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Purse Pizzazz
Marie Browning Manufacturer: Sterling ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1402740654 |
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Disappointing.......2006-06-02
Worth Buying.......2005-09-06
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Purse Pizzazz
Marie Browning Manufacturer: Sterling ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000K44AIY |
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Into the Rising Sun: In Their Own Words, World War II's Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat
Patrick K. O'Donnell Manufacturer: Free Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0743214803 |
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The author of Beyond Valor offers a new collection of oral histories from veterans of the Second World War, this time from the Pacific theater. In an introduction, Patrick K. O'Donnell warns, "oral histories are perhaps the best means available to reveal the horrors and pathos of the foxhole." Indeed, several of the accounts he compiles on these pages are grisly, such as the story of Tom Lyons, stabbed in the neck by a Japanese soldier on Guadalcanal. Lyons survived, but only after being heaped on top of a pile of dead bodies. Rumors of his death reached home: "My mother got a check from my insurance company saying I was dead the same day she got a letter from me written by a nurse at a hospital in New Zealand." Combat stories abound, including a firsthand account of Gunnery Sergeant William G. Walsh jumping on a grenade to protect his squad on Iwo Jima, a feat for which he was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. O'Donnell organizes his material chronologically and introduces each chapter to help readers understand the context of the soldiers' individual narratives. For those who enjoy real-life war stories told from the perspective of the men who were there, Into the Rising Sun is hard to beat. --John MillerBook Description
"Iwo Jima was a massacre. I never expected anything like that. People were dying left and right...No names should have been used on the flag raisings because we didn't get up there by ourselves. It was the collective actions of a lot of people and there were a lot of Raiders and paratroopers up there with us."
-- Charles Lindberg, Flag Raiser
Patrick O'Donnell has made a career of uncovering the hidden history of World War II by tracking down and interviewing its most elite troops: the Rangers, Airborne, Marines, and First Special Service Force, forerunners to America's Special Forces. These men saw the worst of the war's action, and most of them have been reluctant to talk about it. With O'Donnell's respectful coaxing, however, they first began telling their stories through www.thedropzone.org, his award-winning Web site. In 2001, veterans of the European Theater told their stories in O'Donnell's first book, Beyond Valor. Now, in Into the Rising Sun, O'Donnell presents scores of veterans' personal accounts, based on over a thousand interviews spanning the past ten years, to tell the story of the brutal Pacific war.
"They were making a lot of noise, talking, yelling to one another, and I heard someone getting beat up on the left. I can still hear the screams. He was begging for mercy. They [the Japanese] were berating him. Later on I found that it was one of my friends, Ken Ritter."
-- Robert Youngdeer, Guadalcanal
These veterans were often the first in and the last out of every conflict, from Guadalcanal and Burma to the Philippines and the black sands of Iwo Jima. They faced a cruel enemy willing to try anything, including kamikaze flights and human-guided torpedoes. As O'Donnell explains in the Introduction, most of the men in this book were at first reticent to talk. Over the course of the war, they had spearheaded D-Day-sized beach assaults, encountered cannibalism, suffered friendly-fire incidents, and endured torture as pris-oners of war. Heroes among heroes, they include many recipients of the Navy Cross, the Distinguished Service Cross, the Silver Star, and other medals of battlefield valor, but none bragged about it. As one soldier put it, "When somebody gets decorated, it's because a lot of other men died."
By at last telling their stories, these men present an unvarnished look at the war on the ground, a final gift from aging warriors who have already given so much. Only with these accounts can the true horror of the war in the Pacific be fully known. O'Donnell has carefully verified each account by comparing it with official records and interviews, and he intersperses each story with brief commentary. Together with detailed maps of each battle, the veterans' stories in Into the Rising Sun offer nothing less than a complete picture of the war in the Pacific, a ground-level view of some of history's most brutal combat.
