Author: Wadeh H. Shafer
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 146703584X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Just Call Me Colonel was written and published for our family. The pages of this book were the result of interviews with Grandpa and written by a hospice volunteer who is also a freelance writer. Specific facts were checked and double-checked by his children. These pages are filled with the accomplishments of a West Point Cadet, an officer of the occupation in post-war Japan, and the military service that followed. They provide us with good reference material, and a necessary framework to understand the man we knew and loved as Wade Harvey Shafer. In his book Grandpa also accurately describes a personal account of American farm life in the early twentieth century. Just Call Me Colonel is a personal documentation of the widespread transition from rural to urban life that affected many of those who lived in the United States at this time. It is a depiction of the effects caused by WWII and The Great Depression. These experiences were important to his development as a citizen, a husband, and a father, and are definitely worth noting. While they were extraordinary enough to Grandpa for him to request their documentation, it is important to note they were an ordinary experience, common to many in his generation. This is because he was part of an extraordinary generation of men.
Just Call Me "Colonel"
Author: Wadeh H. Shafer
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 146703584X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Just Call Me Colonel was written and published for our family. The pages of this book were the result of interviews with Grandpa and written by a hospice volunteer who is also a freelance writer. Specific facts were checked and double-checked by his children. These pages are filled with the accomplishments of a West Point Cadet, an officer of the occupation in post-war Japan, and the military service that followed. They provide us with good reference material, and a necessary framework to understand the man we knew and loved as Wade Harvey Shafer. In his book Grandpa also accurately describes a personal account of American farm life in the early twentieth century. Just Call Me Colonel is a personal documentation of the widespread transition from rural to urban life that affected many of those who lived in the United States at this time. It is a depiction of the effects caused by WWII and The Great Depression. These experiences were important to his development as a citizen, a husband, and a father, and are definitely worth noting. While they were extraordinary enough to Grandpa for him to request their documentation, it is important to note they were an ordinary experience, common to many in his generation. This is because he was part of an extraordinary generation of men.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 146703584X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Just Call Me Colonel was written and published for our family. The pages of this book were the result of interviews with Grandpa and written by a hospice volunteer who is also a freelance writer. Specific facts were checked and double-checked by his children. These pages are filled with the accomplishments of a West Point Cadet, an officer of the occupation in post-war Japan, and the military service that followed. They provide us with good reference material, and a necessary framework to understand the man we knew and loved as Wade Harvey Shafer. In his book Grandpa also accurately describes a personal account of American farm life in the early twentieth century. Just Call Me Colonel is a personal documentation of the widespread transition from rural to urban life that affected many of those who lived in the United States at this time. It is a depiction of the effects caused by WWII and The Great Depression. These experiences were important to his development as a citizen, a husband, and a father, and are definitely worth noting. While they were extraordinary enough to Grandpa for him to request their documentation, it is important to note they were an ordinary experience, common to many in his generation. This is because he was part of an extraordinary generation of men.
Just Call Me Moose!
Author: Karl R. Bossi
Publisher: Gondola Press
ISBN: 9780975981115
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Publisher: Gondola Press
ISBN: 9780975981115
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Able One
Author: Ben Bova
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780765363589
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Can an experimental defense system stop North Korean missile strikes? "Able One" is a timely thrill-ride by a six-time Hugo Award-winner and one of science fiction's most respected novelists.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780765363589
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Can an experimental defense system stop North Korean missile strikes? "Able One" is a timely thrill-ride by a six-time Hugo Award-winner and one of science fiction's most respected novelists.
