Tale Gunner

Tale Gunner

Author: Aj Brooks

Publisher: 30 Degrees South Publishers

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781920143503

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Nothing quite beats that rawness of military humour. It's the same the world over. This hilarious collection of South African military anecdotes will--for the less sensitive reader--have you doubled up with mirth. It is an ingrained tradition for South Africans to stand around a fire in the bright sunlight or on warm evenings of summer and barbeque or braai as we all say. Naturally the drink of choice is beer and mostly copious quantities of the old amber liquid. Inevitably during the intentionally drawn out grilling phase (to enable more beer swilling) and after most of the usual topics of conversation have all but exhausted themselves, a comment or the mood, the fire or some such catalyst will spark a story with military content of such hilarity that has everyone in earshot, with or without military background, rolling on the floor. For most of us never had a choice, national service was compulsory. Some saw action; others didn't, but all had an encounter, either dangerous or benign that was the cause for much mirth. These are some of those stories.


Pioneer Stories from the Buffalo Trace [Vol. I]

Pioneer Stories from the Buffalo Trace [Vol. I]

Author: James R. Columbia

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2018-01-25

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 1387496131

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This volume is part of a two-volume set that contains over 1,000 local and national articles, from historical newspapers and other publications, relating to the pioneer history of the area of northeastern Kentucky known as the "Buffalo Trace," including the counties of Mason, Bracken, Fleming, Robertson and Lewis, and the adjacent Ohio counties of Adams and Brown.


Fame, Fate, and the First Kiss

Fame, Fate, and the First Kiss

Author: Kasie West

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2019-02-05

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 006267580X

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Fan favorite author Kasie West delivers an effervescent story about chasing your dreams and following your heart, perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Huntley Fitzpatrick. Lacey Barnes has dreamed of being an actress for as long as she can remember. So when she gets the opportunity to star in a movie alongside one of Hollywood’s hottest actors, she doesn’t hesitate to accept the part. But Lacey quickly learns that life in the spotlight isn’t as picture perfect as she imagined. She’s having trouble bonding with her costars, her father has hired the definition of a choir boy, Donavan Lake, to tutor her, and somewhere along the way she’s lost her acting mojo. And just when it seems like things couldn’t get any worse, it looks like someone on set is deliberately trying to sabotage her. As Lacey’s world spins out of control, it feels like the only person she can count on—whether it’s helping her try to unravel the mystery of who is out to get her or snap her out of her acting funk—is Donavan. But what she doesn’t count on is this straight-laced boy becoming another distraction. With her entire future riding on this movie, Lacey knows she can’t afford to get sidetracked by a crush. But for the first time in her life Lacey wonders if it’s true that the best stories really do happen when you go off script.


Handbook to Life in America

Handbook to Life in America

Author: Rodney P. Carlisle

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2014-05-14

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1438126972

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Examines the history of people, places, and events that defined the American colonial and revolutionary era.


East of Chosin

East of Chosin

Author: Roy Edgar Appleman

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780890964651

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"Well written and meticulously researched ... East of Chosin is military history at its best". -- Harry G. Summers, Jr., Washington Post Book World


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 4

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 4

Author: Markman Ellis

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-08-01

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 1040247067

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This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833.