A Soldier Gone to Sea
Title | A Soldier Gone to Sea PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Frederic Jerram |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 2016-11-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1476624062 |
In this memoir spanning nine decades, Lieutenant Colonel C.F. Jerram (1882-1969) of the Royal Marines recounts his life and military service through both world wars. Jerram describes in candid detail his late 19th-century childhood in Devon and Cornwall, the late Victorian and Edwardian Royal Navy, the Royal Navy's Far East Station, a traditional Corps of Marines, the Gallipoli Campaign, the World War I Western Front and the interwar and World War II years. His experience and insight convey two fundamental lessons: "Know thy profession and look after those for whom you are responsible." An essay by the editor, based on other sources, provides a broader perspective on Jerram, whose approach to professional military service is still pertinent today.
All the Light We Cannot See
Title | All the Light We Cannot See PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Doerr |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 560 |
Release | 2014-05-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1476746605 |
*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).
And Then There Were None
Title | And Then There Were None PDF eBook |
Author | Agatha Christie |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2001-05-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780312979478 |
One by one, the guests arrived at the mansion on Indian Island, summoned by a mysterious host. And one by one, with terrifying meticulousness, they were stalked by a cunning murderer. Utterly baffling...and yet there was a pattern, concealed in a nursery rhyme hanging over the fireplace.
Hearings
Title | Hearings PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations |
Publisher | |
Pages | 842 |
Release | 1926 |
Genre | |
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Send Me: a Soldier’S Story
Title | Send Me: a Soldier’S Story PDF eBook |
Author | Mike Dean |
Publisher | iUniverse |
Pages | 153 |
Release | 2013-09-13 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1491707070 |
The brightest colors woven on historys tapestry are those that teach us how to overcome trials and serve others in such a way as to elevate their lives to great heights of human accomplishment while, in the process, giving glory to our Maker. Part novel, part memoir, part history lesson, Send Me: A Soldiers Story seeks to draw you in, inform you, and then inspire you. Every soldiers story is unique. This one is mine. What I offer you is the story of a young marine who, after transferring to the US Navy, served aboard the USS John F. Kennedy; faced the challenges later in the army as a young warrant officer of Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm; and afterward served in military intelligence, where he found himself knee-deep within the ActivityAmericas most secret Special Operations Team. CW3 Mike Dean USA (Ret)
Life as a Combat Soldier
Title | Life as a Combat Soldier PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Williams |
Publisher | Heinemann-Raintree Library |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781403461964 |
Combat Soldiers played a major role in wartime. Basic training took around six weeks. It was hard work. All soldiers looked forward to free time, when they could relax, play cards, listen to records or read letters from home. Even better was time off, called leave or furlough. Find out more about the life of a combat soldier in this fact-filled title.
Nelson and Napoleon
Title | Nelson and Napoleon PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Lee |
Publisher | Faber & Faber |
Pages | 319 |
Release | 2014-11-20 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0571321682 |
Horatio Nelson is Britain's greatest naval hero; Trafalgar, in 1805, her greatest naval victory. Nelson and Napoleon, first published in 2005, is the story of how Britannia came to rule the waves for more than a hundred years. Christopher Lee re-examines the myths of Trafalgar, plotting Napoleon's overweening ambition to invade England and Nelson's single-minded dedication to seeking glory. He shows how Villeneuve had worked out Nelson's famous plan of attack, and demonstrates how the battle could easily have turned the other way. Lee also paints a vivid picture of the protagonists: particularly of the creation of a national hero in Nelson and his intense rivalry with Napoleon. 'Christopher Lee's vivid and painstaking account cuts through the folklore, replacing it with wonderful insights into early nineteenth-century Britain and Europe.' Daily Express