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By Robert J. Gossett
Cry, laugh, and celebrate with Anna Sweeney, as she struggles to overcome hardships that would destroy other women. With the help of a Catholic Priest, her husband’s former boss, friends from church, and even total strangers, she endures the murder of her husband, the death of a son, and other rigors imposed on her by the Civil War. Live with her as she watches her sons mature and overcome tueir own adversities and develop into successful adults, and live their own exciting lives.
FORMAT: E-Book
By Robert S. Anders
“We can win the war without killing a single person.” Just days prior to deploying to combat in Afghanistan, Lieutenant Colonel Walter Piatt, commander of the 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry “Wolfhounds,” announced this visionary statement in front of an assembly of 800 infantrymen and their families. Naturally, none of the soldiers listening to the Colonel’s rhetoric thought it was possible to actually win the war without killing a single person. That hardly sounded like “war” at all. In fact, that simple concept was the very antithesis of the previous 10 months they had all spent training to explicitly kill people with speed and violence. Destroying the enemy was the fundamental focus of every infantryman. It was, of course, the very reason the infantry existed in the first place. The Colonel, an infantryman himself no less, challenged his battalion’s conventional thinking that day and throughout the ensuing campaign. His striking pronouncement was the theoretical extreme of counterinsurgency doctrine. It emphasizes the importance of nation-building instead of man-hunting, construction instead of destruction, and dropping schools and wells into villages instead of artillery shells. That was his vision and that is what he led his infantrymen to do. This is the story of the Wolfhounds in 2nd Platoon, Bravo Company through the eyes of a young platoon leader. He details their adventures on the frontier in a little-known dangerous place called Paktika Province, centrally located along Afghanistan’s volatile border with Pakistan. It is the story of ordinary men, cast into a treacherous and unfamiliar world with the mission to destroy the enemy’s sanctuary, not just the enemy. It is the story of triumph and failure, elation and frustration through a hard-fought struggle with their identity as infantrymen, evolving from trained tactical killers to strategic nation builders in their quest to win Paktika.
FORMAT: Hardcover
By Robert S. Anders
“We can win the war without killing a single person.” Just days prior to deploying to combat in Afghanistan, Lieutenant Colonel Walter Piatt, commander of the 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry “Wolfhounds,” announced this visionary statement in front of an assembly of 800 infantrymen and their families. Naturally, none of the soldiers listening to the Colonel’s rhetoric thought it was possible to actually win the war without killing a single person. That hardly sounded like “war” at all. In fact, that simple concept was the very antithesis of the previous 10 months they had all spent training to explicitly kill people with speed and violence. Destroying the enemy was the fundamental focus of every infantryman. It was, of course, the very reason the infantry existed in the first place. The Colonel, an infantryman himself no less, challenged his battalion’s conventional thinking that day and throughout the ensuing campaign. His striking pronouncement was the theoretical extreme of counterinsurgency doctrine. It emphasizes the importance of nation-building instead of man-hunting, construction instead of destruction, and dropping schools and wells into villages instead of artillery shells. That was his vision and that is what he led his infantrymen to do. This is the story of the Wolfhounds in 2nd Platoon, Bravo Company through the eyes of a young platoon leader. He details their adventures on the frontier in a little-known dangerous place called Paktika Province, centrally located along Afghanistan’s volatile border with Pakistan. It is the story of ordinary men, cast into a treacherous and unfamiliar world with the mission to destroy the enemy’s sanctuary, not just the enemy. It is the story of triumph and failure, elation and frustration through a hard-fought struggle with their identity as infantrymen, evolving from trained tactical killers to strategic nation builders in their quest to win Paktika.
FORMAT: Softcover
By David Rosenfeld
An initial reading of this collection could suggest that primarily hate motivates these writings. Further thought may generate the question: what is hated? The answer is that the author hates what threatens what he loves. Then it is seen that love is really the underlying motive. Expressing sometimes belligerent tones, these outspoken, mostly rhyming verse-poems may reinforce and gladden some of the personal sentiments of those who value fighting for the West.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Robert J. Gossett
Cry, laugh, and celebrate with Anna Sweeney, as she struggles to overcome hardships that would destroy other women. With the help of a Catholic Priest, her husband’s former boss, friends from church, and even total strangers, she endures the murder of her husband, the death of a son, and other rigors imposed on her by the Civil War. Live with her as she watches her sons mature and overcome tueir own adversities and develop into successful adults, and live their own exciting lives.
