John Mcmanus: 21 books
Fox Tooth Heart
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
“Bold and ingenious” stories about the dark heart of America by the acclaimed Whiting Award–winning author (The New York Times Book Review).**
“Feverish, psychotropic, bold, mesmerizing, painful, Fox Tooth Heart is full of stories about people living on the margins of society, characters...
Born on a Train
Thirteen Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
Two years ago--at twenty-two--John McManus captivated writers and critics with his first story collection and became the youngest recipient of the Whiting Writers Award. Now McManus returns with a collection of stories equally piercing and visionary: stories about the young and old, compromised by...
Welcome to Hell?
In Search of the Real Turkish Football
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Ask a British football fan what they know about Turkish football, and they are unlikely to describe scenes of camaraderie, hospitality and humour. They are more likely to mention banners proclaiming 'Welcome to hell'. Or Leeds United supporters stabbed to death on an Istanbul street.
Frustrated...
Stop Breakin Down
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2000
Winner of the Whiting Writers' Award
In a voice somewhere between Cormac McCarthy and Kurt Cobain, John McManus explores young people living in extreme situations. Some are in the Tennessee Smoky Mountains, some in the Pacific Northwest, a few are in the Western deserts of Utah and Nevada,...
Bitter Milk
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
From Whiting Award-winning writer John McManus comes a debut novel of startling originality and mystery.
The son of an unknown father and an ostracized mother, and the next of kin in a long line of bastard relatives, nine-year-old Loren Garland lives a life of subtle mystery beneath the shadow...
The Deadly Brotherhood
The American Combat Soldier in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In his book Men Against Fire, [historian S. L. A.] Marshall asserted that only 15 to 25 percent of American soldiers ever fired their weapons in combat in World War II. . . .
Shooting at the enemy made a man part of the “team,” or “brotherhood.” There were, of course, many times when soldiers...
by John McManus
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Very few software projects are completed on time, on budget, and to their original specification causing the global IT software industry to lose billions each year in project overruns and reworking software. Research supports that projects usually fail because of management mistakes rather than technical...
by John McManus
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2007
As stakeholder relationships and business in general have become increasingly central to the unfolding of stakeholder thinking, important new topics have begun to take centre stage in both the worlds of practitioners and academics. The role of project management becomes immeasurably more challenging,...
Deadly Sky
The American Combat Airman in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
**“From the training camps to the combat missions, this is war from the perspective of the young Americans who lived through it: the pilots, the bombardiers, the navigators, and the gunners of all the combat services in both Europe and in the Pacific. It is an engaging and vivid portrayal of war...
The Americans at D-Day
The American Experience at the Normandy Invasion
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
June 6, 1944 was a pivotal moment in the history of World War II in Europe. On that day the climactic and decisive phase of the war began. Those who survived the intense fighting on the Normandy beaches found their lives irreversibly changed. The day ushered in a great change for the United States...
The Dead and Those About to Die
D-Day: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
From the author of Fire and Fortitude, a white-knuckle account of the 1st Infantry Division’s harrowing D-Day assault on the eastern sector of Omaha Beach—acclaimed historian John C. McManus has written a gripping history that will stand as the last word on this titanic World War II battle.
Nicknamed...
Grunts
Inside the American Infantry Combat Experience, World War II Through Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
“A superb book—an American equivalent to John Keegan’s The Face of Battle. I sincerely believe that Grunts is destined to be a classic.”—Dave Grossman, Author of On Killing and On Combat
From the acclaimed author of The Dead and Those About to Die comes a sweeping narrative...
by Sam Henderson, Jesse McManus, Leah Wishnia
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2015
Sam Henderson is joined this issue by John Brodowski, Manuel Gomez Burns, Jesse McManus, Ansis Purins, and Leah Wishnia as Magic Whistle expands to a relaunched and larger anthology format. It also contains Peter Bagge's touching (and hilarious) homage to the comic strips of his late brother, Doug.
September Hope
The American Side of a Bridge Too Far
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Acclaimed historian John C. McManus, author of The Dead and Those About to Die, explores World War II’s most ambitious invasion, Operation Market Garden, an immense, daring offensive to defeat Nazi Germany before the end of 1944.
“A riveting and deeply moving story of uncommon courage.”—Alex...
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