The View from My Foxhole
Title | The View from My Foxhole PDF eBook |
Author | William Swanson |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 135 |
Release | 2022-11-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1637584687 |
After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, millions of young American men were eager to join up and defend their country. William Swanson was among them. The View from My Foxhole tells William Swanson’s story of fighting in the jungles of Bougainville and Guam and the ash heap of Iwo Jima. Through it he maintains his sense of humor and thanks his lucky stars for every day he survives. From THE VIEW FROM MY FOXHOLE: We move past the torn bodies of our buddies, hoping and praying that we will be spared, yet knowing in our hearts that many will not. Fear is on me again—fear of death, of course—but I have found that it is relatively easy to resign oneself to death and, on occasion, even welcome the thing. It is really the violence, the pain, the suddenness, and unpredictability of events that tear our insides. We cannot be sure of anything—not the next step or the next second—and that is the real terror.
The View from My Foxhole
Title | The View from My Foxhole PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Jones |
Publisher | |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Foxhole
Title | Foxhole PDF eBook |
Author | George K Mullins |
Publisher | Memoir Books |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 2021-07 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781937748388 |
Foxhole is the story of one man's journey fighting in WWII
An Atheist in the FOXhole
Title | An Atheist in the FOXhole PDF eBook |
Author | Joe Muto |
Publisher | Penguin Group |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2014-05-27 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0142181013 |
“Hilariously details the inner workings of the cable news network.” —The Daily Beast After college, Joe Muto—a self-professed bleeding-heart, godless liberal—took an entry-level position at Fox News. Joe kept quiet about his political views and initially enjoyed the newsroom camaraderie. But after he began working for Bill O’Reilly—Fox’s number one talking head—Joe just couldn’t take it anymore. He went rogue by becoming Gawker’s Fox Mole, and was outed (and fired) in thirty-six hours. Reminiscent of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, An Atheist in the FOXhole is filled with hilarious, untold tales that will appall and delight the millions who love to hate FOX news.
Foxhole Memoirs
Title | Foxhole Memoirs PDF eBook |
Author | Vaughn Wagnon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2016-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781304176134 |
Homer Vaughn Wagnon, Jr. describes his experience in World War II as a rifleman in the 102nd 'Ozark' Division, 407th Regiment.
The Foxhole Court
Title | The Foxhole Court PDF eBook |
Author | Nora Sakavic |
Publisher | |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2016-03-31 |
Genre | College athletes |
ISBN | 9781516801510 |
Neil Josten is the newest addition to the Palmetto State University Exy team. He's short, he's fast, he's got a ton of potential - and he's the runaway son of the murderous crime lord known as The Butcher.Signing a contract with the PSU Foxes is the last thing a guy like Neil should do. The team is high profile and he doesn't need sports crews broadcasting pictures of his face around the nation. His lies will hold up only so long under this kind of scrutiny and the truth will get him killed.But Neil's not the only one with secrets on the team. One of Neil's new teammates is a friend from his old life, and Neil can't walk away from him a second time. Neil has survived the last eight years by running. Maybe he's finally found someone and something worth fighting for.
Black Dragon
Title | Black Dragon PDF eBook |
Author | Steven McCloud |
Publisher | Texas A&M University Press |
Pages | 619 |
Release | 2022-08-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 164843018X |
Black Dragon recounts the experience of a single Marine rifle company—2-F-23, or “Fox” Company—and its drive through the central Pacific in World War II. Author Steven D. McCloud, through painstaking research of battlefield reports and extensive interviews with surviving members of Fox Company, has reanimated the grueling, day-by-day slog through the Pacific theater through the eyes of the US Marines who endured it. This is the story of American teenagers who left home, many for the first time, trained together, and formed a team that held strong until, at last, those who survived tried to leave it all behind as they dispersed, returned home, and sought to build their lives. Decades later, Fox Company re-formed through correspondence and reunions and also welcomed McCloud into their midst by telling him their stories. McCloud took notes, chased down company reports and other documents to fill in the gaps, and carefully reconstructed their journey. As one member of Fox Company recalled after returning to Iwo Jima half a century later, “I think the pilgrimage to Iwo has helped me conquer my black dragons—those bloody and stinking nightmares that made nightly uninvited visits for fifty-six years. My dreams were in color, predominantly bloody red. Those remaining are in black and white and shades of gray, not so violent and stinking. These I can live with.” Readers who reveled in Stephen Ambrose’s masterful oral history of E Company in the European theater will find similar heroism and heartbreak in the pages of Black Dragon.