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| Author | : John Leppelman |
| Publisher | : Presidio Press |
| Total Pages | : 361 |
| Release | : 2010-05-26 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0307755223 |
In three straight years he was a paratropper, and army seaman, and a LRRP—and he lived to tell about it. As an FNG paratrooper in the 173d Airborne, John Leppelman made that unit's only combat jump in Vietnam. Then he spent months in fruitless search of the enemy, watching as his buddies died because of poor leadership and lousy weapons. Often it seemed the only way out of the carnage in the Central highlands was in a body bag. But Leppelman did get out, transferring first to the army's riverboats and then the all-volunteer Rangers, one of the ballsiest units in the war. In three tours of duty, that ended only when malaria forced him back to the States, Leppelman saw the war as few others did, a Vietnam that many American boys didn't live to tell about, but whose valor and sacrifice survive on these pages.
| Author | : S. R. Doss |
| Publisher | : Golden Word Books |
| Total Pages | : 318 |
| Release | : 2018-10-15 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781948749114 |
Blood on the Risers is a song paratroopers sing about a comrade who is killed when his parachute does not open properly, risers being the shroud lines running from the harness up to the canopy. The song is gory, and usually sung over many drinks. In this novel, Phillip Dee, a young lieutenant reporting to an airborne unit in Germany on the eve of the Vietnam War, is shocked to see four troopers plummet to earth with their canopies tangled, their bodies crushed as they hit the ground. Dee is even more shocked when the officer who is guiding him to his unit urges him to join in singing the song after seeing the four hit the earth, leading Dee to wonder what kind of madhouse he has been assigned to--which is what this compelling new novel is all about.
| Author | : Michael O'Shea |
| Publisher | : Author House |
| Total Pages | : 503 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1491813814 |
This artfully crafted saga depicts in vivid detail, the arduous journey of a young, impressionable patriot yearning to fulfill his destiny in the turmoil of the 1960's. The author draws you close to him as he encounters stiff challenges to his basic values, his character, as well as his faith in his fellow man. You'll taste the bitter prop blast as you stand in the open door beside him, holding your breath while he soars through the icy sky to the mountainous drop zone below. Discover the true nature of this Nation's most valiant fighting men as he progressively learns what it takes to lead Green Berets into battle. Share the distinct smell of death while he clutches on to the remnants of his tattered soul, constantly violated while he processes the tragedy of life unfolding before him. Witness the sheer resolve he and his men display in their commitment to their country, despite the disrespect and utter contempt shown to them by their own countrymen. This factual rendering allows you to eavesdrop on the innermost workings of a Special Forces A-Team as they train and ultimately prepare for battle. You'll be sprinting with a SOG Recon Team as they desperately work to elude the hordes of NVA soldiers, feeling the impact of explosions and the crackling of rifle fire along the way. This read will provide you with a renewed appreciation of what men endure when they make the commitment to defend their country and their way of life; despite the intimate danger and life-long consequences that accompany that decision. With dialogue that keeps the pages turning, Michael O'Shea transports us directly back to the real American experience in Vietnam. It's been nearly fifty years since the US inserted troops into jungles and villages more than 8,000 miles away. Stories such as Blood on the Risers are important and necessary for today's readers and future generations; veterans like O'Shea are prized for sharing them. Chris Henning - Clarion Review
| Author | : Christopher Ronnau |
| Publisher | : Presidio Press |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 2008-12-18 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0307494195 |
BAPTISM BY FIRE Chris Ronnau volunteered for the Army and was sent to Vietnam in January 1967, armed with an M-14 rifle and American Express traveler’s checks. But the latter soon proved particularly pointless as the private first class found himself in the thick of two pivotal, fiercely fought Big Red One operations, going head-to-head against crack Viet cong and NVA troops in the notorious Iron Triangle and along the treacherous Cambodian border near Tay Ninh. Patrols, ambushes, plunging down VC tunnels, search and destroy missions–there were many ways to drive the enemy from his own backyard, as Ronnau quickly discovered. Based on the journal Ronnau kept in Vietnam, Blood Trails captures the hellish jungle war in all its stark life-and-death immediacy. This wrenching chronicle is also stirring testimony to the quiet courage of those unsung American heroes, many not yet twenty-one, who had a job to do and did it without complaint–fighting, sacrificing, and dying for their country. Includes sixteen pages of rare and never-before-seen combat photos
| Author | : Charlaine Harris |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2006-04-25 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 110113402X |
Small town cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse’s supernatural existence puts her in the line of fire in the fifth novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series—the inspiration for the HBO® original series True Blood. When Sookie Stackhouse sees her brother Jason’s eyes start to change, she knows he’s about to turn into a were-panther for the first time. But her concern becomes cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local changeling population, and Jason’s new panther brethren suspect he may be the shooter. Now, Sookie has until the next full moon to find out who’s behind the attacks—unless the killer decides to find her first...
