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Author: Ricardo Sanchez
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781631404993
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Hero died twenty years ago but her death still haunts one young reporter. Now, on the anniversary of her death, the reporter digs in to find out the truth about what really happened."--Page 4 of cover
Author: Richard Aldington
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2013-02-26
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 1101602937
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the great World War I antiwar novels—honest, chilling, and brilliantly satirical Based on the author's experiences on the Western Front, Richard Aldington's first novel, Death of a Hero, finally joins the ranks of Penguin Classics. Our hero is George Winterbourne, who enlists in the British Expeditionary Army during the Great War and gets sent to France. After a rash of casualties leads to his promotion through the ranks, he grows increasingly cynical about the war and disillusioned by the hypocrisies of British society. Aldington's writing about Britain's ignorance of the tribulations of its soldiers is among the most biting ever published. Death of a Hero vividly evokes the morally degrading nature of combat as it rushes toward its astounding finish. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author: John Flanagan
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-03-20
Total Pages: 95
ISBN-13: 1101577797
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRanger Will's past is revealed in this story from the New York Times bestselling Ranger's Apprentice. Halt reveals to Will the story behind his parents' deaths and how he came to live at the Castle Redmont Ward.
Author: Billy Joe Shaver
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2005-03-01
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780292706132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWillie Nelson says, "Billy Joe Shaver may be the best songwriter alive today." And legions of fans agree. "Honky Tonk Hero" is the story of a man who not only walked on the wild side and lived to tell about it, but also got it all down in songs that many people consider to be some of the finest country songs ever written.
Author: John C. Robinson
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780929999098
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Robinson presents the compelling journey from youth to middle age in this study of the spiritual and psychological realities of male midlife. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author: Brandon Webb
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2016-05-10
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0451475631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNavy SEAL sniper and New York Times bestselling author Brandon Webb’s personal account of eight of his friends and fellow SEALs who made the ultimate sacrifice. “Knowing these great men—who they were, how they lived, and what they stood for—has changed my life. We can’t let them be forgotten. We’ve mourned their deaths. Let’s celebrate their lives.”—Brandon Webb As a Navy SEAL, Brandon Webb rose to the top of the world’s most elite sniper corps, experiencing years of punishing training and combat missions from the Persian Gulf to Afghanistan. Along the way, Webb served beside, trained, and supported men he came to know not just as fellow warriors, but as friends and, eventually, as heroes. This is his personal account of eight extraordinary SEALs who gave all for their comrades and their country with remarkable valor and abiding humanity: Matt “Axe” Axelson, who perished on Afghanistan’s Lone Survivor mission; Chris Campbell, Heath Robinson, and JT Tumilson, who were among the casualties of Extortion 17; Glen Doherty, Webb’s best friend, killed while helping secure the successful rescue and extraction of American CIA and State Department diplomats in Benghazi; and other close friends, classmates, and fellow warriors. These are men who left behind powerfully instructive examples of what it means to be alive—and what it truly means to be a hero. INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS
Author: Supervert
Publisher:
Published: 2020-09
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ISBN-13: 9780970497154
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael John Anderson
Publisher: Walters Art Gallery
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This volume investigates the integral role of heroes in ancient Greek art and culture. More than a hundred statues, reliefs, vases, bronzes, coins, and gems drawn from European and American collections, illustrate the ways in which heroes were represented, why they were important in Greek culture, and what encouraged individuals to seek them out." --Book Jacket.
Author: Michael Ausiello
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2017-09-12
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1501134965
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTelevision industry journalist Michael Ausiello tells the story of his final year with his partner of thirteen years, Kit Cowan--diagnosed with a rare and very aggressive form of neuroendocrine cancer--while revisiting the many memories that preceded it, and describes how their undeniably powerful bond carried them through all manner of difficulties, with humor always front and center of the relationship.
Author: Mikhail Lermontov
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2009-01-16
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 1590209567
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first major Russian novel, A Hero of Our Time was both lauded and reviled upon publication. Its dissipated hero, twenty-five-year-old Pechorin, is a beautiful and magnetic but nihilistic young army officer, bored by life and indifferent to his many sexual conquests. Chronicling his unforgettable adventures in the Caucasus involving brigands, smugglers, soldiers, rivals, and lovers, this classic tale of alienation influenced Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Chekhov in Lermontov’s own century, and finds its modern-day counterparts in Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, the novels of Chuck Palahniuk, and the films and plays of Neil LaBute.
