A true and unbelievable story about an original company of paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne Division's, 505th Combat Team, Headquarters Company, Third Battalion from inception in 1942 to demobilization of high time combat forces at the end of World War II. The book follows the original company of 122 men through parachute training and how the 82nd Airborne Division became the first division of paratroopers sent overseas to North Africa. Their first parachute mission was the invasion of Sicily , then Italy, Normandy France, Holland and the long push across Central Europe into Germany at the end of the war. The men count heads to try to come up with a number of who is left of the original 122 as they go through disarmament and the long journey stateside back into civilian life. The book totals 643 standard size pages, 320 pages of text and hundreds of pictures, general orders, after-action reports, combat newspaper articles that places the reader in the era of World War II. WARNING PARENTAL ADVISORY Due to the extreme conditions that take place in stateside training and in combat a parent should read and review the book in its entirety before allowing a minor to read the material........

Betsy Tannenbaum, feminist defense attorney, is involved in the series of disappearances which are similar to those of 10 years ago, when the killer was caught-- or was he?

In 1944 Major Marion “Ryan” McCown Jr., an earnest young Marine Corps pilot, came under attack by enemy fire and went down with his plane, lost to the dense jungle of Papua New Guinea. Some sixty years later, Major George Eyster V would find himself in the same sweltering and nearly impenetrable rain forest searching for evidence of MIAs. Coming from a long line of military officers dating back to the Revolutionary War, army service was Eyster’s family legacy. After a disillusioning tour of duty in Iraq and almost ending his army career, he accepts a posting to JPAC instead, an elite division whose sole mission is to bring all fallen soldiers home to the country for which they gave their lives. While Eyster’s search for McCown proves difficult, what emerges at the end of the unforgettable mission is an inspiring true tale of loss and redemption.

Without giving too much away, Ill tell you a little about my book. Picture this: a young couple falls in love and marries. They experience a little heartache and soon start a family. Their love is strong, and life is wonderful until that fateful day that everything changes. Her fault? Maybe. His fault? Possibly. Does it matter? How do they cope? More tragedy befalls the couple. They endure it though, and eventually, life is great again until the unthinkable happens. How is it possible? Will there be peace? Will they have a happy ending or a new beginning? Perhaps . . . but then again, perhaps not.

The tale of an all-black battalion whose crucial contributions at D-Day have gone unrecognised to this day.

Written in response to the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, The Book of the Dead is an important part of West Virginia's cultural heritage and a powerful account of one of the worst industrial catastrophes in American history. The poems collected here investigate the roots of a tragedy that killed hundreds of workers, most of them African American. They are a rare engagement with the overlap between race and environment in Appalachia. Published for the first time alongside photographs by Nancy Naumburg, who accompanied Rukeyser to Gauley Bridge in 1936, this edition of The Book of the Dead includes an introduction by Catherine Venable Moore, whose writing on the topic has been anthologized in Best American Essays.

During the night of 27th April 1944, Exercise Tiger, a rehearsal for the D-day landings, took place off the coast of Devon. This supposedly routine exercise experienced a series of fatal blunders that allowed German E boats to intercept the convoy of landing craft. By dawn, nearly 1000 American servicemen, many young and untrained, had lost their lives.