Author: Keith Laufenberg
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 061516188X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Follow a group of young men as they go through Marine Corps boot camp in 1962, at Parris Island, South Carolina, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, in October of that year, 1962, and then on to their duty stations and, for some, Vietnam. If you want to know what the Marine Corps was really like in the 1960's and those that served during this tumultuous time in history this is the book for you!
Author: Colonel Jim Bathurst USMC (Retired)
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1475956940
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 565
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For seventeen-year-old high school dropout Jim Bathurst, the Marine Corps’s reputation for making men out of boys was something he desperately needed when he enlisted in March of 1958. What began as a four-year hitch lasted nearly thirty-six years and included an interesting assortment of duty stations and assignments as both enlisted and officer. We’ll All Die As Marines narrates a story about a young, free-spirited kid from Dundalk, Maryland, and how the Corps captured his body, mind, and spirit. Slowly, but persistently, the Corps transformed him into someone whose first love would forever be the United States Marine Corps. It documents not only his leadership, service, and training but also regales many tales of his fellow Marines that will have the reader laughing, cheering, and at times crying. In this memoir, Bathurst reveals that for him—a former DI who was awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star Medal with Combat “V”, Purple Heart, and a combat commission to second lieutenant—the Corps was not a job, a career, or even a profession; it was—and still is—a way of life.
Author: Charles U Daly
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781544516875
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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An Irishman in the U.S Marine Corps, Charles U. Daly thinks fighting in Korea will be an adventure and a way to live up to a family tradition of service and soldiering. He comes home decorated, wounded, and traumatized, wondering what's next. His quest for a new mission will take him to JFK's White House, Bobby Kennedy's fateful campaign, the troubles in Northern Ireland, and a South African township devastated by the AIDS epidemic. Chuck's life is a true story of living up to Kennedy's challenge to "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." At every juncture, he's had two options: make peace or die. Daly chose to make peace with his fate every time, and that decision led him to a remarkable life of service.
Author: William R. Tracey, Ed.D.
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1490744991
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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Strands of Memory--Epilogue is a collection of sweet and bittersweet memories that reveals the author's successes and failures, dreams and fantasies, strengths and weaknesses. It tells stories and draws word pictures celebrating life in more than two hundred poems. The author shares thoughts and feelings about his experiences over a period of more than ninety years. It commemorates people in his life, especially family and friends, and their loves, friendships, courage, challenges, and strengths. It talks about love, family, friendships, work, war, nature, life, and death. This collection also sings the songs of his life and describes his joys and sorrows. It chronicles incidents, events, and the things that have troubled, hurt, and pleased the author, his family, and his friends. His hope is that the events, poetry, love, family, friendship, and situations described in both rhyme and free verse include many to which readers will readily relate because they have shared similar experiences--in short, that the poems will touch readers' hearts, minds, and souls.
Author: Leo LePage
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1504926404
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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This is a book about the Marine Corp from the characters making a decision to enter to boot camp to the training to become a Recon Marine.
Author: Patrick Bisher
Publisher: Post Hill Press
ISBN: 1682613011
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 219
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Author: Basil Sands
Publisher: Permuted Press+ORM
ISBN: 1682614514
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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A World War III thriller from the author of the Ice Hammer series, who “has a knack for blending action and intrigue in an all-too realistic setting” (Evo Terra, founder of Podiobooks.com). Karl Alexander’s day started with taking the most obnoxious Hollywood star on a low-orbit space tour. By lunchtime, he inadvertently triggered a world war. Then things got really bad. Karl, a former USMC Harrier pilot, NASA astronaut, and Space Tourism pilot had always been an adrenaline junky, but he quickly finds himself in over his head. He’s swept up in an insane secret operation—the work of American CIA and British MI-6 agents—being helped by a family of resistance fighters and led by an Iranian-born deep-cover agent that he doesn’t begin to trust. Soon he’s trapped in an all-out chase to stop a squad of kamikazes armed with nukes who are rushing to drop their deadly payload onto U.S. troops and Israeli citizens. Throughout the harrowing adventure, Karl is haunted by the memory of his first combat mission as a Marine Harrier pilot. Somehow, he knows what he learned twenty years ago just might save the world today. Praise for Basil Sands and his thrillers “Sands is fearless in his storytelling, and tireless in his quest to connect directly with his audience.” —Scott Sigler, #1 New York Times–bestselling author “Basil Sands is one awesome writer, penning stories pumped with enough adrenaline that you’ll suffer from insomnia until you read the last word.” —Jeremy Robinson, New York Times–bestselling author “Ice Hammeris a gripping, can’t-put-it-down series that works at every level. It’s got it all: love, war, treachery, and heroism.” —John Gilstrap, New York Times–bestselling author
Author: Wade Olson
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1637101651
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 407
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Henry Sayer, a New York City investor with an uncanny knack for making people money, had made it to the top of the financial game, maintaining his reputation of honesty and integrity. He was enjoying that life of celebrity and penthouse high society until less-scrupulous people decided to throw him from his pedestal. Suddenly, he found himself scrounging for his very existence in the Deep South, stripped of his envied status and reputation, even his clothes. As he was forced to live life on the lam, hiding from everyone, his only hope was to make his way back home to collect the evidence that would prove his innocence and help him avoid a life of imprisonment. It's an uphill battle back to the top, but there's something in store for everyone who crosses his path.
Author: Ken Shufeldt
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466848839
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Ken Shufeldt thrills again with Rage. When the GOP realizes they'll never regain the White House without the minority vote, they select Victor Garcia, a Hispanic Marine War Hero, as the Vice Presidential candidate for Peter Montblanc's run at the Presidency. Montblanc wins the election, but in a shocking turn of events just a few weeks after his election into office, he disappears. The GOP elites' worst fears are realized when Victor Garcia is named Acting President. From big money contributors, dirty politicians, a secretive billionaire, and duplicitous Iranian leaders, everyone seems hell-bent on plunging the world into chaos. Faced with a seemingly endless string of attacks and disasters, President Garcia soon learns that his greatest enemy might be closer than he thinks. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Michael Van Rooy
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 142998340X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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The truth frequently hurts and rarely sets you free. Ex-criminal Montgomery "Monty" Haaviko would prefer to be known as the friendly neighborhood daycare provider. Unfortunately, it's his criminal past (and his extensive bag of tricks of the trade) that brings him to the attention of Marie Blue Duck, a Canadian activist who wants Monty to set up a route to smuggle refugees into the US. Monty's skeptical of her offer, but the money is too good to refuse. Even his wife, Claire, who ensures Monty stays on the straight and narrow, thinks he should take the job. Marry the first person who doesn't publicly ask about the knife in your sock and the pistol in your waistband. Monty's carefully laid plans quickly go off the rails when he squares off against local thug Samantha Richot, who tries to seize the route. Their power struggle rapidly escalates into kidnapping, torture, and a daring and highly explosive stand-off. Just when Monty thinks he might just have it all under control, his old jailhouse crony, Hershel "Smiley" Wiebe, shows up on his doorstep. Monty is more than suspicious of Smiley's motives, but figures if you should keep old friends close, you should keep old cons even closer. Smile. If nothing else it makes them nervous. Not since the bestselling novel Beat The Reaper or the TV show Burn Notice has there been such a quick-thinking, smart-talking anti-hero who will keep you pinned to your seat. A gripping and aggressive thriller, Your Friendly Neighborhood Criminal shows just how far a man will go to protect his family, home and neighborhood.