FORMAT: Hardcover
By Robert J. Gossett
Cry, laugh, and celebrate with Anna Sweeney, as she struggles to overcome hardships that would destroy other women. With the help of a Catholic Priest, her husband’s former boss, friends from church, and even total strangers, she endures the murder of her husband, the death of a son, and other rigors imposed on her by the Civil War. Live with her as she watches her sons mature and overcome tueir own adversities and develop into successful adults, and live their own exciting lives.
FORMAT: Softcover
By James Womack
If this book were about a football game, instead of an ordinary life well lived, we would read thirty chapters where your favorite team is two points behind in the fourth quarter with forty five seconds left on the play clock. James is the quarterback and executes a play that produces the winning score with honor and dignity every time. His life is a complex tapestry woven with threads of racism, poverty, alcoholism, bravery, illiteracy, tension, paternal rejection, sexual exploitation, patient endurance, domestic violence and a strong faith in God. The challenges he faces would have caused men of lesser faith to find solutions deeply rooted in violence, hate, alcohol and disregard for humanity and the sacredness of life. James has invited you into the thoughts, feelings, successes, and failures of his life in an intimate and honest presentation. You will be honored by his honesty, and humbled by his courage and determination. There are enough struggles in this personal history to deter the brave but not enough to stop the honored bravery of someone who knows God. “Black Dad-White Dad” choreographs the life of black kid growing up in Mississippi as he transitioned from sharecropper status to urban life, from illiteracy to education in the forties and fifties. James does what so many think we may want to do in our life. He not only asks the questions but searches for the answers. One might say he should be mad at the world, but he is not. He does not let his life experiences be an excuse or the answer but uses each challenge and blessing as a welcome mat to the next chapter of his life.
FORMAT: E-Book
By TSgt Blaze E. Lipowski, USAF Retired
I invite you to travel back in time in your mind’s eye to 1939-1941, to a time where one of today’s most important Air Force Base in the world was a barren waste land, filled with rattlesnakes and trees. Travel back to a time where nothing was wasted, and everything was used. Encounter Air Power figures that have rightfully left their mark in history, such as General Henry H. Arnold, and the role he played in the making of this base, and General Clarence Tinker’s command, and fate during WWII. I hope and trust you will find this as fascinating as I did when I first looked through the pages of a history report in the form of a simple typewritten booklet.
FORMAT: E-Book
By MICHAEL DAVID PIERCE
The Overlord Effect is a historically based leadership review that combines the accounts of Veterans of the Normandy Campaign of World War II and presents a conversation about their experiences with the leadership theories that have become part of today"s conversation on the subject in the military, academics, and business. The Normandy Invasion was one of the most complex and successful military campaigns in history. The preparation for this event took years of preparation and training. It required leaders at every level to demonstrate exemplary leadership in a compressed space and time that called for decisions to be made in an instant, for leaders to act with courage and character, and for both followers and leaders to accomplish any mission regardless of the personal cost. The Overlord Effect takes the snapshots of the critical experiences of leaders at every level of the Allied Invasion Force and reviews their actions and places them into understandable, thought provoking insights that will help leaders in any discipline respond better to challenges. The work also presents Dr. Pierce's theory on Emergent Leadership During Crisis(ELDC), and discusses ways that the leaders and professionals of today can use it to help themselves understand their own leadership experience, as well as to develop future leaders in the workplace.
FORMAT: E-Book
By Chris Penhaligon
Chris Penhaligon is a spy for hire. He has worked undercover for MI5 and Special Branch on covert operations that cannot be traced back to the British Security Services, more commonly known as “Deniable Black ops" Serving with 2 Para in Belfast, Northern lreland, he survived the first-ever remote controlled car bomb explosion in the Province. On duty in Berlin, he was a member of the Spandau Guard, whose job was to keep 24-hour watch on the former Nazi deputy leader Rudolph Hess. One Blood reveals how, after infiltrating deep inside Greenpeace for several years, Penhaligon's cover was blown by the cold indifference of Scotland Yard's senior officers. Penhaligon accompanied the Greenpeace action unit on many operations - including an attack on Downing Street. Later in the wake of the poisoning of the former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, Penhaligon was paid by home security service, MI5, to develop links with a Russian interpreter in Moscow One Blood, Penhaligon's story is not James Bond fiction - where every drama has a happy ending. He tells of the true grim reality of how Britain's secret services use private undercover operators to do their dirty work. Working with no back up and no come back, these private spies regularly lay their lives on the line for their country. The book is also packed with tradecraft secrets of both living and working alone deep undercover in the UK and in foreign hostile countries. The fact that Penhaligon is here to write this book is a true testament to his skills and success in surviving so long in this twilight world where sometimes serious harm or even death is on the agenda of those he confronts.
