an unprecedentedly intimate reflection on the tragedy that drew America into the greatest armed conflict in history. All the Gallant Men is a book for the ages, one of the most remarkable—and remarkably inspiring—memoirs of any kind to appear in recent years. *Library Journal
Those Gallant Men
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Author : John Stevens Berry
language : en
Publisher: Presidio Press
Release Date : 1984
Those Gallant Men written by John Stevens Berry and has been published by Presidio Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with History categories.
In Gallant Company
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Author : Alexander Kent
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2009-05-27
In Gallant Company written by Alexander Kent and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-27 with Fiction categories.
Another gripping maritime adventure from multi-million copy seller Alexander Kent, furthering the adventures of much loved Richard Bolitho. Fans of Patrick O'Brian and C. S. Forester will not be disappointed! 'One of our foremost writers of naval fiction' - THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Shipwreck, survival...a spirited battle...a splendid yarn' - THE TIMES 'A great read that I couldn't put down. Have to say - better than Hornblower, Lewrie etc' -- ***** Reader review 'Once you start it's hard to put down' -- ***** Reader review 'Kept me enthralled' -- ***** Reader review 'Great read from start to finish' -- ***** Reader review ********************************************************************* 1777: The revolution in America has erupted into a full-scale war. The navy's main task is to prevent military supplies from reaching Washington's armies and to destroy the fast-growing fleet of French and American privateers. As a junior officer Bolitho is often bewildered by swiftly changing events, but in a ship of the line, under a hard and determined captain, he has little opportunity for uncertainty. At a time of shortages and sudden death even a lieutenant can find himself faced with tasks and decisions more suitably given to officers of greater experience. As the Trojan goes about her affairs the threat to Bolitho and his companions makes itself felt from New York to the Caribbean.
Varieties Of Exile
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Author : Mavis Gallant
language : en
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Release Date : 2003-11-30
Varieties Of Exile written by Mavis Gallant and has been published by NYRB Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-11-30 with Fiction categories.
The complexity and uncertainty of the idea of home are very much at issue in the stories Gallant writes about Canada, her home country. Included in this new collection are the celebrated Linnet Muir stories, wonderfully wise and funny investigations into the difficulties of growing up and breaking free.
Six Weeks
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Author : John Lewis-Stempel
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-10-28
Six Weeks written by John Lewis-Stempel and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-28 with History categories.
The extraordinary story of British junior officers in the First World War, who led their men out of the trenches and faced a life expectancy of six weeks. During the Great War, many boys went straight from the classroom to the most dangerous job in the world - that of junior officer on the Western Front. Although desperately aware of how many of their predecessors had fallen before them, nearly all stepped forward, unflinchingly, to do their duty. The average life expectancy of a subaltern in the trenches was a mere six weeks. In this remarkable book, John Lewis-Stempel focuses on the forgotten men who truly won Britain's victory in the First World War - the subalterns, lieutenants and captains of the Army, the leaders in the trenches, the first 'over the top', the last to retreat. Basing his narrative on a huge range of first-person accounts, including the poignant letters and diaries sent home or to their old schools, the author reveals what motivated these boy-men to act in such an extraordinary, heroic way. He describes their brief, brilliant lives in and out of the trenches, the tireless ways they cared for their men, and how they tried to behave with honour in a world where their values and codes were quite literally being shot to pieces.
Prairie Forge
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Author : James J. Kimble
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2014-05-01
Prairie Forge written by James J. Kimble 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 2014-05-01 with History categories.
After Pearl Harbor, a shortage of steel quickly slowed the American arms buildup. The country needed scrap metal. This is the story of the great Nebraska scrap drive of 1942 that provided a template for the national drive.
The Book Of Men
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Author : Colum McCann
language : en
Publisher: Picador
Release Date : 2013-11-05
The Book Of Men written by Colum McCann and has been published by Picador this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-05 with Fiction categories.
EIGHTY PIECES OF SHORT FICTION AND NONFICTION ON MANHOOD BY SOME OF THE WORLD'S BEST WRITERS, PRESENTED BY COLUM MCCANN, ESQUIRE, AND NARRATIVE 4 To help launch the literary nonprofit Narrative 4, Esquire asked eighty of the world's greatest writers to chip in with a story, all with the title, "How to Be a Man." The result is The Book of Men, an unflinching investigation into the essence of masculinity. The Book of Men probes, with the poignant honesty and imagination that only these writers could deliver, the slippery condition of manhood. You will find men striving and searching, learning and failing to learn, triumphing and aspiring; men who are lost and men navigating their way toward redemption. These stories don't just explore what it is to be a man or how to achieve manliness, but ultimately what it is to be a human—with all of its uncertainty, complexity, clumsiness, and beauty. With contributions from literary luminaries as diverse as the subjects they capture, and curated by the editors of Esquire, National Book Award winner Colum McCann, and Narrative 4, a global nonprofit devoted to using storytelling as a means to empathy, The Book of Men might not teach you how to negotiate a deal or mix a Manhattan, but it does scratch at that most eternal of questions: What is a man?
Gallant Ship Brave Men
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Author : Herman E. Rosen
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris
Release Date : 2003
Gallant Ship Brave Men written by Herman E. Rosen and has been published by Xlibris this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Merchant marine categories.
A spellbinding war memoir of a torpedoing and the fight for survival of 24 men in a lifeboat. Hank Rosen, Cadet-Midshipman aboard a Liberty ship, tells the dramatic story of 30 days adrift in the Indian Ocean."Gallant Ship, Brave Men" is an epic tale of heroism and sacrifice that builds suspense and proudly records the role of the Merchant Marine in World War II. "What an amazing story! I found it completely engrossing. Couldn't stop reading it, until I finished." Vice Admiral Joseph Stewart USMS, Superintendent United States Merchant Marine Academy
A Womb In The Shape Of A Heart
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Author : Joanne Gallant
language : en
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2021-09-21
A Womb In The Shape Of A Heart written by Joanne Gallant and has been published by Nimbus Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-21 with Family & Relationships categories.
I am the space between motherhood and longing for it, bit it's a space that doesn't exist. I can't be both fertile and infertile, our language doesn't have space for it. So, this is the space I have created for myself. This is where I love. Forever fertile and infertile. A mother to six, a mother of one. I am childless, with child. Barren and fruiful. Pregnant and then not. Luckly, unlucky.
A Man You Can Trust
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Author : Jo McNally
language : en
Publisher: Harlequin
Release Date : 2019-09-01
A Man You Can Trust written by Jo McNally and has been published by Harlequin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-01 with Fiction categories.
She doesn’t need a man, but she could use a friend. A charming romance of learning to stand on your own—and falling in love. When the new director of security, Nick West, arrives at Gallant Lake Resort, Cassie Smith’s carefully protected life is turned upside down. The handsome ex-cop insists on teaching her self-defense, and as Cassie learns she can indeed make it on her own, she starts wondering if she wants to! But when Cassie’s safety is threatened, she must choose: continue running from her past . . . or take a stand for a brighter future.