| Author | : Katherine Heiny |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2021-04-13 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0525659358 |
Alternately bittersweet and laugh-out-loud funny, a wise, bighearted novel of love, disaster, and unconventional family—from the acclaimed author of Standard Deviation, who has been called the "literary descendant of Jane Austen, sharing Austen's essentially comic world view" (NPR). Jane falls in love with Duncan easily. He is charming, good-natured, and handsome but unfortunately, he has also slept with nearly every woman in Boyne City, Michigan. Jane sees Duncan's old girlfriends everywhere—at restaurants, at the grocery store, even three towns away. While Jane may be able to come to terms with dating the world's most prolific seducer of women, she wishes she did not have to share him quite so widely. His ex-wife, Aggie, a woman with shiny hair and pale milkmaid skin, still has Duncan mow her lawn. His coworker, Jimmy, comes and goes from Duncan's apartment at the most inopportune times. Sometimes Jane wonders if a relationship can even work with three people in it—never mind four. Five if you count Aggie's eccentric husband, Gary. Not to mention all the other residents of Boyne City, who freely share with Jane their opinions of her choices. But any notion Jane had of love and marriage changes with one terrible car crash. Soon Jane's life is permanently intertwined with Duncan's, Aggie's, and Jimmy's, and Jane knows she will never have Duncan to herself. But could it be possible that a deeper kind of happiness is right in front of Jane's eyes? Katherine Heiny's Early Morning Riser is her most astonishingly wonderful work to date.
| Author | : Donald R. Burgett |
| Publisher | : Dell Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 202 |
| Release | : 2000-09-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0440236304 |
The author, a member of the Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division, describes his experiences in Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge and the close combat under difficult winter conditions and a lack of supplies. Reprint.
| Author | : Don Ericson |
| Publisher | : Presidio Press |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2011-09-21 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0307760405 |
They were the biggest Ranger company in Vietnam, and the best. For eighteen months, John L. Rotundo and Don Ericson braved the test of war at its most bloody and most raw, specializing in ambushing the enemy and fighting jungle guerillas using their own tactics. From the undiluted high of a "contact" with the enemy to the anguished mourning of a fallen comrade, they experienced nearly every emotion known to man--most of all, the power and the pride of being the finest on America's front lines.
| Author | : Ashely Mansour |
| Publisher | : Upturn Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 464 |
| Release | : 2015-12-07 |
| Genre | : Books and reading |
| ISBN | : 9780996278713 |
IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT BOOKS...In the future, reading is rare and forbidden. Books have been eliminated by the controlling power known as Fell. The printed past has been forgotten.But The Nine of the Rising made plans. Plans to help future generations remember.On the night before her seventeenth birthday, Noelle Hartley's secret penchant for words leads her to a mysterious volume linked to an underworld of rebel book lovers known as The Nine of the Rising. With the help of the Risers, Noelle realizes that the words are precious clues to the earlier time, and as a child of their bookless age, she might be the very last reader.Blood, Ink & Fire is a compelling YA dystopian sci-fi novel for anyone who believes in the power of books.
| Author | : Ed Teixeira |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 34 |
| Release | : 2019-06-03 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781070322452 |
"Gory, gory, what a hell of a way to die, And he ain't gonna jump no more..."-American paratrooper folk song; "Blood Upon The Risers."D-Day, the invasion of Normandy. Everybody knows the story. Thanks to the many books and movies, we know the major players and the major actions, some even by heart. Pegasus Bridge and Carentan are well known, well documented. But even the most well known battles were influenced by small and little known actions at their periphery, fought doggedly by the unknown and the unsung soldiers. It is these men and these situations that the scenarios in this book are all about; sharp skirmishes, stealthy probes, and daring assaults against superior numbers all the while surrounded by the enemy.Blood Upon The Risers: D-Day (ButR: D-Day) is a scenario book for NUTS! that takes place June 6, 1944, covering the actions of small bands of American paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division during the early parts of the Operation Neptune portion of the "Overlord" invasion plan. Inside Blood Upon the Risers: D-Day you will find:*Special Airborne rules that will make your paratroopers different from regular soldiers.*New rules for the different types of terrain you'll be fighting in.*New weapon and vehicle stats*10 linked scenarios covering the actions on June 6, 1944Blood Upon the Risers is not a stand-alone game, you must have the NUTS! 4th Edition rules to get the most out of it.You hit the ground running. You're a squad leader without a squad, and your first job is to find enough men to accomplish your objective. Don't worry which unit they're from, you can sort that out later.Can you accomplish your missions and keep your small band of paratroopers alive? That's up to you. But maybe, with some good planning and a little luck, you just might make it. Welcome to - Blood Upon the Risers.