FORMAT: E-Book
By Dr. Karim M.S. Al-Zubaidi
This book is a personal history of Iraq, told from the point of view of a family man living there during Saddam Hussein's reign and its aftermath. It examines all the factors leading to the current situation and challenges the misunderstandings currently fuelling the media: for example, a Sunni belonging to the Ba'ath Party is expected to be an extremist Saddam loyalist. He knew friends among Saddam's government ministers, who suffered under Saddam and regularly plotted to overthrow him. It contain 1.A brief history of the city of Baghdad, which during its golden age was a great centre of culture and learning. It was a setting for the One Thousand and One Arabian Nights, in which Queen Scheherazade called it the City of Peace. 2.A picture of Baghdad in the year 2000. At first glance, it is a new golden age, but there is much suffering here. An overview of my family life and of the racial and religious harmony in which we live, and of the day-to-day effects of the 13th years US trade embargo. In 2003, when war with the U.S. & its allies becomes inevitable, my neighbourhood prepares for evacuation. I flee across the Tigris with my wife and children. We are caught right in the middle of the Shock and Awe campaign. When the attack dies down, I drive home under a rain of missiles 3.A history of the races and religions of Iraq. The Western media suggests that Saddam's Iraq comprised a ruling Sunni minority and a serving Shi'ite majority. This was not the case. Iraq is not solely Muslim, and its Muslims are not all of the Sunni or Shi'ite faiths. The Sunnis were not the majority, and most were ordinary people, as downtrodden as everyone else. The media say that Iraq comprises two opposing races: Arabs and Kurds. This, too, is wrong, as it has many indigenous races and we are used to living in harmony. 4.Details of The Kurdish conflict. 5.Saddam invades Kuwait. Details of its effects. 6.The war which brings down Saddam destroys Iraq's infrastructure and leave tens of thousands without homes or jobs. 7.An overview of the reasons behind the US & its ally's to the war on Iraq, and the reasons why the country has got so out of hand. 8.The Coalition Provision Authority takes its advice from exiled Iraqi groups with personal agendas
FORMAT: E-Book
By J. Max Taylor
This book is about the unseen Shadow War that occurred between 1968 and 1976. It was written to honor those who served our country and didn’t come back. They may have been ignored or denied by the “Powers That Be”, but they will live in my heart and my nightmares as long as I live. The profits from the sale of this book will go to help homeless veterans. Reading this book will open a new world for you -- The world of Special Intelligence Operations. From Viet Nam to Cambodia to Laos and North Viet Nam the action will show you why so many veterans from the Viet Nam War have PTSD. The potential for recurring nightmares will be apparent. Next you will take a trip from Libya to Spain to Italy and Romania. You will find out that the war against terror did not start in 2001. The following sample will demonstrate what Inside the World of Mirrors is all about. In 1974, I met and was briefed by a “Mr. Martin”, a high level individual from the American Embassy in Rome, Italy, on an operation to insure that a particular individual would not continue funding communist political activities in Italy. He was a bag man for the KGB. It was less than two months until a very important election was to take place. He was spreading money around to help the communist political candidates get elected. I was simply told “Make Him Stop”! They gave me carte blanche to get it done. Anytime in the next seven days would be just fine. This was only one of the 83 missions ran by a Special Intelligence Operative code named the Iceman
FORMAT: E-Book
By Steve Little
"How great it was to have been able to read your writing - Touching …sensitive … emotional… thoughtful … immensely moving …personal …enthralling …gripping …sad …pathetic …ghastly in its detail … critical of the awfulness of the establishment …a tremendous insight into a mind disturbed." - Howard Swan Wilson was on the verge of a professional sporting career when World War 1 started. Eventually he was sent to the Front, under-trained and ill equipped. There he experienced the horrors and deprivations of trench warfare. Unable to cope he had a breakdown and ran away. Whilst being nursed back to health by a young French widow, he is recaptured and, during an eventful journey back to Belgium for his Court Martial, he forms a friendship with his captor. This was to have great significance in the future.The dramatic events before, during and after the Court Martial provide a gripping finale. In More Than Just A Life the author weaves a dramatic story that deals with the highly emotive aspect of the ordeal of the ordinary soldier, the wanton loss of young lives and the harsh discipline of the Army. 50% of any profits from sales will be donated to the Royal Marsden Hospital in recognition of the treatment for the author's wife when she had cancer. AH from Devon - A very sad story and the graphic pictures you painted of warfare in the trenches if ever filmed would make Saving Private Ryan seem tame by comparison. Well done! Mr Cheesman from Surrey - Nine out of ten – I like the twist in the tail! When will the sequel be available? Mr N Russell - one of those that you couldn’t put down - thoroughly enjoyed it!