Red Meat Cures Cancer
Author: Starbuck O'Dwyer
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307427420
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
What would you do if you were a few months from collecting early retirement—a pension for which you’d sucked up and sycophanted almost twenty years—when your obscenely overweight and extremely crass boss told you that if you didn’t raise the company’s market share by the end of the year, you’d be out on your ass without a dime? If you’re Sky Thorne, Senior V.P. of Tailburger—a fringe fast food chain whose specialties are batter dipped, deep-fried meat patties and 96-oz. beef-flavored shakes—you’ll get to work on as many harebrained, desperate schemes as you can think of. And if that means launching a marketing campaign that asks the public, “Why just abuse your body when you can torture it?” then damn it, that’s what you’ll do! Because Sky Thorne is ready to fight dirty and do anything necessary to earn the pension he sees as the reset button on life, liberty, and the pursuit of unadulterated deep-fried happiness. Red Meat Cures Cancer is a hilarious and poignant romp through a world of excess, and marks the arrival of a great new satirical voice in American literature.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307427420
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
What would you do if you were a few months from collecting early retirement—a pension for which you’d sucked up and sycophanted almost twenty years—when your obscenely overweight and extremely crass boss told you that if you didn’t raise the company’s market share by the end of the year, you’d be out on your ass without a dime? If you’re Sky Thorne, Senior V.P. of Tailburger—a fringe fast food chain whose specialties are batter dipped, deep-fried meat patties and 96-oz. beef-flavored shakes—you’ll get to work on as many harebrained, desperate schemes as you can think of. And if that means launching a marketing campaign that asks the public, “Why just abuse your body when you can torture it?” then damn it, that’s what you’ll do! Because Sky Thorne is ready to fight dirty and do anything necessary to earn the pension he sees as the reset button on life, liberty, and the pursuit of unadulterated deep-fried happiness. Red Meat Cures Cancer is a hilarious and poignant romp through a world of excess, and marks the arrival of a great new satirical voice in American literature.
The Dying Grass
Author: William T. Vollmann
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143109405
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1378
Book Description
From the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central – a dazzling fictional account of the epic fighting retreat of the Nez Perce Indians In this fifth installment in his acclaimed Seven Dreams series of novels examining the collisions between Native Americans and European colonizers, William T. Vollmann tells the story of the epic fighting retreat of the Nez Perce Indians, with flashbacks to the Civil War. Defrauded and intimidated at every turn, the Nez Perces finally went on the warpath in 1877, subjecting the U.S. Army to its greatest defeat since Little Big Horn the previous year, as they fled from northeast Oregon across Montana to the Canadian border. Vollmann’s main character is not the legendary Chief Joseph but his pursuer, General Oliver Otis Howard, the brave, shy, tormented, devoutly Christian Civil War veteran. In this novel, we see him as commander, father, son, husband, friend, and killer. Teeming with many vivid characters on both sides of the conflict, and written in an original style in which the printed page works as a stage with multiple layers of foreground and background, The Dying Grass is another mesmerizing achievement from one of the most ambitious writers of our time.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143109405
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1378
Book Description
From the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central – a dazzling fictional account of the epic fighting retreat of the Nez Perce Indians In this fifth installment in his acclaimed Seven Dreams series of novels examining the collisions between Native Americans and European colonizers, William T. Vollmann tells the story of the epic fighting retreat of the Nez Perce Indians, with flashbacks to the Civil War. Defrauded and intimidated at every turn, the Nez Perces finally went on the warpath in 1877, subjecting the U.S. Army to its greatest defeat since Little Big Horn the previous year, as they fled from northeast Oregon across Montana to the Canadian border. Vollmann’s main character is not the legendary Chief Joseph but his pursuer, General Oliver Otis Howard, the brave, shy, tormented, devoutly Christian Civil War veteran. In this novel, we see him as commander, father, son, husband, friend, and killer. Teeming with many vivid characters on both sides of the conflict, and written in an original style in which the printed page works as a stage with multiple layers of foreground and background, The Dying Grass is another mesmerizing achievement from one of the most ambitious writers of our time.
The Autobiography of David Crockett
Author: Davy Crockett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Through Three Campaigns: A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti
Author: George Henty
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041706182
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041706182
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
Adventures and Observations on the West Coast of Africa, and Its Islands
Author: Charles W. Thomas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Adventures and Observations on the West Coast of Africa and Its Islands, Historical and Descriptive Sketches of Madeira, Canry, Biafra and Cape Verd Islands
Author: W. Thomas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
More Wrongs
Author: Anthony L. Baker
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 149078540X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Victor Taylor was kicked out of his house, his marriage, his company, and the country! But he has returned with a vengeance and is out to hurt everyone who hurt him. So what happens to Vincent when Victor and Vancelot come after him? Prepare yourself for another ride with the Taylor boys. But you might want to buckle up first!
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 149078540X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Victor Taylor was kicked out of his house, his marriage, his company, and the country! But he has returned with a vengeance and is out to hurt everyone who hurt him. So what happens to Vincent when Victor and Vancelot come after him? Prepare yourself for another ride with the Taylor boys. But you might want to buckle up first!