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Check the Gs
The True Story of an Eclectic American Family and Their Wacky Family Business
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
At an age when most kids are just getting rid of the training wheels on their bicycle, Ray Shasho entered into a crazy world of secret lingo and bullying sales tactics at the Chin Lung Art Gallery, his fathers retail store on the corner of Thirteenth and F Street in Washington, DC. Check the Gs is...
Applause
A Second Chance
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
The circusits a place of glitz, glamour, and wonder. For the Koso family from Czechoslovakia, living the circus life means always hearing the audiences applause, a sound sweeter than cotton candy. As part of the Wills & Waterson Royal Three Ring Circus, the family performs bareback riding shows...
Fragments of My Life
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Growing up in Poland in the 1930s, Rita Braun had many hopes and dreams for the future. When she was nine years old, however, World War II touched her once-idyllic life, transforming paradise on earth into an indescribable hell. In Fragments of my Life, Braun tells her storyfrom her birth in 1930...
From the Other Side of the Gun
A Historical Novel Based on True Events
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
It is April 1941. Belgrade has been bombed, leaving its government in shambles. In a small village in the newly independent state of Croatia, its residents know that a war has started, but nobody senses the tragedy that awaits Kornica, especially a young peasant named Antun.
It is not long...
Desperados
Latin Drug Lords, U.S. Lawmen, and the War America Can't Win
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
READ THE CAMARENA STORY AND FIND OUT WHY THE DRUG TRADE IS KILLING US.
Desperados takes you to the front line of the drug wars. You'll come face to face to with:
Swaggering, flamboyant drug lords who rule over immense empires;
Federal police and government officials who are silent partners...
Deal
In a Deadly Game of Working Undercover, Dea Special Agent Michael S. Vigil Recounts Standing Face to Face with Treacherous Drug Lords Who Began Their Conversation with “If You Are a Federal Agent We Will Kill You.”
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
There were always two hotel rooms. One for his counterparts doing the surveillance and one he used as the stage to play a ruthless Mexican drug trafficker making the deal for enormous amounts of cocaine, marijuana or heroin. One small slip of the tongue, or a slight bead of sweat on the brow could...
The Emmons Saga
A History of the <Br>Uss Emmons (Dd457-Dms22)
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
Rear Admiral Edward Baxter Billingsley's book, The Emmons Saga, captures the deck plate routine of the Sailors aboard Emmons as she intersected with the great events of World War II and influenced the course of history. Any reader who has ever served afloat will recognize the authenticity of every...
by Antonio J. Guernica
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
In 1953, Alfonso Candela is a likeable rogue who loves his privileged life in Santiago de Cuba. Unfortunately, Fidel Castro has other plans for him.
As the Cuban Revolution takes root and irrevocably tears at the fabric of Alfonsos personal paradise, he and his family attempt to go about their...
I Never Had to Duck
Adventures in the Peacetime Marine Corps
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
In this engaging memoir, retired Pittsburgh public servant C.A. (Chuck) Peters tells the captivating story of his ardent, lifelong love of and "undistinguished" service in the United States Marine Corps. His affair started when he was a "Junior Marine" during World War Two in a...
We’Ll All Die as Marines
One Marine’s Journey from Private to Colonel
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
For seventeen-year-old high school dropout Jim Bathurst, the Marine Corps’s reputation for making men out of boys was something he desperately needed when he enlisted in March of 1958. What began as a four-year hitch lasted nearly thirty-six years and included an interesting assortment of duty stations...
Hardcore “Iron Mike”
Conqueror of Iwo Jima
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
When Sergeant Major Iron Mike D. Mervosh enters a room, he instantly becomes the center of attention as younger Marines crowd around him to listen to his stories and have their photos taken with him. He is an icon Marine who served thirty-five years in the Marine Corps and ultimately became the most...
Duty, Honor & Privilege
(The Making of a Marine Mustang)
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2009
Gene Bowyer was born and raised in West Virginia and was the second of eight children. Gene enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1949 at the age of 17. This was the result of World War II and his dream of becoming a Marine. Over the next twenty-one years he served in several stateside duty stations...
At the Crossroads of Justice
My Lai and Son Thang—American Atrocities in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
Vietnam is remembered as the war that divided a nation and scarred a generation. While the vast majority of American personnel in Vietnam served honorably, a few highly publicized atrocities tarnished the reputation of the military. In At the Crossroads of Justice: My Lai and Son ThangAmerican Atrocities...
In Our Duffel Bags
Surviving the Vietnam Era
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2011
They were young, and they were fighting a war no one wanted to fight. They chose to serve their country despite these challenges. In In Our Duffel Bags , authors Richard Geschke and Robert A. Toto narrate the stories and the experiences of what junior army officers faced as citizen soldiers during...