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Interesting, if a bit limited in scope.......2005-01-29
Stories about the Pacific War........2004-05-29
One of the most honest books about combat in the Pacific War.......2004-01-12
A measure of the sacrifices.......2003-08-26
Many soldiers are reluctant to talk of their wartime experiences for fear of seeming boastful. O'Donnell got these veterans to open up and tell their stories. They did so that the fallen heroes would get proper credit, not to tell of their own exploits in a grand fashion. Many of the other reviewers have told of the specific episodes relayed in the book, but what struck me was the depth of feeling that these men had many decades after the fact. One soldier tells of looking up the family of a fallen buddy after the war. It was as if he felt driven to tell them of their son's valor and his worth to his fellow soldiers. Another tells of a friend he saw die in combat after having met his wife and been their with him during the arrival of their child. It was a common theme that these men had these experiences with them every day, if only just beneath the surface. I highly recommend it to those who would like to grasp the depth of the sacrifice these individuals made on our behalf.
Experience Battle from your Armchair!.......2003-04-16
This book has special meaning to me since my father was a Marine fighting the Japanese in the Pacific. He was at Guadalcanal and Okinawa .I now know what a hero he was!
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Into The Rising Sun In their own words, World War II's Pacific Veterans reveal the Heart of Combat
Patrick K. O'Donnel Manufacturer: Free Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000WA6DQI |
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Into the Rising Sun: World War II's Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat (Unabridged)
Patrick K. O'Donnell Manufacturer: audible.com ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio Download ASIN: B00023O12I |
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Blue Ghost Memoirs: USS Lexington Cv-16 1943-1945
Otto C. Romanelli Manufacturer: Turner Publishing Company (KY) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 1563118483 |
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Great Historical Book.......2007-02-19
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Review for the Science Section of the GED Test
James Frendak Manufacturer: Comex Systems ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 1560301406 |
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This study guide prepares a student to take the Science section of the new GED test.Content Reviewed
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Comex Systems, Inc. has over 30 years experience preparing people to take and pass the GED test.
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Review for the Social Studies Section of the GED Test
Daniel Donnelly Manufacturer: Comex Systems ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1560301449 |
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I Should Be Dead By Now
Dennis Rodman Manufacturer: Sports Publishing LLC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1596700165 Release Date: 2005-09-01 |
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Whether it was helping Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls win three-straight NBA titles in the 1990's or showing up to a book signing in a dress and full makeup, Dennis Rodman has always distinguished himself as one of the great and most polarizing personalities in the sports world. The controversial and flamboyant former basketball star, who recently had a tryout with the Denver Nuggets and has played with the Long Beach Jam of the ABA in hopes of getting another shot at the National Basketball Association, is back in the national spotlight once again with I Should Be Dead Now. The new book from the two-time best-selling author details Rodman's struggles in life since he stopped playing in the NBA, including the breakup of his marriage to movie and TV star Carmen Electra and his problems with alcohol. I Should Be Dead Now is a look at the life of one of America's most recognizable sports stars since the lights of professional basketball stopped shining as brightly, and how Dennis Rodman hopes to make a successful return to the game that made him famous.Customer Reviews:
Reveals more than I think he intended.......2006-01-23
He IS dead........2005-12-23
Neither here or there :-l.......2005-11-26
smart cat,but tired book.......2005-11-20
Inside the Mind of the Worm.......2005-11-04
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Dennis Rodman: I Should Be Dead by Now
Dennis Rodman , and Jack Isenhour Manufacturer: Sports Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1596701528 |
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Since I was a kid, I had always prided myself on my discipline in the things that really mattered-in the weight room, on the court (forget the refs), defense, rebounding, in how I play the game. Off court was my business; but suddenly things had changed.After the motorcycle accident, my agent, Darren Prince, was so worried about my partying that he called in the cavalry, my former bodyguard, Wendell "Big Will" Williams-a six-foot-four-inch, 400-pound black man to whom people, including Dennis Rodman, tend to listen. Wendell was coming out of bodyguard retirement to make sure I did what I was supposed to do when I was supposed to do it. He started out strong at the Radio Music Awards in Las Vegas. It was exactly a week after the Treasures motorcycle crash. Despite my usual protests-"I don't want to do this.
