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Author | : Nelson DeMille |
Publisher | : Grand Central Publishing |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 2002-01-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0759526850 |
"Much more than a blood-and-guts thriller...An insightful, moving, and sensitive look at what the war did to a country, its people, and its enemies." - Orlando Sentinel Former army homicide investigator Paul Brenner has just gotten used to the early retirement forced on him after the disastrous end of his last case when his old commanding officer asks him to return for one final mission: investigate a murder that took place in wartime Vietnam thirty years before. Brenner reluctantly accepts out of curiosity and loyalty...and maybe a touch of boredom. He won't be bored for long. Back in Vietnam, Brenner meets expatriate Susan Weber, a woman as exotic, sensual, and dangerous as the nation of her voluntary exile. Brenner is plunged into a world of corruption, lethal double cross, and haunted memories-as he's suddenly thrust back into a war that neither he nor his country ever really stopped fighting.
Author | : Emily Eden |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2010-09-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108020755 |
Eden's candid letters represent thousands of nineteenth-century women who dutifully accompanied their men to outposts of the British Empire.
Author | : Claiborne A. Skinner |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2008-06-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0801888379 |
Takes the reader through daily life at posts like Forts Saint Louis and Michilimakinac. This work illuminates the complexities of interracial marriage with the courtship of Michel Aco at Peoria, and explains how France's New World adventurism played a role in the outbreak of the Seven Years War and the beginning of the modern era.
Author | : Alden R. Carter |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2004-09-09 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101659912 |
A 100 "Best of the Best" ALA Best Books for Young Adults of the Last 25 Years, Up Country is a heart-wrenching, powerful story from an exceptionally talented writer. Carl knows he's playing with fire every time he fixes up a stolen car stereo to resell. But he needs the money; how else is he going to get away from his boozing mom and her endless parade of classy guys? Then one night his mother's drinking gets out of control and Carl's plan to get himself a decent life takes a nosedive. Sent to live with distant relatives far away from the life he has always known, Carl is faced with a decision: run away and stick with The Plan, or come up with a new one...fast.
Author | : Michael N. McConnell |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1992-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780803282384 |
The Ohio Country in the eighteenth century was a zone of international strife, and the Delawares, Shawnees, Iroquois, and other natives who had taken refuge there were caught between the territorial ambitions of the French and British. A Country Between is unique in assuming the perspective of the Indians who struggled to maintain their autonomy in a geographical tinderbox.
Author | : Yvonne Daley |
Publisher | : University Press of New England |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2018-06-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1512602833 |
Going Up the Country is part oral history, part nostalgia-tinged narrative, and part clear-eyed analysis of the multifaceted phenomena collectively referred to as the counterculture movement in Vermont. This is the story of how young migrants, largely from the cities and suburbs of New York and Massachusetts, turned their backs on the establishment of the 1950s and moved to the backwoods of rural Vermont, spawning a revolution in lifestyle, politics, sexuality, and business practices that would have a profound impact on both the state and the nation. The movement brought hippies, back-to-the-landers, political radicals, sexual libertines, and utopians to a previously conservative state and led us to today's farm to table way of life, environmental consciousness, and progressive politics as championed by Bernie Sanders.
Author | : Carol Bodensteiner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Country life |
ISBN | : 9780979799709 |
In Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl, Carol Bodensteiner tells the stories of a happy childhood growing up on a family-owned dairy farm in the middle of America in the 1950s, a time when a family could make a good living on 180 acres.
Author | : Claiborne A. Skinner |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2008-06-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0801888387 |
The Upper Country melds myth and conventional history to provide a memorable tale of French designs in the middle of what became the United States. Putting the reader on the battlefields, at the trading posts, and on the rivers with voyageurs and their allies from the Indian nations, Claiborne Skinner reveals the saintly missionaries and jolly fur traders of popular myth as agents of a hard-nosed, often ruthless, imperial endeavor. Skinner’s engaging narrative takes the reader through daily life at posts like Forts Saint Louis and Michilimakinac, illuminates the complexities of interracial marriage with the courtship of Michel Aco at Peoria, and explains how France's New World adventurism played a role in the outbreak of the Seven Years War and the beginning of the modern era. In this story, many of the traditional heroes and villains of American history take on surprising roles. The last Stuart kings of England seem shrewd and even human; George Washington makes his debut appearance on the stage of history by assassinating a French officer and plunging Europe into the first truly global war. From unthinkable hardship to dreams of fur trade profits, this fascinating exploration sheds new light on France and its imperial venture into the Great Lakes.
Author | : John Henry Logan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 1859 |
Genre | : Cherokee Indians |
ISBN | : |
John H. Logan, physician, educator, and newspaper editor of Abbeville, used official records and journals kept by traders and naturalists in this history of upper South Carolina from earliest times to 1760. The first half of the book is natural history, with much on the Indians. After this, he turns to early traders, hunters, and settlers. There are descriptions of the country, the natives, the animals, plus later developments after the arrival of the Europeans, with personal treatment of many individuals. - Publisher.
Author | : Kendra Taira Field |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2018-01-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300182287 |
The masterful and poignant story of three African-American families who journeyed west after emancipation, by an award-winning scholar and descendant of the migrants Following the lead of her own ancestors, Kendra Field’s epic family history chronicles the westward migration of freedom’s first generation in the fifty years after emancipation. Drawing on decades of archival research and family lore within and beyond the United States, Field traces their journey out of the South to Indian Territory, where they participated in the development of black and black Indian towns and settlements. When statehood, oil speculation, and Jim Crow segregation imperiled their lives and livelihoods, these formerly enslaved men and women again chose emigration. Some migrants launched a powerful back-to-Africa movement, while others moved on to Canada and Mexico. Their lives and choices deepen and widen the roots of the Great Migration. Interweaving black, white, and Indian histories, Field’s beautifully wrought narrative explores how ideas about race and color powerfully shaped the pursuit of freedom.