Author: Jonathan Harrington Green
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ISBN: 9781022366091
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 912

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1534

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Author: Jonathan H. Green
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ISBN: 9781418144173
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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A FULL AND TRUE EXPOSITION OF ALL THE VARIOUS Crimes, Villanies, and Misdeeds OF THIS POWERFUL ORGANIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES. BY THE "REFORMED GAMBLER," JONATHAN H. GREEN. AUTHOR OF "THE GAMBLER'S LIFE," "GAMBLING EXPOSED," "THE REFORMED GAMBLER; OR, AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF J. H. GREEN," ETC. WITH ILLUSTRATIVE ENGRAVINGS.

Author: Jared Frederick
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1684512840
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263

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Fans of Stephen E. Ambrose’s Band of Brothers will be drawn to this complex portrait of the controversial Ronald Speirs, an iconic commander of Easy Company during World War II, whose ferocious courage in three foreign conflicts was matched by his devotion to duty and the bittersweet passions of wartime romance. His comrades called him “Killer.” Of the elite paratroopers who served in the venerated “Band of Brothers” during World War II, none were more enigmatic than Ronald Speirs. Rumored to have gunned down enemy prisoners and even one of his own disobedient sergeants, Speirs’ became a foxhole legend amongst his troops. But who was the real Lieutenant Speirs? In Fierce Valor, historians Jared Frederick and Erik Dorr unveil the full story of Easy Company’s longest-serving commander for the first time. Tested by trials of extreme training, military rivalry, and lost love, Speirs’s international odyssey begins as an immigrant child in Prohibition-era Boston, continues through the bloody campaigns in France, Holland, and Germany, and sheds light on his lesser known exploits in Korea, the Cold War, and embattled Laos. Packed with groundbreaking research, Fierce Valor unveils a compelling portrait of an officer defined by boldness on the battlefield and a telling reminder that few soldiers escape the power of their own pasts.

Author: Jonathan H. Green
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781475011883
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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A FULL AND TRUE EXPOSITION OF ALL THE VARIOUS Crimes, Villanies, and Misdeeds OF THIS POWERFUL ORGANIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES. BY THE "REFORMED GAMBLER," JONATHAN H. GREEN. AUTHOR OF "THE GAMBLER'S LIFE," "GAMBLING EXPOSED," "THE REFORMED GAMBLER; OR, AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF J. H. GREEN," ETC. WITH ILLUSTRATIVE ENGRAVINGS.

Author: Victor Turner
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351474901
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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In The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, Victor Turner examines rituals of the Ndembu in Zambia and develops his now-famous concept of "Communitas." He characterizes it as an absolute inter-human relation beyond any form of structure.The Ritual Process has acquired the status of a small classic since these lectures were first published in 1969. Turner demonstrates how the analysis of ritual behavior and symbolism may be used as a key to understanding social structure and processes. He extends Van Gennep's notion of the "liminal phase" of rites of passage to a more general level, and applies it to gain understanding of a wide range of social phenomena. Once thought to be the "vestigial" organs of social conservatism, rituals are now seen as arenas in which social change may emerge and be absorbed into social practice.As Roger Abrahams writes in his foreword to the revised edition: "Turner argued from specific field data. His special eloquence resided in his ability to lay open a sub-Saharan African system of belief and practice in terms that took the reader beyond the exotic features of the group among whom he carried out his fieldwork, translating his experience into the terms of contemporary Western perceptions. Reflecting Turner's range of intellectual interests, the book emerged as exceptional and eccentric in many ways: yet it achieved its place within the intellectual world because it so successfully synthesized continental theory with the practices of ethnographic reports."

Author: Marcus Clarke
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Category : Penal colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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Author: Charles Mackay
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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Excerpt from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions, Vol. 2 A forest huge of spears and thronging helms Appear'd, and serried shields, in thick array. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Marquis de Sade
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1625585985
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 640

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The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade relates the story of four wealthy men who enslave 24 mostly teenaged victims and sexually torture them while listening to stories told by old prostitutes. The book was written while Sade was imprisoned in the Bastille and the manuscript was lost during the storming of the Bastille. Sade wrote that he "wept tears of blood" over the manuscript's loss. Many consider this to be Sade crowing acheivement.