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I Really Should Be Dead Now
Robert Ian Winstin Manufacturer: ERMMedia ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0975275100 |
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A charming and funny account, by award-winning composer and conductor Robert Ian Winstin, of his battle with a brain aneurysm - and his victory over it.Set in short story form, this small novel is heartwarming and inspiring.
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inspiring stories with more than a dash of humour.......2004-04-09
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Sports Publishing LLC.(In Life, First You Kick Ass: Reflections on the 1985 Bears and Wisdom From Da Coach)(Reynolds Remembers: 25 Years With the Sacramento ... Review) : An article from: The Bookwatch
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000EQI1FG Release Date: 2006-04-18 |
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This digital document is an article from The Bookwatch, published by Thomson Gale on February 1, 2006. The length of the article is 453 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Powder and Propellants: Energetic Materials at Indian Head, Maryland, 1890-2001
Rodney P. Carlisle Manufacturer: University of North Texas Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1574411497 |
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Ritual And Symbol In Peacebuilding
Lisa Schirch Manufacturer: Kumarian Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1565491947 |
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Conflict is dramatic. In theater, literature, story telling, and news reporting, it is a powerful mechanism that draws attention, heightens the senses and evokes emotion. Schirch argues that peacebuilding has the potential to do just the same.Examples of peacebuilding often center on the serious, rational negotiations and formal problem-solving efforts in conflict situations. Schirch argues, though, that what truly bonds adversaries and helps achieve peace are the symbolic, non-verbal ritual acts--shaking hands, sharing a meal, showing a photograph of a loved one. Yet these are often overlooked as deliberate components of peace negotiations.
Ritual and Symbol in Peacebuilding underscores the importance of incorporating symbolic tools, including ritual, into traditional approaches to conflict. Ritual assists in solving complex, deep-rooted conflicts, and helps to confirm and transform worldviews, identities, and relationships. With theories and language to explain the symbolic dimensions of conflict, this text will be useful to scholars and practitioners active in the diverse field of peacebuilding.
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Lakoff Meet Schirch.......2005-05-20
Great resource for exploring symbolic aspects .......2005-05-17
Highly recommend!.......2005-05-11
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Ritual and Symbol in Peacebuilding.(Book review): An article from: Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal
Laura Simich Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000KIXDRY Release Date: 2006-11-13 |
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This digital document is an article from Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal, published by Thomson Gale on March 22, 2006. The length of the article is 866 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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One Makes the Difference: Inspiring Actions that Change our World
Julia Hill , Jessica Hurley , Julia Hill , and Jessica Hurley Manufacturer: HarperOne ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0062517562 Release Date: 2002-03-26 |
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After her record-breaking two year tree sit, Julia Butterfly Hill has ceaslessly continued her efforts to promote sustainability and ecologically-minded ways to save the old-growth redwoods she acted so valiantly to protect. Here she provides her many young fans with what they yearn for most -- her advice on how to promote change and improve the health of the planet, distilled into an essential handbook. This book will be accessible to school-aged children, while accomodating the audience of parents and teachers who look to Julia as an example of how one person can "change the world." Packed with a variety of charts, diagrams, and interesting factoids, the book will be broken down into a series of steps and easy-to-follow lessons. It will be written broadly so as to accommodate all kinds of activism, though its core focus will be on environmental issues.
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Envirornmental activism for beginners!.......2006-10-19
The world could be a better place.......2003-08-18
A nice try, but ultimately a disappointment.......2003-04-04
A practical guide and an inspiration.......2003-03-21
Fascinating Information.......2002-08-22
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One Makes the Difference: Inspiring Actions that Change our World
Jessica Hurley, Julia Hill, Jessica Hurley Julia Hill Manufacturer: HarperSanFrancisco ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OF7LBM |
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