FORMAT: E-Book
By Barrie Williams
IF you're looking for the archetypal villain in a tale of class hatred, they don't come any more tailor-made than Christopher Pole-Carew. The roots of his aristocratic family tree are 32 generations deep and he exudes the aura of the upper class. So when, in the trades union dominated 1970s, he became the newspaper industry's notorious 'Union Buster' his role required no embellishment. In the '70s and '80s, as the maverick boss of T. Bailey Forman Ltd, publishers of the Nottingham Evening Post, he tackled the enormous issues of union power and new technology a decade before anybody else dared to try. Then he went on to mastermind much of Press mogul Rupert Murdoch's seismic move from Fleet Street to Wapping, smashing the national newspaper unions. The battles involving Pole-Carew were among the bloodiest industrial conflicts of the 20th Century. When the revolution he started had run its course, thousands of jobs had been wiped out. To this day, he is a hate figure in union folk-lore, despised as a callous capitalist ogre; an evil enemy of the working class; ruthless in crushing workers'rights;a name to be spat out with revulsion. Yet those, the comparative few, who have seen beyond the myth tell of Pole-Carew's compassion and sensitivity; a kind, considerate, generous employer; a surprisingly multi-talented, creative and artistic man; a loyal, fun loving friend; a devoted and loving husband and father. 'Somebody Had To Do It' tells, for the first time, the full inside story of Christopher Pole-Carew's hugely controversial business exploits and conflicts; highlights his great successes; examines his enlightened management techniques, from which lessons can still be learned today, and reveals the inspiring and moving human elements of a truly remarkable man's extraordinary life story.
FORMAT: E-Book
By Heinz-Dieter Quent
The SWW 50 year anniversary of “Repubblica dell'Ossola” should give the opportunity to re-evaluate minor episodes, in books and chronicles often forgotten. Last August in Domodossola, a 50 years old man with a strange accent, went to the APT office in Domodossola, asking about a tombstone in a photograph he was carrying, His father was a German soldier who died in Crodo on 28th August 1944. This 50 years old man was Heinz-Dieter Quent who was born in Germany in 1943 and grew up in England, where he now lives near London with his wife and two sons. An aeronautical engineer and now a British citizen, Heinz- Dieter was in Domodossola with his wife looking for the tombstone with his father name on it: Heinrich Quent. A German soldier, killed in Crodo on August 23rd 1944 fighting against Italian partisans and who was buried in Domodossola. In the book “Guerriglia nell'Ossola” it is written that "The bus arrived at the designated point at 5 pm on the 23 rd August. The German soldiers were asked to surrender. They refused and were shot by Ivan's machinegun. 4 were killed, 3 were injured. One was taken as prisoner and the ninth fled away injured, and would die while running away. Prisoners were sent back to tell what happened to the others.” In the book “L'Ossola nella tempesta” written by Luigi Pellanda there are only 3 names: Heinrich Quent, Adolph Wohlfabt and Ewald Paens, an hypothesis is that these 3 were the injured that died later in the hospital in Domodossola where they were taken. Paolo Bologna explains that “After ten years, these graves were transferred by the German authority to the war cemetery at Costermano- Verona”. "It is a pity that the tombstone disappeared. I would propose to make a new identical one to the previous one, to remember that period and those events.” This proposal is to help to remember a tragic and sad period, but very important for our history because 50 years ago people had to fight for their freedom, and today, with friendship and spirit, we welcome the son of one soldier that left his life in Ossola. Paolo Bologna says “When I knew who he was and the reason for his visit, I found it right to explain to him that I was the president of an association of ex-partisans, but this was not a problem at all for Heinz-Dieter Quent. We presented to him as a present, a copy of the book `L'Ossola nella tempesta', where he can see the name of his father.”
FORMAT: E-Book
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